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1Sitt' • John Aird, Prean,sident CanadiBank of Commerce, Toronto:
'Stress has been laid bY prohibitionists upon the evil effect of
.aiquor upon young people, and the claimis made that they will consume
=ore liquor under the conditions proposed by Mr. :Ferguson than under
nate O.T.A. If the aim of the prohibitionists is to •steengthen the moral
' a our youth, then in my opinion they are defeating their own
object. Most of the young people whom I have had under me have
leccupied positions of trust, and have naturally been subjected to
temptation. 1 have always found that to train a man to resist terneeta-
tion worked out much more :satisfactorily for all concerned than to
try to devise elaborate means to remove the temptation from Itim."
'Sir Alan Aylesworth, Toronto:
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"I have been voting now for more Than fifty years in parliamentarY
olte,ctions, and. 1 have never given a Conservative vote, but I am going
la do so this year, because 1 thinli brat any measure of prohibition
Pay law as opposed to prohibition by education is the very reverse •of
nvhat I have always considered were the true principles of Liberalism.
As well might one try to advance the interest of religion or of Chrietlan-
ity iby legislation that would coMpel the people to go to church."
!Professor Alfred Baker, University of Toronto:
"The O.T.A. has proved a failure, conceived though it was with the
beet intentions and administered by Attorneys -General who earnestly
desired its success. It has not stopped the use of liquor; there has
;grown a contempt for the law; it has created a class of bootleggers
-who have been enriched beyond the dreams of avarice. Surely it is
time to make a change:"
Ron. R. B. 73ermett, K.C., MP., Ex -Minister of Finance,
.Calgary, Alberta:
Not only has the Alberta, Act been declared to be legally valid,
:hut in practice it does control the liquor traffic in that province. The
'hest proof of what can be done is what has been done, and in the
language of one ot the judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme
'Court of the province in .which I reside -1 think the present Liquor
Control Act a geed and sound one, and has done more in the direction
,of temperance than any law we hitherto have had.'"
LiteCol. Arthur L. Bishop, S. Catharines, Ont.:
"No good can come from arbitrary and hysterical measuree. The
;Oen.A., has proved wiiforceable even under two such dry Attorneys -
!General as Mr. Nickle and Mr, Raney, and where they have failed no
one else will succeed. We are facing facts, not theories. I think
sGovernment Control should he given a fair trial in Ontario, as it has
ebeen. in the West. and I believe the result will be equally satisfactory."
. Herbert A. Bruce, M.D., L.R.C.P., Toronto:
"It is not a question of "dry" or "wet"; it is a question of another
',Temperance Act against one that has been tried and found wanting.
consider Mr. Fereuson's proposal reasonable and enforceable, and
therefore a great advance'on the old Act. As such it should have the
esupport of every one sincerely interested in furthering the Temperance
cause and reducing the evils of drunkenness."
Police Magistrate C. H. Burgess, Peel County:
"My view of the matter is that the sale of liquor is out of control
and is running wild (under the O.T.A.), and it is necessary to try to
leering it under control again."
41v. Father J. E. Burke, C.S.P., St. Peter's Roman
.rootholic Church, Toronto:
"It (the O.T.A.) has been no blessing. During the years it has
been on our Statute Books the youth of Ontario, with singular and
Ilseatitiful exceptions, has gone back. The terrifying increase in liquor
,amongst our boys and girls, even of tender years; the consequent
deterioration of moral standards and conduct; the curse of the boot-
legger; the conquest by strong liquor of our parents, our homes, our
leanbs, our students, our gatherings, have been begotten and thrived
"under the sway of prohibition."
-11rt. L. N. Byrns, former Treasurer Sarnia
'Prohibition Union, Sarnia, Ont.:
"There are two questions before the electors In this campaign:
ala will we continue Government control under the Ontario Temper -
encs Act, as we have had it for the last few years, whereby any person
liquor can buy all he likes from the bootlegger, or (2) will we
lia.ve it controlled so that a. person can only buy it through a Govern -
'meat commission house, where a person has got to have a permit
to
inner It, and then only a certain quantity at a time? I am not a staunch
(Conservative; I have voted Liberal when I deemed it wise, but will
Ina this time."
rta. R. H. A. Carntan, Belleville, Ont.:
'n am convinced the people have seen enough to lead them to
decide they would rather have the distribution of liquor by Government
iregulation than by the unscrupulous bootlegger."
lion. and Reverend H. J. Cody, LL.D., D.D., Toronto:
"The great achievements of the control plan, in my estimation,
neonsist of the following: In the first place, people were no longer
ithinking and talking incessantly about getting a drink; in the second
place, there was an overwhelming public opinion behind the enforce -
anent of the Act where in the past public opinion had been strongly
•ellivided and illegal traffic had _flourished because resorted to by a con-
. etiderable section of the public; in the third place, bootlegging on a
large scale was enormously diminished."
