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liance Leader Charg- es Government With Breaking Faith.

we first, open letter published in e witness and Canadian Home- 5d, fromMr. C. N. Vroom, newly cted President of the New Bruns- lck Temperance Alliance, will bc ad with interest here o the People of New Brunswick: lends: - 11love been honored by election to e important. ofllce of President o.’ ,3 Ne\v Brunswick Temeprancc Al- gpce. I cannot fully express to you appreciation oi the confidence u; placed in me, or my deep sense the responsibility thrust upon me. At a convention oi the Alliance held saint John in September last, a glicy" or platform for action was dcpted, which was reaffirmed at the cent convention in Fredericton. its is as follows l. The Alliance firmly maintains 5 unaltcrable position as standing or the complete prohibition of the lanufacture, the importation and he sale oi intoxicating liquors for rverttge purposes. It is the firzn onlictlm oi the Alliance that evciv villence increasingly makes it mani- est that all the experiments in deal- ng with (he problem oi the liquor raffle, other than complete prohibi- ion have proved and are proving to e failures. The Alliance shall continue an . nlzed and vigorous campaign of ducatlon throughout the province. is campaign shall aim:- un To create an enlightened pub- lc opinion in favor oi total abstin- llli‘. (b) To instruct the people in the cononnlic loss, the moral wrong and izc destructive effect of the policy of ment sale oi intoxicating liq-

(c) To stimulate public opinion in

avor of a. prohlbitory law as the inai settlement of the liquor prob- cm. 3. In order to more effectively pro- - ote the interest oi total abstinence nci the prohibition of the liquor traf- lc. and to more thoroughly co-ovdl- irate the work of the Alliance in very part of the province, there shall elocal branches organized wherever dssible. The local branches in each ountry shall organize o. county ranch of the Alliance. Each county ranch of the Alliance shall be re- I resented by one member on the Ex- cutlvc Committee oi the Provincial lliance. The Provincial Alliance shall encourage and promote the holding f county conventions go which local ranches will send regularly ap- ointcd delegates. 4. The continued publication of til’! uilctin and the circulation of otlicr Qhlllcrance literature will engage the cnstant attention cf the Alliance. he Alliance shall seek tho {H1109 o-operation of the pulpit and the rcss, that these two great agencies n the moulding oi public opinion zay be used to the largest possible Bsrec in promoting the interest 0" oberity in our land. 5. The Alliance will maintain its cmplete independence of any politi- fll Party amliation, yet it cannot ousistently do otherwise than give ctcrmlncd opposition to any party tending for the sale o! intoxicanis cr beverage purposes. The Alliance 'iil seek to elect candidates who can e relied upon to work in‘ the 1.2315- ature ior the ends to which the Al- iflnoe is committed. This is the key note oi our activi- ties and lays out for is definite plans or the future. From the Dominion lebiscite in 1898 to the present time. We have on every opportunity, ex- Dresscd our desire for prohibition of he liquor trafllc by a large miofity ote, and the present liquor law 15 ' 0t due to any retreat from thil tend by the people but is due tol-hc ' “Indy 01 the Government which d0- iberately rejected the wishes or the a 0111c and submitted itself to the ascr elements, pandering to the 1°“- Y appetites and the greed for B8111-

Frnita of the Trafllc _ From every put of the province “m fllfmh oi depravity and calam- i-Y due to strong drink in a 688169 known imdu the Prohibitory law

“We instead of better. The recent ' kiln: oi tile N. n. alliance. rec"- ntetive oi aim‘! section oi the ' vinco imanirnouaiy approved the allowing finding or the Executive»- l‘ 10°11!!! beck om the your 1m- hl Encutivacannot Joice‘ in lhy vident pronoun, in the temperance WM- On every hand m lilm °i h increase hrtho liquor business ta similar mum that attended he liamud qaicuca p! tarmac!!!- nccded for the nueinioinance v home: in squandered. mm are lol- "i nautical Q'_\66onnt' oi 41103’-

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Moonshine Booze, 0b- tained Within Half a B l o c k of School, Causes Drunken De- bauch and Fatality.

