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. LONDON TIMES DISCUSSES
PHASES OF PROHIBITION
Special Empire Edition of “Thun
derer” Carries World News
of Dry Movement
PROHIBITION IS “NEWS”
Attitude of Great English Daily
Strikingly Shows Drift to
Prohibition
The London Daily Times of May
24, special Empire number, gives con
siderable space to the Prohibition is
sue. The following are excerpts and
abridged statements from articles in
this number dealing with this question.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC OCCU
PIES CONSIDERABLE
THOUGT IN MANY
' COUNTRIES
Liquor control in Canada
“Liquor control in Canada becomes
both a national and an international
problem. The Canadian provinces
have no power to prohibit manufac
ture or export. There is a federal
statute which prohibits importation
into provinces which have adopted
prohibitory legislation.
"No federal measure prohibits ex
port out of Canada. It has been held,
however, that export companies must
have bonded liquor warehouses, and
that such warehouses must have
licences from the Provincial Govern
ments. In Ontario all licences have
been refused, and thus many export
companies organized along the border
were forced out of business.
“It is stated that in Western On
tario there are 12 breweries and dis
tilleries which sell direct to professed
agents of American customers.
"The Ontario Government is pass
ing legislation to authorize seizure of
liquor in transit and confiscation of
the cargoes if satisfactory evidence of
foreign ownership cannot be produced.
It is claimed that there is no obliga
tion t.pon Canadian shippers to respect
the Volstead Act, and in many cases
liquor shipments are taken to Cana
dian custom houses, the stock in
spected, and duty collected.A
joint conference of represenattives of
the ‘dry’ provinces is to be held at
Ottawa shortly to consider what mea
sures can be devised to restrict the
illegal traffic and to demand necessary
supporting legislation from the Fed
eral Government.”
The Dominion and Provincial auth
orities are asking for concurrent legis
lation requiring liquor for export to he
properly described and also it is pro
posed that the export of liquor from
Canada to any "dry" country shall be
prohibited by Federal enactment.
"The Dominion Temperance Al
liance has renewed the agitation for
a federal measure of Prohibition......
but the situation is complicated by the
action of Quebec and British Colum
bia,” whp, by government dispensary
systems are receiving an annual liq
uor revenue of something over $1.
500,000 in British Columbia and prob
ably $4,000,000 in Quebec.
The artiple also states that there
will probably be a call for a referen
dum in Manitoba and Saskatchewan,
brought about by the Moderation
League, who are giving out in spite
of newspaper reports that Prohibition
cannot be enforced in Saskatchewan.
African Drink Trade Scored by Mod
* erator of the General Assembly
of Free Church in Scotland
Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, presiding
over the United Free Church Assem
bly in Scotland, said: “that a friend
told him that he saw in October at
Accra in the Gold Coast, a steamer
unload 25,000 cases of liquor exported
from Leith. He and his little band of
colleagues waited for men and women
to help to hold for Christ this great
field, but they waited in vain. Scot
land was too busy making profit out
of the damnation of West Africa—
for drink in West Africa was no small
evil, but a gigantic curse, which was
ruining tribes, trade progress, and im
mortal souls. There was no h#pe un
less the Powers agreed to accept the
original intention of the Brussels Act
and prohibit the introduction and dis
tribution of spirits of every kind, not
only so-called trade spirits.
South African Wines
The correspondent from South
Africa, after picturing in glowing :
■< terms the beautiful vineyards of the
Cape, "protected from the south-west
winds by majestic pale mauve moun
tains, they face the indigo waters of
the Indian Ocean" and seen from
many points of vantage through the
dark foliage or light-colored trunks of
great firs and maples, goes on to say
that while the Dutch farmers can
make good wine they do not—“be
cause it pays them better to disregard
quality and concentrate on quantity.”
He goes on to show how the farm
ers make their wines by the addition
of strong sulphuric solutions, making
them into so-called sauternes, sherry,
or even champagne by adding carbonic
acid gas, spirit boiled grape juice and
' given out finally under whatever name
they are called—a wine that will not
keep from one season to the next.
