Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-08-18
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note: The Week fl British Columbia Newspaper aad Review Victoria, B.C., Canada, August 18th, 1917 5c a copy $2.00 a year The Prohibition Report THE long expected report of tlie investigators of the overseas soldiers' vote is nt last public property. It should be read and re-read by every citizen of the Province. It constitutes one of tbe most damning indictments of the liquor trade ever presented to a legislative assembly by a committee of its members. If is nu official recognition of a fact which has long been known to social students, viz., that the trade in alcoholic liquors is absolutely inimical to tbe best interests of the State and deserves ruthless and unsparing suppression. Like all other industries it has profits for its object, but unlike most others it yields disease, decay and death as its fruits. Other industries are wholesome and beneficent not only to their promoters but to the community at large. The liquor industry (?) is inseparable from crime and the prostitution of public and private morals. It is safe to say that no other business enterprise would have descended to the depths of corruption to which this official report tears witness. <J Fifty-eight men who hnd given their lives in the cause of empire conveniently turned up at the polls. Six hundred and ninety-eight either voted twice or had their ballots forged; forty- two men voted thrne-or four times; six hundred and fifty-one actually in France miraculously voted in England; twelve hundred and sixty- six votes were entirely bogus; five hundred and thirty-two votes were cast by men whose identification was unsatisfactory or in other" ways failed to comply with the requirements of the Act; eight hundred nnd forty-eight votes were cast by men in other than B. C. regiments and who were ineligible to vote. Amongst the above wore men who were bribed with beer, men who cast their votes several days after the polls closed, and men whose votes were deliberately falsified by persons unknown. Yet in tho face…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374014
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text