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RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE E. FOSTER: Veteran, Conservative statesman: g “All my observation and experience lllake it, necessary for me, as far as my vote and influ-l

MAYOR TISDALE‘ Vancouver B C addressingI ED City Council while occupying the Mayor’s chair: I- Iege’ Saskatoon’ (‘We must do something at once. Conditions are ‘ deplorable; I get letters from wives complaining i ~- that their husbands are coming home drunk af- * , ter they have spent their earnings at the club.”

Government Control FDOES , NOT; Control

The llillowing leaders in public life give us the beneﬁt of their experience and observation: g ANDREW BLIGH = Juspigeofnhe, Pbsbqyancpuve,’ _

ence go, to oppose it” (Government Control)’

HON. H. H. Trusted Conservative Lead-

HON. W. F. NICKLE, K.C.:-l<1x-Attorney General of,

‘mmisgwjth somethinethatisW'<>r1s-‘.',. .. _. u

ARCHIE JOHNSON: British Columbia Liquor Con-I ‘troller for several years. '

Prbvinces connected with bootlegging.”

- or of British Columbia, Minister of Customs in

f Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen’s last Cabinet:

I "Never before in the history of this country, prior to i921) was bootlegging comparable in,

magnitude or murderous results to what it is to- day. You can trace violent crimes all over the

Ontario,-the man who resigned his office rath-t er than betray his Province, and assist in deliv-j ering the Conservative party to the liquor in-i terests: i “Let us think of the degradation, misery and‘, horror, the years o1‘ cgperimentation while a‘;

.,new generation that does not appreciate the} _ misery of the old days learn by experience of?

the inherent impossibility of trying to compro -‘

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I "_‘The greatest difficulty in enforcing the Gov -

uuiciznmen; Qqptrqlulaw is bootlegging.” The brevz-I

PRINCIPAL MAURICE HUTTONz‘ University Col, Jege, Toronto. I

‘QUEBEC LIQUOR COMMISSION: Report of 1923-;

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pane ‘playfair.

"Although "I hale all kinds ol‘ compulsion and in- terference with personal liberty, l still think that on the whole the Ontario Temperance Act is a necessary and wise Act. I believe this be-

cause of the tremendous difference it has made} . in the elimination of drinking in the country"

districts.”

2&4, Page 60. "Notwithstanding our efforts, we are well aware

at the illicit resorts still exist and that we a all "never succeed in permanently closing up siich places.”

C. DAWSON: Managingl)irec.tol' Canadian Cot-

_ ‘ us, Ltd, Montreal. . _‘husiness men expect. Government Control to,

._ about more prospects, they had better study the problem again.

liquor trade advances national wealth does not

Hhiold good."

ENTION OF B. C. MUNICIPALITIES: After;

_ t. ee years’ experience of Government Control. CON‘;

I 'f‘l'he blir.» __ _ _ thepedpliiribut. is resulting .in .bringipg..about icneral contempt for law and order."

present situation is worse than the open

hive; o. ossomvs TROOP, M.A. (AnglicanJ: i

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MAvoR ououzrrs} or fMONTREAbrSpeakingj

“Whoever votes with the ‘wets’ is voting for al- cohol, the ruthless tyrant of the liquor traiﬁc. I _ rite neither as a politician nor a prohibitionist, but as a humble Christian."

at inauguration of Quebec Safety Drive in 1925. Comparing Montreal a' Government Control City, with Toronto under Prohibition, said,-

‘fllﬂontreal has registered twice the number of:

automobile accidents with half the number of automobiles!” s I

CARDINAL BEGIN: In a pastoral issued shortly

before his death, deploring conditions in Quebec, under Government Control. g ' l __ "Aline, there is now spreading everywhere the‘ ihtolefablwabuse which-we denounce, and in;

phrticulan the surreptitious fabrication of an}

alcohol more harmful ‘than any‘ other to thei '

health of the body and sou .”~ _ . I c-mzsns

GROCERS SECTION RETAIL MERCHANTS

~ THE CHARLOTI-‘ETDWN ‘GUARDIAN (Temperance Alliance Adyt.)

