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11e We o 9."?3&3'6 4, \Te\o. 2*7t . Warning About Exports. > Col. Price mentioned -- the board's warnings to the brewers that they must sell to the Province of Ontario, and to it alone, said that the Government, while having no control over "exports," \yas watching it carefully to see that sales were not being made in contraven-- | tion of the act, and noted that through co--operation of the Provincial Police and inspectors at the breweries the "short--circuiting" practice had been ° greatly cut down since the present act came into effect. Conditions in the Border Cities had greatly improved, he safd. The Crown Attorney of Windsor had told him that the situation there is now on a differ-- ent plane than ever before. Where once under the O.T.A. 1,000 bootleggers oper-- ated, fewer than 100 were now doing, | business. Such improvement in a bor-- | der community spoke well for better-- | ment all over the Province. On the subject of "pressure," Col. Price stated: "In the O.T.A. days, under all the Attorneys--General, no matter what was their political persuasion, there was a constant pressure on the: part of the public. Heads of learning of large institutions, administrators of | the law, good citizens, were constantly | importuning the Attorney--General not | to send certain people to jail, not to ' impose heavy fines. The desk of the Attorney--General was cluttered with applications for clemency and with piteous appeals. '"Today I must testify to 'he great: support which I have received, not only from members supporting the Govern-- ment in the House, but from all mem-- bers in the House. There has been a falling off of applications for clemency supported by outstanding citizens and those who felt that there was an in-- justice. Now,. where a man faces a jail term for selling he has not many friends. Every one realizes that he has himself to blame. Unless there is some technical violation of the act few people come forward to importune the At-- torney--General to keep him out of jail. > Children Who Suffer. "There always will be, however, the applications of the mother and the , children who appeal for the release of | the husband or the father on account | of conditions in the home. These mat-- | ters must always be looked at from the | standpoint of clemency; not harshly, | but with the idea of trying to equalize | iustice. In considering these appli-- | cations one must remember that where l a porsistent divekeeper finds himself | facing a jail sentence his wife and | family must suffer. If we are to pro-- | tect the great many wives and chil-- dren of those men who patrorize is dive, we must not be allowed to use this spirit of clemency as a means of | .. releasing men from a jail sentence on a | _ plea of a wife and family, while the | wives and families of a great many men | are afflicted by his operations." ! There was submitted yesterday a list , of the number of prisoners in county | or district jails in Ontario for o.' breach of the L.C.A., as of the evening of Jan. 31, 1928, as follows: Brant, 4; Bruce, 2; Carleton, 10; Dufferin, 0; Elgin, 7; Essex, 30; Frontenac, 11; Grey, 7; Haldimand, 2; Halton, 0; Hast-- ings, 12; Huron, 2; Kent, 10; Lambton, | 11; Lanark, 3; Leeds and Grenville, 5; Lennox and Addington, 1; Lincoln, 14; Middlesex, 11; Norfolk, 2; Northumber-- land and Durham, 1; Ontario, 3; Ox-- ; ford, 2; Peel, 2; Perth, 6; Peterboro', | 5: Prescott and Russell, 3; Prince Ed-- | ward. 0; Rainy River, 4; Renfrew, 2; | Simcoe, 7; Stormont, Dundas and | Glengarry, 6: Thunder Bay, 9; Victoria, | 1: Waterloo, 7; Welland, 8; Welling-- | ton, 9; Wentworth, 13; Toronto, 67. » |