STATE CONTROL

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 7

STATE CONTROL

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stow a &»w. Coumranam. - VANCOUVER. December W/ The province of Ontario having «*• corded its vote decisively la favour of,; State control of liquor, there b now J, an unbroken line of State control p»» 'A vincea from the Pacific to the.mofjb, j J of the St. Lawrence, leaving the BmH% j If times, that is, Nova Scotia," N»5 / Brunswick, and Prince Edward P<*JPf' / remaining under, Prohibition. JIM I adoption by the Maritimea djnuji'f control ia regarded M bnt a mttterjf / time, as each is economically dopraMM, / ' and liquor revenue ha* balanced •WW budgets of all the remaining prcriMsa; ' in Confederate Canada. .. _ {.■*• The Premier of Ontario, Mr Howgdr Ferguson, decided to go to the opwrtiy on one issue alone, liqnor. He WM' returned with a following of 74 OUMB; ben in a House of IW. Not oneof - the thirty candidates who ran as rro» hibitionists was .elected. The form**, Attornev-General, on the same »%•*•' was defeated in an electorate *f wiifcnr he was regarded as a favourite eon. The Progressive leader who led we Oprxwtfon, was elected by only tWlty-i ' The vote, following on sii of «taH States votine "wet" acreee the jnternutionsl border, has reawakened »»•> demand in the United Btatee for «• ' -, «nle of beer and. light winea niOw- \ the «»me permit system that n»H» W Canada. ,