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vote they cess.~ tion after tion Our Premier has small knowledge of how prohibition works in prohibiâ€" tion States to the south of us. Our Premier has not investigated, nor has any member of his Cabinet investigated, nor has any member of the Legislature investigated personally or by an intelligent committee, how prohibition works in Maine, how it worked in Vermont. Nor has our Government found out why Vermont voted two to one against prohibition after a trial of fifty years. Nor has our Government found out why prohibition was defeated in such States as Rhode Island. Nor has our Government found out why the P ie of Maine after having prohibition for sixtyâ€"three years practically voted \threfe years 280, it being carried only by 758 votes, after the Repubican T Dad l:u&:lpulated the ballot boxes for several months before the decision However, when a second vote takes place these people should be able to vote intelligently even if many of them will not vote honestly. What I mean by this is that many people would vote for prohibition because their feelings are strong that way. Even when they know that the law is being made _ a farce of. ‘They will still support it on the strength _ that they would rather have a bad prohibition law that forbids the selling of liquor than support a good license iaw that proviaed for the selling of liquor.. Consequently we have men voting for prohibition the second time who down in their hearts know that it is not a success, but still they will stick to it because they think it should be a success. The prohibitionists cannot explain away this overwhelming defeat by their usual statement that the liquor interest is supported by the foreign born voters. Only 14 per cent. of the population of Vermont is foreign born. Nor is it a question of city against country. Vermont has a larger rural than urban population. There is only one explanation, and it is all sufficient. The people of Vermont had tried prohibition for fifty years. It had miserably failed, and they did not want any further experimenting in that direction. H. L. New York, March 14. 4 In the case of the Province of Onia;'i(;, it is not only the ignorance of the people in many cases but the ignorance of the members of the Government and even of the members of the Legislature, which is the trouble. In a previous article I stated that the bulwark and strength of prohibiâ€" tion was ignorance. I reiterate that statement, because if all the people were posted, if all the people actually knew the facts as they exist in prohibition States there would be no further States or Provinces voting in favor of proâ€" hibitionâ€" It is ignorance of facts in one State or Province that causes the pass ing of prohibition by the vote of the people in another State or Province. We herewith give in full the article from the New York Sun: Prohibition Gives Way to License in Vermont To the Editor of The Evening Sun:â€" Sir: The vote of nearly two to one, by which the State of Vermont on March 7 defeated a proposed prohibitory law shows that the people of the Green Mountain State are thoroughly convinced that high license and strict regulation of the liquor traffic are better than the unregulated sale of liquor that goes on under prohibition. Vermont tried prohibition fifty years, with the result that the people became disgusted with the failure of the law to prohibit and in 1903 went back to the license system. Although this system was satisâ€" factory to a majority of the people the professional agitators of the Antiâ€"Saâ€" loon League insisted on the question being again submitted to the voters, who rejected the prohibition scheme by a majority of 14,306, the vote being, for prohibition, 16,601; against, 31,967. The majority in favor of license in 1903 was only 729 votes. The increase to 14,306 in spite of the vigorous Stateâ€"wide campaign conducted by the Antiâ€" Saloon League with the aid of numerous dry orators from other States is proof that having tried both methods of dealing with the liquor problem the Vermoniters know that conditions are better under license than soâ€"called proâ€" hibition. . I would regret to see our Government pass prohibition or have the peoâ€" ple of Ontario vote prohibition into force and then afterwards find out, like the people of Vermont, that it was a failure and that they would have to turn round and vote it out again. But take the whole mass of the people, when they vote two to ont prohibition it is pretty safe to say that they found prohibition was ; and returned to license because they believed it was a more succes better plan: Now, I claim that there never was a vote time that was a fair vote, and I will tell you v hibition by the prohibition agitators are so strc ed out by them) are so great that many peopl having even the faintest idea how it will work cause it is a change and because many people to the country. Now, what is the matter wit tinent question. What is the ma gone crazy? Have they all taken mon, everyâ€"day, sensible people? The article also points out that there is a very light foreign vote in Verâ€" mont, only fourteen per cent. in fact The argument is sometimes used that in the New England States there is a large foreign working man‘s vote which generally goes against prohibition, but this argument cannot hold good _ in Vermont as there is only a very light percentage of foreign voters there. _ Fourth. On the 7th. of March, 1916, just two weeks ago, the peo State of Vermont voted again on. prohibition with the result that : teen years of license there were 16,601 for prohibtion and 32,000 vot prohibition, a two to one vote in favor of license. First. It states that prohibition had been in force in Vermont for fifty vears. J I have before me the New York Evening Sun, one of the most influential papers in the United States. I do not believe that even the rabid prohibitionâ€" The Rev. L. Broj ists will say that it is bothering itself very much about prohibition or nonâ€"| @R!MSBY, now of th prohibition either in Vermont, Canada or anywhere