Evening star., 1926-10-07
RUM CONTROL HELD
FAILURE IN CANADA
Dominion Never So Corrupt
NJ. E. Church Report
Charges After Survey.

By the Associated Press.
The system of government control
of liquor in Canada is a failure. the
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Public Morals of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church declares today in long
statement reviewing conditions in the
Dominion since the end of prohibi-
ton in Quebec and other provinces.
The board explained that its con-
clusions were based upon personal
survey by Ernest A. Grant. it's as
sistant research secretary. and upon
government documents. newspaper ar
ticles and other material. 1t added
that "only facts and figures of un-
doubted authenticity are used"
''SwOllen Liquor Bill"
summarizing the conclusions re-
sulting from the survey, the board
says:
Government control in Canada has
meant:
An increased consumption of
liquor"
Greatly increased use Of alcoholic
liquors by young people and women.
"A swollen liquor bill.
"A great 0COIlOIlllC lOSS, WHICH
halted prosperity and acted as bur
den upon the general population.
Increased vice and crime. impoS-
ing upon the government expenses
which have burdened the taxpayers.
"A corruption hitherto unknown in
Canada.
An Illicit trade as great as that
under any prohibition law"
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1.-The system of government con-
troll in Canada is a failure" the state
ment adds. Under it all of the evils
of the illicit traffic in the United
States are present, plus the evils of
government protected traffic as vicious
in principle and practice as was the
saloon system in the United States"
The survey of the Methodist board
was undertaken because of the re-
curing proposals in this country for
the substitution for the present Fed
eral prohibition of the so-called Quebec
system of government sale and regu-
lation.
Comparing conditions in Ontario
with those in Quebec when Ontario
was operating under a prohibition
law. the board said:
The experience of Ontario with
prohibition was the same as that of
the various American States. Pros.
perity increased. labor was more pro.
ductive, drunkenness and crime fell
on and the general health was greatly
improved.
Turning TO conditions in British
Columbia. Manitoba and other prov.
inceS. the board declares government
control has been no more effective
than in Quebec
Brewers troublesome"
THE brewers who are asking a
monopoly of the intoxicating LIQUOR
trade in the United States" it asserts.
are as troublesome there and else
where as they are in the United
States"
Attorney General Craig of Manitoba
is quoted as declaring that present
conditions are worse than under pro-
hibition. while Judge j. st. George
Stubbs of Winnepeg is quoted as de
Claring the enforcement of prohibition
to be "a colossal farce
Newspapers and police officials in
British Columbia are given as au
thoritieS for statements that CONNER.
cialiZed vice floods Vancouver and
that there is more drinking and the
use of narcotic drugs among young
boys and girls in that city than ever
before.
The statement goes on to say that
despite the admirable national spirit"
in Canada toward law observance,
corruption has run riot since the
control system has been
in operation
prohibition at it's worst in the
United States. half-chance prohibi-
tion," the report adds, has yielded
billions in profits to the plain people.
Business has been booming and de-
has been rapid