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In view of the fact that temperance agitators are nrging the adoption in Canada of a partial prohibi- tory law known as the "Scott Act," it will prove ot avi /antage to the electorate to have a few facts laid before them, shewing the working of such laws in other places. Comment on the Dunkin Act is unnecessary ; it was a specimen of faulty legislation in no way creditable to the intelligence of its authors, and which, when sought to be put into practice, proved entirely unworkable and responsible for evils that in nearly every community earned its repeal at the earliest possible moment. The agitators were reckless in their promises as to the grand benefits that would result from "Dun- kin ;'' they are now with similar j..guments seeking to prevail upon thft people to vote in favor of a more stringent prohil'itory law. Moral suasion, or seeking to reclaim a man by appealing to his better nature, or by an earnest endeavor through his reasoning faculties to show him the error of his way, is n*>t suffiuientlv radical to meet the views of the professional agitators who do the active work of the prohibitionists. Sobriety by Act of Parliament is their motto, and regHidless ot the individual rights and privi- leges of the people, they purpose to muzzle the mouths of all m their desire to close those of the small minority who drir.k to excess. Every true citizsn of the Dominion must desire to see temperance rule in the land, yet if we can- not possess a sober community except through the influence ot coercive measures, it argues but little success as a result of the teachings of those whose duty it is to preach temperance in all things. Kindness and sympathy judiciously exercised may succeed ; when such are powerless to s»-par- ate the drunkard from his drriin, all the laws framed since the d^ys of Solomon will fail to accomplish his redemption. It prohibition does not decrease drunkenness it is a failure. If when it robs the municipalities of hun- dreosof thousands of dollars of revenue it fails to im- prove the morality of the people it is undeserving the support of intelligent minds. A porusai of the following pages will show the reader ti.at such laws as the "Scott Act' are more a curse than a blessing. The State of Maine is noted as the headquarters of temperance legislation, and m Portland the home of Neal Dow, the great apostle of prohibition, where for twenty-ii>'e years the Liw has been in force is a fail' field in which to examins its work- ing. No pul lie bars o- liquor stores are to be seen. A city agent, appointed by the authorities, has the exclusive legal right to sell intoxicating liquors; he in turn is by law compelled to buy from the State agent. The suppression of the bar-rooms and shops does not appear to have accomplished the good that such extremists as Neal Dow prophe- sied would result from their extermination. That gentleman has repeatedly, both in letters that he has sent to Canada and in his public utterances in other States, made the statement that scarce any liquor was sold in Portland. In reply to t uoh as- sertions, repeated over and over again on Canadian platforms by temperance orators doing duty in the Dunkin campaigns, I subjoin a little official infor- mation that sadly mars their story. The popula- tion of Portland is nearly 35,000, or scarcely one- half that of Toronto, and the following is her municipal record ; — Arrests for drunkeness for the municipal year 1876, ending March 31st, one thousand six hundred and forty; for 1877, one thousand three hundred and eighty-five. Toronto under a license law, with a population of fio.ooo, had in 1879 a record of 2,836 arrests for drunken- ness ; while the city of Portland before alluded to, with a population of 34,000 had for the same year 1,603 persons arrested for drunken- ness. To be as bad as Portland Toronto must increase her arrests to about 3.800, as it in she enjoys a large revenue from the licisnse fund, and proportionately provides less material for the police Court than the prohibitionist model town. The population of iortland in 1851, wh«ni the Mair'! law was passed, was about tweniy- four thousand, her average annual arrests for drunkenness under the license law had been about 300; comparing the past with the present record the latter is anything but encouraging. In conver- sation with a large number ot the leading citizens of Portland, prohibitionists as well as license men, I found all agree in saying that a good deal of liquor of very bad quality was no doubt sold in the city. In the