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ment Control as the best means to reduce the evils

. \ CARDINAL seem,

REV. on.‘ McGUIGAN,

REV. n. o. FULTON. nsv. CANON conv, . . ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS,

BISHOP THORNLOE, REV. FATHER KILEEN,

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Robert L. Cotton, Esq., Charlottetown, P. E. Dear Sir: _ . I am in receipt of your letter of Liquor Control

pleased to state of the laws which existed under Prohibition.

Island.

tion the manufacture stamped out, I think I in prohibition days, and I believe that this number

I While Lam strongly

of home-Iarew was carried

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Robert L. Cotton, Esq., i" ' Charlottetown, P. E. Island. Dear Sir: ~ ’

Alberta, would say:

saidof the liquorfbusiness.‘ But we find our present sys There is less drunkenness driven the bootlegger out of business an

our so-called Prohibition did.‘ li or has decreased, We have for the law.

terns we have seen here.

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E. Island. of the 26th ult-

Rfibert L. Cotton, Esq. , -- Charlottetown, P. Dear Sir: ’ . I received yourletter

» My opinion, and that pf many others who are not prejudiced, Liquor in thisProyince and the different towns, is far more succes tothe public than ;the Prohibition Law previously in force. as a Justice of the Peace that we have Under Prohibition we had

I find in my capacit the cases_ we liarllundeg Prohibition. ordinary way, were considered respectable. also

seemed to think it smart to do so.

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.2“ ,. .122.‘ -- i = =li"»x;.-.=\ ,.; Robert L. Cotton‘, I . , CharlottetwwniPwE. Dear Sir: " ' " " " Replying

~\ .11» ' ~ I “'1. 11:04pm letter ofApril 2cm inst,

While the Government Liquor Act maynot be

successful control of liquor A .- ‘will. "lI*‘.-E....' "

JD?!‘ In‘, '.-\.- _ I ‘ V.

REV. IFATHERJ. E. BURKE,

Vote for Pre

in this Province as compared with t that under Government Control t

Our community is made uplargelyof settlers am safe in‘ saying that there is not

in favor of Prohibition personally, it. is impossible, and I believe that the next best remedy is

In answer to your letter in regard to the working of Governm First, I am not a drinking man. Secondjl do not know

I havelivedhere under the old liquor law, system, and have no hesitation in saying that the ~presen

Under our present Act we legger. This aloneqlhould, in my mind, be suiiicient to recommen ' ' I i I I (Sgd.) o. R. s. FRERE, Mayor.

that we have had yet.

run cHABLormrowN GUARDIAN I p

. I That for every ONE outstandingifianadian‘ who favors Prohibition in preference to more effective way to bring about Better Conditions in respect to Temperance and the General

resulting from intemperance.

Here are the names of some of those who favor Government Control, and whose o

REV. T. W. GOODWILL, REV. CECIL S. WILLIAMS, JUDGE EMILY MURPHY, SIR THOMAS WHITE,

READ THE OPINIONS OF THE MAYORS OF, ,THE SMALLER WESTERN

Rosthern, Sask., May 3rd,"19v27. ‘

April 26th, with reference to the success of the Government’ v Prohibition Law previously in force. ere is neither the drunkenness or the breaking

from the" European countries, and under Prohibi- and while this has not yet. been one still in use to every fi_ve which ‘operated

on very extensively,

will gradually be decreased.

Yours truly,

High River, Alberta, May 4th, 1927.

under Prohibition,

Yours truly,

(Sgd.) W. GEO. YOUNG, Mayor of High River.

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Yours truly,

Kamsack, Sask, May 4tn,.’1e27

’ .100 per cent. perfect.

Y t ly. a ours m (Sgd.) W. M. JACKETRII/layor. 4

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I have seen enough to satisfy myself that Government Control of the Liquor Traffic.

(Sgd.) GEO. BROWN, Mayor.

ent Control of the liquor system of of any good that can be tem working much more satisfactorily than to be seen and the consumption of hard d created a greater respect o and under our present t Alberta law is the best of the three sys-

Kindersley, Saslc. Mil-y 3rd. 1927-"

is that Government Control of sful and gives greater satisfaction

under the Liquor Act less than half secret drinking by people that in the e were drinking because they have practically eliminated the boot- d Government Control.

RedDeer, Alberta, May 2nd.

-whlle there is still much to lie desired in/the opera-

lnion thatoohdttions are much better than p g ' _ _, _ opinion ofmostpeopleinlllflsertmthatiitioworldng well.-

.1.‘ Deputy-Hayes.

v 12"” T°mP°fflnoo People in Prince Edwardlsland want to improve present conditions, and- they realize that conditio Stewart s proposals offer a real chance for real improvement. » .

