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qr will any. . mbera who same old smells. same , nip-mutation some and» laughter. ' did mignnilty. name old qigrieling auii strait!) M. “m? M drunks. ‘Beiolh nqdllabt l mw one hundred men drunk 0n beer. Z. ll" “Ml

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iflmmadn, ~n a little open space. were tour men on the condition described in iRt-rwnier Geoiiriods report: “Ly ng drunk."

Between nwlzimfght and iuurniili. 4n a. cabaret and lua has‘ GOZuI lbmqieggiis; qnbs and iflinisl WW htmdiresis oi women» tlit-ril-ttig; many of them wvore me-e g-lrlll; and inlly onetthiird or them were drunk. A newspaper woimin I ‘mel- ltli-a-t night in a "blind iris" club w-here three hundred men and women ‘were dtt nik. ng told me she has! scena, mhousand iwomen dntnk .in sin-sh "ices ‘In ‘wont-real.

In that city are lthrec hundred and sew-n oit ‘those saloons that soil nothing tbiit beer. ‘I ivondcred how many men iwcnit oult of them that-irgbt- drunk with beer. In Monitreisl lithe live hiunidred gmcery stuns tbs-t sen. beer n tboufics 1v flibillltliflll, del-ivenlng it. sis ordered. with thc blend and milk and [POI-fl- 1.095, and I wondlend- iii how iniany homes or Mann-teal were men and women that ntshit. and even child- ren, drunk on beer, ‘wtho ‘were not (‘ounu-rl, duh-lie otfplal “statistics of ilmun-kedests" t-hait the govern- uncut or Q ‘" Quiche-is and limb- lllflhiis in import ot’ the tcniiporate quail-Qty oi‘ its beer.

The nmot morning I went, to the Humidors Count. There was the Silimlt! old ‘pofl ‘cc court ‘scene thait l hiid \\'l1l](’S8£‘(.l a Ilhout-und time's iti the. oiwl saloon days ln_ nu Amcrirvan city; fhlle some umd 0i u {Ire-d judge om ithc hcnoh. ifcd lm on mhv- some old dn-rina. of drunks than. med Ibetlmc hum through the months and‘ ywrrs; "mite sumo- md gnrunvps of seedy men rind ‘pitiful ‘girls and woinrln‘ at the bur; and the’ stum- olrl‘ Ipolfoc-(‘icnim lnwyuts vtith thntr vlr-infulrrers and object- ions nt-vl niotons. I[Ol' d-clay and pious for len-‘tmcy.

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air-sunburn" aim y: l ton was only oils ‘oiltlig htiitgd oi, places in Mull when men‘ women were getting dntnk ‘oir osoi- tiiatuigbt, and i‘ went rroui one place to another and squall ;I thought of what Louis A. Tsscli- oreau. painter, of Quebec, and .-b_sinpion oi the light-wine and beer law, said-oi ttin a recent speech: "Our ‘liquor law is a suc- cees from a ni I point of view. $ll~0ilrhglll§ tho sale of beer wlilioi discouraging the sale of bard nquo: has reduced drunkenness materially." ‘

The drive for light wins and beer 1n Quebec began In the same way It. did In the United States, and the hinustbat have grown out or it—-

.1611 light to st orrg beer, and the increase in drinking and its attend- tut evils-sire indicative n!‘ n'l|.\t will come to ipam in this country if the sale oi wine and beer ls legal- ized.

dn 1918, the closing year of the war. ‘the demand for prohibition in Quebec became so insistent that

he government had a puohibltirry law drawn up and announced that It would g0 Into eliect the follow- ing spring. That would have closed more than a dozen big. breweries. Their owners were rich and infin- entinl, and they brought such pzes- sura to besr that the government backed down and, instead of put- ting into eiicct the prohlbltoryr lbw it had promised. it submitted‘ to thc vote oi the people the follow- ing question:

“Ls it your opinion that the sale of light beer, cider and wines, as defined by law, should be allowed?"

The beer was to contain not m0 e .-hsn 2 51 per cent. oi alcohol, and the wine and cider 6.94 per cent. weight measure: ‘and hard liquors were to be sold by veuders and only on doctors’ prescriptions.

‘ibcrc was a whirlwind campaign secretly managed by the brewers, nn- the Province was plastered broadcast with the s-a-me old argu- ments, s0 familiar tin the United State-e just now, especially that prohibition was too "strict" and

‘ba.rd" and ought to be “i-ioitened" i0 allow the sale of light. wlneand belt-r which, really. were temper- iincc drinks. That word "light" caught thc fancy of the people, as it is now Iurin s0 Imsny in this country. The e ection was held on a sto-my spring day, when the .0H.iiti were deep with mud, and the light beer and wine proposition was curricd.