TH WILL T

Prohibition noes lﬁolibibit

AS- SOCIATION B. C. ' “Tile business of the Retail Grocers of Vancou- ver is suffering heavily from the diversion of money into liquor channels.” i

MUND H. OLIVER, President, St. Andrew's Col-

“My considered judgment is that the establish- lnent’ of Government Control was a distinctly backward step. It has not eliminated bootleg- ging. It has increased drunkenness. It has greatlyyincreased the police court cases. ltuleas.

HON. SENATOR POPE, OF QUEBEC:

notoriously-added to the tragediesA-ofqautomow bile fatalities.” j ‘ r‘ t" '

bootlegging in Quebec,

liibiting the use_ot‘_ gasoline vehicles upon the public highways.” J .. = . -

REV. JAMES ENDICOTT, Moderator of the United W?’ Ghul-clﬂi-ﬁth-Canada. ‘ '

u Give them a bung and. théydl soon want a whole barrel.” I

' the liquor traffic."

The argument that‘, ROBERT MacPHERSON:

It is not only destructive to the morals of

“We never had an? cause for any, untl we had the preséhtlawFft

is useless to say it has done away with bootleg- ging; it has created it.”

JUDGE GARY: United States Steel Corporaticinr

“I am at the head of the United States Steel‘. ARCHBISHOP GAUTHIER OF MONTREAL: In a

Corporation, an organization employing more,

than 300,000 people. In the last 2 or 3 years the?

improved condition among these people is one

of the most remarkable chapters overwritten.

in the history of civilization and is attributablel to Prohibition." ' . ‘ ‘C H. N. STAPLEFORD: Secretary of the Neighboring; Workers Council of Toronto, an -p'rganizationi that uniﬁes most of the relief. work of the city., “Whatever else is dubious, this much‘ is ‘clear, that intemperance has almost disappeared as, a cause of poverty and social distress.” ,,,.

REV. FATHER. MINEHAN: Parish Priest of- Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church, Tor-i onto. p “Government Control has meant ultimately inl

every instance control of the Government bye

‘JUDGE w. P. ARCHIBALD: Donlillion Parole ‘ofii l ﬁcer: , - ‘

“I am satisﬁed that 95 per cent. of all serious! , crimes committed in Canada can be traced dir-i l ectly or indirectly to liquor habits which stimu-i

l late or provide the means to accomplish theiJ_ end.” ' b

lL’EVENMENT: A daily of Quebec City, on April 6,l I 1926:

l “Violations of the liquor law are occurring eachI, | dayto the‘ knowledge of the whole population,’ l and really we wonder how the inspectors of the , "Quebec Commission can possibly ignore this. In‘ i the last few days, for instance, peddlers have, I been going around offering at $2 brands oi‘ alco-| hol which are sold at $4 by the commission.” .; g

Vancouver Police COlll-i

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lnissioner. " ' ' __ p I "There is',no control about it. You can buy all» you want." 1t is not Government Control, butI Government Sale.“

iADJUTANT STEWART, EDMONTON, ALBERTA:

Salvation Army Officer. l “The Salvation Army spends three times as Q ‘much for relief under Government Sale."

IREGINAPRESBYTERY: United Church.

l ‘Police records and other data conﬁrm our ob- i servation that under the present system there i have been substantial increases in, drunkenness, I‘ bootlegging and drinking as compared minim“. . l ditions under prohibition. Among young people the consumption of alcoholic creasedmanyfold." - »

iATTORNEY-GENERAL Mmsbn, o; but... Col- ‘ umbia. .

