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THE SIGNAL : GODFRICA. ONTARIO
ADVERTIs14M1iNT.
VOTE FOR LOCAL OPTION and ABOLISH THE BAR ROO
Beware (f the Fraudulent Liquor
Literature. 1i
It is intended to deceive and to stampede 'the voters from the real issue.
For example, the dead manifesto, 13 Months old, signed by less than 2O of
the more than 200 business and professional men of Owen Sound. To -day -
it will stand close scrutiny, because it does not represent Owen Sound,
nor, in some cases, the firms concerned. Notably is this so with ',McDougal
and Lemon. The junior partner signed the manifesto, using the firm's stamp,
without the knowledge or contient of the senior partner. Mr. :Mel )ougal has
repeatedly expressed his indignation, at that action, and states that lit is a
supporter of the Local Option By-law. That is a sample, and an exli tistive
scrutiny of that 1907 list. and of all the productions of the Liquor party will
riveal the same unsoundness and unreliability.
VOTERS ' Kindly remember thtit these productions are preparers by
the Liquor party iu defence of their own business. as anybody will admit,
without any care for the well-being of the public.
BEWARE OF THE ROORBACH
The last resort of the unscrupulous trickster,
To Vote FOR Local Option
Mark Your Ballot Thus.
RNIN
Bribery and Corruption
VOTERS! All the provisions of the Municip.
Act and Election Laws' in reference to Cc• -
rupt Practices apply to the voting upon tl
Local Option By-law as well as to tL,
election of municipal officers.
Falsification of Figures. TEN SOUND REASONS
WHY 1 WILL VOTE FOR LOCAL OPTION.
Gross Attempt to rlislead the People by the Publica- 1.
tion of Fake Statistics. Who is to Blame?
Ow•IN Sit , u, ONT., Dec. 'nth: 1154,.
DEAR SIR, -
Tn further answer to your kind inquh•y of *Mime time
ago, i am sending you a copy .1 Friday's "Sun." in which
you will find description of the falsification of Police Court
returns by our anti -Local Option friends here. They were
printed in `The Citizen," the barroom campaign'she.•t here.
and I understand they are being distributed in all districts
where Local Option is being tried. 1 trust that you will
make use of this to its fullest extent. The Police Court
Clerk. Menzies. has admitt.d his error and the correctness
of these figures. except a misprint in Pot, which I hare
corrected in pen, and the having out of a line of Assaults in
1907. These are both eorrecteJ in pen in the copy sent you.
The totals in each case are correct.
With kind regards, and wishing for you a very pleas
ant New Year, and good ruceesrs in your campaign. 1 am,
Yours very truly.
C. A. FLEMING.
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Because Local Option means equal rights and
greater liberty for all, wherena the Bar enslaves.
The limeir dealer has a nwnopoly in a business that injures the com-
munity. Local Option attacksuoOil e's liberty but the barkeeper's liberty
to sell intoxicuing liquor. Head letter of Rev. Father Minehan, of Tor-
onto. ou another part of this page.
Because Local Option is NOT the Scott Act Again.
L.. -.d Option is a roustitutiunal. non-partisan ct,AI•SE of the existing
Liquor License Act. The trait is smaller. being confined to the munici-
pality, whereas the Scott Act covered the county,
3. Because Local Option is successfully enforced.
The testimony in this regard is cony incing. Ask the live bote
keeper behind the IRON tn•,. in Owen Sound if Loral Option can t t tn.
.red, See also the statement from Orillia on this page.
4. Because Local Option with its excellent enforce .
ment provisions does not create dives.