Proper Dobie, Toronto:
"Having voted Liberal in the last general election, and dry in the
iflrst two referendums, why have I decided to vote for Premier Per-
, ,erueon's Government and policy? It is because Ontario wants more
business and less taxes, more honesty and less deceitfulness more
breadth of education and less narrowness of parochialism, more selt-
Tespect and less fear."
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Principal W. L. Grant, Upper Canada College, Toronto:
"As a total abstainer of twenty-five .years' standing, as one who
loves the young mon of Canada and whose life is spent in doing his
best for them, I am glad to .align myself with Canon Cody, Sir Thomas
White and Si' John Willison in support of the Prime Minister in his
fight agatesSt the evils of internperance and lawlessness."
David Griffith, Greening Wire Works, Hamilton:
"I travel twice every year theough the whole of Canada. I know
the extent of the bootlegging evil in Hamilton. I do not know that it
can be worse in any other part of the Province. In the West you cannot
hear any complaint with present conditions, In Ontario it is impossible
to get away from expressed ridicule and disrespect for the O.T.A."
Mr. F. Barry Hayes, Pres., Toronto Carpet Mfg. Co., Toronto:
'My -impression of prohibition is that whereas the country gener-
ally thought it would be very much, to its interests, it has only resulted
in making many of our citizens hypocrites and law -breakers. This is
having a very had effect generally. Drinking in our cities and larger
towns has certainly increased to an alarming extent. I am not a 'wet',
but I ani
good by statute is a delusion." The idea a making
m not in favor of repressive legislation.
Rev. Father. C. J. Killeen, Belleville, Ont.:
"I view with a great deal of concern the increase in lawlessness
and crime that prohibition has engendered. It leads to a spirit of dis-
trust. It is no use saying to the people 'You cannot have liquor.' Those
who want it will get it. Fifty-one per cent. of the people cannot impose
their will on the other forty-nine per cent."
Rev. John Lyons, ILA., Church of England Rector:
"After studying the situation I have become convinced that Pre-
mier Ferguson's policy is the hest solution yet placed before the people
of Ontario to adequately deal with the liquor problem."
Ven. Archdeacon Mackintosh, Dundas, Ont.: •
You never heard of the Prohibitionists of the Provinces which
have Government Control asking for a charge to what we call a pro-
hibition law. It shows that they are satisfied with the law, and feel
that it is useless to ask for a change."
J. C. Makin,- K.C., Stratford, Of.:
"In a very large percentage of the cases in my experience con-
tested in court in these districts (Waterloo County and Windsor Bor-
der), perjury has been committed. This is one feature that our so-
called 'temperance' friends seem to overlook. In this respect the cure
seems worse than the disease."
Rev. W. p. Martin, Pilgrim United Church „ Brantford, Ont.:
"No man, unless he is blind, can say with sincerity that the O.T.A.
as a prohibition measure has been the success we hoped and believed
it would be, when it became law. The more I consider the question the
more convinced I am that the bringing about of prohibition, an ideal
towards which we are all striving, and to which we age committed as
men and women, eager for the best -morel interest of the community
and of the state, is a process of education. It is the responsibility of
the home, the school, and the church."
D. L. McCarthy, KG.. Toronto:
"The Ontario Temperance Act has undoubtedly abolished the bar,
but unfortunately, instead of having one bar in a hotel, we now have
rooms in hotels converted into private bars."
C. G. MeGhie, Vice -President, Welland Vale Mfg. Co.,
St. Catharines, Ont.:
"Not only labor, but the country as a whole, will be better under
Government control. 1 strongly endorse the Ferguson. policy."
