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with the moral appeal. They are finished with persuasion. ‘ilhey want however. authority. They want tn say Thou. Bhsit, and Thou shalt NM, EH1] W112i]! the)’ BB)’ l1. 1Q b9 obey-ed under tho fear of the crim-

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en Leacock,‘ of McGill Uni- llv, Montreal, addressed ~a goth “g under the auspices of the izens’ Liberty League here on urday night, in opposition to pro- “$25M author and snrtirist, do ding his attitugleoitll? Pmlllbll question. charged that "s fanatic mjngrlly has captured ‘the ear of , public and the power of the glumulrg in _ths Province oi On- 10, and have contrived to throw ound them a false mantle oi re- ion nod morsilityﬁﬂide declared at the expression of opinion in e question wss not free and unres ulned. "People will not-speak out nkivy what they think," he said. his mun tremble,‘ for his busin- 5, that man for his profession. ii, or hourly all keep silent. The nhtbiiionist has contrived to mas- "grade before tile country as if o were of necessity a good man. d his opponent of necessity u (l one." Professor Leacock said, “Among 9 luost treasured possessions of o British people lg the heritage (rec speech. i ask lt now. I may r|| do so, for there is but iilittio oi , left in regard to‘ this matter of inhibition in tlrprovince of Ontar- . A fanatical minority has captur» d the ear of the puibiic and the wsr oi‘ the legislature. They love contrived m throw around lu-m 2t ialso mantle of religion and orulliy. Ami for tho time being iu- only response is silence. ‘Things have. come to a point "here the expression oi‘ opinion is u longer tree and unrestrained. Pen lc will n ll gpeak outirsnkly what

his business, that man ior his prn- fession. All, or nearly, all keep sil- ent. The prohibltlonlst has contriv- 0d to masquerade before the coun ry us it’ he were of necessity a good mun, it moral man, and his oppon- nt oi‘ necessity a ‘bad one.

i "'i‘ho truth is that a very large pllrt of the most honest and hon- mble opinion‘ of the country is

lsl-ge part oi’ the worst opinion, and the lliﬂililfelil element-s in the com- munity are strongly in favor of it. l OPPOSED ON PRlNCIPl-E.

"i happen to be one» of those who are honestly and sincerity opposed i0 prohibition as a matter of prin- t-rplotnsmrtnirhisvsment is the trot-st national! development, the roost nit-British agitation that has i-ome to use in half a century. it. is my candid belief, that the adopt- option of prohibition in the United States as the worst disaster that inn. fallen/upon the American re- public e-ince its organization. If it could last, it would undermine ‘he foundations. of government itself. ll it could last, it w/Jd in time bring down the strongest political lain-lo into anarchy and dissolution.

"But prohibition cannot inst. neither here nor there nor - nny- where because it is based np°n l‘- llc. And a lie cannot endure. Pro- hibition declares it to be acrime to drink beer. And lt lI I10"- B Millw- The common-sense of every honest man tells him that ‘it is not a crimr, to drink a glass of beer. All the legislatures thalt ever sat cannot. ‘make it so. You can ‘make your

statutes as cruel and as sharr; as you lilrc. You mary multiply your spies and informers. you. may throw ivids tho doors of your penitentiar-

les. and you still cannot make it a mrlnre, and the sharper and tho bar l rlvr your law the more Pllllll" Bell"

nud pub-lot feeling will revolt aiiﬂlllj

n it.’ - “

FREEDOM AGNNBT BONDAGE--

Let those who have‘ orzﬂﬂlletl dim ierisistive tyranny for Dfvlilb- , ition look lwell -to what i,‘ lwlllld l0

follow. ’i‘l'.ey are putting their. "val l in coercion, ln the jBll. ll! u“? Willi) ~ and the scourge. They are @0116

a .

