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 Prohibition 
 
 IN 
 
 Canada and the 
 
 Cnited States 
 
 It would be about as necessary to prove that the " sun is hot " or that " the 
 world is round " as to prove that Prohibition is a failure, were it not for the persistent 
 attempts of the Prohibitionists to delude people, who have neither the means nor the 
 time to look into the matter carefully, into believing that Prohibition is a success and 
 that therefore it would be a good thing for Canada. 
 
 The people of Ontario had a tastr of Prohibition in the Scott Act, and a bitter taste 
 it was. It is acknowVsdged by every unprejudiced man who had any experience of the 
 operation of that law, that of all the legislation obtaJTied by the opponents of the liquor 
 traffic, the Scott Act proved the worst failure and the most bitter disappointment to 
 thou<iands who voted for it, honestly believing that it would abolish drunkenness and 
 crime. The strongest evidence of its failure and of popular disapproval was its repeal 
 in every county, generally by majorities much larger than those by which it was carried.. 
 And statistics show that the judgm-int passed by the electors upon the Scott Aci, afte» 
 every attempt had been made to enforce it, was a sound judgment. Not only did' 
 the convictions for drunkenness increase during the Scott Act period, bji convictions for 
 crimes and misdemeanors of all kinds also increased very materially. (See official 
 returns for Ontario.) 
 
 Twenty-eight counties and t*o cities in Ontario gave the Scott Act : trial. How 
 many have retained it. And why was it repealed ? Can there be ac •ther reaaoa. 
 
than that it was a failure. The memorial, signed by 300 citizens of Woodstock, includ- 
 ing nearly all the principal business and professional men, but nobody connected with 
 the Liquor Trade, said : 
 
 " The Scutt Act in this town has not diminisl' ed but has increased drunkenness ; 
 It has almost wholly prevented the use of lager beer, which was becoming an article of 
 common consumption ; it has operated to discourage the use of light beverages, substi- 
 tuting therefor, in a large measure, ardent spirits, and it has led to the opening of many 
 drinking-piaces which did not exist under the license law and to thr sale of liquor bein^ 
 continued till hours after midnight." 
 
 And this was the experience generally in other places where the Act was tried. But 
 it is surely unnecessary to recall at any further length the ;;bsolute failure of the Scott 
 Act in Ontario. 
 
 PROHIBITION IN MAINE, MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 VERMONT, Etc. 
 
 Let us take the experience of Main« with Prohibition, for Maine has long been the 
 happy hunting ground of the Prohibitionists. Maine has been trying Prohibition for 40 
 years, more than time enough to kill the Liquor Traffic, if the Liquor Traffic was to be 
 killed The Maine Prison Report for 18S4, after about 25 years of Prohibition effort, 
 says : " Intoxication is on the increase ; some new legislation xiust be made if it is to 
 be lessened. In many of our counties Prohibition does not seem to affect or prevent it." 
 
 Gail Hamilton, the result of whose investigations into the working of Prohibition in 
 Maine appeared in the North Anurican Review, said : — " The actual result is that 
 liquor is sold to all who wish to obtain it in nearly every town in the state." 
 
 Gail Hamilton also says : — " You can get bad licjuor for bad purposes in bad places, 
 but yott cannot get good liquor for good purposes in good places." 
 
 The New York Sun del'ailed a special correspondent to investigate in Maine, and he 
 reported : — " In no part of the world is the spectacle of drunken men reeling along the 
 streets more common than in the cities and larger towns of Mainr:." 
 
 The late General Neal Dow himself complained of the number of low drinking 
 placet that infest the cities of Ma.ae. 
 
 Maine's record of drunkenness, idiocy and crime is a complete answer to all the al- 
 lefed benefits of Prohibition. Ask any observant visitor what he saw in Maine. 
 
 Take Vermont next. Prohibition has had a fair trial in Vermont where the Legis. 
 lature piled one enactment upon another, heaped up pen.ilties and at last gave the police 
 puwer to enter any house without a warrant in search of liquor. The result is reported 
 by Mr. Edward Johnston in Popular Science Monthly. He says ; — " For all practical 
 purposss the law is an absolute dead letter." 
 