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CHICAGO, MAY 3.—“We plan‘ ned to go to a. party, but decided 1'. would be too tame, so we agreed to set. some ‘mooney’ and have a lively time." <

This from a 14-year-old gramme!‘ 8011001 girl, explaining o. wild auto ride in which one youth was killed and his three companions were land- ed in jail. George Lux, 19,'aiter six hours of drinking and speeding irom cm resort to another, was killed when in his blind-drunken condition" he drove the car off a ten-foot em- bankment. It overturned and buried itself in the soft mud, with Lux un- dcr ncuth.

His befuddled compalons managed to crawl out, but were so drunk they could not push the car ofi Lux, who smothered to death in the mud. The others of the party are Coletta Lis- ton, aged 14, an eight grade gram- incr school girl; Gladys Hankes, aged 10, a fouxih year high school girl. and Frank Cckanor, aged 19, a casual Pluck-up." These survivors are in jail awaiting the inquest over the body of young Lux.

Wild Debaucli.

Colctta Liston, the grammer school girl, was relating the details of the .wlld debouch which ended disastrous- iy, and told hcw easily they had ob- tallied nloouslllnc booze at resorts a half block from her school,

"What! Do children of your age drink?" asked an astonished police- man. -

“Sure, don't be sil', act your use." she replied. "We started out for a high time and, of course, we had to have some ‘moon’, Our first suppiV came from a house a. half block from the school. We drank all that B1111 went, to the Sunnyslde Inn and danc- ed until three this morning. There were many other boys and girl there. all teed up nicely; all drinking and dancing. There was plenty of booze in the crowd. Finally another bunch silggested that we go to another roadhouse, and they started out. They had a larger car than ours, and ran away from us. We had a little ca“. and four of us were crowded in 07W seat. In trying to overtake the OIhPI party we went into the diml-

Calis Mother. _

"Say, can I use the ‘phone?’ One was place at her disposal, and she called ller mother.

"Say, main." pile said. “I'm 1H jail here in Willow Springs. We had an accident-No. I'm not drunk- comc an try and get rrle 0UP"

Her lilotlier and various other r918.- tlvog and neighbors and friends came. but the police refused to release he!‘ The Coroner wants to know more about the wild drunken debauchos 0i ..._...".l children So do many ‘Bmers

and families are suffering. Gharait- able institutions are findin! the de- mands upon them rapidly increasing. ThcyQ i5 great need for the filo-it strcnilous efforts of the tenlpefflnce pecplc of this province to combat the gygwlng evils of alcoholism.

We must be active in makin! known the true state of affairs in the face of misleading statements b)’ 31°59 who are supporting the present law- Our Government sceks to make much of the large revenue from its rum- selling, but. it docs not refer to the fact. as shown by the Published 0°‘ counts of the province, that the 6X- pcnditures in departments affected by the liquor trafllc have largely in‘ creased. Apart from the loss to mah- hood and happiness caused by the liquor business it can easily be dem" onstrated that there is a large 1mm’ cm loss to the Province from it, as is bound to be the case, and as has been abundantly “proved through all the history oi the businw-

we had a good pmhlbitory law 93' acted in 1910 and our first Chief in- gpcctor under that law brought 8°00 results, m spite of hindrance by ‘m5’ hlxhgf ‘ up, Under the succeeding Chief Inspector there was no atternl" a; a proper enforcement, and the people in their righteoul wrath over- threw tha Government and elected those now in WW"- ilfld" l ‘Mum? promise of a strict eniorcemwt 01.’ W! 13w, and there was no attempt to ful- m this promise. PM v "M" W‘ Gcvemment refused to prosecute tholo whom they knew were OMIITY violating the law, and in view of whit (allowed, we can only believe that th! objective wu to brine the i" m"

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Maritime Board of Trade Commends Stand Taken By N. B. Government Re Mar- itime Equity in Land Concessions.

ST. JOHN, N.B., May I. — Com- manding the Provincial government for its alert attitude in connection with Maritime equity in 1and_ con- cessions and strongly urging that

‘the matter of Maritime equity in

concessions oi lands and natural resources to other provinces of -the Dominion, since Conffederatlon, be taken up following the completion oi present negotiations between the Dominion Government and the wes- tern provinces, was the text of a. re- solution passed recently at a full meeting oi the executive of the Mar- itime Boa d oi Trade.