hotels the traveller can not only order what he requires to be sent t-- his room but he can have it openly brought to him in the dining hall. The tendency of prohibition is to drive the tradle into the hands of the most disreputable classes. The Mayor of Portland stated to me that many women carried liquor in flasks about their persons, and sold it out by the glass to customers. In the words of one of the leading journalists of Portland " The quality of the spirits and beer sold by these people is so wretched that no man would look at it in a licensed houso. " Next we will glance at Bangor, a city often quoted in Ontario as a place that prohibition had converted irto an almost earthly paradise. More than one temperance orator on the Cana- dian platform going so far as to assert that one po- lice officer was all that was necessary in Bangor to keep the peace. Now for a little documentary evidence. The population of Bangor in 1864 was about 16,000 ; and in 1877, about i8,ooo. So as to render thoroughly intelligible the following record it is necessary to state that the municipal year commences on the 22nd of March and ends on that date the following year From 1864 to 1872, inclusive, the law was not rigidly enforced in Ban- gor, the hotel keepers sold over the bar, and there was a sort of understanding between the members of the trade and the authorities, that if the former kept good order and cleared their saloons at a reasonable hour, they would not be interfered with. The following figures, kindly furnifhed by the City Clerk, speak for themselves. During; the THE SCOTT ACT. 8 years when respectable hotels sold liquor ; — 1864-5 • • One year's arrests for drunkeness . . 408 ..381 1865-6. 1866-7.. 1867-8.. 1868-9.. 1869-70.. 1870-71.. 1871-72.. 1872-73.. ..272 ..212 ..280 ..360 .■362 ••450 •317 Now commenced a close application of prohib- ition, un 'er which no hotel was allowed to sell spirituous liquors, the trade being af;ain driven in- to disreputable channels, and the following was the Result Under Strict Prohibition. 1873-4 . . One year's arrests for drunkeness . . 643 1874-5.. '• '• •■ ..704 1875-6.. " " •' ..770 1876-7.. " " " ..384 1877-8.. " '• " ..417 Y''t such is tile class of legislation that agitators d(>sire to see in force in Caiictaa. Strike a total for the above five years under a strict application of prohibitory law, then select the five heaviest years during which respectable hotels were allowed to sell liquors, and note what the record so eloquently declares. Instead of one constable doing all the duty re- quired in Bangor, the civic report shows one mar- shal and twelve constables ; there are also five additional officers not ou the regular force, who are paid by fees and three deputy sheriffs, whose whole time is taken up hunting for secreted liquor. 1 have repeatedly heard the statement advanced in Ontario that the police in Maine were much more strict in arresting drunkards than m any ofher section. Such an argument is not founded on fact. The Marshal of Bangor, who is a tempt ranee man, told me that his order to the force was not to ar- rest a man under the influence of liquor unless he was disturbing the peace, or unless he was a char- acter known to the police as likely to create a row before going home. In Bangor as in Portland, a city agent is supposed to sell all the liquor required in his district, and I find the agent's returns for the year ending in March, 1877, were no less a sum than $26,481.60. Please to remember that he by law is only permitted to sell for medicinal, mechan- ical, and manufacturing purposes. The above volume of trade would lead one to believe that the air of Bangor is very unhealthy, else that there is a good deal of truth in the statement made to me by many leading citizens that " any man can go in- to the agency and get bis bottle filled. " Slightly suggestive, however of the fact that the city agent sells only a small proportion of the liquor consum- ed in the community is the foDowing circumstance; A prominent druggist of Bangor failed a short time ago, and in looking over his list of creditors a Boston liquor merchant figured to the tune of $1,800 for rum, whiskey, brandy, and gin, supplied to the apothecary within a short time. Another favorite argument of the Prohibition- ists is that the law lessens pauperism ; yet, strange to say, the pauper rate in Maine is very heavy. In 185T the population of Bangor was 14,629. Dur- ing the last year of the license law the cost to the city for the maintenaace of h«r paupers was $5,337. In 1863, the population having