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x { 0 r \ or referenda. ’ iation. ‘ Hon. Retain and Strengthen The ITe mperanCe Legislation Secured By Fifty Years Heroic Effort The following sermon on Govern- ment Control was d’elivered by Rev. l5. R. Strangways of Thornhill to his congregation recently. Elihu‘ Was a young man of con- spicuous talcrt and with considerable assurance of his own importance in solving difficult problems such as the one confrontingi Job. After speaking somewhat at length,‘as he thought, in ’defense of God against Job this young counsellor proceeded and said; “Sufâ€" fer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God’s be- half.” When hc 'had spoken still more at length, as recorded in the 36th and 37th chapters of Job, the Almighty, as if somewhat wearied by the young man’s effort to speak in his defense, addressed Job out of the whirlwind and said, “who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" ‘Job 38: 2. Then follow a few questions calcu- lated to cause Elilue to understand that the Almighty does not need de- fense. Significant amongst these pointed and suggestive questions was the demand,“will the unicorn b5; will- ing to serve thee, o'r abide by thy crib? .Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he barrow the valley for thee? Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great?" Chapter 39, ,Nerses 9-11. ' It is easy to'darken counsel by words. The electors of Ontario must at the present "me beware of words an arguments that in the language of e late Attorney General Mr. W. F. Nickle, “are alluring but decep- tive.” We are compelled to ask two very old questions; “who is this that dark- / eneth counsel by words without know- ledge?” And, “will the “unicorn be willing to. servé‘ thee? Canst thou bind the unicorn in the furrow?” ' . Canadian people are fairly alert, and efficiently organized, politically. It is a well established method in all the parties that party platforms shall be decided by the parties as represent- ed by delegates difiy appointed to pro- vincial and national conventions. This is a necessary and normal method in a true democracy, allowing always that leaders must have powers of dis- cression in times of sudden crises and unforseen circumstances requiring prompt and decisive action. The Prime Minister’s proposed Govâ€" ernment Sale method is a departure from the platform of the latest pro- vincial Liberal-Coriservative Conven- tion which declared its intention to rigidly support and enforce the O. T. A. until the people of Ontario 0:;- pressed their desire for a change in a provincial vote either by plebiscite or re rendum. ‘ The Prime Minister refuses to 1'3â€" gard the voice of the people in pleb- iscites null referenda already had, and states that if returned to power he will not have any more plebiscites His proposal is mani- festly not truly the Liberal-Conser- vative policy but the personal and in- dividuil preference of his own mind. It is to the credit of one of the Libâ€" oral-Conservative Associaticrs in the City of Toronto the." ' hwc rec~ ogniscd this norâ€"l l-Ceuserva~ tive aspect of the ir sal and have allowed their/members the liberty to oppose it by their votes and ye‘t rc~ main in good standing in the assoc~ method of solving problems of ham portance is not democratic and is sure to be variable. Already variations are observable in the mind and meth~ od’of Mr. Ferguson. Before the pleb- iscite of 1924 he gave to the voters of Ontario in View of the pending; vote this pledge; “There will be no return to the b'ar‘or sale by the may form. On the 19th of October 192G~his mind had charged and he then pro~ posed that her 'shall be sold by-ihc glaSs in beer parlors. By the glass" was condemned in 1924 and a definite promise given that there would be no return to sale by the glass in any form. The personal variation in the period 1924 to 1926 is all the way from banning the shle of beer by the glass in any form.to suggestion of this very thing in the basis of his appeal for reâ€"election. ’Some few days later, however, this tendency to variation manifested it- self again'in the City of Belleville when the same Prime Minister said. “the retail sale of beer is no part of I fixed.policy of the GOVernment. . the but is a mere incident to administer- ing the law.” Sale by the glass in beer parlors is quite a considerable in- cident as estimated by the average elector. It is a most significant part of the whole proposal. , Any variation in the Premier’s mind ,that brings him nearer to the accepted sentiment of the Temperance forces will be greatly appreciated, but it is imposs- l ible to avoid the reflection that thel variable type of mind is not the type needed to grapple