The cutttns “m” “Wl-"fl inal lavw. And the time must come ‘ , April i, is Wei‘! worth? 0i Y0" when they and their law must go ucllon in the Guardian. PIO- down together. l tell you. that if rhcucock ofiiViloGillflﬂﬁ I115" °l there is s. moral issue involved in , this present contest it is the issue , every lntelllﬂﬁm ma‘ oi the spirit of human freedom 4;, l trust you wii-l give space etruggtllns sgainsq bondage. The and draw the attention 0! 9Y9‘ age long spirit of liberty that the chain can never bind. that the gag can net/er silence, and that, even the fires oi Smithiield could"but QUBQCRJIBEII AND lllilfn-inate to n ibrlghter radiance.

v , MN iiiberty—sila.ii i qa-y oi British liber- xoEa 0F GUARD ‘tan; ligand-so ‘is gwhat is at 4___ Profggggp s a e. e .pl"0_ ton st tries here

ORONTO’ Apru’ to mislead you. Ho wants to fornl You into thinking that it is an ad- ministrative question, or a politic- al question of the right oi the maj- orit-y to rule. lt ‘is none oi then-o things. The prohibitionist, l] say, would try to deceive yon into think ing that the question at issue is a medical question, that it turns upon the goodness or hadnes, of beer from a purely digestive _stnndpoint. it is not so. Beer ma-y be good or may be bad. My own candid opin- iou reached after fifty-one years oi‘ reflection, is that there ts nothing like it. But oven if ‘I knew it were as bad n; ls the excessive use of tea or coffee .l still would strongZ-y opp- ose a criminal law to ilrohi-‘bit its consumption.

is just an ordinary beverage. You can not mako it criminal if you try. The attempt lls silly.’ sense revolts at it. Some people find that it agrees with them and oth- ers do not. lt belong‘ in the same class with cucumbers. And the att- empt lo mak-e: consumption oi beer criminal is as silly and a, futile as if you. passed a law to send a man to jail For ranting cucumber salad.

l8 IT CRlMWAl-T

inst lms-‘utsp l think it needs to be stressed. i doubt whether the peo- ple of this province realize thut tho Ontario 'i‘elnperanco Act and such like propose is virtually to send all people to jail who dare to drink bec-r, and to send them again and again for each new offense to break them hey think. This man trembles for '

most brutal invasion of the provin- ce of llibsrby attempted within a century. it cannot succeed. lt must full. as all tyranny has failed. But it is sad to think of the deploraiblo

the way which it breeds in every l pposelil to prohibition; and a very Clan Ol‘ 5091M)’ tlﬂfli and

Zr

“I lay stress on this aspect of

“But the plain truth ls that beer

lCommon

ssusvss PAIN '

Chamberlain’; Llnlmgm b! kept constantly m your heme“ Milli"; lhouiders, necks or back; Yield quickly to massage treat. "lint with this penetrating, heal- _ lisp Ilemscly.

loci attacks should keep a Mm" IlWiYI within reacn.

his ilfc is; his o-wn, what gefvige and Obedience he owes to those in unt- hority ue renders as he should, Bu; when authority passes into tyranny‘ and luw into upression then hts oh edience ends. He stands, if hood be. alone and single-handed against 1719 lBW. but behind him as his in. sPlra-tlllll he halls thousand years oi’ the tradition oi‘ individual libe- rty. There,‘ a spirit in him kings have never conquered, that parliaments have never compelled, that scourge has never beaten out, agd tha, the fire has n-cver consum s .

NOT FOIR ENGLAND!

"You (an never shuckidlupon Eng laud tho chain oi‘ prohibition be cause it is n chitin that will not. fit, a shackle that will‘; be snapped as-

should

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Before the

tilt/ism and

At un easy computation there are zit least two million of us in Canada who want, if left alone. to drink bser and wine. itionis-t proposes to treat us as two million criminals. it can't be done. All that lie can effect is to break down th; basis of law itself.

"And that ls ‘hat is happening in /gl0l‘lf|. the support of the individurll. con science, is ‘breaking down. wave of crime is g-v the continent. not far to seek. most fruitful mother oi crime that over spawned its progeny upon the

vorlrl,

PROHWITION AND CRIM '

“Note wel,l what has happened. prolrlibltlonistp , their way and before hysteria, fan- mistalreni desire for rlghtconsness placed them in pow- tilcrs was no more frequent nrgunlcnt, no greater

lmilcr tho moment that you try tol rivet it. | "The more the pity that ws are so soon unmlndflzi of our herltagml We rre wandering into Willis. despairing of being good by virtue oi tire individual spirit. wel are to be made good ‘b; statute.‘ Evrry h ‘r-terhtai vote oi the majdr- l I lty is to be clamped upon us as a . cod-a of conduct. Our iif-e, our food, our clothes. our amusements are to the made the subject oi stringent and coercive legislation. And for those who will not obey there waits the lull.

untried

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ca‘. e "~V r; r liioirlezz! ‘S T. C H AR LE3

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this continent.

horriﬁed .

had

ﬁlainstay,

I The prohib-

Lnw, divorced from

A vastl

‘i w over

And the reason is Pfi-lllllllllo" l5 l-lm prohibition would lessen crime. See what has happened! it needs

no statistics to prove .the'arwiul and appalling wave oi crime upon The world stands In the streets of New ﬁwyl York and Chicago human lie l! no longer safe. Organized robbery is everyavhere and murder has its dnliv price and hire. “The reason is clear. ing genr-ralion oi‘ today sec about. theln n. form of criminal lnw called prohibition.