This ac ion was taken upon the ground that in 1870, by Imperial or- der-in-council. the four original pro- vinces oi the Canadian confederat- ion, namely Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, purch- ased the territory oi the Hudson Bay Company for $1,500,000. This sum was paid out oi the. Federal treas- ury for an area of some 1,858,000,000 acres.

From this large acreage the prov- ince oi Manitoba was createdin 1870 being granted 47,188,292 acres, and in 1912 given a further grant of an additional 114,091,708 acres. The pro- vince oi Saskatchewan was created inl905 and given a grant of 161,- 088,000 acres, as was the province of Alberta with 163,382,400‘ acres. In 1888 an area. of 22,000,000 acres was added to the province of Ontario, while in 1912 a still further addition of“ 93,690,000 acres was made to that province. The province of Quebec also came in for a large slice of this land, having been grant/ed an area oi 101,323,361 acres in 1808 and a further grant of 237,375,000 acres in 1912.

. SCHOOL LANDS

The lands, forests. min-es and nat- ural resouroes of the three Prairie Provinces were reserved by the Do- minion Government. No such res- ervation was applied to the addition- al areas granted to Ontario and Quebec, however, in lieu of their natural resources the Prairie Prov- inoes received special subsidies from the Federal treasury. In addition. two sections in every township were set apart to be sold for educational purposes. The Dominion Govern- ment handles the cost of such land sales‘ and annually pays the western provinces i5 per cent interest on the money derived. which up ,to May, 1'26. amounted to a total oi $22,705.- 000. The value oi the school lands still held by the Federal Govern- ment in trust for educational pur- poses in the Prairie Provinces is about $163,000,000.

The Maritime Board of Trade, as- suming that these unsold lands would be disposed of at prices averaging those already realized, figured that the grand total sum going in Mani- toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta for school purposes out of this fund will amount to about $192,000,000 with- out allowing for future accumulat- ion of interest.

funded credits will yield the three Prairie Provinces tween 09.000000 and 810000.000 annually for school purposes, which is some five timfls more than the aggregate appropria- tions which the three Maritime Pro- virfces now set aside anually from their own revenues.

The board considered it a matter of vital importance to the Maritime Provinces, transcending all other questions confronting them. It was pointed out that the Maritimes had contemplated concession after con- cession made \to other provinces while they received none. The board looks forward with pleasure to the steps being taken by the Provincial Government, which, while contend- ing‘ that the western provinces should have their lands and natural re- gmmgdg, i; prepared and determined that a square deal will be allotted the Mcritirncs.

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i! MITHIIHHY Iii BIBLE FUR PHUHiBJTIIJN

Writer in American Newspaper Stresses the Need of a. Return to Old Time Virtue of Temperance.

The following communication to the New Ydrk Times presents the vicwpoirltso! many with regard to the Biblical virtue of temperance as distinguished from prohibition.

To the Editor of New York Times: I notice in The Times that Dr. Elias H. Bartley of Brooklyn heads n. list of doctors in protest against the iniquitous Jones law. The fact that he is one oi Brooklylrs out- standing physicians as well as an el- der in the Presbyterian church of ViiliCil I am also a member gives great weight to his utterances and acts. - 9

1s not. the difficulty with the avcr- age prohibition fanatic, especially ii’ he is a chilrch member, that he merely skims his bible looking for proof texts to. support his position instead of digging dorm below the surface for its real attitude on the subject of wines? .

cover to cover. WilGlTGGj the Father wanted to get the Israelites to be- have themselves, He repeatedly of- fered them as an inducement “a. land of corn and \vilie"—not cider or gin- ger ale. And the first official act with which the ilfafztcr opened His public ministry was to make wine for a marriage feast hi; Cana, while His last official act was to embed wine in the most sacred ordinance of the church—the Holy Supp-er and during allthe years rillis life on earth He used wine freely at lnca‘s as was the perfectly natural custom of the country. The question with lliui was the abuse, not the use or wine.

Paul was an Abstainer.