considerably in- creased, the pauper record was only about $6,000. From this fisure it has increased till for 1877 in a population of 18,000, it went close upon $27,000 to so.tisty the hungry mouths of the 1,685 paupers that burdened Bangor with their presence. In answer to those who may charge that hard times will ac- count for the incrfase, I would suggest that hard times would equally curtail the ability of the indi- vidual to purchase liquor. Yet during the hard times, as shown above, the arrests for drunkenne.sB uuder prohibition are far above what they were in good times v^hen respectable hotel keepers were permitted to control the trade. If Toronto were burdened with a like proportion of paupers it would cost her council over $100,000 a year. Penobscot, the county in which Bangor is loca- ted, has a population of about 75,000. and for this districf the expense of enforcing prohibition, pay- ing deputy sheriffs, court costs arising out of liquor cases, &c., is not less than from $20,oco to $25,000 a year. Yet in the County of VV^pllington, Ont., that has a larger population it only cost $1,- 681.90c. to enforce the stringent provisions of the Crook's Act and for sixty odd counties and license districts of the Province, the total cost wat nearly one thousand dollars less than it took to try and enforce prohibition in this single County of Penob- scot, in Maine, though even the Crook's Act could be enforced in better shape at one half the pveSent cost if it were used less as a political machine. Thi^ tax rate in the rity of Bangor is 3 35 pjr cent., a sum not very astoniEhing when one considers tiat it costs about $1 50 on every man, woman, and child of her population to feed her poor. An ex- ayor of the city unhesitatintjly expressed his opinion that the enforcement of pn hihition in that city had accomplishr-d a great injury ; using his own words; — "It h.id called into existence a lot of private drinking clubs, had opened innumerable low drinking dens, where the vilei=t poison was sold, and had bred a sly, underhand system of drinking which was ruinous to the morals of the communi- ty." Again, in the words »f a leading journalist, one of the representative men of that section of the State, use '. by him in an address delivered before a large gathering of temperance people in Bangor : — " Not one man or woman in the State of Maine had been made temperate because they could not ob- tain liquor to drink " To the truth of this declar- ation the chairman of the meeting in question assented. If the Scott Act was passed throughout the Pro- vince of Ontario it would entail a pecuniary loss upon the municipalities in round numbers of $2fiL,ooo a year, or for the thiee years it has to remain in operation to a los*^ of 8780,000. And the tax-payers of the country are asked not alone to sacrifice this enormous revenue, but also to burden themselves with the heavy additional tr.xation necessary to meet the expenses of working the new law. if the Scott Act would prei'ent liquor being manufactured or sold, if its passrige would banish drunkeness then some substantial return would be made tD the people, but when such laws have proved rank failures elsewhere why shouldthe Can- adian people load themselves wilh extra taxes so that a lot of agitators can gratify themselves by making the experiment ia this country. THE SCOTT ACT. Repeal of Prohibition in Massachusetts The evil effects of prohibitory legislation became so marked in Massachusetts that in May, 1867, a joint- special Committee of the Senate and Legis- lature sent out invitations to leadini^ citizens of the Commonwealth to come before them and testify to the working of the law in their respective localities. In response to the invitation 183 prominent citi- zens went before the Committee ; of this number, 108 condemned the prohibitory law in the strong- est manner. On the list of dissentients there were thirty-four Ministers of the Gosj)el all of whom, with rare unanimity, testified ta the increased drunkeness it had inaugurated in their respective parishes. Of the seventy-five who still express- ed a favorable opinion of p-ohibition only twenty-four were clergymen. Thi. weight of evi- dence was, therefore, strongly in favor of a string- ent license law and the Committee on the part of the Senate and the Legislature closed their report in the following words : — " As good citizens whose only interest is to promote the highest good of the State, we should not be deterred by prejudice or pride of opinion, or the mistaken judgments of good men, from reforming in season a law unsound