Ir. J. Fair, Kingston, Ont.:
"When the late Principal Grant was at Queen's University he
deonvinced me as probably no other man could of the pernicious evils
Of prohibition. Those like myself who remember Principal Grant, will
agree with Inc when I speak of his far-seeing vision, his profound
e3cholarship, and his true appreciation of human values. I believe pro-
afibition is the blackest spot on the whole history of the Province of
'Ontario."
Major-General the Hon. S. Cr Mezvburn, Hamilton, Ont.:
"I unhesitatingly state that in my opinion the policy of the Govern-
ment control of liquor, as it is now Stated by the • Prime Minister, is
sound and in the best interest of all the people of the Province. I have
lately been in the Provinces. of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and
British Columbia. . . . This is what I have learned. The people
who were strongly in favor of prohibition will without any qualification
whatever say now that since Government control of liquor has come
into force they would never for one moment go back upon their present
legislation."
Controller Williamiistor‘,31orrison, Hamilton, Ont.:
is more alcohol in Hamilton than at any time
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William Mulock, K.C., Toronto:
"I have no hesitation in telling the people of Ontario that I favor
Government control in preference to the O.T.A., and that I will support
the policy of the Ferguson.Goverment."
Mrs. Emily Murphy (Janey Canuck),
Police Magistrate, Edmonton, Alberta:
"Before Government control became the law of Alberta I opposed
it vigorously, both on the platform and by my pen, I was fearful that
our last state would be worse than our first. It seemed only logical
that if the restrictions were removed there would be more drunkenness
and crime. No living person could persuade me to the contrary.
"After a period of several years In which I have been called upon
to enforce the present Liquor Control Act, both as a city and provincial
magistrate, I ani bound to acknowledge that my fears were largely
unfounded. There was not even a rush of inebriety as I had predicted,
the people showing a remarkable degree of restraint. The condition
was steadily improved—again. I say, not from any degree of spiritual
enrichment on the part of our people --but because the law was well
conceived and is being well enforced."
Dr. G. J. Musgrove, Temperance Candidate in 1919,
Niagara Falls, Ont.:
"Before 1916 we had 15 bars and liquor stores in Niagara. Fella;
now we have double that number of bootleggers. The Provincial Police
and the License enspe.ctors have been very active in endeavoring to
enforce the Ontario Temperance Act, but it is really impossible to do so.
I ant net only in favor of. Mr. FergUSOU'S policy, but I particularly,
endorse the provision that no permit shall be given to persons undetnel
years of age."
Mr. Paul J. Myler, Pres. Canadian Westinghouse Co.,
Hamilton, Ont.: •
tiara C. Field, Cobourg, Ont.:
'Speaking from a woman's standpoitit, I fear very much the result
our present system of controlling the liquor question will have on the
nbaracter of our young people, who are growing up in an atmosphere
of reckless law -breaking and deceitful living. Will it be possible for
them to have those feelings of patriotism they should have if they
&eel a contempt for the laws of their country? I feel I can certainly
endorse Mr. Ferguson's policy as a sincere endeavor to solve a per -
Venting problem.'
fir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., Toronto:
"If the responsibility were mine I would not choose Government
bontrol as now stated as a reform for existing evils. I believe, however,
inhere is a weight of public opinion which demands a change in the
• existing law, and which will not. be set aside by the present hesitating
• body of public opinion for its enforcernent. Therefore, with the elim-
*nation of the legal sale of liquors in public houses of entertainment, I
) *accept the sale of liquors through Government a.gencies only, under
,eystern of -permits, as probably the best ,obtainable change enforcible
vender the existing state of public opinion."
SR& T. W. Goodwill, Presbyterian Church, Coborirg, Ont.:
"t believe the O.T.A. to he a failere, but in this election catnpaigh
regard the Act not as a political Isola°, but a moral issue; not a
vie.stion of lack of enforcement but rather of impossibility of enforce-
-1.jament. I find conditions Wider the Ontario Temperance Act bo
' Mauch woree than they were before, 3' believe that Premier Ferguson
to makitee a sincere and studied effort to SOME) a law that will be
titlbserved eied one that can be enforced."
P. D. Ross, Publisher Ottawa Journoi, &tams:
"As a large employer of labor I see no possibility of room for
complaint in Ontario when a man shall be allowed a bottle of beer in
.his own house. Long experience with our men In this company is good,
enough for me on this point."