The reports from Owen Sound show that the IIVEs are chiefly in
Owen Sound Sun. December 25th, 1908- J
The old sayin that ••flgt)resies sot 1iv.�b)it Bari. rap figure-"_ia_we11i1Lts•
trued in the flaring 'statement ' that appeared in The Citizen on 111th Decem-
ber. Under the heading “Facts. Not Fiction.'- it purported to give. over the
signature of George Menzies, Clerk. the number of summary convictions in
Owen Sound during the years from 1903 t, 148)7, and Inc 1141r1 to 15th of De-
cember. The figures showed an alarming increase in 14547 and IP t» especialfy,
Having a slight doubt of their absolute correctness, we endeavor..1 tb check
the figures; but the Police Court regi tear had disappeared fermi its aecws-
tomed place in the Court room. Then, rrwetubering that a report of all coil -
victims' bas to be made by all magistrates, we went to the office of the Clerk
of Peace. There, in the returr.s of the convictions in the Owen Sou id Police
Court, we found ground for charging someone with will.,:h• prublishinga false
set of figure-'. Here is The Citizen's alleged statement, and alongside it the
figures taken from the returns to the Clots of the Peace- -which ate generally
supposed to be correct. Compare then( carefully.
1903
Drunks and disorderliee.....
Breach of other town by-law' ,
Vagrancy
Assaults
Breach Liquor License Act
Other ofences.....,..........
Yate
Citizen's
Figures
.. 1:i
L8
II
144
22
34
1901
Drunks and disorderlirs
Vagran
y.
Wench of -other town •bylaws--
Assaultu it
Breach Liquor Licenee Act 1
Other offences 16
14)5— t11
Drunks and diaonterlies "` '10
Breach of other town Dylan"
Vagrancy 311 ti_
Assaults 17 l, -
Breach Liquor License Act..............• - 8
Other offences 4etas as a ._ .. 7 t'r
91
1908—
Drunks and disorderlies i ;r;,,p„ 'r , . 87
BreaAssaults of other town by-laws I. +....... 28
Vagrancy . 16
IU
Breach Liquor License Act . 18
Other offerees 13
18
114
b`
10
9
106 114)
9r4
28
14
12
1t►
19
171 182
So far, not -much difference, nothing to Peke a fuss over. But puss on to
1907, and notice where the fine Italian hand of the garbler-padder, or what
you have a mind to call him. ie visible.
1907—
Citizen Official
Drunks and disnrderlies ..>. ......................
11:3 148
Breach of other town by laws.. 90 :
Vagrancy 40 13
Assaults `� 38 13
Breach Liquor License Act ..... 9C3 47
Other offences... .......... . . 1'24 25
498 243
For 1908 the official returns to the Clerk of the Peace cover only the first
eleven months. We are unable to get the•lfiguree for the first half of Decem-
ber, because the Police Court register—the only book of record—was not in
its accustomed place. The clerk was using it. But the differences are suffic-
iently apparent.
eft OAtcial
Drunks and disorderlies 111 14)
Breach of other town by-laws 244 9
Vagrancy 102 t' 111
Melamine T2 In
Breach Liquor License Act , 71 :in
Other offences 81 21
4211 187
Now bow do they e. count. for the diacrepencles? How ran they explain a
trifling
Now,
of 255 in the figures for 1907? How explain *tech items as
102 vagrants where only ten were reported ? Did the other ninety-two come
in between Deeembe•r 1st and 15th ? And will the person responsible for that
fake list pretend that in the fine two weeks it i)ecember the Owren Sound
Police Court made more eonvietione then in the eleven months piereding ?
Who is responeible for the 'statement" •r 1)id Oenrge Menzies. Clerk, who
is supposed to have signed it. send out a falee return ? Did W. II. Lilly,
editor of The Citizen, or some one with his connivan.e, garble a correct re-
turn ? In plain Anglo-Saxon. Who is lying ?
if George Menzies, Clerk, knowingly trent nut a false statement.—if he
used his official positlou,fru a partisan purpose, to mislead the people of
Owen Sound, and all other :Aires where The Citizen may stray ; if he hire done
this, how long should he be allowed to hold an official position : Is it safe to
trust such a man for moment'
If W. H. Lilly, editor of The Mizen --the apostle (runt somewhere elite,
who comes to telt us what we mu tl)t( do to besaved fr ruin -if thte men is
responsible for the lie. how long, think you, should a justly indignant tinblic
set him stay in our town ?
