Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph

Whisky And The Canucks. A prohibitory liquor-law is favored by the Committee in the Canadian Parliament, which has been studying the connection between intemperance and crime. They assert, upon official information, that four fifths of the crimes committed in that country result from this vice; for instance, 21,236 commitments of 28,289 made in Quebec and Ontario were to be traced directly to intoxication. The Committee fortify their statements by the opinions of 158 doctors, who agree that disease and premature death are the results of indulgence in ardent spirits. The fiscal objection to prohibiting the liquor traffic, that to do so would deprive the State of an annual revenue, which last year was $5,034,543.48, they would meet by the argument that an equal sum would be saved, under prohibition, in the costs of hospitals, jails, courts and other appliances with which society now struggles against intemperance.