witlythe bootlegger and his associates. The .bootlegger is already a trouble to the Premier. He has, however, lightedxupon a most effective way of handling this modern nuisance. If re- elected to power he will imprison the bootlegger. This is most encouraging. It is a splendid policy. Its success is sure. Probably this is part of what “f. F. Nickle had ,in mind when he intimated that the O. T. A. can be The indiy\d\ual and nonâ€"party ' . . glass 1:1 ‘ . ;enforced if the mind of the and will of the government are wholeheartedly behind it. The bootleggcr must be restraian It is not true to say that he cannot .be. We are not accustomed in On- tario to that kind of surrender to lawâ€" ’brealmrs. The Premier is right in lproclaimingxthat this province will not Jsubmit to the destructive dominance iof the defiant law-breakers but will in the future lock him up where he ought to be. This new promise and method is altogether the best way to deal with the hootlegger. It is sim- ple, direct and just. and will be far more effective than the kid glove me- thod of making it ,casy to get liquor. It must be hard for any one to see .how looser laws will help stop the ev- il. The bootlegger is flourishing for the very simple reason that he gets his liquor surreptitously from the dis.’ tiller and the brewer without payment of the heavy excise duty required by the Federal Government, and there- fore can undersell t e Provincial Government or any oth r dealer who must pay the excise dutyn This same reason will be just as effective under the Governmenf Sale as under theIO. T. A. But Mr. Ferguson is right in his assumption that imprison- ment will cure the evil, and Mr. Nic- kle is right in his assurance that. sympathetic Government support: will also stop it. But the Premier has, on reflection since setting .forth his Gov- . erlment sale manifests that he will not open up the way for the sale of beer by the glass in beer parlors. We must then enquire what will be the sitbation without this sold-by-the- glass section of the policy? 1. Regularly constituted Jiouses or ‘. places of sale will be authorized to sell spirituous and malt liquors by bottle or sealed package. 23 These places of sale will be au- thorized in centres convenient and easily accessible to the people gener- ally. 3. Every man and woman twenty- one years old will have the right to get a permit t‘o purchase spirituous and malt liquors from these Govern- ment vendors, allowing his permit to be marked for every purchase. 4. A commission of big men will be appointed to keep the vast machine running smoothly. 5. Every driver of an automobile may call on his way home and pro- cure a supply of whisky and other such liquors and transport the same :to wherever it may please him, ori drink it before or while driving. / 6. Immediately upon the enacting of such a law for the sale of spiritu- ous liquors in Ontario the Dominion statute which -now forbids the impor- tation of liquor ceases to operate and every cit‘men of our Province may freely and legally place orders. for‘ liquors in any quantity entirely apart from Mr. Ferguson’s permit. Dealâ€" ers in Quebec will be ready and able to facilita c this importation business. Their price lists will be in every home l i l l l l l l very quickly after the first of Decem- ' her if Mr. Ferguson’s Government Sale proposal is endorsed by the el- ectors. It is a recognized principle that a province may not legislate within any legislative sphere assign- ed by, the B. N. A. to the Federal Govâ€" ernment. Mr. Ferguson would there- fore be unable to evade Federal Leg- islation which permits interâ€"provinâ€" cial trade wherever liquor is regularly sold, and he would surely be one of the last to [undertake to controvert Dominion Law. These things are facts, the actual . facts as will be under Government sale. We will do well to think care- fully before we commit the future of our Province to such a policy. Mr. Ferguson has declared himsélf against the beer room but what assur- ance have we that his mind will stay changed? Will-there not linger with us a feeling that his heart is not changed and that as a man thinketh in his_heart so is he? Are the brew- ers quite so docile as to let the adâ€" vantage go to the distillers while they quietly submit to the unimproved div- idends? provinces? Not so in British Colum- bia where beer-parlors were not at. 