New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1929, Page 12

- GANADIAN TERNS “RUM LAWS UNIQUE Oficial Says They Newer Meot With Necsssary Respect EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the. first of two articles giving exeerpts made before the Cana- cently made before the Cana- dian House of Parliament by ‘W. D. Euler, Canada’s minister of national revenue. Discussing Canada’'s relation to the Ameri- can problem of prohibition en- forcement, Mr. Euler had a g0od deal to say that will be read with interest by American and Canadian readers, especial- ly in view of the attempts now being made by U. 8. authorities to prevent the flow of liquor into the United States over the i Canadian border. | BY W. D. ECLER ! Canadian Minister of National Revenue (A Series of excerpts from a dis- | cussion recently made by him in the | Canadian House of Parliament.) In my experience, laws with re- | gard to liquor have never been re- | garded with the same respect as | laws with regard to any other mat- | ter whatever. People who are other- | wise quite respectable—and perhaps 1 should not use the word “other- wise"—people who are quite re- spectable, in this country and in the past and no doubt today in the United States, seem to have so lit- tle respect for prohibition laws that they will violate them apparently with no offense at all to their con- sciences, Liquor laws, dry or wet, always have had a strong minority, or pos- sibly cven a majority, opposed to them. I believe it is literally impos- sible far a wet country to be adja- cent to a so-called or ostensibly dry country without a flow of liquor proceeding from the wet to the dry. During the war Canada had a prohibitory law. The United States continued wet. They were not yet in the war. to Canada. . . . . . Today, with Canada wet and the United States ostensibly dry, the flow is from us to them. ‘What Canada Offered In 1924 a treaty was concluded | with the United States for the sup- pression of smuggling. The chief obligation into which Canada en- tered was that we should report to the United States authorities when- ever a clearance was granted by Canadian customs officials to liquor- Iaden boats bound for the United States. The United States government has stated officially on several oc- casions that the Canadian govern- ment, through the department of national revenue, has faithfully car- ried out the obligations embodied in that treaty. But the United States has not been satistied with the pro- visions of the treaty. The Ugijteq Btates requegted thst there shonld be-inserted-én it a pre- vision that no clearances be granted | ances. Liquor flowed freely | at that time from the United States | to vessels of the kind mentioned, namely, veasels carrying liquor to the United States shores. It was not 30 included in the treaty. We mere- ly agreed to give notice of clear- ances that had been granted. After some consideration by the government, a communication was sent to the United States suggesting a proposal that it was thought would be of assistance to the United States, namely, to permit them to station their agents on Canadian docks from which liquor was being exported, so that they could ob- serve and report to their own gov- ernment and thereby stop the ex- port to the United States. The United States authorities, in further correspondence, reverted to their former request and stated that the lonly thing that would serve theic purpose would be for this govern- ment to stop the issue of clear- day. Deteoit Is Booze Conter Most of the liquor that goes from {Canada to the United States is ship- ped from what we may call the Windsor-Detroit front and the Lake Erie front. Some goes over the bor- der from Lake Ontario and some from western Canada and from Que- bec, but not so very much. The boats which are smuggling liquor are mnot violating our law becaus2 it is not smuggling while they are in Canada. But when they deliver liquor in the United States they are violating American law, and the hoats that are carrying this liquor to the United States are al- most 100 per cent United States boats—they are not Canadian boals at all e carrying the goods across are Americans pratically 100 per cent | not Canadians. | Here is a peculiarity in the re- spective iaws of the two coumries In Canada every boat, no matter | ow small it ‘s—and most of these ods are carried in small boats— | must obtain clearance from a Cana- | dian customs officer. 1In the United | States—and these boats are owned |in the United States, I should like | the house to remember—borats ua- | der five tons need not obtain clear- ance, and need not report when they come fack. In Canada they must obtain clearance and must report | when they come back. While the United States are asking that w discontinue clearance to thase boats | —their own boats, manned by their | own people—they do not demand | clearances themselves from these very boats. Could Copy Canadian Law 1 would respectfully suggest that they would have considerably | more control over their own boats. |manned by their own people, it | they would enact a law that these | beats, no matter how small, should be obliged to obtain clearances when they leave their shore and re- port when they come back, the same as we require in Canada. That would give them some control. 1 have gaid something which may appear a criticism of the United States. I have no desire to be of- fensive, but I think there are some tacts I should place before the house in view of the statements made that we are not dealing in a friendly way with our neighbor to the south. It has been stated that these loats go across at night, That is not entirely true. I took the trouble last fall to go e-Allen & Co. 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I could see the United States customs offics on the other shore, and T could also see that it was not difficult to detect any boats that left the Canadian shore to go to the American side, While in Windsor T got into con- versation with a man engaged in the business of exporting liquor. I ask- ed hin, “Do you cross in the day time?" He aswered, *Yes, quite often.” I said, “How is it they do not get vou?” He replied, with a smile, “It just happens that they are not there when we go across.” Our inspector went to Windsor not so very long ago. He did not select any special day. While there, on Jan. 14, he observed the six vessels cross the river to Detroit in daylight with cargoes of liquors. 351 MAIN STREET (TOMORROW: Mr. Euler reads a report giving complete details of the way in which rum runners oper- ate to get their cargoes over to the United States.) YOUTHS PURGHASE GRLS’ AFFECTION Rhine Village Has Annual Auc- tion for Bashful Swains Washington, D. C., June 21—8t. Goar, an old village on the Rhine river in southwestern Germany, is a haven for hashful young men. Every spring the maidens of that place are “auctioned off”” and bash- ful swains may secure at least an option on sweethearts for them- selves. The girls must keep com- pany with the men for the follow- ing year and must not dance or as- soclate with men other than their “purchasers.” y . St. Goar differs from Pont L'Abhe in Brittany, France, in that it is merely a sweetheart and not a mar- riage mart. In Pont L'Abbe the maidens who wish husbands pose against the churchyard fence while prospective suitors come to pur- chase, amod for Miracle Worker “The ‘sweetheart mart’ is an an- cient custom surviving in an ancient village,” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographis Socnety. “St. Goar is a handsome town of less than 2,000 inhabiants. It was founded in the seventh century by the famous hermit, St. Goar. 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