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Proh1b1t1on Enforcement iihe ~ Premier's i ‘ V"“G.onfession” Analyzed By Dr.) W. J. P. {McMillan (Ana The Whole Prohibition. Situation

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Provincial Liclisiature, March Debate on Draft Address; Dr.‘ WJP. McMillan. (Continued irom yester- day’s Guardian): ‘)

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isn't that wonderiuliiianis it logi- ca)? not it the height or nonsense! (Applause). Alter detailing in every particular the most scandalous. cou- rliticnoiaiieirsthathaamrcaist- ed in tho Province, aitcr admitting not that he is unable to eniorce Pro- hibition throughout the Province but that he cannot even keenths pris- oners in the jail. under the very eyes iii-the prohibition oillcers, irom get- ‘ ting- drunk, he concludes by stating ’ his belieigthat he is "making a grout success oi it." Isn't it the most pit- iabie iarca that anyone ever heard sir will tirh wonderiui Bummer- side jail was built, he says. no one V, svery imagined that there were going ' to be moonshiners and hootieggers. Oi course not! That is the result oi , the "progress" we huve been snaking » under Prohibition. But when they ~ were building the jail, they should , have provided ior the detention oi criminals oi every stripe. v _ The sum and substance oi the Pre- ' luidPs statements amount to this; i t two 70ers ago bootiqglng and ‘ combining were actioaiiy extinct, that today the condition has been ocentustcd "a thousand iold," that isw breakers are resorting to "every a conceivable method" but that tha ‘i Prohibition Act is a great success be- cluethojailsarenileddhatisthe proper index by which to judge-be- cause the" iails are ﬁlled with small- ‘ -ir.v bootlcgsm. with poor. uniortun- -ate. creatures who yield to the tamp- ‘ilml 0! 5W1!!! t0 make a little money out oi the miserable business oi selling rum. But what about the I sources oisuppiyi What ‘about the bis’ iollows in the bmincssi _What about the merchant princes, the wholesalers? Do they go to jail? The -_ Premier says the Ibosiiinion doves..- "ment takes every-Domitian to keep them out oi the Province. He says ri-irieo Edward xsisnsisjuio, most ism place in tau broad Dominion i in which to enioree prohioiuenfes. ‘ cause it is so easy .io guard» our coasts. What is wrong, tbenfliow I does it getVin. and when it gate -in f what happens to it! We know very ‘l well that the history oi Prohibition ‘ . in this Province is the same history ~ that has repeated itseli in every Province and country where it has becntriedisndweknowitis "useless ior any Government to say, .as the Bonnier tried to tell this House yesiorday, that they are "mak- ‘ ins a sroat suooese oi it." ‘ l taught school at one time, and there was an old gentleman in the . district who used in say oi’ the young- er generation: ‘They are retrograd- hsg vary inst." That is the way with ‘this Government. That is the way they are making progress. They are progressing backwards. They are rplaytng checkers" with the boot- leggars, and they are always a move or two behind. ' ' ‘Amending the Act We spent two sessiops oi this Leg- islature in amending the Prohibition Act to make it "mcreworksble." You

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_ . i , H ‘ " '_ a’ l4.‘ will remember the kind-oi lsw thatjiilid himjliaoﬂ o! 01400. Ii I sly.

was we on the statute books two years srofmr. Sneaker: the meet drastic piece oi legislation ever intro- duesrﬂinthia House, in which the same power was given is thoPrchi- bitlon Magistrate as iroossoesed by the 5119mm Oourt oi this Province. Youwiii remember the nature oi the penalties imposedsaiter the 193s ses- iioa. ‘ii a manwss ioifind drunk he was liable to thus‘ oi from I200 to e400; sndthsyoailedthatsaneleg- isiationi We pointed out st the time that it was-only a iarce. Neat year, thatciausehad bozba repealed; and my hon. irisnd irom Rustico. the apostle oi Prohibition. when ‘it was beingizevlsed had. to acknowleds! that it was unreasonable, that it was not sans. that it was. in mt. ioolish.

iio they amendecfit. and during its progress ' through Committee last year we hadunothsr remarkable doo- laraticn about Prohibition chlorda- ment. 1 wonlsl like the Premier, who has conveniently‘ absented bimsoii irom hh scat just now. to hear what I have to say onthia matter because niy apply particularly fo him. Perhaps he thought the dra was getting a little hoti (Conservative ap- plause). Atiauy rate. it jcon- ieotion that tbs proper ulna to get evidence out oi a man in these pro- hibition cases when the man was drunk. (Laughter). its made that statement in this’ louse, his. Speak- er, and he repeated it emphatically; that the time ie get evidence was when a man was drunk‘. and act alt- er he had been loitin jail iosetwe or three days and had time to sober up, because ma‘ be would am time io concoct a story. i