in theory and bad in practice." In the year 1875 the present license law came into operation and as convincing evidence of the damaging influence upon the morals of a community by the enforce- ment of such a law as prohibition, I annex a re- cord of the arrests for drunkeness in the City of Boston for several years under both laws. I chcf-r- futly record here my indebtedness to Mayor Pierce, Chief of Police Savage, the board of License Com- missioners and officers of the Senate and Legisla- ture for their courtesy in supplying me with official records. Arrests for Drunk and Disorderly in Boston under Prohibition. Year, 1869 19.446 " 1870 18,678 " 1871 18,089 " 1872 16,612 " 1873 16,810 " 1874 18,090 Now commences the record under the present license law : Year, 1875 16,645 1876 15,067 " 1877 14,373 " 1878 13.976 To render more startling the advantages pcs- sessed by a strict license law, it is necessary to state that within the past few years several con- tiguous municipalities have been annexed to Boston. To show clearly the true state of affairs I give tlie following official statistics : — 1868 Population of Boston 230,000 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1877. .237,000 . 250,000 .265,000 .285,000 . 300,000 .350,000 By comparing the above figures it will be seen that Boston und< r a prohibitory law in 1869, with a population of '.mly 265,000 had 19 446 arrests for drunkeness; in 1878, ■iiider the license system witi) nearly one hundred thousand more people within her borders, the arrests were only 13,976. During the rt;iKn of prohibition there were about 3,000 places selling liquor in lioston, all of them ofcour.se — 'Itegiilly. Under the license system, all this has been changed, and from the report of the Licence Commissioners for 1877, I cull the follow- ing :— "The net revenue enjoyed by Boston from[licences was $181,164, 27, and from the testimony of lead- ing brewers and dealers in liquors before the Board, the introduction of the pr^~sent law has immensely increased the sale of lager and other beer and seriously diminished the consumption of alcoholic drinks. It also appears that while under prohibition there was an enormous demand for the commonest class of whiskey and cheap domes- tic brandies, rum and gin, that demand has now almost ceased, and a superior and purer class of spirits is being purchased by dealers." The Commissioner's report for 1878 also alludes to tlie gratifying decrease of drunkennes under the License Law. The Barley Question. How the Scott Act will injure the Parmer. The temperpnce people say they expect to pass the Scott Act all over the country ; now if they effect their purpose, and the Act were to accom- plish what they claim for it, viz.: the s ppression of the trade in liquor, then every brewer in Canada would be compelled to give up business.' By ex- amining the government reports for the past fiscal year we find that the brewers used about two million six hundred thousand bushels and about seven and a quarter millions of bushels are sent to the United States making a grand total of nearly ten million bushels of barley for the year. Now let a farmer ask himself the following ques- tion : — Why is it that there is such a sharp demand for Canadian barley ? And his own common sense will supply the correct answer, viz. : — Be- cause our barley is cf better quality — being nota- bly a better color than what is grown by Uncle Sam. Now what makes the color so valuable a consideration, certainly if the grain were used as the prohibitionists advise, viz. : — as feed for cattle, it would not matter whether the grain were light or dark color, but with the brewer color is the all important question, and any farmer whose grajn is of good bright shade can command several cents per bushel more tor it than if it were of poorer color. Good ale cannot be made from dark colored barley, and allowing five cents per bushel only as the extra value of the good color, the loss to the farmers of Canada by the withdrawal of such demand would on the barley crop of the Dominion be several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Prohibition also for the Dominion of Canada means a loss of revenue of nearly live million dol- laiii a year. A loss that would have to be met by d)n;ct taxation. In plain words the population of Canada is about four millions, and to meet the deficiency caused by the loss of such a heavy por- tion of the income of the country it would take a direct tax of about $1.25 on every man, woman and child of the pppulatiou to make the loss good. 11 be seen 869, with