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'"The climate of &nada, while sult-- able in cortain sections for the produc-- Lion of grapes for ordinary household tises, does not furnish a product with the high sugar content in the fruit that warmér climates afford. For this reason permissim to add sugar or *oncy has been granted. Alcohol is ie proguct of the yeast plart acting pon sugar. The addition of sugar raises the alcoholic content of the winc, Eut the yeast germ dies in alcohol when 'ne solution reacih>s about 14 per cent. Wines above that alcoholic content are twoduced by what is called fortifying. 'This is done by the addition of brandies or other strong liquors. They run as high as 27 per cent. When we remem-- ver that beers of from 4 to 9 per cent. aleoholic content frequently produce in-- foxication, we can see what conse-- suence will follow fortified wines as advocated ty Mr. Mahoney. What Drinkers Want. "Mr. Mahoney's plea tends to cut ! under the claim that the sale of wines offsets induigence in stronuger liquors.. Portified wines lead to the use of stronger liquors. France, the greatest wine user in the world, is also the grea_t_est__consumer of alcohol in the world. The plea is doubtless the recoo-- nition of the fact that what drinks vant in the indulgence in liquor is t kick of intoxication, and that th want it quick and strong, and th fortified wines will gratify this desi and will tend more rapidly to increa the craving for alcohol and thus pr mote trade." "Forgctting the fact that his party is ®ipposed to be opcrailing a tomnsrance law, that sobricty is essential to effi-- «lency and social decency, and that the youth of the country need to b> guarded from the seductive delusion that wine is harmless," says Roev. Mr. Irwin, "Mr. Mahoney in making his Plea for fortified winss is really malling & plea for intoxication." Letiter Quoted. Rev. Dr. Irwin says in his letter: "In seeking to promote, before the Agriculture Commiitse of the Legisla-- ture, the intorests of the grape growers, 'YThomas J. Mahoney, who, it is sug-- Eested, is the coming Minister of Highways, made a plea for a changs in the law regarding wins manu{zcture. 'he law now permits the fortifying of wines by the addition of sugar. He «desires that the law shall permit wine to bg fortified with strong liquors. The plea for fortiilied wincs is really & plea for intoxication, declared Rev. Ar. A. J. Irwin, Secretary of the On-- tario Prohibition Union, in a letter to *Xhe Globe, combatting the suggostion eof Thomas J. Mahoney, M.P.P., "for a change in the law rezarding winc manu-- Taclure." PARTY REV. DR. IRWIN SEES INTOXICATION PLEA IN MAKONEY'$S PLAN Secretary of Ontario Prohibi-- tion Union Decries "Forti-- > fied Wines" Idea VIEW FCORGSOTTEN TORONTO, HAMILTON | M.P.P.'S OPPOSED Attorney -- General Sees _ Business Benefit to Mu-- _ nicipalities if Local Im-- post Abolished -- Bi l1 Given Second Reading in Legislature Ending Income Tax Is Viewed Favorably By Henry and Price The bill was introduced by Arthur Ellis (Conservative, Ottawa South). In support of the measure, Mr. Ellis de-- clared that 50 per cent. of the mu-- nlcipa{it.ies ignored the income--tax law at present. Municipal tax, he said, was to provide municipal services, such as police and fire protection, waterworks, streets, etc. The propsr method of raising funds for these services was a property tax, he continued, which, though paid directly by the owner, was paid indirectly by every one living in the community. Under the present law people were taxed on income who did not even live within the municipality levying the tax. Check on Extravagance. Wilfrid Heighington (Conservative, Toronto--St. David) asked if municipali-- ties ignoring the income tax could not be made to comply by a court man-- The proposal to abolish the tax was vigorously opposed by representatives from Toronto and Hamilton. But what was considered the most significant de-- velopment in the discussion was the at-- titude revealed by the Government benches. Attorney--General Price said: "It is my personal opinion that if municipal income taxes were wiped out it would prove beneficial to municipalities dur-- ing the next ten years by attracting more business." Would Benefit Labor. Premier Henry noted the argument that there was at present a discrimina-- tion on the part of industries against Ontario and in favor of Quebec, b>-- cause in the latter Province there was no municipal income tax. "If this argument is sound," he sauid, "then re-- moval of the income tax by Ontario municipalities would benefit the work-- ingman. It would induce more indus-- tries to settle here and afford more employment to artisans and laborers." With Premier Henry and Attorney-- Gencral Price expressing at least sym-- pathy with the principle, the bill 'to abolish municipal income tax in On-- tario passed its second reading at the Legislature yesterday. Premier Henry expressed the hope that when the bill went to committee it would be "viewed in a large way, and not from a local aspect." a 1 l Mr. Ellis's bill to abolish municipal income tax will be considered, along , with Mr. Honeywell's bill to make mu-- | nicipal income tax optional, by lhie damus. Mr. Ellis agreed that this could lbe done. If removal of income tax \ threw the burden too heavily upon \small property owners, Mr. Ellis con-- |\ tinued, such municipalities could avail themselves of law already existing to exempt small property owners from taxation. On the other hand, said Mr. | Ellis, if municipalities thought they would be forced to curb expenditures if incomes wers aot taxed for revenue, that would be a real blessing in dis-- guise. Municipalities, he said, had been running wild on expenditures in recent years, and any move that check-- ed the tendency would be good. W. E. N. Sinclair, Liberal House Leader, expressed the view that the time had come when something should be done to adjust municipal income tax assessments,. An income in To-- ' ronto was assessed on the general mill 'rate of about 33 mills, while in Oshawa it was assessed around 46 mills, owing to the varying relations between the realty assessment and tax rates in the two communitiee. The municipal in-- 'come tax was a cause of irritation, he averred. it would penalize workers for the ben--fit 'of citizens with high incomes. He said it might suit Ottawa, which was com-- 'posed mainly of what had been called "Civil Service parasites." (Mr. Morri-- Mr. Ellis was followed by Attorney-- General Price, who said that in some Western Provinces the income tax was collected by the Provinces rather than the municipalities. Worthy of some consideration, he said, was the proposal that there should be only one income tax in Canada, and that the Fedsral son later apologized for using this term when taken to task by A. E. Honeywell, Conservative, Ottawa North.) Cause of Irritation. Mr. Nesbitt expressed the view that if industries settled in Quebec rather than in Ontario it was for lower wages rather than to escape municipal i-- come taxes. W. Morrison (Conserva-- tive, Hamilton East) opposed the abolition of income tax also, declaring A. Russell Nesbitt (Conservative, To-- ronto--Bracondale) declared that Toron-- to was absolutely opposed to the aboli-- tion of income tax. It would mean a loss of $2,000,000 a year revenue, he said, with an additional two mills or the tax rate for realty. "The man who earns bis salary in Toronto," he said, "even if he lives outside the city, should pay income tax to the municipality." incoms tax, & portion of which might be distributed through the Provinces to ths municipalities. Colonel Price re-- ferred to the fact that there was no municipal income tax in Quebec, and expressed it as his personal opinion that the abolition of the tax in Ontario would bring more business enterpriscs to municipalities in this Province. $2,000,000 Loss to Toronto.