“Thegreatest bootleggers of all are the brew-I ' ers and eﬁport dealers.” .

beverages has in- '

BARRISTER A. L. MARKS, EDMQNTONP v “Edmonton peopleimuch amused at several re- , cent press reports regarding the success 01PM‘: bertels Government Control system has achiev- i ed-canned heat lags, lemon. oxtractucproeep and moonnhining as well as systematlclballtipgw ging form" part of our- cup l of miaerypgnmttre; treatingeyatem ie-admlttedly worse thandroyeri has been before in Alberta's hlstoryﬁi .~. 31M , ~

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“Prohlbiﬁdn at its worst isi- in judgment,

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Lviérion CATHOLIQUE: The organ u: the Roman

REV. A.'H.SOVEREICH (Anglican) President, Min- ~ isterial Association, Greater Vancouver:

“Bootlegging is worse than it was under Prehi- bition. Three weeks ago I‘ brought back from the north a lot of girls who had been attending a girls’ camp. There were so many drunken men around the wharf I had to stay on the job to save the girls from molestation.” '

‘HENRY-JFORD. The Automobile King.

“If the United States of America ever repeals Prohibition in the interests of public safety there should be enacted the next day a. law pro-

vastly better in relation to poverty, home life. health and character, than Government Sale at

iebesfel’ . i

Pastoral letter: . u. “The saddeningtsight of callow’ youths and im-

mature girls under the inﬂuence of drink is no_

novelty."

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HANCELLOR BOWLES: Victoria College,

'l‘oronto. . ,

“Here in. Victoria College there are 300 young men .- i I have carefully investigated the attitude of these young men. I have reason to believe the number who ever carry a ﬂask is insigniﬁ- cant. Forty years ago in this collegewhen I was ‘a; student there were not a few who were by nomeans total abstainers, nor were they a1; ways sober. There were as many of thissort in my own class of 2O as I think would be found in all the students of Victoria College today, now numbering 300." ~

IJVOHN NELSON: Well known Canadian Publicist.

“As long as parties need large election funds, the close asso iation of the traﬂic with the ad- ministration nder a system of Government Control is a grave menace to good Government and honest law enforcements.” ‘

E. EDGERTON: President National Association

of Manufacturers of the United States.

“There has not been the leastweakening in my conviction that Prohibition was, is and ever will be right, whatever the cost maybe, computed

to be, there are abundant evidences that the,

gains to America have far more than outweigh- ed all of the expenditures of every character.”

DR. HAVEN EMERSON: Department oi‘ Public

Health, Washington, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. “While our annual admitted bill for liquors used to be $2,500,000,000, even the most optimistic l promoters of violation of the law do not claim that 20 per cent. of the liquor which ‘was then bought and used is now consumed by our people.” - -

.' H. POOLEY, M.L.A., Conservative \Leader or

British Columbia. - . , ‘fln my own riding eighteen bootleggers got theirsupplies from one brewery." i

suosmz "LVMAN: President Topeka and Santa

Fee Railway, Chicago. _ “From the standpoint of railroad operation the Eighteenth Amendment has been very helpful

to us, as it has reduced drinking among our.

rank and ﬂle_ in spite of the bootlegger.”

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Catholici-Church in Quebec: . , .

1 ielquite certhlmthat‘ these revellers

big otéls will not swell figures of arrests for drunkenness. The police make their hand of (the poor devils who are thrown out-into the stréePlly the taverns at closing time, but the others, the satyrs in evening dress, and the

ebacchantes in fashionable attire, have apart-

mectswzhere they can ﬁnish jcbeir orgies, and carriages to take them tzhrough the streets

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without fear of arrest. Are they no less drunken?” _ ‘ i "

~01?‘ PRINCE ISLAND-The eyesuoihthe»worlduareuupon Vliellaveledfilie Dominionintheﬁght against)

_’ Let us not. relliiiiulsh that Bouillon. ‘lfcrget erepartylcyclties grid personal friendships.

