The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-26
PROHIBITION LAW
BENEFITS SEATTLE
George #. Ootterfii Tells People Of
Vancouver That Absence a Saloons
Has Been Great Blessing.

Vancouver. B. c.. May 25.-speak-
ing on the effect of the prohibition
law in Seattle TO a large and syn,pa-
thetic audience In Dominion Hall, G..
F.. Cotterill, former Mayor OF the
Sound City. gave a lengthy and In
teresting address in which he declared
that the law had been a great bene-
fit throughout Washington State and
particularly in Seattle. He outlined
the provisions of the nov legislation,
the penalties for infractions. and the
results of the law as shown by the
statistics to date. Jonathan Rogers
presided.
Mr.. Cotterill said that although he
had spent over two-thirds OF his life
in the United States, still he found it
hard to forget that he was born in
oxford. under the British flag. 1t
always gave him feeling OF salts
faction, he said. to come back to the
old flag again and address an audi
ence or British subjects. and he was
particularly pleased to visit Van
couver at this time and upon this
mission.
In outlining TIE law the speaker
said that the provision forbidding the
manufacture OF liquor In the State had
been strictly enforced. Breweries in
Washington are things of the past
and the people generally were glad Of
1T. Speaking of the loopholes In the
law. he referred to the fact that the
State did not have the power to for
bid the importation of liquor into the
State, owing to the Federal laws, but
notwithstanding this it was made very
difficult for the prospective buyer to
get liquor.
Import Regulations.
ITO import liquor from another
State" he said, the would-be pur-
chaser must go to the County Audi
tor and there make out an affidavit
that he is importing this liquor for
his personal use. and that he MAS
never been found guilty of an infrac-
ton of the liquor laws, Moreover. he
must give specific list of the
amounts and kinds of liquor he In
tends to buy. He Is then given a
ticket. which he sends to the dealer In
the next State, from whom he Is pur-
chasing the liquor. and that ticket
must be affixed to the package con-
tanning the intoxicapts as sent from
the brewery-or disttllery, The
amount of liquor permitted by law
to be imported was two quarts of
hard liquor and twelve quarts OF malt
liquor every twenty days"
The next "loophole' referred to
was the drug store, and he admitted
that this had been a disgrace to a
noble trade, owing to the fact that
the amount Of liquor that druggist
might import was practically unlim-
tied. But. he said. when druggists
realized that the third time they were
found guilty of an infraction of this
law their license would be revoked
and their establishment would be
wrecked la Carrie Nation they would
be more careful about breaking the
law And when doctors saw that the
third time they were caught issuing
bogus prescriptions they would have
the right to practice medicine in
Washington taken from them they
would also think twice before sign
ing their names to these documents.
No Conyicts for State Work.
Dealing with the reduction of
crime as a result of tho enactment of
prohibition, Mr.. Cotterill said that
in his department of the State, the
construction of highways. he would
soon see the end of the employment
OF convict labor. because there were
not enough convicts. There were