J. G. Notnian, Vice -President McKinnon Industries,
St. Catharines, Ont.:
"We haw as much trouble now with our labor as we had
before prohibition came into effect. There aro the same Monday and
Tuesday difficulties, but now they are due to poisoned alcohol. Our
men would be much better if they could have good beer when they
want it. Government control as they bave it in the West is what we
should have in Ontario."
Col. W. N. Ponton, K.C.,
a lawyer I know that the sad fact cannot he controverted, that
in liquor cases under the repressive O.T.A. truth has lost its ancient
power. The administration of justice has been honeycombed' by perjury
and the oath has lost its sanctity, despite the conscientious and able
efforts of magistrates, Crown attorneys and police officers who have
done their best to teem the tido of revolt. Where the law ends, tyranny
begins. The O.T.A. is despotic, arbitrary and against the will of the
citizens of Canada. A wise law is 'the State's collected will.' The. O.T.A.
never was. Under the O.T.A. we are all treated as children and weak-
linge and criminale."
Dr. A. Prinirose,, Dean of Medicine, Toronto University:
"They (the medical doctors) are legally permitted to issue a definite
number of prescriptions each month, the inference being that the
number of sick folk requiring alcohol should not exceed that number,
and the doctor If be keeps, within that limit is safe from adverse
criticistn. The present situation is intolerable. The medical profession
must be released from such undignified servitude."
"Government Control has operated in Revere:I of the Provinces of
the Dominion, and apparently -without grave evil—at ail events with-
out such palpable vi1 as to sugg9st that prohibition, is a necessity
certainly without such evil es is palpable under aprohibition in the.
United States. It seems to me that the amount of public or private
harm which the proposed Government control leaves possible need not
compel any rotuz to interfere with the personal Ueedom of other peopleee •
Dr. F. N. G. Starr, Toronto:.
"Some over -zealous peoene tell us that 'Government Control doei.
not work in the airovinces where it 1z being tried, hut such is not my
interpretation as I have found it. I leave visited each Provix' tea
where there has heap a change, both under prohibitory measures ands
under Government Metro's and the odd, to any way or thinking, aro.
all on the side of Governenent Corarel.."
Mr. Edward Tallier, former Liberal Mester fo
North Essex, Windsor, Ont.:
.do not look upon this as a patty fight. I tbintz we must alit
take off aur coats and put Governrrient ,Cantrel over. aen for govern*
merit Control first, last and all the tizne."
Dr. J. A. Temple, ALEX S., LL.D., rase PreSitlent
Ontario Medical Association, Toronto:
"There is one filet that is very prominent in my mind and which:
I think night well. be .empaa,sized—that is the great increase in thin
use of narcotics in the lent three or four years. The man who was
addicted. to liquor has switched in many cases to drugs. While there
is always hope fter the tdronlearcl, it is almost impossible to cure the
drug addict. The in.T.A. wan much too sweeping in its provisions.'"
Ms* Rev. g. Thorn0e, D.C.L., Archbishop of Algonitn,
and Metropolitan. of Eeninsinsincol Province of Ontario, 19.15::
"There is in human nature a sense of freedom which must bee,
respected. these considerations. have to he weighed by the Govern-
ment and 1 have -very great hope that ene measures proposed by
Premier Ferguson' will be found, if carried out, to be a very great
imprevement an *net we have been experiencing the past few years."
Sir Charles Tupper, Winnipeg:
"The reaaaons that convince ma MOBt firmly that Premier
Ferguson's policy will prove a great boon for the people of Ontario
are based on my observation of the great success of liquor control lis
Mannoba. Control in Manitoba has brought about the following three.
great improvements,: there is less .driaking-, by both young and old,
.partioularly by the young; control has created a higher moral tone in -
the oommuniter at large; it has also -brought about a. decidedly higher -
respect for law." •
L. A. Van Skiver, formerly Inspector
Children's AM Society, Picion, Ont.:
"I have been an ardent prohibitionist all my life. But in the
discharge of my duties as inspector for the Children's Aid Society I'
came across conditions that impressed me with their seriousness. ha,
ahnost every case of destination which eame under my observation 1
found that bootlegging was the cause. do not believe in cha.ngingt
my prohibition beliefs that I am taking a retrognado step. Prohibition'.
