Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then last week Chairman D. H. Hanna of the Ontario Liquor Com-mission made ominous pronouncement. Said he: "American visitors will be disappointed if they expect any big blowouts in Ontario. Liquor cannot be bought without a permit and one-day tourists will not be able to get either permits or liquor." He warned U. S. railroads, reported as hav-ing advertised special trains to Ontario that "excursionists" would not be given permits, would return dry, disappointed...
Saddened, U. S. citizens again scanned the provisions of the Ontario liquor law. They found that although "regular" permits to purchase liquor required 30 days' Ontario residence, there were also "tourist" permits which specified no residence requirement. It appeared that Mr. Hanna was making a distinction, hitherto unthought of, between "tourists" and "excursion-ists." Just how long an excursion into Canada would have to last to constitute a tour, just when an excursionist, barred from purchasing liquor became a tourist, to whom alcoholic beverages would be freely dispensed, remained for the future to decide...
Meanwhile the following Ontario liquor prices were tantalizingly announced : Scotch whiskey (Black & White), $3.55 per quart...
...even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
Ferguson. Ontario went dry in 1916 as a War measure; the man who made it wet again is Prime Minister G. Howard Ferguson. He said that under Prohibition, doctors wrote 1,500,000 liquor prescriptions a year; that 50 persons in Ontario died from poisonous liquor; that the Province was "saturated" with illegally sold liquor. Said Governor Ferguson: "Unless this thing was settled I would not care to be Prime Minister for another hour." In December, 1926, elections, the people elected a legislature pledged 2 to 1 in favor of the Ferguson plan of government liquor control...