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Show Canadian Record Cited I In Boose Argument Some people are complaining that "prohibition is a failure; Canada hasJ what we want." What does Canada ' have? Let's look at some recent statistics: statis-tics: The Ontario liquor "board" reports re-ports liquor sales of a million dollars a week. The Alberta "board" anoun-ces anoun-ces for the second year of "control" the sale of 4,000,000 gallons of intoxicants. The Quebec commission informs us that 1.000,000 more gallons of beer were .disposed of this year than last. Seven Provincial liquor "boards" for a Canadian territory with 10.000.000 inhabitants in-habitants report an annual "booze" : expenditure of $160,000,000 $16 per capita. Ah, but you say Canada is drinking beer while we are guzzling hard liquors Is that so? The reports of these same "boards" of control state J that hard liquor sales have increased 33 per cent in two years and 50 ner j cent since the opening of beer parlors. I 1 The province of Alberta issued 60,000 permits the first year. Two years later 144.000 permits were issued. I What about drunkenness? The Mon- ! treal Star informs us that drunkenness among women has incread 53 per cent Police Commissioner C. F. Burton of Manitoba writes: If all the drunks were arrested there would be no room for them in the jails." and the Saskatchewan Saska-tchewan liquor "board" announces "arrests "ar-rests for drunkenness increased" 125 per cent in the first eight months of government gov-ernment control. The Toronto Star says "all records for inebriates were broken today when eighty-nine Labor day celebrators faced the police magistrate. magist-rate. ; ' "Our greatest problem is "moonshine" in the country districts," says the Alberta liquor "board." As much liquor is sold by bootleggers as is sold in the government stores," says the Saska- ' tchewan liquor "board" and the British Columbia "board" says "bootleggers increased in-creased 111 per cent, in the first year.-,, Instead of "government control" it looks like the government was control- ' led by the liquor interests. i Pro Bono Publico j |