The ris- all

Thery see it

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' ‘broken by manyof tho moot respect ed people of the community. They

know that i, can only ‘be maintain- ed at all by the most brutal, most

‘atriirzent and most repulstve or , nnethods.

They see employed in its service the viles, of human emit-urea. the paid informer—the man that lacks oven the» honor that prevail-s among thieves-the man who carries down through l-xes the part of Judas rlscarlot. This they see and upon this they slct. Th: lslw has become some thing to be despised, to be broken or evaded at will. the source or‘ adventure or of profit, but no longer has-ed upon the plain teach- ing oi right. and wrong.

"Can you blame any youth in this provlnceif he grows up with a confused sense as to obedience to the law. i-le knows that the mos, conspicuous and the most dis- cussed law of your statute book is a sham and a lie. He knows that it is broken everywhere. He iropws that the methods used in.lts eniorcemen. are often des- picable, And he knows that there are enlisted in "its service some oi the most contempttlble characters than wsilr the earth-the spies and informers the» are the ears and the tongue oi prohibition.

b‘ ‘.

"lAs between the psld informer, coaxing his victim to betrayal and the criminal. out and out, fighting

mgains. the law. which do won pre ' fer; which is. ior such good as still

lingers in him. the better man? I say it stfﬂlzhl. the criminal.

“Tilait is the spectacle you are of their cause than the plea that everywhere broken. 'I‘hr.-y see it. giving to your young men. What Blrllcllﬂﬂ. lit may be in swear, or F”

think you, will lie the result? YOU have broken with British liberty you have done with the morality oi Jesus Christ the, relied ever upon the moving spirit, you have seized the sword to smite oiT the ear oi your opponents——forco, force and power and the tyrant’; brutal delight in coercion, that is what l the prohlbitlonist has chosen.

fAnd the end will be his des-

PAGETHIRTEEN i”

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in ten, 0r _ln a generation. Bu! of the end th-ere is no doubt.

“Of tho-present vote about to be? taken the result may lbs this or, that. i do not know. I do not greatly care. The sharper the tyranny the quicker the cure. But this I do know; that a govern-meat and s code oi law based upon a lie shall sooner or later be dashed to pieces against the impregnahle power of truth."

“-I lay.stress upon this word crim

irto compliance as people were Qnce. ‘broken upon the wheel. “The tiling is monstrousjlt is the

hayoc lt is destined to make in its course; o!‘ the way in which it underulizies the respect for the lanv,

bitter sense of injustice, oi’ the way in which it breaks from the splendid traditions of British freedom upon which, till this thing (EEIHG. W41, lied built un the commonwealth oi Can

ads .

‘isilsll l reinforce here my own opinion and my own plea with the words oi one whose exalted stat.- lon should give him the right to u. hearing even in the ears-of the most bigoted-the Lord Chancellor of England. Lord Blrkenhead. _Speskin.g only a few daya s50. be i5 reported as saying:

“I should rnost profoundly regret it if any such change (as prohibit- ion) did twke place, becau-s-e .1 am individualistic enough in my out- look, both upon private and public affairs, to resent proioundl-y attackq against the principles upon which is based the right of one individual to regulate his orwn private life."

suoonseo THE OHANCELLOR.

{What the Lord chancellor has said is the opinion, too. oi thousan- ds-ot‘ millions-of the best) and sanest lliuii in England. Lot us llopc that the day will never come, when England will be placed under the same fanatical legislation whJcll has cast a. shadow over this continent. l do not think that it ever will. I know that it never will. And the reason for it ls that in poinit of public liberty and the value to he set upon it. ‘the Eilgllgh are made of better stuf-i than. we are There is a spirit there that you cannot. break by the simple vote of

a msjorit-y. The individual man, when he stands upon hi3‘ plain right, will not

down. His house is his castle and i

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