This giving the wines any name and
using strong sulphuric solutions would
be called the result of Prohibition, in
the United States, but the correspond
ent from South Africa sees in it only
the greedy disregard by the liquor
■sj
DRYS OF FRANCE ARE ATTACKING THE BOOZE TRAFFIC WITH CARTOONS THAT DRAW BLOOD
- -
“FOR GREAT EVILS, GREAT REMEDIES—”
Aux grands maux, les grands rem&des
Duma dc Poulbot.
Lcs Etols-Unis, Ics Pays Scandinavcs, etc... a'yant interdit I’imporUlion du vin,
Ic Goiivernemcnt, pour rcpondrc aux vosux dcs viliculteurs ct poussor u la consom
mation dc la Boisson Nationale, a decide dc decorer tous Ics pojvrots.
"The United States, the Scandinavian countries, etc., . . . having
forbidden the importation of wine, the government, in order to answer the
prayers of the viticulturists and to increase the consumption of the National
Drink, has voted to decorate all drunkards.’’
Fraternite, with its motto “Our rights . . . but also our duties”
an illustrated, anti-alcoholic paper of social and moral hygiene, edited for the
French speaking countries of Belgium, Switzerland and France, published
every month at No. 126 Grand Rue de la Guillotier, Lyon, for the meagre
sum of three francs a year, prints the above cartoons for the months of
March and May of this year.
Fraternite says "we are not established alone to create an anti-alcoholic
“UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE —A FREE AND INTELLIGENT
ELECTOR”
Suffrage universel • In electeur fibre et conscient
Dostui uc Viiuuoi
.Moi je vole. Et Madame Curie lie vole pas!
“I—I vote . . . and Madam Curie she does not vote.”
sentiment hut also to render unpopular the agents of alcoholism, the wine
shop, and those who sustain the system, the politicians.”
The cartoons of this paper are particularly striking and show with con- 1
summate skill the social evils, the government encouragement, and the de- |
basing results of the use of intoxicating liquors. To the accusation that
these cartoons are not refined and delicate, but exaggerated pictures, Fra
ternite replies, ‘'Our designs are exaggerated! . . . our paper is not for
Duchesses but for the common people of whom we are one.” Fraternite
believes that these exaggerated pictures are necessary in order to compel
the attention of the skeptical, the ignorant and of opponents.
trade of the natives in,South Africa
to whom much of this wine is dis
posed.
New Zealand’s Mandate for Samoa
New Zealand, in accepting the man
date toi Samoa, has accepted it in the
spirit indicated by the Honorable E.
P. Lee, who said after visiting Samoa:
‘‘New Zealand has come into Samoa
to govern the islands primarily in the
interests of the Samoan people, and in
doing so, it must naturally expect to
incur the resentment of certain private
interests. This hostility of trading and
planting interests to Government and
missionary activites is one of the out
standing features of Facific history."
The principal trouble which the New
Zealand administration has had in its
mandate carried on with the above
principle in mind seems to have been
with the white residents who are in
terested in the liquor traffic. The New
Zealand Parliament passed the Samoan
Act in which Prohibition was con
firmed for Samoa, while the Samoans
say that New Zealand has banned liq
uor for the islands while retaining it
fof New Zealand. The Samoans do not
seem to realize that the natives in
King Country, New Zealand, have
been subject to Prohibition in the in
terest of the resident natives, and that
white settlers and visitors in that area
are compelled to obey the law. ✓
The Bahamas
The report for the Bahama Islands
states that "the colony has become a
veritable rendezvous for Americans
seeking relaxation from the Prohibi
tion laws.The revenue obtained
from large stocks of whisky and other
alcoholic liquors imported into Nassau
has enabled the Government to wipe
out, in two years, a public debt of
170,000 pounds and at the same time
to make provision for improvements
that were long overdue.
“The Grand Bahama, which is with
in easy reach of Florida, is to be de
veloped into a. great centre for Ameri
can sportsmen. Hotels are to be
erected, a race track laid out, and it
is said that the company which has
been formed to introduce various
forms of sport in this section of the
colony aims at creating a Monte Carlo
in the West Indies.