Many of’ the incorporators of the Temperance Alliance are now working for Premier Stewart's new law;

,_ ’ SIR JOHN Amo.

mier Stewart-r-Vote for Sane Temperance and Apbolishrthe Bootlegger I

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re Government Control of the sale of liquor.» J- 1 yet I believe it is the most

It has practically put a stop to the maRiDS ,0! home

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Government Control at least TEN favor Government Control in preference to" continuing prohibition as the I morality and Sobriety of the People.

pinions have already been published:—

sm JOSEPHTLAVELLE, sm JOHN wnuusou.

SIR OHARLESTUPPER.

. Robert L‘. Cotton, Esq.,

I fellows that got away with it. Since Government

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nsare more likelytoget worse if Prohibition is continued. Premier,

and many of those whom the Prohibition advertisements quote are in favor of Govern -

MAYOR WEBB. ' v -.' sm ALAN AVLESWORTH. HON. n. a. ssuusr-r, -'

(Of Winnipeg.) MAYOR LOUIS D. TAYLOR, __ (Of Vancouver)

PRINCIPAL- W. L. GRANT, HON. H, H, STEVENQ

(of Urn»? Canada Gollwe.) rfaaon osusnm. MEWBURN,

{TOWNS AGAIN.‘

Humbolt, Sask., May 21th, 1927.

Charlottetown, P. E. Island. done wond-

Dear Sir: _ a . Yours of the 26th ult. to hand and note contents. In our case Government Control has ers for us here. We used to be pestered to death with bootieggers peddling home-brew. The Royal

ictions per month re' the'inland revenue. Let alone the Control this all has disappeared as I if bye magic. one person charged with making home-brew in the last eighteenmonths.

' . Another phase is this. Formerly we used to have many drunken people to dealwith. The bre - ers would take a jug to town andwould dispose of same in the different livery stables, garages, ark‘ our police were kept quite busy gathering them in. Now people who feel inclined to buy anything; go to the Government Store, get their package and go home, and that is the last of it. , In my opinion g3 Government Control has been a first clas move in our Province. w,‘ ' -

Yours truly, _,___ _ _ '”" (Sgd.) A. II. KRUSE,~IiI‘ayor.

Mounted Police used to have several conv

For a fact we have had only

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_ . g Indian Head, Sask., May- 3rd, 1927. Robert L‘. Cotton, Esq., . » Charlottetown, P. E. Island. ' < r I ‘ Dear Sir: ' ~ » _ > I Re yours of the 26th, to our Mayor. i; ._ X ‘i. u saying that in his opinion the system now in vogue, if ' i "

His Worship has instructed me to write yo o namely, Government Control, is much better in every way when compared with the Prohibiilofl f

Law, which we had had previously. Yours truly,

(Sgd.) JOHN LAW, Town “Clerk.

Coleman, Alberta, May 3rd, 1927. " l

. / Robert L‘. Cotton, Esqq ’ t" - .___ . Charlottetown, P. E. Island. " “is, Dear Sir: _ , , handed over to me by the Mayor, who askedme to reply. Inymy

Your letter of April 26th, was

opinion the Government Liquor Control Act of Alberta has proved a success beyond any doubt, and

Ithink I am in a position to know, as I have been Chief of Police in Coleman for the past eight years, and went all through th-eiProhibition days. There is not half the drunkenness with the Government Control, and if a person wants a bottle of liquor he can go to the Government Vendors and get the real stuff for half the price he paid for the bootleg whiskey.

Prohibition was a complete failure in Alberta just as it is in the States.

to enforce.

It is a thing impossible \

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Yours t ' A 1 (Sgd.) J . HOUGHTON, Chief ‘of Police. -_

-’ Watrous, Sasln, May 4th, 1927. _ if

Robert L. Cotton, Esq., - Charlottetown, P. E. Island.

Dear Sir: - ~ - . In my opinion the Government Control of the sale of liquor in the Province of Saskatchewan is

better. than the Prohibition Law previously in force. . . In Saskatchewan the Province is divided into districts and» the people in each district have the . I '

right by vote to say whether or not a liquor store maybe located in that district. . much about that end of it. - » , - ~

In this town there is no liquor store,» so I can I101’- Bay Yours truly,

(Sgd.) c. y. mcrsnfrcwn-cieric“ j

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Robert L‘. Cotton,-Esq., ' _ . ' ' “ >~ Charlottetown, P. E. Island. i" ' A

Dear Sir: - . _ . . _ . r w Your: of the 27th ., re the working of the Alberta Liquor Law, to hand and noted. Myopia-- quor Law in the Dominion. Home-brew bootleggingls absolutely cutjotit."

Jon is that it is the best Under the former so-cailed Prohibition Law there was not a week but we wouldhear olthree onion! Since our present law I have not, heard o

laootleggers in. town‘ peddling their wares. ~bocnegger being in jourtown. ' Afew glasses ot beer, seems to satisfy the liquor thirst. of in people and when they can get that openly they do not buy a bottle of hard stumand a I am enclosing aidlipping which appeared in today's Calgary Herald, which ma? i» ~people think of it. 0t course. onions! prohibitionists ilndrtault witirlt, item-tho: v a. .» l. to

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