Mr. Menzies or Mr. Lilly. Which ie to blame? And what are we to
ftldok of a cause that needs to be holstered up by such dirty tactics ? Whet
see we to think of it? We leave it. with you, readers.
STICK TO THE ISSUE.
Hate it. is —BAR -ROOMS ARE BAD.
Bad for Buaiaess, Social Life. Politics, Morals, and for every GOOD interest,
LOCAL OPTION CLOSES THE BARROOMS.
The Leal Option law is a geed law. it satisfies. it stays.
the hotels. See the statement from Owen Sound on this page. Sip r-
ience has shown that hotel -keepers )ter Nor and w-tu, NOT observe tOa•
license law. Id' lioderich, for example. three large fines were imposed in
recent months for L-tw-mte.re N4. by hotel and hair -keepers.
Because Local Option has been a remarkable suc-
cess In every munlcip3Uty where it• has been
fairly tried.
The liquor party can point t r only one case of seeming non-sucecis,
: Owen Sound. But although for nearly two years Loral Opt ion was
not enforced it has been vigorously and, most successfully enforced for
one whole year. Read the statement of convictions in this respect
under head of "The True Case in Owen Sound."
Because Local Option Helps Business, brings more
trade to town, and makes industries more pros-
perous.
It brings disaster to only two kinds of business. the liquor trade
and the undertaker. All other lists increase and prosper under Local
Option.
The liquor business' best defence seems that it is determined to defy the
law, else why suggest that Local ODtios would create spies and perjurers ?
7. Because Local Option will help to solve the
problem of the unemployed.
The increase of linsines, and indu,tr•y will mean work for all—even
the few employees of the liquor trade will find letter and more honor-
able employment.
8. Because- Local Option will bring large increases
in revenue to the town.
The loss of license fees will quickly be compensated for by the• in-
creased number of buildings and residences, which fact has been
repeatedly proved in Local Option towns.
9. Because Local Option will eventually reduce the
tax rate.
It increases the vale" of property. Real estate in Local Option
centres has increased in value from 80 to over 3) per cent. since the bar-
rooms cloned. Read "the Effect of Locel'Veto on the Taxed. A state-
ment of the situation in Goderich based upon the actual figures given by
the'Iown Assessor"—isatin in:card form.
10. Because Local Option is the Best Temperance
Law we have. It banishes the Bar.
Temperance consists in s moderate use of things that are beneficial
and wholesome, and in total abs inence 'rem those tbingn that are
harmful. and alcohol is one of the latter.
Here is a Real Sound - -
Statement from Orillia.
OriUia Times, November a6, 1908
In view of the fact that in a large store in town. All the factories am
number of municipalities local option now ninning full time, and prospects
contests will be brought on at the fora busy winter season are not Tess
next inunieipal elections, a good deal bright than they were a year ago.
of interest is manifested an Orillia, ;The town's net revenue this year from
and its commercial condition since it water, power and light will be 511,0140,
became a dry town. The anti's, of a thousand dollars more than last
course, looking through the large end , year, and ite recent issue of debent-
of the telt-mope from a long distance, urea sold at 10X5, the highest premium
say that the town is suffering from ' for sevwetRyears,
depression. The tempe•tance people,i hlusinesegencraplpbasbeergood•r}d
4)e the -ether -hoed; esti..,. tl..t st.th--ir np t6 e'rpeetatfifaA. "iiia" difficr-tTf T
not the case, and even if it were the any merchant to say positively that
moral sentiment of the town is s, his huainees has inereas d berat ee of
local option, and it is equally difficult
for any excepting those directly en-
gaged in the liquor business to say
touch improved that Ale change has
been worth tybile no matter what it
cost.