PHILA. C. OF C. FAVOR
SALE OF WINE AND BEER
Through a referendum vote among
its members the Philadelphia Cham
ber of Commerce has expressed itself
in favor of congressional amendment
of the Volstead law to permit the
sale of light wines and beer, says the
Philadelphia North American of June
18. According to resolution adopted
a few weeks ago by the board of gov
ernors of the Chamber a letter was
sent to each member together with
a ballot with two questions to be
voted upon. The questions were: "Do
you favor continuing the present re
strictions upon the sale of light wines
and beer?” and "Do you favor amend
ing the law to permit the sale of light
wines and beer?” To the first ques
tion 22 per cent of the membership
voted in the affirmative; 78 per cent
cast affirmative votes on the second
question.
N. Y. TELEGRAPH CARRIES
A. A. P. A. NULLIFICATION
Ads. Said to Have Been Offered
to Other N. Y. Papers, But
Not Accepted
DISHONESTY APPARENT'
Tribune Refused to Accept Mat
ter: Does Not Handle Liq
uor Advertisements
The New York Morning Telegraph
seems to have a monopoly on the full i
page advertisements run by the Asso
ciation Against the Prohibition i
Amendment. These advertisements j
are preaching the policy of nullifica-!
tion of the Eighteenth Amendment
by congressional repeal of the Vol
stead law. American Issue, New
York edition, says that it has informa- j
tion that these advertisements were
offered to other newspapers of New]
Cork City but were found inconsistent'
with the advertising policy of those
papers, and adds:
"It is to the credit of the other news-,
papers and their standards that they
perceive the inherent dishonesty in
the sort of advertising put out by the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment and decline to give their
pages to the featuring of it. Regard
less of whether it was purely business
motives which governed the decisions
of these newspapers or not the de
cision they made is eloquent testi
mony to the extent to which the liq
uor traffic has passed from all favor
able consideration on the part of the
public even here and the extent to
which the absence of liquor advertis
ing has improved the market value
of newspaper advertising space. The
significance of this refusal on the part
of New York City newspapers grows
greater the more one thinks about it.
The New York Tribune in its answer
said:
It has long been the Tribune's
policy to refuse advertising of al
coholic beverages. While this
carrtpaign does not come under
this head it does become involved
with'tfic principle. : We do not be
lieve that alcohol and business
mix veil together. We believe in
promoting the business welfare of
the 'country to the extenV of our
ability.
“Very well said. There are a few
‘milfionarres' irt New York andj vicinity
who ought quickly to get ashamed of
themselves for backing a nullification
campaign which New Vork1 City |
newspapers do not seem willing to
advertise.”
ti: ‘ ‘ e . ‘ ‘ ; i
_
Big Bootleggar Defense Fund Raised
By Regular Levy on Dry
. Lav/ Violators
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
is said to he concerned over a reported i
new discovery of a huge nation-wide
liquor ring with a complete and de
tailed organization. This ring's exist
ence was officially reported by Di
rector Rutter of California on June
17. He said it is well organized and
makes a regular levy on law-breakers
who are given in return protection
against the government and local Pro- j
hibition forces which are under a com
plete surveillance system. An official
statement from Prohibition headquart
ers on Director Rutter’s report states:
T h e organization employs
counsel, detectives, and lias dues
running from ten to fifty dollars
a month based on the amount of
business done. by members.
Identity of the attorney, acting or
directing head, and several of the
detectives of the local association
in Sacramento has been learned
by the federal agents.
AMERICAN SPEAKER PILLORIES MONSTROUS
LIES CURRENT IN ENGLAND ABOUT U.S.PROB’N
All Old Whoppers Used in America About Dry States Revised and
Greatly 'Enlarged for English Consumption; Facts
Permeate England
_ ' 7
The booze publicity agents’ arguments against Prohibition are notoriously
inconsistent. These booze publicity agents are either densely ignorant or
else they are offering gratuitous insult to the intelligence of the public in the
contradictory statements which they are issuing. The wonder is that reput
able newspapers and magazines will print their silly stuff. Miss Ida A. Green
who was associated with Pussyfoot Johnson iff the Scotland campaign, com
piled a few of their contradictory statements which are herewith reproduced.