else, so an article appearâ€" | Y°"Y live subjects, coj ing in it will be just a statement of plain facts and nothing else. oo e e tz 2 i. When prohibition agitators wish to influence the people of Ontario to for prohibhition they always cite some State in the .United States where havo can%sd rohibition and where l‘t is, t:‘zy CXWW ~"But here > ’é'fé'iré'"é State in the United States that" brohibiâ€" for fifty years and which defeated prohibition by a small majority. Then r thirteen years‘ trial of the license system they again defeated prohibiâ€" with a vote of two to one. f A peculiar thing about prohibition is that the people who advocate it at strong for the majority wherever the majority is for it, but they are just a strong to ignore and belittle these cases where the majority is against it. Here we have in Saskatchewan, Alberta and the people in favor of prohibition, but in the stat« majority of the people against prohibition after s However, taking all in all, I believe in the majority vote | peculiar thing that majorities do not always go the same way I believe in the majority vote: I believe that the majc all municipal, provincial and federal affairs, although the always Tight for the simple reason that people are prone new ideas and clever men can talk, write and influence the something that may not turn out to be for their welfare at Third. For thirteen This article (which I will copy in full) cites the following TERMSâ€"Subscribers in Canada$1l per year in advance. $1.50 per year if not paid in advance, In United States $1.50 per year in advance. The People‘s Paper TW O Advertising rates n application is the matter with the people of Â¥ermont? That is a very perâ€" What is the matter with the people of Vermont? Have they THE INDEPENDENT JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, Owner and Manag J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. years the State of Vermont has been unde: Published every Wednesday MAIN STREET, GRIMSBY, ONT. Telephone 36 oftening of the brain or _was a vote taken on prohibition the firs ill tell you why. The claims made for pro s are so strpng and the benefits (as point believe that the majority should rule in > vote for prohibition withor out, but they vote for it be state that it will be a benef Manitoba the majority of of Vermont we have the trial of fifty yvears. e two to one against ibition was a failure more successful and & ire they just com Established 1885 the Stat« 7920 the people of the rer but it is a aC after thirâ€" ed against license O1 1t mos Therefore I say that now, right now, is the time for greater enlistment than ever, is the time for more material, is the time for rushing every kind of fighting material, both men and munitions, to the front in order that the morale of the men at the front may be kept up, in order that the enemy may be awed by our tremendous resources. If the men at the front once got the idea that they would get no further reinforcements, that enlisting bhad stopped, that munition plants had quit work it would dishearten them. They would feel that they were deserted and their fighting ability would not be nearly as greatâ€" The great thing in a war is the morale or the confidence and good feelâ€" ing of the soldiers and officers, and there is nothing that will keep up the morale of an army like the constant enlisting of new men and the constant preparation of new material. It is the pressure from behind that will win this war. It is not only the fighting men at the front and the vast amount of war munitions at the front, but it is the constant enlisting of more men behind, the constant building of more warships, the constant making of more war munitions and the constant building of more guns, it is the constant pressure from behind that will evenâ€" tually strike down the German defences. I do not think it is right that one set of men should offer themsel active service in August, 1914, that another set should offer themsel service six months later, that another set should offer themselves for a year later and that still another set or group should offer themsel service a year and a half later and yet many eligible and fit men do n themselves at all and probably never will offer themselves voluntarily Right now there are young men in GRIMSBY who should be in the ranks. They may in due time offer themselves but I think the time is due new I do not see why a young man should delay longer. _ _ The object of this is that there may be an immediate application of some just and comprehensive system of finding how the men necessary to complet« the Canadian Expeditionary Forces may be readily secured. This, of course, is a mild form of cons Government will take action in the matter « that there should be a mild form of consc everyone should bear their proper share of What right has a man to give up a splendid business or the prospects of a splendid business, leaving his family and friends, and go to the trenches and fight and die, while his neighbour remains at home to enjoy the benefits that are brought about by the war. The Hamilton Recruiting League, Of v and A. W. Kay, Secretary, has issued 2 1 ment asking for a census of all men in the age and upward, specifying those married cation of men according to their fitness fo fying all the industries. should be released A year ago there were certain young men in GRIMSBY and I wished in my heart that there was conscription, in order that they might be taken, as they were loafing around the streets doing little or nothing and should have, as I thought, been in the ranks. Still later on these men offered themselves and enlisted and some of them now are at the front or close to it. Six months ed that we had street, and they I do not believe in the i that a man had to wait until for evil acts. I believe the r ing the act. 1 ao not believe in the old st» getting ready to die. He should live he can secure. If his acts are good his acts are evil he will #et the nu My answer to that would be good deeds. It may be a heaven : punished for wrong acts he will have to wait for an eternity to 1 rightâ€"along. k P 2 t o y If a man does wrong | he could escape is by sud! part of the punishment. Meé ished for their wrongdoing is committedâ€" My answer to that wou does wrong will get his hel that every man gets is the ble and cannot be sidestepp My answer to that would be "Yes, Db e will be very lonesome." My opinion is that a really good man could | appy anywhere, as his goodness will have brought him to a point where I 10ks on the bright side of things and makes the best of everything. l Poams! 