Arizona state miner., 1925-10-31

81 imprisonment, II; 1ntemperance,
Z; and fraud, 2.
The outstanding idea in the inaug-
the sale of intoxicants in the province
was the discouraging of hard liquor.
Stringent regulations govern the oper-
alton of the government controlled
stores dispensing whiskey under the
temperance system. These stores
open at a. M and close at 6 p. M.
On Saturdays they close at l p. m.
and remain closed during all holidays
and election days.
The person convicted of drunken
ness or other OffenSes caused by in
toxication, those who drink to excess
and youths under the age of Is are
prohibited from obtaining liquors at
the government stores. Upon the
solicitation Of any wife, mother, hus-
band, brother, sister, father or en-
ployer, the commission will refuse
the sale of hard liquor to person.
Others may obtain as much as one
quart day, but this whiskey cannot
be opened on the store premises
There is also a severe penalty for
becoming intoxicated in public places.
The person violating the law of the
province faces fine of $1,000 and
three months in Jail.
The American Volstead Law is dis
criminatOry in that it permits the
farmer to make cider and wine from
fruit juices and denies the city dwell
er any drink containing more than
one-half of one per cent of alcohol
by volume.
The Quebec idea is that the farmer
has more time to loaf than the city
dweller and is more likely to become
intoxicated, therefore there are no
government stores in the rural Sec
tiOns. 1t is explained that the per-
son residing in the city works all year
around with the exception of few
days vacation each year; there is a
certain period that the farmer is idle
for three months in a year and he
| therefore has more time to drink
Working on this theory, the commits
sion cOmpels farmer, if he desires
hard liquors, to fill out a form blank
for quart and mail it to the city
Several days elapse before he receives
the order
Prices charged for hard liquors are
generally regarded as a trifIe high,
but bear in mind that these prices
are fixed to discourage the cOnsump-
ton of hard liquors Wines can be
obtained from 25 cents a pint up, and
beer from cents a glass up The
following price list is maintained on
hard liquors:
DeKuyper gin, 10 or, SIPS; Cor
don gins 1 qt., $3.35; Burke's Irish
whiskey, 26 or, So rs; Bacardi rum,
rs or, So; Canadian rye whiskey, 1
qt., So so; Old Crow, 26 oz., So 80 !;
Old Durham, 80 or, 6; White Horse,
26 o., 81 .25; Black and White, 26
o., 81 25; Usher's Green Stripe, 26
or, 81 40; Johnnie Walker, 26 or,
5. 40; Bass's ale, 1 pt., 35 cents;
Guinness's Stout, 1 pt, 35 cents :;
Chinese Ngkapei 1 pit, 81. 80; Chin
ese Muikwaile, 1 pt., 81. 80; Moet e
Chandon, Brut Imperial, 1 qt, So. rs );
White wine, 1 pt., 80 cents up; red
wine, 1 pt., 25 cents up; Port 1 qt.,
IS cents up; Sherry, 1 qt., 80 cents
up, and beer, glass, 5 cents up.
The Subcommittee Of the Commit
tee of Fifty of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, in giving
out the facts regarding the Quebec
system, declared it to be a great i'm
provement over the system in Amer
ica, and advised people in this coun-
try to- compare the Quebec statistics
governing crime, drunkenness and
other evils with the United States
statistics.
1t pointed out that while Quebec is
on the road to temperance and reap
ing all the benefits of temperate
province, America is sinking more
deeply into the mire, crime is increas-
ing by leaps and bounds, more people
are drinking, disrespect for law is
rampant and millions of dollars are
being expended in the enforcement of
our prohibition system which does not
prohibit.
The committee is planning to take
up liquor control laws in the other
Canadian provinces and all foreign
nations before the time for completing
the survey eIapses. The idea is to
combine good sections of all laws in
to a general law to be submitted to
Congress for it's adoption in the inter
est Of real temperance in the United
States.
There will be a whole lot of people