THE POLICE REPORT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, 17 August 1911, Page 5

THE POLICE REPORT.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —The police report presented to Parliament this session bears out tho statement I have made on more than one occasion—namely, “That the liquor trade is beyond control.” The arrests for drunkenness have increased in licensed districts by over 1200, while in. no-licenso districts they are down to a minimum, so no-licenso decreases crime and license naturally, from its name alone, increases it. Speaking to a gentleman to-day from a country township (and I might mention, by' the way, that lie is not a Prohibitionist), lie said the conditions under license in that hamlet beggar description. Ho says it is not lit for any woman to be aboard, unless she wants her ears offended by the awful language used, while obscene behaviour that would in any no-license district be mot with instant arrest, is winked at or taken as a matter of course. Surely something should be done to protect the decent members of the community from scones like the ones I have described—l am, etc., C. D. SOLE. Stratford, August 14th, 1911.