'first permitted under Government tsale. The moderation‘ League of the lprovince got. busy at once to secure lfurther legislation providing for beer by the glass in rooms at tables. ‘Their efforts were soon successful and the Government authorized beer- parlors. Should the beer-room be \vithheldvtoday by the sudden change of mind in t e Premier arising from lfears’of elec ion results, tomorrow it )may be granted. Indeed it cannot be 1doubted that such would be the case. We have only to remember the tire- less energy of the traffic and the var- iableness 01‘ the Premier’s mind to be assured that very soon the beer-room ‘would follow. - The only way to avoid the reâ€"estab- lishing of the barroom in the improv- ed form of the chair and table beer- room is to retain theIO. T. A. and to resist the whole system of Govern- ment sale. The asociatiod of British Columbia Municipalities assembled in convenâ€" tion went on record as [of the follow- ing opinions concerning conditions an. der Government sale; “the- present 'situation is worse than the days of 'the open bar and is not only destruc- 3tive to the morals of the people Have they done so in other‘ utis; 1resulting in bringing about general = :contempt for law and order." ‘ Rev. Dr. Cody does not agree with . these men who live in the So much the worse for the Canon‘s Iobservation. If he had stayed longer in the West and if his mind were var- - Province. . be set aside and a. high sense of re- sporsibility should halt the retro- grad;- movcmcnt pru])o::u(l and saw gthe young people of our prmxince from :thc disastrous results of the n’os’ sinister proposition ever forth by any Govermm-nt in our Laud. . If we are to rightly estimate the future we must review the past. What is the record of men who are now behind Government salc'.’ Where gdid Mr. Ferguson and Mr. W. il. Price ‘lhc present Attorrcy General stand in 1.914 on the question of banishing the bar? What. wu: their remrd in ruâ€" crence to the plchisdla; held at dif- ferent times since the war 1’ Did Mr. Ferguson give any pledges concerning the 0. T. A.'? Where did they stand on the stronger beer question. Is. it well that‘the Attorney General. to whom belongs the task of enforcing the laws of our land. and especially the liquor law's. should be able to say [as Hon. W. Price said to his assoc- iates recently. “There are not many places that I visit. where I am not offered a drink. I watch the others, and there is just about 1. per cent. who don’t take a drink.” Is Mr. Price keeping the right kind of com- pany? Would he find such conditions in’the social circles you are familiar with in Thornhill? Was the Attorrey General when serious reflection on the judiciary of sour country by asking the following question. “When you get down to the line from the highest men in the country, from the judges on the Bench to the poor man who keeps the door of the court, when you find evâ€" ery one treating the law with con- tempt, what is going to become of it‘. Is this true of our judges? f not should the chief lawâ€"executive of the province so reflect upon them? Will such a man himself safely ad- minister the law? These questions are sufficiently sig- nificant to demand of every elector the most serious co sideration. The .traffic will 0t walk furrow and there is no use darkening the coynsel with words. The O. T. A. can be enforced. The late Attorney General, Hon. W. F. Nickle ought to know more about this .than any other man in the Government. In his let- ter of resignation to Mr. Ferguson he made it plain that he believed the Act can be enforced if the trade and the public know that the Government is resolutely behind it and determin ed to enforce it. In his address to his own electors at Kemptville the Premier spoke truly when he said, “yo one will argue for a moment that the Ontario right Temperance Act has not done great‘ E, I HERE’S a hundred Things on. the air for mother-when the other folks are away at work or school. know a variable condenser from a grid leakâ€"she wants a set she in the same speech he cast‘ in the ‘ good. We know vhzit it has done in in till“, lzttle community. I know what Vit has. (lotto in many other plat-era It has l“.’lil<7‘.'('ll distress from many :1 home and taken from the hotel doorstep the inehriute and llail":’l' on who was 1; nuisance z“: \t'cil as .. men- ace in Society. It has undm‘luiodly increased the efficiency and g~-nnral output‘rfi industry. No mu- v.'ill di-nv then-o things." . “.ient i’l the Premier's mind. he was mi-utally picturing old days "i, the standmp bar-roux and. ring l“:‘l‘|l \xhh the he? or day 1'. l‘.‘ undoubtedly with us under the gczfiraily good cti'cct of lih‘ (l. T. l’erhuys 1“» The truest loyalty to conscience and the best patriotism of our men and of the 862.000 women voters must stop this disastrous Government sale proposition and give an unmistakable mandate to retain and strengthen the Temperance Legislation we have so- cured by fifty years and more of her~ oic efi‘ort. Single Knob . can operate without being an electricaf’expert. 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