CANADA: Liquor Law

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With the wet views of Alfred Emanuel Smith, Premier L. A. Taschereau, of Quebec, is in accord. Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor legislation would be copied by the other provinces. ... I did not altogether expect that the day might come when even the U. S. ... should through one of its great public men pay us the compliment of a reference to the excellency of our law." The Act provided for the establishment of government-controlled liquor dispensaries.