The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-30
Liquor control in Canada


both national and an international
problem. The Canadian provinces
have no power to prohibit manufac-
ture or export There is a federal
statute which prohibits importation
into provinces which have adopted
prohibitory legislation.
No federal measure prohibits ex-
port out of Canada. 1t has been held
however, that export companies must
have bonded liquor warehouses, and
that such warehouses must have
licences from the Provincial Govern
ments. In Ontario all licences have
been refused, and thus many export
companies organized along the border
were forced out Of BUSINESS.
1T is stated that in Western On
tario there are II breweries and dis
tillerles which sell direct to professed
agents OF American customers.....
The Ontario Government is pass
ing legislation to authorize seizure of
liquor in transit and confscation of
the eargoes if satisfactory evidence of
foreign ownership cannot be produced.
1t is claimed that there is no obliga-
ton Upon Canadian shippers to respect
the Volstead Act, and in many cases
liquor shipments are taken to Cana
dian custom houses, the stock in
spected, and duty collected. IA
joint conference Of representatives of
the dry provinces is to be held at
Ottawa shortly to consider what mea-
sures can be devised to restrict the
illegal traffic and to demand necessary
supporting legislation from the Fed
eral Government"
The Dominion and Provincial auth
critics are asking for concurrent legis-
lation requiring liquor for export to be
properly described and also it is pro-
posed that the export of liquor from
Canada to any "dry" country shall be
prohibited by Federal enactment.
THE Dominion Temperance Al
lance has renewed the agitation for
federal measure of Prohibition. -.
but the situation is complicated by the
action of Quebec and British Column
bia," who, by government dispensary
systems are receiving all annual liq-
uor revenue of something over ST.
100000 in British Columbia and prob
ably 100000 in Quebec.
The ARTICLE also states that there
will probably be call for referen-
dunn in Manitoba and Saskatchewan,
brought about by the Moderation
League, who are giving out in spite
OF newspaper reports that Prohibition
cannot be enforced in Saskatchewan.
African Drink Trade Scored by Mod
orator of the General Assembly
of Free Church in Scotland
Rev. DR.. Donald Fraser, presiding
bly, in Scotland, said that a friend
told him that he saw in October at
Accra in the Gold Coast, a steamer
unload $4,000 cases Of liquor exported
colleagues waited for men and women
to help to hold for Christ this great
field, but they waited in vain. Scot
land was too busy making profit out
of the damnation of West Africa
for drink in West Africa was no small
evil, but gigantic curse, which was
running tribes, trade progress, and i'm
mortal souls. There was no hope un-
less the Powers agreed to accept the
original intention of the Brussels Act
and prohibit the introduction and dis
tribution of spirits of every kind, not
only so-called trade spirits.
South African Wines
The correspondent from South
Africa, after picturing in glowing
terms the beautiful vineyards of the
Cape, protected from the southwest
winds by majestic pale nauve noun
tains, they face the indigo waters of
the Indian. Ocean and seen from
many points of vantage through the
dark foliage or light-colored trunks of
great frs aud naples, goes on to say
that while the Dutch farmers can
make good wine they do not-"be-
cause it pays them better to disregard
quality and concentrate on quantity"
He goes on to show how the farm
ers make their wines by the addition
of strong sulphuric solutions, making
them into so-callcd sauternes, sherry,
or even champagne by adding carbonic
acid gas, spirit boiled grape juice and
given out finally under whatever name
they are called-a wine that will not
keep from one season to the next.
This giving the wines any name and
using strong sulphuric solutions would
be called the result of Prohibition, in
the United States, but the correspond
ent from South Africa sees in it only
the greedy disregard by the liquor