Tbcn developed the exact. situa- tion that the brewers of the Unit- ed Stuns met. in ‘their attempt, nf- ter prohibition went into effect, to mznket a nea-r-beensubstituts ior real beer. The people would not

eriiloons and beer-svuliis‘; |‘_'TO-C“’I'Y r-wtcvres r119 a woman. c. mother, miaybe divinity-fine years old. and as she stood ItacIn-g the‘ jtirlge she 011mg to Ihe trail volt-h with bands.

IBaok to a corner oi‘ the court room a boy .oi tiwalve or thirteen years stood with his two fists doubled 'l‘|'\ and sthovvvl into his eyes, to bride the team and the Mamie ir. h-‘s ipoor '1 vitic- trace. Mm‘ than was his imiclther all. ‘the ba-r. and who vans =therc for "lying dmtinvk" on ‘the sidewalk.

‘The itul-ge ‘tabkoz-d‘ Ito her French. anvil she anmvcrod Frevv-lu/

‘WVhai ‘(YWS s/he say?" I asked a colt" nvtr-"ntlnrnlt.

“She says sht- wisni ts-lie Firs-wk only [three DOTYITFEI lbeer."

"Wm! clve couldn't ‘wt drunk on than, qnttlidi rile?" I inn-tired.

“Say" returned the oliitcer. "some nt‘ lbis been“ so dormer it’ ta mwnki "(dirk 1"\'O illifitttfle‘; if it lit-W] go "wt. amli ttmy lto ss-"ll the Violontn Blritlige."

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The judgv asked lit"? if she bad any children. and rslu! replied in (French and untitled toward the cor» mcr: thc judge looked that. way and a court oiliccr tried to take the. boy's lists out ni‘ his eyes. but be dug them in all the deeper.

I shall never forget that boy as lie stood that morning. aunt-cred as far as he could get into the corner. hidln his face in shavme ior his moths , his whole little body, irnm ‘his ragged slices to his tousletl head, quivering with the sobs be tried to smother.

The following ‘Saturday night, ln the city oi l-lull. Quebec, I went in- to the Wellington saloon and In a room as large as a big church I saw four hundred men at tables. drink- ing beer, all talking and argutinit and cursing all together, some singing and many drunk. This was n donblcdscker saloon; the owner of it told me be had room for seven hundred persons to sit at one time at tables and drink beer, and up- stairs were one hundred men and thlrtyeix women, all drinking bet-r together. and one of the rlrtinken women was on top of a table. try- jb-w-r-

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drink it. A brewer In a large city !.n the United States told me that jsince prohibition be had lost three hundred thousand dollars a year trying to popularize his non-alcoho- lllc near-beer.

"People drink beer ior ‘just one purpose, ior the kick they got irom the alcohol in It." he said.

l0 ll . Within a your after tbs new law want into affect and they began ‘making Illfllllwdloei‘. it had jumped t0 one hundred andolghty-iivo dollars‘ u altars. No wonder the brewers of t a United ‘States are spending mill nl in s drive to have their gplante not going again.- ‘Llghtbeer pr tInot make them money, but if ‘hey could edge up. as the braw- eraofQuebec did, ‘and getto Innk- Ing a beer with a content ot 5 per cent alcohol, or more, thoy- would undoubtedly make fortunes.

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‘Hie total amount spent ior edu- cation in Quebec that year was 822.122.978.92. about oil million dol- uirs less than was spent for booze. ilie Mufll daisy products of the pro- .‘i.cc weie worth *$26.850,392,sbout two million dollars less than was non for drink. The value of the potato crop in the province that your was twenty-sight million dol- Inio, exactly tho amount. spend for drink. in the drive ior light wine and beer the brewers promised they would do no advertising’ bud even sitar the liquor commission was appointed. its chairman. George Slmnad, in a. printed statement, to the -pe:>ple of Quebec said he re- cognized that the" advertising oi intoxicating drinks was an evil, because through it temperate and sober men and youths might ba tempted. to drink.

And yet, everywhere in Quebec beer introduces itself. in clever, persistent advertising. I saw bun- dreds of stores in Montreal and ot.her cities bearing the sign: "Gro- ceries and Beer.” Iaaw everywhere the picture of a black ‘Percheron horse. visualizing in every line the Idea oi great strength and vigor. with the legend "Blsckhorse Bear Gives Strength." I saw many 8T0‘ cery stole windows iiilled with bot- ties of beer with the signs: “A Bracing Tonic ior Women." “REV; commended by fill Physicians» "Beer Will Give Vigor to Weakly Women and Children." Everywhere thc thought was being pounded into the min-is oi the people that beer gives strength. good health and long ills.

