ince handle as much liquor as
the government stores.”
Hon. H. H. Stevens, a public
official, said:
“Never in the history of this
country was bootlegging com
parable in magnitude and mur
derous results to what it is to
day.”
Now, Mr. President, let us
take a description of the liquor
depot in Canada.
The Montreal warehouse of
the Quebec Liquor Commission
contains nine acres of floor
space and is full of vats, tuns,
and hogsheads of alcoholic
drinks from its topmost floor to
the cold basement under ground
where wines are kept. Two
large rooms of this building are
used for storing the seized wet
goods and stills that are con
stantly being taken from Mon
treal bootleggers, smugglers, and
proprietors of blind pigs.
There is not a problem in
volved in the situation in the
United States that is not in
volved under the system of gov
ernment control of liquor in
Canada. They have the same
bootlegger to contend with, the
blind pig, the poisoning of li
quor, and all the corrupting in
fluences that we have in the
United States.
Let me quote from another
source. In the Montreal Star I
find the following headlines:
“Innocent girls lured into
dens.”
And again:
“Dens of iniquity flourishing
here must go.”
These are the places, so the
report shows, where liquor is
sold either legally or illegally.
Attorney General Craig re
cently said:
“Seventy five per cent of the
troubles of law enforcement are
now due to the illicit sale of
beer and most of that is due to
the brewers that furnish the
supplies and abuse the privi
leges granted to them under the.
government liquor control act.”
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Rev. Father Coyle, of St.
Mary’s Cathedral at Kingston,
is quoted as saying:
“It is appalling the extent to
which drinking is indulged in
by young men, even boys of
’teen age. The drinking habit
has reached an unbelievable
stage.”
There is no end to the story.
They arc having the same fight
under government control that
we are having under prohibition,
and that is, to restrain those
who never propose to be re
strained by any lav/.”
;; * Mr. President, I live
in a State which v/as bone dry
according to law before the
eighteenth amendment was
adopted, but there was no way
by which the people of Idaho
could protect themselves from
those States which were not
dry. The people who are now
urging their belief in State
rights—I am not speaking now
of individuals, but -of liquor in
terests—in no sense respected
the right of Idaho to be dry.
They shipped their wet goods
into the State over the border,
established their saloons with
in five feet of the border, and
supplied the State in a way
that the State was powerless to
prevent. State rights was then
not so sacred in the eyes of the
liquor interests as it is today.
FREE SPEECH, LTD.
—o—
By Forrest Bailey
The tyranny of m a j o r -
ities works like any other tyran
ny. On an assumption of
infallibility, the majority holds
a given opinion or supports a
given system is no respector of
dissenting minorities. It tends
always toward the enforcement
of conformity. The harsher its
measures to that end, the more
damaging is the effect on the
liberties of minorities. It fol
lows that the struggle to main
tain our liberties is a struggle
against preponderant power. In
society at large or in smaller
groups it is a struggle for dis