irrests for se system re people ly 13,976. ere about 1 of them iystem, all lort of the he follow- m [licences ly of lead- )efore the I law has and other mption of hile under nnand for ap domes- i has now 3r class of Iso alludes under the le Scott er. ct to pass ow if they to accom- .ppreasion in Canada By ex- past fiscal ibout two and about ire sent to of nearly wingques- p demand common viz. : — Be- eing nota- by Uncle aluable a used as for cattle, were light is the all e grain is eral cents of poorer om dark bushel , the loss al of such Dominion rs a year. Canada llion dol- le met by lation of meet the eavy por- \d take a woman osB good. THE SCOTT ACT. Let every citizen of Canada opposed to fanatical IcKisliition, every elector who values his individual liberty vote against such a miserable law as the Scott Act. Every man having confidence in the intelliRence and Christianity of the Canadian peo- ple will vote n^'ainst a law that is a direct insult to the community in which the agitators seek to. enforce it. Vote against a law that will compel direct taxation to meet the expenses of its en- forcement. Vote in favor of the present strin- gent license law, acd against a compulsory law like the Scott Act. E. KING DODDS. "The subject who i% truly loyal to the Chief Magis- trate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary meas- ures'— Jonidb SUMMARY OF THE ACT. The limited space at command v/ill not per- mit my furnishint^ mor^; than a brief summary of the Act. I ask the farmers of Canada to pay par- ticular attention to the clause wliich prohibits them selling cider in an;- (,'ouiity where the Act is in force. By a peru.sal of the provisions of the law, they will find that the Temperance leaders have actually pronounced llie farmer who makes a barrel of cider more guilty than the brewer who produces beer, To the latter t)u::y give permission to sell in 8 gallon quantities out.siJe of the County, while the far.ner i^ only allowed to dispose of his harmless beverriiTe in the larger quantity of 10 gal- lons. The reason fi , and of any adjoining countv or city in which the second' part of this Act is then in force, for consumption outside the same. Penalties and Prosecutions for Offences against the Second Part. 100. \Vh(jever, by himself, his clerk, servant or agent." exposes or keeps for sale, or directly or in- directly, on any pretence or by anv device, sells, or barters, or in consideration of the purchase of any other pn ^perty , gives, to any other person, any spirit- uous or other intoxicating liquor, or any mixed liquor capable of being used as a beverage and a part of which is spirituous or otherwise intoxicating, in violation of the second part of this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars for the first offence, and not less than. one hundred dollars for the second of- fence and to be imprisoned for a term not exceed- ing two months for the third and for every subse- quent offence; and whoever, in theemp' -ment or Dii the premises of another, so exposes or keeps for sale, or sells, or barters, or gives in violation of the said second part of this Act, shall be held equally guilty with the principal, and shall be li- able on summary conviction to the same penalty or punishment. And all intoxicating liquors in respect to wt.ich any such offence has been com- mitted, and all kegs, barrels, cases, bottles, pack- ages o" receptacles of any kind vvhr,tever in which the same are contained shall be f ifeited. 101. Any prosecution for an} such penally or punishment may be brought by or in the nsone of THE SCOTT ACT. id others, ns as they with carry nty or city which the and to be ntities not s of pure 1 and pro- nada, may, from the Lving juris- led on, sell e in quan- one time. medicinal from one or trader y licensed is store or )ty or city, itoxicating than ten iggists and persons as with carry ity or city, which the )rce, to be .ntities not lucer, dis- or trader tent on the ice of hav- uch liquor le limits of i county or Act is then amo. Offences t. servant or ectly or in- ce, sells, or hase of any i,anyspirit- lixed liquor id a part of Seating, in ct, shall be lalty of not ce, and not second of- not exceed- very subse- ;i' 'mentor 5s or keeps in violation lall be held shall be li- me penalty liquors in i been com- )ttles, pack- er in which :d. penal'.y or the nsone of the Collector of Inland Revenue within whose official division the offence was committed, — or bv or in the name of any person. 