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; # k * y P N 0 action did not prejudice the temperance | . \ movement, because the number of licanses & it s did not exceed that proportion in sny muni-- MA 9 glplllty, and the number of licenses had not J increased since its abolition, The Govern-- | ;f ment hed improved the law, if tempsrance * men were honest in their desires, for il it d cculd be provcd that there was a light in the Q' bar--room on Saturday pight or Sundsy, the Lo | propristor was bonnl to prove his innosencse ,fi.' _. if selling Equor,. 6. ' \ _ _Mr, CLARKE----Has thore bsen any con-- € | ___ viction under that provision ? h Mr. FRASER said there had beontwo 84 corviotions, _ All the legislation of the Go--« * verpment had been in the direction of mak-- ¢ ing the law more stringent, Previously the municipalities hbad the power to & | grant licenses all the year round, but the time was now restricted to ; 1 a couple of months. The Goversment ought 1 | surely not to be blamed by temporance men y | for making the law more stringent, and if | P there was one thing more than another that | contributed to the defeat of the hon. Treasu-- ' ; i k rer in E1st Toronto it was the fact of the | Government having legislated againss the \ lquor interest, which went in a body against \ f ... the Government in that election, kM)r. BELL--It was cold water, -- (Leugh. r. | at Mr. FRASER said it was cold water on | | the Government side, but something else | than cold water on the other side, (Ro-- | t newed laughter.) That led him to anotha: | feature of the question, He did not think e | tbere was that honesty on the part of tom-- k i } | perance men in doing right at the right time n U | that ought to prevail, 1f the tempsrance NC men were so thorougbly convinced of the jus-- ' tice of their cause, why was it that thie Dunkin A Act, which was adopted in Dundas, was A _ | practiosly a dead--lettor ? Was it not be-- : p C | cause temperance men wos'd not enforc : the \ | law ? And what botios would we be if total probfoition was the iaw of the Proviace ? If | the people were afraid to entorcs the Dunkin 4 Act now, would they not be equally atraid ul \ if probthition were enacted ? If the (Qavern-- | ment appointed a pabile prosecutor would 3 an improvement to effected ? Mr, CLARKE--Yes. \ 4 Mr. ERASER said the facts showed that the people wore not yet sulficlentiy edmoated | on the temperance question as to want + | Isgislation in the #"upe of total proibition, | s | \\ o already poszessed a prohibitor y law as | t | to the sale of intoxioating liquors bet ween & t | certain hour on Saturdsy night and Monday } | mo.xring, and would any hor. member tell | him of a municipality in the Province whore ;. it was strictly enforcsed ? |® | y Mr. MACDOUGALL --Largoly in To-- } I f ronto,. | x | Mr. FRASER--As muach Hanor is sold in $ | Toronto on Sunds? as is zold in smy other f balf dozon of the rural munictpalities of the c Province, j Mr. MACDOUG ALL--No,. f | Mr. FRASER #~'4 that no doubt the law i | | was largely enforce and provalled in regard &4 | ' to respectable tave: as. No donbt the police f | | carried out the law as far as nossible. In | / al | | Toronto the power was given to the Polica is 1 | Commissioneis to issue a limitsd nnmber of ' B | Hcevses, _ The County Indge, Police Magis t | trate, and the Mayor c mposod the Board, \ ' ¢ 1nd were surely a reapc table body,. More: or.r, the Poilcs M«gistrate was gone: re'ly understood teo be | a tem'fa rence man, the County Court Jadgs ' was also in t@vour of limiting the number of s f | llmen:cs, and they coontituted a majority of | ' the Board, _ They were not amer »ble to tus 4 influence of the tavern keapoars, excepi pare | 4 haps the Mazor, and he fshould be aboye 1t, | 4 The reagon why the Commissioners did not ¢ more fully enforce the law was because the | roice of the p:\ople was rot behind them; a ' § | large minority were propared | to aupport t them in reducing the number of Hoen#es, but A | the majority weangaioat any suchsstlon Not \| | only was Mquor sold in Toronto on Sm)(h{s. | f | but there was rcarcely a munic{pality out«ido | of 1t where liqnor was not sold during pro ' D. 0; | hibited hours with the knowledge of tem: | M ®f \ peranca men, who refused to proseounte, Ki Mr. LAUDER--The law is woll carried , 6 \ out. ' § Mr. FP.ASER said that it such were the 4, y | f;:QI ;ewer dronken men would be »sen on Sat-- Committea mi« | *, r ting the stabl f vrdsy end Sonday night3. | Doring a vislt $0 | j q | Maine, where & total prohibitory law was In * | force, he found lquor zold every whore, and Mr. TVL!LY f the traffic was opouly carried on at the bar of lhlic.fl.y en'oro i all the botels he visited in Port! md. Bslfore | qu'sitions. ' [ -- ' the tampsrance men arked the Honse to enxct "I he Commit / d 1 & probibitory law, they must show that the | seesion an hou & Y3