Arizona state miner., 1925-10-31
REAL REFORM AND
TRUE TEMPERANCE
HOW TO REDUCE DRUNK.
ENNESS AND CRIME.
Progressive Canada Exposes
Weaknesses in u. S. Prohi-
bition Enforcement.

OAl1O11 L11AO1 CCIl1GIll.
Sixty-fiVe million dollars derived
from liquor sales are used to PRO-
MOTE EDUCATION and IMPROVE
ROADS. Americans also contribute
their millions to the fund which could
have been used for Improvement and
promotion at home had the VoIstead
Law not driven them away
WASHINGTON, OCT. 25.-Quebec
is on the road to real temperance!
This is the opinion of the majority
of the special committee of fifty prom
inent persons named by the Associa-
ton Against the Prohibition Amend
ment to make a study of the LIQUOR
control systems of all countries with
the idea in view of recommending
some legislation to Congress to relieve
conditions attributed to the Eigh-
teenth Amendment and the Volstead
Act
The committee started functioning
a month Or more ago, during which
time it has made an exhaustive sur
vey of Canadian regulations, which
will be embodied in the final report
to be submitted at a meeting to be
held in Washington about the middle
of January next
According to the statistics gathered,
drunkenness, crime and practically all
of the evils under which the dry
United States is burdened, are elm
mated
Since the Inauguration of the liquor
regulation law in 1921 (prior to which
Quebec had prohibition such as this
country has and all the unsavory con-
ditions that the United States has
now the gross receipts from LIQUOR
sales have been approximately $685.
100000. This amount was largely con-
tributed to by 100000 people from
this country who cross the border
annually. The entire population of
the province of Quebec is 1851, 1893.
The people of the province are con-
sumlng more wine and beer now than
ever before, and the liquor sales have
decreased 51a per cent, in spite of the
annually increasing number of Ameri-
cans who invade Quebec each year
and who drink mainly of whiskey.
These statistics prove beyond any
shadow of a doubt that Canadians are
becoming more temperate and have
permitted beer and wine to replace
hard liquors Incidentally the sale
of wine increased 72 per cent.
The following official figures show
the large increase in the number of
automobiles entering Quebec from the
TTritnH tot
Al 957; 1922, 95,163; 1928. 15O,O99:
1924, 188,393, and during 1925 it is
estimated that 100000 will enter the
province from this country Assum-
ing that the occupants of each auto
mobile spent only $1O0, it would mean
that Quebec would be richer by S2O,-
100000 during 1925.
All monies derived from the sale of
liquors go for education and road i'm
provement purposes. Thirty-f1ve mil
lion dollars have already been ex-
pended for the latter purpose
Prior to the adoption of the govern
ment control system, the monthly av-
erage number of arrests in Montreal
was 634. Under the control system,
in 1921, the number dropped to $50.
In 1922, it dropped to 1863 and in 1923,
313 or total drop of more than SO
per cent of the prohibition figure
Compare these statistics with any of
the cities in the United States.
Of the 1897 persons arrested for all
causes in Hull, Quebec, in 1924, only
334 were residents of the city and
1858 came from the outside-mostly
from Ottawa, Ontario, at that time
a drv district
While there are 100000 more per
sons in Montreal than in Washington,
d. c., there are twice as many per-
sons arrested for drunkenness here
than in any Canadian city.
The 1924 report of the Family Wei
fare Association of Montreal gives
the main causes for rendering relief
to families and as follows:
Sickness. 375: unemployment, 1926:
widowhood, 104; tuberculosis. 40;
non-support or desertion, 43; Old age