 Massachusetts also tried Prohibition for a number ot years. The report of the joint 
 committee of both Houses of the Legislature, one of the clearest and most comprehen. 
 sive reports of the kind in existenre, states : — " The mere fact that the law seeks to 
 prevent theni from drinking, rouses the determination to drink in many. The fact 'hat 
 the place is secret takes away the restraint which, in more public and respectable places, 
 would keep t'lem within temperate bounds. The fact that the business is contraband 
 
and liable to interraption, and that its gains are hazardous, tends to drive honest men 
 from it and to leave it under the control of dishonest men who will not scruple to poison 
 the community with vile adulteration."' 
 
 Kansas has given Prohibition a thorough test with most disheartening results. 
 
 A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT 
 
 Iowa has tried it, and here is what Mr. F. VV. Faulkes, of Grand Rapids, la,, once 
 a strong advocate of Prohibition, has to s-iy about it : 
 
 " It breeds liars. It increases taxes. It fosters dishonesty. It develops hypocriir. 
 It retards immigration. It drags religion into pjlitics. It retards the growth cf State*. 
 It debases many courts of justice. It disturbs peace among neighbors. It stand* in 
 tk way of better methods. It makes ai: avocation for blackmailers. It increases the 
 consumption ol whiskey. It complicates affairs of Church and State. It is an attempt 
 at a present impossibility. It fails to decrease pauperism, as claimed. It is falsely 
 asserted that it has decreased crime. It retards public improvements in city, town and 
 country. It is falsely declared that it prevents the increase of insanity. It destroys a 
 market for vast amounts of products of the farm. It develops professional and disre- 
 putable spies and informers. It has largely increased the numljer of drinking places in 
 lowu. It does not diminish the evils of the traffic at which it is aimed. It permits 
 thugs and scoundrels to search homes at any pretence, It is an attempt at revolu- 
 tion which public sentiment does not endorse. It breeds a spirit of intolerance that 
 is inimical to American institutions. It encourages and has greatly increased the 
 monstrous crime of perjury. It tends, in many parts of the state, to make drinking 
 places of drug stores. It leads to the manufacture and use of vile, villainous and 
 poisonous liquors. U is based on the false assumption that humanity can be made 
 virtuous by law. It places power and authority in the hands of many bad and un- 
 scrupulous persons. It is aimed at the destruction of an industry lecognized by all 
 civilized count.ies. It has produced assassins Pierce and Potle, but never punished 
 the red-handed murderers. It received the cordial endorsement of some of the very 
 class of men it is supposed to cppose. It is taken advantage of by professional 
 agitators for the purpose of selfaggrandizement and spoils. It prevents munici- 
 palitiei from regulating and controlling their own affairs as they may deem proper 
 and right. It causes thousands cf men to take liquor to their homes and places o< 
 business, even where best enforced. It makes cowards of political parties and pre- 
 vents just and needed legislative action at times in other matters. It enables irre- 
 sponsible loafers to secure the arrest of decent and innocent people, and subject 
 them to iftdignities. It has lost the support ol public sentiment, without which it 
 never can succeed, for law is public sentiment crystallized. It has helped to strike 
 down honorable judges in a dishonorable way, simply because they could not con- 
 scientiously decide cases in its favor. It interferes with the work of^enperance 
 reform, and deters it from being conducted along educational, religious aid moral 
 lines. It results in an annual drain of millions of dollars from Iowa for goods de- 
 manded and consumed in the state, but the manufacture of which is declared 
 illegal. It enables blackmailers to bleed the saloon keepers, preventing city and county 
 
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 treuareri troan recetving the fuml necessary, and justly due them, for expensa 1% look> 
 inc after- the traffic. It has resulted in the election of many imall-bore men to tW 
 legislature — men nominated because they were professional prohibitionists, and not 
 because of any special fitness for ihe position. It makes sneaks of thourands o. yuung 
 men who, in localities where best enforced, congregate in stables and other out-of- 
 the-way places for the purpose of drinking, and which places are hot-beds of eril. It 
 creates \ camiTal of free whiskey, enabling, without restriction or regulation, one and 
 all, regardless of their reputation or character, who may so desire, to engage in the 
 bu&jess of selling the beverages demanded. It hu not succeeded in prohibiting the 
 traffic ; and the almost universal disregard of that law, and its constant and genera) 
 violation breedi eoBtempl for ail law, a coaditioa which, if continued, will prove iia. 
 astrau."