Iad an qualiiloatfons

frhat was the Premier's attitude when the Prohibition amendments were going thrcughunutwhat hap- pened when hobrought this detect- ive down heerirom idontrsai? The detective had all quilliioatlous in that regard. .-He could get_ drunk! lie sot, drank m- as founder-oils: Wasn't that man euaiidsd to tell tho truth under siisvrroaioiiioirsoir giunely, Mnlpeaksr, he hadlthe very qualiﬁcations ireeuisedi ‘(Loud don- servatlve applause). I -

Wt,'lo and-behold! they toll us that those‘ iniormationa whichitliis man secured and‘ the prosecutions that were starttd. llld all to, be drop- PQCKIIMIIII the man "was not rs- liablaﬂ-becalsl." ldlhart. ha got "I". il-Ivshwl- ‘may dis-rt. think it advisable "in the interests oi tern. Plrance" to so on‘ with them; Alter a consultation with/Mr. Irown, the chairman ‘oi the Commission. ur. ‘inane Oampbell. the extra-mural Premier, the Ohiei or Police and 1dr. Haywood. thQY decided that the Hot ‘thing was to drop those prosecutions. It was not in the public interest, or in the interests oi temperance, to go oh. The Premier should have said. not thcﬂliibcrai intlreuts." ba- cause that is whst it amounted io. rm was ‘whats thashce ‘was ome- niag to pinch. There were toe many an that list whe were irieuds ei the will unity: ioo . may, around lumbar-side; itwas dangerous-pe- litlcally-te go on with those prosa- catiom. It would beyery dangerous, probably, to Mr. A. l. Maobean, the sitting" member oi that constituency

the lites-eats atlemperindeﬂto dr'_ep ma. wus-eisoe-ogeosoum ad- ta eosae ireus, the menthol the nonbi- a! iaajrrjoviaoor Wasn't in‘ besutliul or the ad- iainistratloa or (serious...- law errisuoofoisiivu ei “the lag ma. or thdrroviaiei Wasn't it a rascal (Applause).

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‘Inlpoakiriihat that was 81200 II 8100 oi‘ the public mono! 074ml ' Province thrown away-Ill! 1 '1" . aay ii-iiioai r believe the scenic vi

the Province Jrcolaie that I u, ma...‘ a plain statement oi iact. (Applause). And I say that the Pre- mier. the leader oi this Government. l; the msponsibie party; that he had no business oriosin: I win 1°" here who was not properly Vmwh" ior; and that/when hehad him hero . -_-and he was here ior several weeks and months-he should have found outlong ago that he was not a re- liable sort oi man, that he was drunk and inoapablcpsnd ‘that his services were useless. (Anvil-ill!)-

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Why should this Province be ask- edtopsytbsbillaudexpsnsesoia drunken detective? Ii you engage a man to do certainworiz, you certain- ly expect him to do somethips. It this man proved C0170 so ineﬂicient that he save novaiue-ior his_sorvio- es, that his iniormatlon could not be relied upon, bow can the Premier jus- tliy the throwing away‘ oi’ 81200 or $1400 en his salary? (Applause). Ap- parently, his own qualiﬁcation was _ the iaot that he was getting in with boptleggcrs and getting drunk. But that qualiﬁcation. according to the Premier.- mado him the very best wltnIs under the Prohibition Act, because, so long as ha remained drunk, hawas sure totoil the truth.

The loader-oi thobovernment went on to-tilk about the jails. It is a big subject at the present time, the Jails oi this Provinces He explained all the precautions they had taken to make this wonderful jail in suin- mareido-ﬂcns oi the best Jails in the Maritime Provinces" - sale and sound. Liquor had been coming in, and the prisoners were getting drunk. 8o they barred the windows and ro- paired the locks that were detective. Ahdthe liquor was still coming in and thoprohibition prisoners in the jail were still getting drunk. Was that due to any negligence on the part oi the Government or its oﬂic- iaia? 0h no! it was due to tho iact that the ingenuity oi these bootleg- gcrais almost beyond the compre- bension ' oi man." (Laughter). We used something supernatural nowa- days io_da'al with the situation. All they have to do is get a string or a iishing rod. and they can either 16e- er it down scmewhe... between the bars orput it up somewhere over the window sill, and in goes the booze! In goes the "canned heat," and it is mixed with molasses, conveniently supplied; irec oi charge. ' ‘New we know. Mr. speaker, why the bill ior groceries ior the dum- rnorside jail. irom the ilrm represent- ed by my hon. irlend the junior ‘member ior summerslde (Mr. Alien). is so large! (Laughter). We wonder- ed andmade" enquiries as to why the bill irom that iirm was so large, com- pared with the amount under the previous Government. But now the whole thing is explained. We know at least where the molasaei goes. or some ei it. According to the Premier, thesurplasiaussdtomiswlth “can- ned heat" to provide that proper prisoniara whlohlatho ‘ ’ un-

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