means trareen
Rev. Frank Vipoind, Streetsville, Ont.:
"I am not afraid to express the oonviction that the grentenite
enemies of Christian temperance, of sobrlety, and of the, upleuildinsn•
of strong Christian rher.aoter have not beera the breweries and dish
tilleries, but- official and fanatical prohibitionists who have been wi1IH
ing to make of the Ctuistlall 'faith a lesser thing than that of thett,
Mahometan-"
.11. S. White, K.C., President Masai& Bar Association, Torontonl
"I am satieeied that . . there is in the province no such thing lie
prohibition. under it (the *MAL foe the simple reason that everse
person who wants liquor can get it without difficulty. I'believe tbak
the Premier and the Government have followed the only proper courser,
open to them in asking the people tor a mandate to remove curl
affliction from vs."
Rt. Hon.. Sir Thomas White, K.C.M.C., Toronto:
"That the Ontario Temperance Act is not capable of aest
enforcement, lacking as it does the strung support of public opi
must by this time be clear to ail who have given any study to
subject. The time has arrived to so amend it as to prevent and limit,
as fax as possible. the evils of interaper-ance under a system of Gov-
ernment control, having a -firrn.er support of public opinion, and undo
regulations which will not lead to the elells 'which for the past setae:,
years have been naseparally connected with the administration Diet
the 0.T.A."
Col. Rev. Cedi a Williams, Dominion Secrentay,
Navy League of Canada: •e
"mimeo I steal, commit forgery or brea;k any other law in Camelia;
except that of the O.T.A., I am punished and upon my release ignore&.
until I have rehabilitated myself, by those who Icnow me, because theye
are sympathetic to and upholders of the law- But if I violate the 021S.A.,
and am punished for the same according to law, I have the sympathy'.
of my friends, ahowing that they hold the law In contempt. Verpl
different' is the treat/neat extended in the two instances. The lamed
should be the same from coast to coast for individuals and all class
and until it is I cannot see the righteousness or the practicainUty oire
the 0.T.A.."
Most Rev. David Williams, Archbahop of Huron
and Metropolitan of Ontailo, London, Ont.:
"n (the O.T.A.) has done raore to encourage deceit and subterfugeei
snore to demoralize the youth of the country and to create a generanl.
disrespect for mw than all the ether +causes nombixied during the tame
years of its existence. Government Control, with individual permits, itor4
the only sane system."
Levi Williams, Police Magistrat Neon, Ont.:
"All nay life I have been a. temperance advocate. Tint when I maw -
not only how the law itself was being disregarded by people who waren,
not addicted to law -be -eating but by the actual -perversion of the processa
: of justice, I felt there must be some ehanges. I have been magistralte
in Picton for le yeare, and what has •stratik me recently is the limitse.
that people will Ste to perjure thernselnes when faced with charges ar
• violating the Cntairio Tempentnee Act."
• Sir John Willisopi, Toronto:
"5 was wholly unprepared for 'eta unanimity of opinion expressed
in favor of Government Control- Agana ,and again I was told by those,
who had opposed the system and voted for prohibition in plebiscitent.
and referendtans that combetinees were 'better under control and that,
they would. not vote to restore the prohibitory enactments. No one
suggested that bootlegging bad been wbolay abolished or that there
was no unlawful selling or mica dritalartg,_ They did insist that boot-
legging was less common and Ices profitable, that the law was generallY
respected and enforced, that there was tAlr less -drinking in hotel bed-
rooms and more 'undesirable planes,. and that there was a greater degree
of social contentment and no such Zeelbag as 'under prohibition that.
flasks meet be carried anti a secnee. stove of liquor provided for dances.,
house pantie:4 and like event:sat
Albert Whitney lbroithr zo, aerate Sir leases Whitney,
Prescont„ Orin:
'The tiecte• stare en tit the:thee. 'When the Government dispensariem
of this protrinee are In receipt of as. yearly revenue iti' neraothinet Wain,
five million dollars, artd the bootleggers ars profit:frig to the extent of
some twente-five million, 15 :47Ola7OS ta nae that it to tame to call o halt,.
and ask onenelvez 50 ell steeenensws 1 ibis evnole noeiroint neonle not
be in far 'better handle entrusted to a Government with the spienda
htleittess reeord or the present. ferentitartal GOverment, of which thea
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