102. It shall be the duty of suoh ('^Hector of Inland Revenue to bring such prosecution, when- ever Vie shall have reason to believe that any such offence has been committed, and that a prosecu- tion therefor can be sustained, and would not sub- ject him to any undue measure of responsibility in the premises. 103. Such prosecution may bo brought — In the Province of Quebec, if the offence was committed in the City of Montreal or in the City Quebec, then before the Recorder or Judge of the Sessions of the Peace at Montreal or Quebec, as may be, or, if the ofTiince was committed in any other part of the Province, then before a Stipen- diary Magistrate, or before any two other Justices of the Peace for the District wherein the offi-'uce was committed, or, if the District is other than that of Quebec, or that of Montreal, before the Sheriff of such district ; In the Province of Ontario before any Stipen- diary Magistrate or before any two other Justices of the Peace for the county, city or district where- in the oflence was committed; or, if the offence was committed in any county, city or to\vn having a Police Magistrate, then before such Police Mag- istrate, or in his absence, then bef» prove was evidenced in those municipalities /tiere the Dunkin Act was suppos- ed to be in force. The Scott Act will prove a rep- itition of " Dunkin " the counties will be robbed of a large revenue and "free trade in liquor " will again be the rule. Pact against Fiction. The record of the different counties in Canada in a temperance point of view is highly satisfac- tory and bears strong testimony in favor of the license law, yet from the fierce ranting and intem- perate declamations of many of the prohibition lec- turers one would be led to believe that Canadians are a drunken, dissolute people. A short time smce Mr. W. H. Howland of Tor- onto, in company with Dr. Potts and others, atten- ded a prohibition meeting in the town of Dundas, County Wentworth, the first named g-^ntlenian who is a late convert to the cause was placed in the front as chief speaker. In his address he de- clared the consumption of proof spirits in Canada to be twenty millions of gallons representing sixty millions of dollars uselessly squandered. Now if I were not inclined to be charitable in my opinion, unci desirous of believing that M •. Howland erred, through lack of knowledge, 1 might think that he was a believer in the old Irish saying that "the sin of a lie is in the pinching of it." The best answer to such bounce as the above are the facts presented in the Returns and Statis- tics of the Inland Revenue Department. A per- usat of the report for the year ending 30th June 1878 presents the following record. Amount of spirits manufactured during the years 1874, 75, 7G, 77 and 78, 19 399.350 gallons or an av- erage of 3,879.870 gal a year. Of this the quan- tity taken for consumption in Canada was for the above five years 17,261,138 gal. or an average of 3,452,227 gal. each year. I next turn to the eovernment report giving a statement of the Imports of the Dominion for r878 for home consumption <>! Hrandy, Rum, Gni, Alcohol, Whiskey and other uneuuineratled si)iiit8 and fiiul there were 823,454 K'^^- Adding the imported article to the number of gallons of home manufactured spirits entered for consumption in 1878, gives a grand total of 4.275 68 r gals. In the prescence of such indisputable evidence, comment on MrHowlands imaginary figures is un- nei:eessary. Yet such is a sample of the sensational stuff served to the people for the purpose of iutluencing them to vote in favor of prohibition. As thej most convincing aiiswei' to the bosh allud- ed to, attention is requeste.l to the following Statement shewing the number of prisoners committed to County Gaols for drunkeness during the year 1879 taken from page 66 of the license rejiort of the Hon. the Provincial Secretary of the Province of Ontario, issued at the Parliament Buildings. Toronto, County of Bruce, Number Committed. . ..8 " Grey, " " 3^ " Halton, " Lanark, " " Lennox and Addington " " Peterborough " Rf;nfrew, " •' " " Sti)nnont, Dundas, and Glengarryi7 " " Wcllingion " " . . .23 " " Huron, " " ...15 This is a record highly satisfactory, and is a much better shewing than the rurvl districtsof the United Stater, England, Ireland or Scotland. Such a law as the Scott Act, which is an effort to inuzzlo the mouths of the people is a direct in- sult to the intelligence of the Canadian Electorate. . I .8 .9 •5 •5 fS'Individuals or Associations desir- ous of making engagements with me to lecture in opposition to the Scott Act' can ascertain terms, etc. by addressing me at Toronto. ' Respectfully, E. King Dodds.