Show ONTARIO AGAIN IN WET RANKS Canada Except Three Provinces Rejects I Prohibition I BY nY w n R onit f Special Corre Correspondent of ThC Tho 0 I C 1 26 2 Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Association TORONTO Ont Ont Dec ee 4 All 4 I of the th Dominion o Canada with ho he exception of at three maritime provinces New Brunan felt Nova I Scotia and Prince c w Island I Inow now Is wet wet- At 1 one Un all of I Canada except under prohibition Ono One after arter another I he provinces hav have discarded pro prohibition pro pro- and to the con controlled con con- conI I I trolled system or of o liquor Bale sales t Ontario once the he greate greatest t of ot or prohibition In in I nada joined the the- the tho wet I by an o overwhelming majority this m week With SO o 0 01 the tho jig lI morn mem members I b bers rl In the new legIslature i pledged to support cause cauSo cau ethe the government control 1 forces the whip hand in this pray pray- provInce province ince and tho the Ontario temperance act after aCler 10 JO 0 years experIment 1 will be placed In the discard i REPEALED UEl c Ontario thus follows In the wako of at the four tour western praY praY- provI provinces I ince inces- inces British Columbia on the I Pacific coast went dry In 1916 Introduced as a a n war measure tile the law aw was liS adopted In 1920 tour four years lAter iter the act oct was rep r b by a u majority of o over or r mor than rL gix lx times times that by which it wa was el S Manitoba v was s next nelt t to break tInto brea-tInto Into the wet column After Arter lag Ing a prohibition act In 1916 Hit by bya bya bya a majority ot of It 11 is 1923 by by- bya a majority of o to a l System of or sll sala al In government liquor stores Alberta went dry dry in fn 1315 1115 by R a a majority of at an and t became i by iri and A- A An n 1923 Saskatchewan took from If 4 1916 to 1917 to tor do do- doth the th first a act t tall all an then reverted In 1924 1324 On Ontario's tario's dry law was put Into of- of ef effect In 1916 1 1 j Difficulty of e enforcement In- In Increase Increase In Increase crease in bootlegging and d lack of support have o been heen the difficulties In all the provinces The only way li liquor c could uld be obtained legall locally legally was InS through use or of doctors doctor's prescriptions Abuses z of these were rampant Jg Dr i- i stores a as well as a government go yen yen- dora dors were allowed to fill Illi the prescriptions 1 I In Winnipeg the th largest t city In Manitoba very strong feeling on this phase had much mUel to do dov sith Ith the repeal in that province MUCH G 1 Another bad 1 situation in Canada Can Can- ada da ha has been that while sale salt andr and r purchase and possession of t liquor except under the provisions was aas banned distilleries and breweries w were re permitted to operate Their i products when destined lor for export to wet countries coull not not be bei bei i with either at th the plant or In transit and a remark remark- remarkable able opportunity was then g en for tor wholesale bootlegging Along Alone Lakes Erie and OntarIo and th the Niagara frontier In is On- On On arlo arlo boats have hav been clearing wIth cargoes of wet goods for Cuba and returning to their home port the th same sam day clay The mme line situation has existed on the tha Pa- Pa Pa Pacific tle c and Atlantic coasts coasts where lIps load up their cargoes of tIme tile Canadian product and go godown godown down to take t their places in rum row oft off the th United States Stat i coast Quebec the only that has not been number numbered r rIn In the prohibition came the cbs clos- clos i st t to entering in 1919 1319 when sll such sucha ucha h ha a measure had actually been adopted by the Uie legIslature but the tho citizens citizen rose In force before h the he law was put Into effect and by votes yates to do- do doid dc Id d they would keep their beer and light bight wines They subsequently subsequently adopted bard hard liquor jor sale saJe two years ears later late PLENTY OF or lorINC Ontario has had bad plenty at bal bal- ot on the liquor Be- Be Before or Be-or fore ore 1917 1 17 it was w under what was Known as a the local ocal option system In 1917 1317 the Ontario temper temper temper-anci anci anc act which has haa just boost was out Into force as a 11 war measure without a vote Tote beIng taken At At the close of at the te war warI It I was submitted to the th people and upheld b by a 11 majority of more than two two two to one In 1924 it was 98 wa again sustained but by a u much mailer majority Its It rejection nl week tek has ha been emphatic Toronto alone alono with its cave a n wet surplus of over o ballots Over three to one The spotlight now turns to the three maritime province pro s still under prohibition where lt t is 11 ex- ex expected ex expected A campaign will soon oon bo be boon beon boon on to secure the tir chang change already adopted by the tho other parts of at Of- Of the 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