The facts of the caw are decidedly that there has been a falling off fmm
in favor of level option. and were the (his cause. The testimony of employ -
vote taken again today it is quite en of labor is clear and emphatic.
within the mark to may that fully In sulntance it is thio. Formerly the
twenty per cent, of those who voted morning after pay day there were
aelvetvely Inst January are in favor of always ataeentees, and poor work by
local option now. those who felt it neteeesary to indulge
Let us look for a moment at the in the flowing bowl. Now these mon
conditions which prevail at the pees -'arc *ober enol industrious, Numerous
.ant tire.•. There hair been no change I instanres.can be given of men who for
in the hotel or stied decommodatien. the first time in their liver( have
PIM` that one hotel has gone. out of I n *hole week's ter month's pay
business, and the premises are now in their pockets, formerly their bar
necupievl by one• of the finest hardware bill Always having had the first
etotes in Lite Province. The stables of call. Morally the town is so vastly
this hotel are operated as formerly. improved that no one for d moment
Hotel sheds are free and farmers can,thinks of disputing the point.
get mieals for 25 cents, exactly theIt must always be remembered,
same roridit ions as prevailed prior to however, that OrHa has been fortun-
last May. Hotel rates are el .Z. 51.50
and 58 per disy. The year 14441 hat
been a year of depression in manufac-
turing ell over Canada, and Orilli,i s
fertories have employed fewer hands
and run shorter hour in common
with those of other places. Notwith-
atanding this fact the Iter of new
dwe•Ilings erected in Willie thin year
hes been unusually larTggee, building
operations totalling 51014,(44). Vacant
houses are exeeedingly scarce and
rents high. The premises formerly
occupied by the wholesale liquor store
are being fitted up for insurance
offices, and there is only one vacant
ate in having a well anized polleeforce, and • milli..m trate impar-
tial in his dtteiefoon an fearless in the
discharge of his duty. Violators of
the law speedily found that the law
was not to le trifled with, and the
penalties exacted in every case where
a conviction was obtained were heavy.
Has local option been it success in
()riffle ? Yes, decidedly. Has local
option had a depressing effect upon
the trade, or driven business else-
where ? The Times has not been able
to learn of • single instatice where
each has been the saes, and is of the
opinion that none artiste.
OWEN SOUND
1S THE BATTLE GROUND.
Owen Sound is very much in the
lirnelight these days. From end to
rust of the Province—and throughout
the Duwinion and parte of the United
States—wherever suppression of the
drink traffic k in issue—Owen Sound
is known. It is held up by the bar-
room advocates as the horrible ex-
ample of the failure of local option.
They refer to Owen Sound, and Owen
Sound ooly. About Midland, West
Toronto. Orillia, we bear nothing :
it is Owen Sound, Owen Sound al-
ways, There is • reason for this.
In the good oil days, when the bars
and back rooms did bustnet atinut 1644
hours per week, Owen Sound had a
hard reputation as a drinking town.
When the people, three years ago,
took it in hand to wipe out the stain.
the liquorices were first amused, then
alarmed. then ,soundly beaten. But
they said, '•Here is a town with a
reputation ; with a crowd of good fel-
lows who never .did keep the law.
We shall make our fight here. We
shill show the pe•'lite of Canada that,
no matter how twat option may work
in the rural districts, it ie no good in
a town." Anil straightway they set
about discreditingthe law. Yon all
know what they e dune Musa Mae
191141 ; bow they have bee lined again
and again --and some of t m gaoled ;
how they have used all the r ingenuity
to trick, the inspector. and \tr escape
conviction when caught. itis an oft -
told tab;.
You wonder why they have been so
persistent. Because they ere depend-
ing on Owen Sound to save theta from
tieing kicked out of Cattails- yea, out
of America. They are making weir
tight here. The result is watched by
urany another town and city, f
Owen Sound goes ••wet," it means
set -back 111 years for the temperance
cavae. 1f Owen Sound goes "dry," it
means a knock -out blow to the liquor
1 refffic.