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B- C- _ "l-iiﬁ- I‘ ‘tiring w‘, .- “Vancouver IS toda-y more wldeopen than a", j before.” . i , .,, m,

» in £21111 _‘

WM. SAVAGE: Barrister, ‘Vancouver, B.C. ~

A “Bootlegging has enormouslyincreased Under Government Control. ‘ young people is a growing evil. Government cannot control its liquor, but it_ can" degmd people by selling it." -

Drinking, among our ’

CHARLES MORGANzwGeneral Secretary of Sag- katchewan Religious Ed “ '

_ _ Ikﬂouncil. “From my own personal , e . tion and kngw. = ledge of factsunothing coul be farther from '_

the truth than to say that the Government ~

Control system is a success, due to the fact that

it is nlade more accessible than for many years;

and we who have the interest, particularly of the young life at heart, are very much concern- ed over; the growing number of young people who are becoming addicted to the drink habit."

.REV. D. G. McQUEEN, D.D., Ex-Moderator of Gen-

eral Assembly and Veteran, Presbyterian Min- ister, a resident of Edmontolfisince 1887. “Magistrate Murphy's’ reported" statement is misleading. It does not cover all the facts. Con- ditions are worse than ‘during Prohibition."

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MONTREAL DAILY STAR, ApPIIIQZ, 1927:

Drunkenness led all otherioffences during the quarter with a 100 pQrY-oentb increase over 1926. There were 258 arreshs~in‘1926=,iwhile the mark

of 521 was reached l_n-~1927-.i Wt " '

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w. F. FLAV ELLE, Brother brslr ‘us... uuvui. and

the late J . D. Flavelleffoii yédrsChairman of" the License Commission, atLindsay, November 19. “My observation of the working of the 0.T.A. is that the average man, the farmer, the laborer, the skilled mechanic, the merchant, etc., are not drinking with the exception of the limited few. They do not chase after it down through the al- ley, or follow the bootlegger,-ﬂl,ld.they and their families are bette .,u,u,u ‘happier now, and the Province is richer ‘buause of it. A

PRINCIPAL‘ ALFREoIfo/liiblislnknbx College.

“It is not of vital importance t6 Canada or to

Ontario whether or not,the~_ne§t,l’rovincial Got-J

ernment is nominglly Conservative. Liberal“

Progressive. It is ofwitaLimpor-tance that the- Government should, nettle, ti}? eRIIPPQI 0f" 31°99. liquor magnates who realize-that today their. very survival on the continent depends in no small degree on Ontario's decision.”

EX-MAYOR W. W. HILTZ, Builder & Realtor, Tor-

onto, speaking thegproposal to introduce Gov- ernment Control in Ontario; _'- ~ “As a builder and an emplb "ilrlof labor-there had the opportunity ‘to“hhservb‘ the difference now as compared with former days. Formerlv ‘it was a common dticurreitclfto have a ma" come to work druh fortitude? the inﬂuence OI liquor. Frequeriti , he-‘Qyliasfnot able to come», at all. Nothing '. k8“ ‘thislhakes place now- Friendsand ac _ lhlfqkiflﬁitésiihh‘ "rural sections. state that in ‘filth’ respective communities

' drunkenness is ‘eradicated!’ CHILDREN'S AID SGCIEITWYTorohto:

“No one closely associated with child protection.

work will question the statement that . tion has tremendously reduced the percentclli

of cases in which drunkenness is a. factotﬂ-I

child neglect or a cause of family breakdown‘ a I “Among the i,101 cases handled by the CliII-‘g - dreirs Aid Society of Torppm] lgstyear. d8

enness in any degree vqapgngpd. in only

centTof the cases. Those cases In- ‘whlch II the miet- probleml-wereno "ilvepyiiinlﬂﬂbld ' '

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Toronto. . -,| , ~~- w‘- t. “The O.T.A'._may not- have accomplished qI\I9_ what was expected of it, but it. hall Illillllalfg ably done great good, ma. menu _ .-

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