NO-LICENSE STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 10

NO-LICENSE STATISTICS.

■r Srr,--There /.was :/av rally'oh' Wedncsday^last 1 at St.-Thomas's Hall.'::' One .speakermade,these, stateinen'ts:. '-'In Biriijen' years.tihere^waa-a'decrease' of '462' liwmse's, W-25 per:eent.'!o...'iTlixee;hundred'arid'cight hotels Jnad ;: reau6tioh;v;and :'IS4 ; - by. Noriicense.tfw ;;t0 ,; 1905;'- ! 75 ■"■'" licenses had been voted'-'dut,''i'nd H'rbmv.iS'Oo a;«furtheVf!79: to;i9os ; hotelsihad beSn reduced a r t -the 'raio of' 29 per, year, and from 1905 to ,1908 air the / 1 ;~;/" ; .*'i '•:>' .:/ •/:>Very/good/I;.:: Now,:;why/ in'thb.riamo -.-'.'of' creation didnt this. speakervgo'.oin'and tell ns what, an enormous extent liquor consumption in: the Dominion.-had been reduced by-; all this?. /All/these" hundreds of, hotels have.' thousands upon thou? sands of worth' '• of property- confiscated, ancf, many thousands of people^'many of them innocent,'bro'aght to desolation and ruin.. ■ SurelyvthDre.'Kas-.beeh' some' great result.; ; Well, sir, thire/has been some result. The liquor consumption l pf the .Dominion, has uic're'a's'ed fehtffmo'u sly:' year' do^n't^bebo\'e'.',it, v :'the"';official -.returns. ate'%aßily: s found!''' ; He; 'will', ; sooiiV. .tfe'/'cori- :' : '* ! u ! :/f ,: :- v !>i'' : '-'' r v.; : '- iV^;'.;. :?" ;-' : ln tio'ki ja7plaßßd''ph'.^h6 H g6ttirig^;'of' ; -liqii6ri'!';it''ia . 'oKeapen&d ithat'; the.'poorest ;bf; the /very . poor" ..'eta'''afford -"lashings'' v bf - ft..f'/Who ■ but . a -fopl'-'WOuld- ask : ' ; us"'tt;'believe- that'.'suoh' a process won't increase ■liquor consumption/?' This"'-man; also.' said':->' l We' afo : how 1 50 per ; cent.: better, off." •'What is 'he.'reckoning by ? Not;v'on-:.any nioral 'standard/'surely?. How' can:'.'wb.'be. any. better off morally when- we:drink';heaps';;more'iliqu6r?'' "Another individual' mentioned ."freeing.the ; Domihioh:from, the liquor traffic".-Will-he tell us how,much freedom-/f.rbm'<the- liquor■ ttadq'-all'this illfeeling... arid'.'ruination: .and confiscation, has already.;brought ( about?,.;..flyshow?.much has it diminished-/the, liquor, trade.? Not by one '• pint; andhe knows it r better fhan:i do. Anyone, can: see that the whole, animosity is "against. .mei' : .'and':.wbmen,.,and iibt against : liquor consumption', at all. ...Of course, the same thing is-happening here as happened . in.,-America.,;, '~-s]i6tßzW^&Scr^'x{6T;;iS<)rlA- : ■ (^nsq.there.^jt'-irioreasedj 'and-.don'tjwe. bear. /about 1 it Hero, but what ;we; don't, hear about is., the increased, liquor- consumption; -The 'quantity!drunk increased, ; / : by .. leaps ; .a'nd. bounds; .;,Look'at the; decrease in. liquor, con- . sumption in England last-year, .where there ■is. no-such farce. : ;■ [• t' -i'V. ;.:-'•['' '■■ .-.v;ri- /< ",I .won't, be drawn into' useless, argument 1 on ; side issues, or quibbles. • The question is oleaf and: simple. Has the abolition ;of. ajl theso, hundreds' of /hotels reduced .'liquor fcon':surnpfcioriPi/i say ; nq'; /Iki' anyone who.cari prove, otherwise prove it. .Otherwise, let, him,. ~' g o. on beating.the air.—l,amy eto., . ■.' .-;:■. ■*■■-:■■ ■;:■:':!-.(.;»'::- ■:;• TEETOTALLER; ' ! •>'^uly:4o.'J9o9.;, J ;.';,; M l/Cv.'. ; .: : -''-;^ : : .'■.:'.■