Frontier Tascherean and tho members oi his government in Qn bec never lose s chance 10 Pr": cla m the happy results oi the Que- bec ‘liquor law. Running through the tile-s oi‘ the Quebec neweillillfiffi I cums upon hundreds oi public speeches by Pmmler "Tascherenn in

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nets could go down while the con- sumption of intoxicating beer and liquors was going up: but when I looked into it I saw that all those statistics were based upon» "ar- rests” and "convictions" for drunk- enness. For‘ la: in 1921 there were 99H convictions. and in 1923i. 7103 convictions ior drunkenness in the ‘province. -

Those are weak arguments in support of thessle of beer, one would think; but yet they do show a UBCIQBBB. nut in drinking or in drunkenness. but only in arrests and convictions for drunkenness. Dr. Darion said of those statistics". "Premier Tsschereau has said many ‘times that his government must. stand upon ‘the success of the Que- bec liquor law which it fathers. Ii the law falls his government must Iall. Now a government that is in the liquor business for wlhnt it can make out of it; which is depend- ent upon the money of the brewers for campaign expenses; whose pol- itical life rests upon beer and liquor, is naturally not anxious to show np the weakness oi the law

"\\ hen you realize that the police oiliclsls who make the arrests and the magistrates in whose bands are convictions ior drunkenness are appointed by a government that must have statistics oi decreasing drunkenness you can understand those statistics."

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hotels to serve vbasr and wine with meals irom eleven to three and from live -t.o nine-thirty on Sundays. Two hotels in Hull have enormous dining rooms to accommodate the Sunday drinkers, and the Sunday I was there in Hull l saw ilve huu- jred man and probablywmo hun- ded women in them. The prover- bial "rubber sandwich" is used to circumvent the law requiring a meal to be en-tcn before beer can be served, and from taleveu o'clock In ‘the morning until late at night

which he praised the law and ‘pro- nounced beer. to be a t-Bmileflllce drink, and be has said in public many times that he wished to en- uomagedhe drinking of bear, es-

beer decreased drunkenness.

Father E. LaVergno is one editors of IJAction Cfltllflllqllfi. l1 leading French newenflilel Q! Qlle‘ beg City; partly owned by the. Cath- olic Church of the province. He is n missionary priest and s, temp"-

The brewers oi Quebec soon ‘found that out. tBesr with only

2.51 per cent‘ of alcohol was ~too|

light. its kick was too weakplPeo- ple would not drink it.

In the ‘meantime another premier. 1.. A. Tasohereuu, had comev into power; be ivas friendly to the brew-

iers, and after two years 0t‘ trylngl

to make light ‘beer go they forced the present‘ law ,ment. Briefly. this law puts the

liquor business into the hands of a‘

commission of flve members wh-o are ‘paid salaries and are supposed not to have rany interest in the liquor business. All hard liquors and wines are sold by the commis- sion in its own stores that close before dark. Any penson may buy there an unlimited amount oi wine. but he can buy only one bottle at a ‘time of hard liquor and he must drink it elsewhere. The price is plat-ed at three and four times the saloon prices ot’ former days pur- posely. to tiist-ouragc its use.

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Thcbvewcrs scll beer only to rc- tailcm who hold permltg from mo com-mission, and they pay the com- mission 5 rper cent of their sales. Under ‘the new law the old saloons were renamed "taverns," the bat-Q were required to ‘be screened irom sight. and all drinking must be done sitting down, at tables. This gave lthe brewers and the government a chance to say that tho saloons and bars had been abolished. Ibut a saloon is a saloon, and there is am- ple proof tbs-t. s man sitting at a table will drink vmors than one standing at a bar; the chair and table entice him to stay longer; and the treating evil has been greatly increased by it.

When the brewers were making their drive for light beer and wine the promise oi ‘the government was that 2:51 per cent oi alcohol was to be the limit, butythey have edged up on that until now that word “light? with which the brewers eii- ticed t-ho voters, has been wholly forgotten by them, and there is no limit to the alcohol they may put in their beer. The greater part of it contains from 6 to 8 poi- cenL, and much oi It 10 and 12 per cent. "Light" wine has been forgotten, too. and Ihe most. of it contains 15 pcr cent and more of alcohol.