If Owen Sound votes "dry" on Jan-
uary 4th, it is tate betting that the
liquor party • will remove its head-
quarters elsewhere, and give Owen
Sound a rest. It is a supreme effort
they have been making ; the fight has
been a costly one for them. They
will hesitate before tackling three
years more et it,
ROMAN CATHOLIC
ENDORSEMENT.
Extract (roma Letter from. Rev. Father
Minehao, of Toronto, to a Goderich
Citizen—Also Cardinal Vaughan.
If you deem it advisable you might
use this note to yourself to combat
the idea of the similarity between
local option and the Scott Act. My
experience with the latter wan unfor
Lunate. i spent Dt some years in a
town under the Scott Act and voted
for ita repeal because it was ineffec-
tive.
But my experience of the failure of
the Scutt Act does not binder we
from thoroughly approving of local
option, The Scott Act introduced
local prohibition. No person could
get fermented liquor from* store ex-
cept on a doctor s order. Local option
attacks the bar -room only. If a man
wants to boy liquor and take it home
there is no obstacle pit In the way of
his doing so. Such a one cannot say
that biseris)nal liberty is interfered
with. What is attacked is his liberty
to go into a bar -room with a company
of choice spirits, regale himself and
them, as well as the loafers who con-
r•gate there. with round after round
df liquor and then meander irk cork-
screw fashion along the sidewalks or
obstruct the gutters. 1 have seen
enough of this liberty and received
sufficient annoyance from disciples of
that school of freedom to make me a
determined enemy of the bar -nom.
Local option wisely confines itself to
the abolttiofi-1Sfthe b*jvroom and the
elimination of that moat senseless and
pernicious of customs, the treating
system.
Whilst in uiy opinion tate Scott Act
wee ahead of puhlic opinion, local op-
tion Is aiming for what Industrial,
social and religious life is denunding
with ever increasing force, namely,
the abolition of a system as indefen-
sible as it ie pernicious—the treating
system, for which and by which the
bar -ram exists." L. MINIMAX.
"It it a mockery to us to put down
drunkenness by moral and religious
means, when the Legislattie facili-
tates the multiplication of incitements'
to intemperance on every side. You 1
(night as well call II on me as the cap-
tain of a sinking eh p, and say, •Why
don't you mime the water out?" when
int are scuttling the ship in every
drectlon. If you will cut off the
supply of temptation, 1 will be bound,
by the belp of God, to convert drunk-
ards; but uotil pet have taken off
thle perpetual supply of iu.oxiceting
drink we never can culwtethe
fields." ('1RAIXAt. VAtUttOHAX,
Wage Baran' Greater Eaciescy.
Mr. Alex. Maunder", of Orderich
Organ to., stales that manufacturers
in Owen Sound had Informed him that
the efficiency of their workmen had
Increased 26 per cent. after Local
Option came into force In that place.
Better work was done and lees time
was last, because of the removal of the
bar and Its effects on its patrons.
The True Casein Owen Sound
Compeire this with the Partizan, Disgraceful, and
Self-eaccusjng Letter Signed by Mayor Kennedy.
The following information, supplied by Rev. W. N. Chandler, of Owen
Sound, and condensed by Rev. Dr. Chown, may be relied upon as suthorita
five as to the success of local option id Owen Sound.
1. Hotel accommodation has not suffered. Eleven hotels were doing
business in the days of license. They are doing business stilt. Two of the
houses are owned and operated by a syudicate of temperance people. They
have never broken the law. Better hotel accommodation isnot to be found
in 4 place of sturdier size• in Ontario. The operation of the local option bylaw
amply demonstrates that the bar -room is nut neoessary to proper hotel ac-
comnu,dation.
