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hold books to buy liquor, all these people are not Prohibitionists. They could compare them with the 11,000 who once voted for Prohibi- tion and declare the liquor-drink- ers are in the greater majority.

So everybody should turn out w vote. It is a real showdown. The day is Monday next. The hours are from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

There are provisions in the Tem- perance Act that will induce more temperance than over was achiev- ed before. No one is permitted to furnish alcohol to anyone under twenty-one years of age, and the penalty-the least penalty provid- ed-is thirty days in Jail.

Jail Sentences

Also liquor books can he readily taken from a permit holder who becomes drunk, or spends mciicy he cannot afford, and anyone fur- nlshing him or her with liquor. even giving them a drink, will re- ceive at the least thirty days in jail. No fines are permitted. It is strict and will be enforced. and here is where the clergy could ‘nezp by cleaning up in their own pa:- islies or communities. The Tempei~ ance Act furnishes them the -, means. 1t ls squarely up to them i as leaders iri morality.

A considerable improvement is u provision that in any building ii; which a store is located, the whole premises is treated as a store and not a private dwelling.

There are many such excellent provisions, and temperate-minded people should see the new act tried out.

The times have changed since he Prohibition Acts have come into being. Fifty years ago in the disirict in which I was reared.

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there were fewer liquor drinkers than there are now teetotaiier. We had Temperance education lr. those days until some enthusiasts wanted a Prohibition law. They wanted to make teetotoiism man- datory", and passed a Prohibition Act. Then the trouble began, aiizl it has been deteriorating ever since.

To summarize, there is no sec.ct about the issue in this Plebiscfe. Next Monday everyone qualified to vole ior Assemblyman at a Provincial Election will go to the polls and vote for one of two things: (ll The New Temperance Act, or (2) The Old Prohibition Act. the issue is confusing: there is nothing confusing about it. fundamental distinction the Old Act and the new Act is ilic substitution of a. permit system in the latter for the doctor's pre- scription in the former. The scripts would cost the public possibly $100,000 and would give all kinds of trouble to hard-worked doctozs.

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I" l!" TWwei-ance Commission. This is.s. Pleblsclte to dqtermnia which method of purchase the people prefer. It is to determine whether the liquor to be ham-had by‘ the Commission shall~ be eoid W the Public by doctor's prescrip- tion or under a permit system. Before vdtlng, you will require to examine the respective merits of each system. You will require to ask yourselnes under which systeir. the cause oi true emperance may better be promoted. Fan»; M; satisfied that we in Prince Ed- ward Island desire to be and t: remain s. temperate people.

Public Opinion

There are those among us who hold that by total abstinence, and by total abstinence alone, can true Temperance be attainem It is questionable if this view is shared be’ a majority of our people. Arid it is still more doubtful ii our past or present Prohibition Acts have succeeded in making our Province teetotal.

The Cullen Amendment (so-call- ed) is not a factor nor is it an issue in the forthcoming Pleblscite. That is to say, whether you vote for the New Temperance Act or for the Old Prohibition Act, you are not voting on the question cf whether or not doctors may write prescriptions good for six months: if you vote for the Prohibit-ion Act you are voting for a return to tne former system whereby a separmc doctor's prescription is required for each and every purchase.

This Cullen Amendment might in fact. Se called a modified per- mit system in itself. Alter it be- came law, the Government .1 deavoured, in all sincerity, to test its usefulness and effectiveness. And, as a modified permit system, the results have not been entirely unsatisfactory. The change in the Temperance Act ivill greatly help in enforcement.

But there has been improvement in law enforcement. In the annual report of the Charlottetown City Police Courts for 1947. signed by Major W. A. Smith, the Clerk of that Court, and dated December 31. 1947, we fliid the following:

"One thousand and nir-etee.‘ cases were heard and disposed oi’, showing a decrease of four hund- red and forty-two compared with the year 1946." ‘ And at the present regular sit tings of the Supreme Court at Charlottetown, the Chief Justice, in

TneI between! had presented white_gloves to the

Insofar as this Plebisciite is cozi- i

his address to the Grand Jury, told that body that this was the thzrd

Statements have been made that consecutive regular Jury sill-ins '11

the Supreme Court in Prince Eu- ward Island, at which the sherlllf

presiding judge. As you all know. these white gloves are a symbol ..t the absence of crime. An enviable record, of ivhich we may well as proud, and one which the Chief Justice told the Grand Jury he believed to be the first of its kind in our_history.

Yet there are those who decry the vigilance of the authorities aid

. W9’. call upon our people;

vote.

2-To vote‘ for the retention of the old prohibitory

of the Government with regard to law enforcement. There an those who say that the purpose of the forthcoming Piebiscite is that: a rum-shop may be opened atyour door. Propaganda of this nature ‘s fantastic and absurd, and is no credit to the intelligence and rnc- tives of those propagating it.