One oi thc provisions of the new

- law was that nll saloons, hotels, ‘ restaurants

and grocery stores where beer is sold should close at seven o'clock: but the brewers havn edged up ‘on chat. too. and the Irlellllly llqllor commission pcnniis them to stay open until ten o'clock.

ln the fiscal year ending in the spring oi 1921, when the brewers were making light ‘beer with only 2.51 iper cent. of alcohol, 6,409,189 ballons of bear were made in Que- bec. The following year, when the brewers we.e putting in lots oi alcohol, 21,741,963 gallons of beer were made and sold in Quebec, and In addition. 579,985 gallons oi strong beer were imported and drunk. J. D. Hudson. oi the Nation- al Breweries. said to me that the sales ot‘ beer by the ten breweries in Quebec this year would he much greater than Inst year. that they

would aggregate one million -bsr- - to

rein. or twenty-live ‘million gallons,

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mice oiasdor, and liiltlef‘ hi6 ‘YBPVBB! appeals thousands have signed the temperance pledge. He said to inc: "in the old days the lkuwr business was despised and looked down n1!‘ on, but. now the government h“ become a saloon-keeper and that has made it respectable in the eyes of ‘many. Now there is n0 shame

errmnent job, like being a postmas- -t.ar or customs ofllcer. With due respect to those at the bend oi our igovernment, l must say that since they have become the advocates oi bee-r and booze and have put the seal of government approval uilflll drinking they have almost annihil- ated the work of the church thwush years oi Ipreachlng temperance and sobriety."

Doctor Jules Dorlon. chief editor ot‘ ifiAction Cathollque, ‘said to me: "The government statistics indicate a decrease in drunkenness, but the truth ls therc ‘is a great increase in drunkenness. Brewers und poll» liCliHlS may fool the tempers-nor! people by saylnig that beer with an alcoholic content oi 5 to 10 per cent in nut intoxicating. and there may be folks in the United Suites who can be Imposed on by that state- ment, but brewers are not among them. They know it is intoxicating and so do people who drink lt."

Statistics Issued by the govern- ment of Quebec showing ‘that drunk- enness has decreased there since beer became the popular drink have been published verywhere in the United States by the wet propa- gandlcts as an‘ argument for legal- izing the sale of ‘beer. When I reached Quebec I was puzzled at first to understand how drunken-.

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those dining rooms were ‘tilled. I imagined that from this two days and nights oi abandonment to drunkenness the drag-net. oi the

in ‘Hull Monday morning expecting to see at least

oi the one hundred up on charges of in- dflnldng, Sam;

toxlcntion, but only six‘ had been arrested. - I

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I asked the chief oi police, Jos- lepli Groulx, about it, and be said: “As long as a mun is able to navi- gate at all we don‘t arrest him." He said his arrests averaged only about eightya month, a-nd he was keeping the record down this year. i One of the chief arguments of the wet. ivropagandist/s in their, light- wtne and beer campaign in the United ‘States is tlia-t. prohiblton is responsible ior moonshining, boot- legging and drug taking, and that ‘the legalizing of wine and beer as beverages would stop it. The brew- ers oi Quebec Imade the same argu- ment in their drive for light wine and beer iour years ago. The Sat- urday and Sunday I was In Hull a squad oi revenue oflicers swooped down along the Gatinesu Valley, in Quebec. raided a score of farm- houses, seized several lllicitstllls, three ‘forty-three-gallon barrels. eleven drums and many jugs of moonshine whisky, and arrested forty men, including the mayor oi (i-nfinean village.

Only a few weeks before, anoth- er raid in Quebec bad rounded uIJ ‘fifty-live bootleggers and‘ ‘moonshnl- ers, and at about the same time a atill big enough to make two tlion- sand gallons oi whisky a day was unearthed In Montreal. '

lDr. A. K. Haywood, superintend- ent of the Montreal General Hos- pital. read a paper ‘before sight hundred members of the Canadian Club. in which he declared: "Mon- treal. the only city on the North American continent. with a recog- nized rad-llght district, is turning out drug indicts, disease suiiersrs. criminals and derelicts nt an alarm- ing rate." ‘He asserted that a red- llght district could not exist with- out intoxicating liquors; so the nar- cotic drug evil had its genesis in alcoholic drinks. Ho told how in the lsst two yeans the use oi mor- vphlnc. opium. cocaine and heroin

, had increased rapidly In Montreal.

In 1921 the courts handled 552 cases oi‘ violation of ‘the narcotic-drug

’ law, but in ‘i922 they handled a