Dives have not been created. There were dives—that is to art s
placer where liquor was illegally sold—in Owep Sound before local upon.
came int() force. One tavern•kreper boasted that he slid two hundred chillers'
worth of ler business between Saturday night and Monday morning. The
following stews are significant of tuuch : Number of liquor informations laid
in Owen M d from May bit, 19116. to November Uth, 19044, 1131 ; number el
these laid against hotel -keepers, 161 : number Mid against blind pigs, 31 ;
number of hotel -keepers convicted, 84 ; number of blind pig keepers con-
victed, 17 ; number of hutel-keeppoeprs who absconded, 8 ; n her of botcl-
k(•epen who went to jail. 5 ; number of blind pig keepers who went to jail, 4,
The above items disclose the fact that five times as many hotel -keepers were
convicted of illegal sale aa there were blind pig keepers convicted. 1t prey..
that the dives, both under license and ender local option, are mostly to be
found in the hotels. It it the judgment of men well qualified to express an
�opin;nn that, there lake t 1(zeiltlttnr mold illegally -under-license. than than. ia..
now under lora) option.
:i. Drinking hap greatly decreased under local option. Under the brevet.
system, Owen Sound had eleven bar -roomy. two liquor stores and two
hr.'weries, With the eomiug of local option One brewery ceased making malt
liquor and confined itself to malt. The Inland Revenue returns for the dis•
tnct of Owen Sound show a large Lalling off in the output of liquors. For
the tint eleven months of 1905 the production of malt liquor averaged 25,44ir
gallons per month. For the corresponding months of 19)7 the average was.
10,I1exallons per month. This shows a decrease of nearly sixty per cent.
This is remarkable when one remembers that the liquors manufacturer) in
Owen Sound are distributed all through the northernpection of the Province
where license is in force ; se that the amount of local sale must have been
very greatly decreased. The two liquor stores already referred to have been
vacated, and are now otherwise occupied. That ber-ronui business has
suffered severely is proven by the fact that the hotel men requested a reduc•
tion of their assessment became) of the serious loss to trade ; a claim which
\the judge allowed. In their recent appeal, the Hotel Keepers' Protective
Association declares that should the act be sustained "it would not only be
disastrous t• us, but materially affect the trade in general" Not entree than
one drunk is to bs seen on the streets where forty could be seen under license.
During the past twoears the town has had a circus, a farmers' fair, and the
annual fairs, at which time the place was thronged with people, but not an
anrst was made for drunkenness. In the spring of 111414, when • strike oc-
curred t the C. P. 11. sheds, some six hundred men walked the stream idle
for four m tiee days yet none were seen drunk, and there were no arrests
for dean ii nese. Such is state of things would be impossible under license.
The police force remains the sante in strength though the town has grows
rapidly cion. the abolition of the bar. The t been -abol-
ished. and rt rely an habitual drinker has been reclaimed. The boys and
young m,n i the town have also been prote^Led. Owen Sound has been
selected as a p e• of r.•.i l rice by persons seeking to avoid the temptation of
the open bar.