The Government urges no one tn vote for one question in preference to the other: all we desire is an honest expression of opinion from as many of the electors as can posiibly get out and vote. Permit me to say, however. that the New Temperance Act has been carefully drafted with the protection of youth and intemperaies in mind. -

The editor ot The lattes-Hy Di- gest in 1926, st the height oi Pro- hibition in the United States. sum- med up the youth situation there as follows: . -

"The ‘teen age totes its own: it is saturated with the sophistries which usually distinguish adults morally gone to seed; 1mm the youth of the land the jails sud prisons are recruiting as victims those who should still be plarzni marbles or be playing with dolls.

"It would be squanderlng space to recite details with which every newspaper reader is familiar Everyone can recall reading of ruin parties engaged in by high scho boys and girls, or young rnotherl themselves and bandits brought to bay-a slckenlrigly large number. There is more drunkenness among school and university students than one could have believed possible."

Key to Situation

Fortunately, we do not have such conditions here. But, in their zeal and energy and haste to condemn those in authority, there are those who overlook what is perhaps the key to the whole situation. ‘This. Before Prohibition we had act- ive Temperance organlzatichs everywhere, The drinking ofalcohol to excess was discouraged and con- demned by the public generally. That was because Temperance, and not Prohibition, was the war-rh- word. Temperance was the slogan, and we were a temperate peopm. Prohibition was as yet unborn- Came one day when many leadzrs in the Temperance movement bi:- gan to feel that nothing short of total Prohibition could or would be satisfactory. The last quarter o! the nineteenth century was mark- ed by the increasing activities of Temperance Lodges and Total Ab- stineiice Pledges, and by the paus- ing of laws in nearly all Proizmces and States requiring Temperance Education in the Public School?» Advocacy o! Local Option and o.’ Provincial, State and National Prc- hibition became organized and vocal. In 1898 Canada had a. na~ tional vote on Prohibition ivhich showed large majorities for it in all but one of the Provinces. The people were voting for Temper- ame, I, myself, voted enthushis- tically in 1898 for Prohibition ai- though I was under age.

’tury has witnessed‘ the repeal of

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alid I continued to 119110111 P70‘ hlbitlon until 19.77, when I came to an age of better understanding. I was misled for a time by Prohibition propaganda’ B!" the experiences with manda- tory prohibition in the Untied States and elsewhere, and the growing lawlessness and crooked- ness worked by Prohibition. changed my opinion. _

During the first quarter of the twentieth century. the Pfvhlbllw" movement reached its 011m“- wiien, during the first World War. practically the whole North Am- erican Continent. went Dry by Local Option, State legislation, and finally by National Wartime Prohibition in Canada: While m9

United states wrote it Into lid constitution in shorter time and by greater majorities than any other of the previous seventeen

amendments. The second quarter of this cen-

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option from the urban areas oi’ North America.

What did the "noble experiment“ (to use President Hoover's classic phrase) indicate? Two conclusions are, in my Judgment, unavoidable by intelligent and observant cit- izens of Prince Edward Island:

(i) The early results of the clos- ing of avenues of sale were bene- ficial and excellent. and clearly demonstrated that over-indulgence in alcohol is s. inaior factor in the social and crime problems of mod- ern society.

(2) But the repeal of Prohibition in the United States in‘ faster time and by larger maiorlties than its enactment, and likewise its 2s- peal in eight ofthe Canadian Pro- vinces, demonstrated quite as clea:- ly that society as a whole is m‘! prepared to accept compulsory t0- tal abstinence, evenln the face of such magnificent results. it. be- came smart to outwit the law. Bootlegging became the new patri- way to quick wealth. And the vast mass of middlemhthe-road citi- zens of North America turned to some form of State Control.

All Should Vote

The not result, therefore, ts that Prohibition definitely disclosed tas large part alcohol plays in social problems, but that it has not been generally speaking, an acceptable method of reducing its use as s beverage. You, good citizens of

Prince Eidward Island, will there?

fore consider with great cars the merits of other techniques shd wiss

Temperance legislation; and more!‘

leaders will not abuse ‘those who differ with them, but will seek as find the most effective program of fostering sobriety.

Citizens of Prince Edward Island you may as well vote on this issue on Monday rsemt. It is an appeal for‘democratic ‘government. You will probably have to find your own way to the polls. If you do not vote, you are encouraging the kind of government against whLh wmso recently fought and bled. There must be an adequate er- presslon of opinion in this election, and you must vote as the Govern- ment must have e. mandate. clear and unequivocal. You are less than a good citizen if you fail to vote.

Prohibition

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