Paul, the greatest protagonist of the Christain Church, himself com-, mended wine to ills protege, Timothy and announced that he personally vcluiarily refrained from its use be- cause the priests of the State church used wine poured out in libatlons on heathen altars, and he did not want his antagonists to be able to charge that he was doing the ‘same thing. And, further there might be some man who, through abuse had fast- ened the drink habit upon himself, and would use Paufs example as authority for his own use. So, saws Paul, in effect, "I am not going to use it, though I have a. perfect right to do so if I wanted to, and if you want to volutarily follow my exam- ple that will be fine. But I am not going to pass a Volstead act forbid- ding you to use wine in a reasonable way. And this phrase, touch not. taste not, handle not is a Joke; is not to be heeded and will perish with the using." '

Like a stern note sounding through the, Word is the unequivocal stato- ment "By the Law shall no man be justified or saved.“ The constant ap peal of scripture is "Law cannot save but grace or Divi c love can, in case you are enmesfigd in habit." Here men are abusing a perfectly natural food. and thcn whining because it hurts them, In the year before pl'o- hlbltion, vital statistics show that over 800.000 people died cach rear from abusive overeating and 200,003 from drink. Why. tincture, not ab- clish eating because of the abuse of it?

Noah Celebrated Landing.

Punitive measures have nhvays failed, and will continue to do so, In the era before the Flood, we are told that the inhabitants oi that por- tion of the cnrih were steeped in drunkenness and vice, and that God inflicted cn them a judicial exterm- ination as being hopelessly beyond ilie pale; and only eight persons survived in the ark with a miscel- laneous collection of live stock. Sebminglyv here vras a complete ex- Wbation o! the habit of drilnkeness a‘. least; and yet the first thing Noah did when ecame outof the ark was to get drunk. Severe penalties failed here. -

To come down to our own time, it seems to be a question between country and city. The prohibitlonists have a certain degree of ahrewdness though they have stupidly overreach M themselves in the Jones act. In order to get the farmers and back stretches generally to stand behind them they very aiiekiy agree with m. Funnel‘ that he may make all the juiced produced on his form into beverages for his own use. and pro-

vided he docs not sell or give them , way. whereupon Immer- getc apple

The bible is a wine book from

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Speaker, is it reasonable? Do they expect any reasonable man to be- .leve such a statement? Let us give credit to whom credit is due. The Minister oi Agriculture under the Stewart Government, Hon. Mr. My- ers, a capable, practical farmer, took hold of that farm and began to build up the herd that was there. They may no‘. all have been pedigreed cat- tle, but, there must have been some excellenti stock on that farm when the present Minister took it over, otherwise they would not be what they are today. I am glad to see that a practical farmer in the person of Hon. Mr. Lea is still in charge of that institution, but, at, the same time, if ms hon. friends will look up the records, they will find that under the Stcivart Government the cattle at that farm snid at very high Pric- os; $400 or S500 for a single animal,

There is just one other matter that I wish to speak about. When the hon. member of the Government from the First District of Queens (Hon. Mr. Sinclair) was discussing the Sanatcriuln the other night, the spoke vcry sirongly in favor of it. That was perfectly all right; but I regret very much that he made the statement that the leader of the Op- position was injeciing politics into this matter simply because that gen- tleman llad explained to this House certain transactions with reference

(hard cider) grape (wine) peach tbrandy) and all the other ferlnent- ible juices, and so he doesn't need‘ to use corn (whiskey) since the others make stuff that is plenty hard cnoughJ-lis own wants thuslibcrnliy suppled, he thumbs his nose at his city brother and scrub dry conglcss- men to Whisdiiugtcn to make laws so 'dl'C1SiiC that the city man becomes o. criminal if he tries to follow the others example. And when the city man sfiys the hayseeds attitude is ilnfoir he is called a “nulllfication- 1st." '

"We are a Defiant People"

Well. What c1’ it? The republic was founded on defiance of obnox- ious law. Our family has in its possession the original cup in which the. blacking was mixed for the faces c! the "Indians“ of the Boston Tea Party. This cup received reverent attention when it was recently dis- playyrl in an exhibit o1.’ Colonial rel- ics in the Brooklyn Academy of Art and Sciences; and the act in which it played a part is embedded in history as a glorius example of resistance to unjust laws, simply bo- cause it told George III where he got off. But it becomes curiously wicked to tell Volstead and Jones where they get off,