4. 1hedness as be. n 1 ,•Iped by local option. The town owns the gas,
electric light and ate! wt i- s plants. Since 1906, the last year of license,
thew depart uientshave made large extensions, and each year shows a sub-
stantial hos es,e idr, revenue. The iuet•etase for eleven months of 1908 is
tf{),129,2ei o..•e the whole n( the year 1907. in spite of the fact that the amass -
went Oil -otue of the hotel prof erty was reduced by the Court d Revision to
the extent of $57,:60, y,•t� lite assessment has risen from 54,454, in 19116 to
$4•740.5•50 ill 19418.1'h.• (3wett :' .nnd Sun of November 13th past stated that
'.Saturday was a big day`', for Owen Sound merchants. Not only was the
market one of the largest t the town's history, but the rush extended to all
elassee of business. Nota ea chant had any complaint to make of trade be-
ing dun, and some of thew y that Saturday beayt all records. The only
fault t hey had to fled was that they were overworked and could not haodh
the crowd properly." Presider Ross, of the Hoard of Trade, addressing that
body in February last, said : "Gwen Sound, on the whole, has suffered much
less through this stringency than many other of the prosperous towns ot Can-
ada, for which we have great reason to be thankful, and there is no reason
why our rnanufar•turen, tradesmen and people generally should not have con-
tinued prosperity if only we make up our ' ds to have it so and not give
way to any calamity howl," The business of John McQuaker & Co., grocers,
has ineteased 5214) a year during each year under local option. W. K. Ire-
land, book-aeiler, has enjoyed an average increase of $125 per month for the
past twenty-eight months. Horton Brothers, who keep • large departmental
store, state ;`*There is a striking absence, of abject poverty in our town, a
thing that en' ld not be sail if the burs were Mowed to *ell openly. Business has
been greatly (tided by prohibiting liquor sellin -- . Our sales in all departments
are .on iderahly larger t'.i
they were in prey is years and wesincerely hope
the open, free selling e .. •»ting liquors wit not be permitted again in our
prosperous town." Christie Brothers, hardware merchant', report an in-
crease of fifteen per cent. more business than , was done the fast year of
license. They say : "We find further that coileca ni are a groat deal better
since lorai option cam.' into force than before, and this improvement is
largely due to the fact that the workingman is paying for his hardware in
cash. where"» in former years accounts were hard to collect." W. J. Skean,
general manager of the Calcutta Tea, Company, mays: "Dur;fig twenty
two years we have never been able to colkgt on aueoa w„ i lvy{l•nAs during
the print threw yeerr emir Tiici1-op-optcame ln�o?deco, a we du buemes, t5
various municipalities, we find that where local option is in fo ace the people
have more money to spend for the necessaries of life." Willie. i Legate. real
Istat,' broker, mays : i add more property this fall than i did the four other
falls i w11s in ',twines". Property has increased in the last five years in value
over thirty per cent. in general"
it is no wonder, in the face of this testi y, that the liquor sellers admit
the encamp of the law. In their recent appeal for funds, they say : "The local
nptionists in each and every campaign have referred to the successful opera-
tion of the bylaw in Owen Sound, and they will continue to do so as long as it
remains in force." This is eloquent testimony, and it is little wonder that the
citizen* of Owen Sound have no idea of voting it out, and that they are advis-
ing all other municipalities tee come into One. Owen Sound is neither dead
Mir dying.
THE ANGLICAN SYNOD.
Strong Endorsement of Ldcal Option tat
Their Recent Meeting.
The following is from the resort of
the committer on temperance of the
General Synod of the Anglican church
in'Caoada, lately presttoted at Ottawa :
in glancing over the several Prov-
inces of the Dominion, it ie mintiest
that there is a greet concerting of
opinion concerning the bar under our
present licensing system, nemely,
that it is a public menace, and your
rommittee world urge .upon the.
Synod t hat it Is the duty of every man
tooudeevnr to further the effort to
abolish the tar.
Until stitch time as the tsar is *bob
imbed It recommends :
That full advantage' should , he
twken, when practicable, of the •drop-
tien and putting into force of local
option under the , meant license law,
The committee, after wide gather•
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ing of evidence from the different
Provinces of the Dominion, report
that the Scott Act has worked out
rnecessfully in the Maritime Prov-
inces, as has load option in Ontai4.,
GODERICH'S REPUTATION
AND THE GRAIN TRADE.
A local authority,whoname can
be furnished if desired,
ired, states that
captains of grain vessels calling at our
part complain of (iodericb no account
of so many ot their crew getting
drunk while their boats are being un-
loaded at the elevators, and these eap-
twins state that they do not have ineb
trouble at other places like Owes)
Sound and j$outhharupton where the
Loral Option bylaw is in force. ...,They
have declared in this respect that
Onderich la one of the worst places on
the lakes for delays and inefi9cieny of
crews by reaso�nsof drunkenness.
SWI t7edafek let this ge on until thin
repetition seriously affects ear
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