Evening star., 1926-04-18

ed ,,p to the Americans at all, he said,
was the Finnish team, and they used
no liquor IN training either.
Mr.. Stagg insisted that things are
not as bad as they are painted" re-
garding the boys and girls In America
| today, however. He said they were
essentially sound.
Charges BOOtlegging In Canada.
DR.. Peck, who told the committee
he was born in Canada, and had. lived
| in Ontario, British Columbia and
other provinces, said that the law pro
viding for government sales Of liquor
| In Quebec and British Columbia and
other provinces, had "given a re
spectabiIity to the liquor trade that
| II never before had
Furthermore, Mr.. Peck said, there
| had been large increases in the sales
| Of liquor since the government had
| taken the business over.
He insisted that bootleggtng had
| continued on q large scale in the
provinces where the government now
| sells liquor. He said that the boot
| logger goes to the Government stores
| for his supplies, and to the Inanufac
| turers themselves.
| Conditions are far worse under
! government control OF liquor sale
| than they were under prohibition il
| these provinces" said DR.. Peck. He
said that the bootleggers handle as
| much liquor in parts of British Co
| lumbia as the government itself does
The witness presented figures from
government reports regarding crime
and disease which controverted some
of those earlier presented to the com
mittee by the "Wets."
Taxes Have Gone Up.
Dr.. Peck said that the Liberals
had promised that taxes would so
down and the public debts Of the
provinces would be wiped out in a
short time if the government were
placed in chaIr;e Of the dispensing
of liquor Exactly the reverse had
happened. he said. He presented his
own tax bills on his home In Van
couver, L. c.. showing that they had
increased very much in the last few
years.
my taxes on property here in the
District Of Columbia used to be $3.50,
but now they are over $500, and We
have alright prohibition In the Dis
trict," said Senator Reed OF Missouri.
DIR. Peck replied that all he was
trying to do was to show that the
promises made by the Liberals had
not been fulfilled.
DIR. Peck described the beer par
lors" permitted in some OF the Cana
dian provinces, and said they led tc
much more immortality than the ole
saloons, where women did not go az
a general thing in the old days. The
restoration OF the old saloon, he SAID
would be far better than what they
have at present under government
control.
The witness gave figures to show
that in dry" ontario millions more
are spent on education than in wet
Quebec.
Senator Reed pointed out that q
great portion OF the population of the
province of Quebec is Catholic anC
the church runs many schools. Ht
wanted to know IL that would not ac
count for much OF the discrepancy II
the amounts reported for education II
the two provinces. But DR.. Peel
would not agree TO this.
DIR. Peck said that he had beer
asked by DIR. Clarence True Wilson 4
come to the hearings before the Sen
ate committee as a witness.
McKellar Statement.
The statement issued by Senator
| McKellar follows:
when the liquor hearings were
! first proposed. my impression wa:
| that they were wholly useless at thi
time and would probably do more
harm than good.
IT am convinced that I was mis-
| taken.
Two facts have been developed b,
| the hearings that are Of great momen
and concern.
First, that the liquor advocate:
will have liquor In any way that they