ENGLISH LIQUOR PROPA
GANDA
1. LIBERTY
(a) We want Liberty. The Ameri
can people have no liberty. They
; never voted on the question of Prohi
bition; it was put over them by their
millionaires.
(b) We don't want Local Option,
If the people have Local Option,
THEY WILL VOTE OUT LIQUOR
THE WAY THE AMERICANS
DID, AS SOON AS THE AMERI
CANS GOT LOCAL OPTION
THEY BEGAN TO VOTE OUT
THE LIQUOR SHOPS and they
have kept at it ever since until they
have voted the whole business out.
2. USELESS TO ATTEMPT to
stop the evils of drinking.
(a) In America where there is Pro
hibition, there is more drinking than
ever. You can get liquor everywhere
in America.
(b! In America, WHERE YOU
ICAN’T GET ANY LIQUOR, every
body takes drugs or some other ter
rible substitute.
3. BUSINESS
(a) Prohibition will put thousands
of people out of business and destroy
thousands of pounds invested in the
trade.
(h) We sell just as much liquor in
America as ever, only at a higher i
price.
4. EFFECT ON INDIVIDUALS :
(a) It is only the physically weak.]
the mentally weak, or the weak-willed
who drink to excess and it doesn't;
matter if they become diseased, insane,'
criminal, a care and expense on the
community.
(b) Robert Burns, Edgar Allen
Poe and many other men of brilliant j
minds and fine physique have drank to
excess. (They FAIL TO ADD that]
many of these brilliant and wonderful
men went TO AN EARLY GRAVE
in poverty and disgrace.)
5. AMERICAN INTERFERENCE
(a) WE DON’T WANT any Yan- J
kees coming over here to tell'us what
to do. Rise, Britons, and drive the I
Temperance Fanatics from y6ur
shores.
(b) WE HAVE INVITED the]
strongest speakers from America that
money will buy to come over here and
tell us what to do in order NOT TO
HAVE PROHIBITION. Every liq-j
uor dealer, wholesale or retail, should,
exert every effort to get every cm- ]
ployee and every friend he has to
come and hear these Americans speak.
Study your newspapers, Americans,
and see how much of this same
SILLY PROPAGANDA you find
daily.
CARLOAD BOTTLED WHISKY
CAPTURED ON S. A. L. RY.

Federal Prohibition officers on June
17, captured a carload of bottled!
whisky on the track of the Seaboard
Air L;ne Railway, says a Savannah,
Ga., Associated Press dispatch. The
car was labelled potatoes and was to
have been dispatched to Jersey City,
N. J. It had about $20,000. worth of
liquor in it with a few sacks of po
tatoes.
FR. BELFORD CANDIDATE
FOR A. A. P. A. MEMBERSHIP
The New York Tribune of June 18 1
says that Rev. John L. Belford, rector
of the Catholic Church of the Nativ- j
ity, New York, has applied for mem- j
bership in the Association Against the j
Prohibition Amendment. Belford j
achieved considerable notoriety short-;
ly after the eighteenth amendment was
ratified,.
I
hibition law published in his church
bulletin.
DESTRUCTION OF 672 BBLS.
BEER ORDERED BY COURT
The destruction of 672yi barrels of
beer by Federal Prohibition agents
was authorized in an order signed by
Judge Thompson and filed in United
States district court, Pittsburg, June
19. The beer which wras seized by
Prohibition agents while being trans
ported in violation of the law is said
to contain more than one-half of one
per cent of alcohol.
U. $. DRY WORKER TOURS
S. AFRICA FOR TEMPERANCE
Mrs. Knox Livingston, W. C. T.