19th w a The Rev. L. Brown, for many yeats Wiastor of the, Baptist Church in GRIMSBY, now of the First Baptist Chu. ,‘;_antford, preaches sermons on very live subjects, consisting mostly oi:,__ ons. T C The Premier of Ontari bring about the rotten con many States in the Union, tence, probably in disgrace and curse the people when result is that it money from the taxed while it i; in States where ment gets the t Men are needed here. Men are needed in all the A In Canada officials : to become whiskey runn officials not only pass by 111C JIIGQiIMIILON ICCTuUITING Leag 1d be called upon for service is ised from their present occupat What more right and a large amou quantity of whisk« license, and less 0 that prohibition h: community wherey phg Hamilton Recruiting The ¢ than they For instance, for March 5th, one fiflmons w good man be happy in a bad world?" . The Government pays no attentiéf;; a great extent the officers of the law Pi the ordinary people pay no attention. T years, in fifteen years the liquor traffic that liquor is consumed in large quantit tion was devised and originally enact% tion than thy did under license and are And the ignorand the ignorance of a gt wark of the liquor tr: 1 aare venture to nor one member amon; sonal, positive knowle« consumed every day in ance is the bulwark of do not believe in who has ists unds nother question th vas "Is there a He The irk 0: n in dare ventu1 ifects rising out they are under ze amount of t f whiskey. gin : ago I had my eye on two or three young men and often wishâ€" conscription in order that these men should be taken off the in turn enlisted and went to the front. 1y person prohibitio ce for a & nol oflicials pass by on the | _side, as many officials hesitate key runners and whiskey informers. In the United States the y pass by on the other :z'__; t get well paid for doing so. The 1 every State in the Union there are many officials taking > men who are distributing liquor, so that the liquor traffic is s conducting its business illegally just the same as it is taxed it conducts its business lly, but in one case the Governâ€" ax and in the other case. officials get the tax. rising out of the liqudf} are worse under prohibition are under license, becaus large amount is drunk secretly rount of the liquor is mo pisonous and there is a greater skey, gin and other in‘ ag liquors consumed than unaer s of the milder drinks su. s beer and wine. The result is _ _has proved to be a cu E the drinking people in every rever it has been enacted 7 THE INDTI a neaven ol cts he will b h as Ont of udden would be "Yes, t rtainly is and every man who hell sooner or 1 and very likely soonerâ€"the hell tC 10 l one man to go than another t# en aca n do n good he w the punishn T th )1 s no attention, cials pay no attention, and to s of the law pa ttention, and to a great extent no attention. P lt is that in five years, in ten e liquor traffic up a distribution system _ so n large quantit d the people for whom prohibiâ€" he WniC 14 stY1l€ _the legis portion of wherever wil M a that f0r fter gez?t)h ard and ] w of 1U1V that there ig. e member in the Government, ie Conservati, ibers who has any actual, perâ€" f the vast am f liquor that is distributed and year under p ion in Maineâ€"therefore ignorâ€" ribition, ifl slature of Ontario toâ€"day. PENDENT, GriMSB)â€" Rev b gue thinks that the first class of men who is the unmarried men, fit men who could be itions without serious loss to anvoneâ€" n of conscription. Whether the Dominion e matter or not is a question, but T believe be punisl ,: this world and the only way ith and POssibly the sudden death may be ot have to wait to go into eternity to be punâ€" punishment commences as soon as the act '1t there ig e meml e, actual k ige of t] e or in any State in legislators, the ignorance of th yesti01 ion has as 6 there ig . memoe fonservau bers who e vast liquor th ‘ under pj on in Ma retribution which a manl sSoOws sn a Yes,. There certainly is, earth, but just as sure rewarded for good acts ive his reward or hear n rich of which Arthur F. Hatch is Chairman a memorial to the Dominion Gevernâ€" . the Dominion from eighteen years of ried and unmarried, also for a specifiâ€" s for certain kinds of work, also speciâ€" tove ent are now making a thin Ontario that alread: his Government has passed o1 th. ey have done will live lato: e politically forgotten the people t prohibition h rown founded a sermon on for March U iscription, in Cal of the burden of erly obtained amongst some people, o be rewarded for good or punished nishment come immediately followâ€" f men should offer themselves for r set should offer themselves for hould offer themselves for service group should offer themselves for y eligible and fit men do not offer Brown me more liquor under prohibiâ€" orse condition n of a man spending all his life to the fullest enjoyment of what ‘cure the enjoyment of heaven. If of hell!| hich is unavoidable, irrevod so also shall he reap.‘‘" themselv« has passe W tion Oof proniDit1« in the House. ill found ONTARIO 0 as inada ave on the W e rotten which n making an effort to at already exists in passed out of exisâ€" will live after them countries to keep d ar is reward for all s a man will be ind he will not n. He will get it O1 E[ the officials, and is the strong butâ€" in any community. in order that question ness which e pruhibition h the bu rnment ‘Can LOI a Advertise in the Indeâ€" pendent if you wish results up the work at home, but let the other fellow keep up the work at home. 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