U. Leader, Speaks to Great
Crowds in Capetown
MANY ADDRESSES GIVEN
Meetings Profoundly Impresi
Auditors With Importance
of Prohibition
Mrs. Knox Livingston who is the
world's superintendent of the depart
nent oi suffrage of the W. C. T. U.
ind now lives in Providence, R. I. is
tow in the midst of a triumphant
speaking tour of South Africa. Ac
cording to newspaper accounts anil
’letters from Capetown, Mrs. Living
iton is having large audiefices who
isten to her with tremendous interest
is she tells about Prohibition in the
United States.
Born in Glasgow of Scotch parents
ihe came to America at the age of ten.
she is a direct descendant from that^i
ild Scotch African explorer, John
Knox, and her husband is a relative
sf David Livingston. As a girl she
.vas a great friend of Frances E. Wil
ard. the founder of the W. C. T. U.
Mrs. Livingston has been telling
ter audiences the truth about the com
ng about of Prohibition in the United
states. She also has been giving a
history of the fight for Women's Suf
frage in this country. She. has denied
many of the erroneous reports which
set abroad telling the people what the
real situation is. She has had some
jf the leading citizens of Capetown
ind other places in South Africa at
ler meetings and entertaining her.
Introducing her at one. of her meet
ngs was Brigadier-General Byron
ivho stated that he came to hear her
with open mind on the question of
Prohibition. After hearing Mrs.
Livingston, General Byron evidently
was won over to the side of Prohibi
tion from a neutral position.
At her meeting in the City Hall in
Capetown, the hall was packed, the at
tendance being 1,250 by actual count.
She went out to Stellenbosch, the
hotbed of opposition and the student
center of South Africa. She was the
guest of Lord and Lady de Villiers
and was variously occupied among the
students and attending a great meet
ing at night. Contrary to Our fears,
of the drvs, there was no Opposition;
she captivated everybody including a
number of professors and other lead
ers and received an ovation from the
students.
Mrs. Livingston's tour is divided into
two classes. She began April 17 and
the schedule calls for her to leave
Capetown July 14 for England and the
L’nited States. She will have given
more than half a hundred addresses.
One of her. best services was in the
Metropolitan Wesleyan Church in
South Africa which was packed to the
doors. A number of Parliamentary
and other distinguished persons were
present and Mrs. Livingston kept
them thrilled for three-quarters of an
hour.
It is the testimony of many who
have heard her that she speaks with
great effect for temperance reform in
South Africa and for interest in the
program of the World League Against
Alcoholism in its campaign for world
Prohibition. . The newspapers have
been giving each of her meetings from
a column to two columns ar.d all that
is said is in nraisc of her.
The Cape Argus says of her “Mrs.
Livingston forms, as it were, a con
necting link between the old and the
new generations of womenwofkers.
She was associated with many of the
women pioneers of the past, among
them being Frances E. Willard and
Susan B. Anthony, while one of her
closest friends is Mrs. Chapman Catt,
whom very many will remember as
one of the most eloquent women
speakers we have ever had among us.”
NEW YORK SENDS DRY LAW
VIOLATORS TO THE TOMBS
The New York Herald of June 18
announces that five men arrested on
June 17 on a commitment charging
conspiracy to violate the Volstead act
and to defraud the United States out
of collection of ljquor duties in con
nection with the seizure of a truck
containing whisky valued at $50,600,
bootleg prices, were sent to the
Tombs. That is better than a fine. If
New York begins to send her boot
leggers to prison the bootlegging pro
fession will lose its charm for most
of the crooks.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE FAILS
TO “PROTECT ’ IN PHILA.
When the saloon of Louis Tempotit
of Philadelphia wa.s raided by Pro
hibition agents the surprised saloon
keeper was heard to call a private de'-'
tective agency on the telephone. The
Philadelphia North American Says the
following conversation was heard.
“The Prohibition agents are at my
place. Come and protect me.” Then
there was a moment of silence, fol
lowed by “What? Say, that is what I
pay you for.” A quantity of whisky r
conveniently bottled in half-pints was
found concealed in clothing and va
lises in the place, agents reported.

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