It is indeed interesting to be told the facts so
clearly as this. The one question that Mr. Steele does not deal with is the moral one as to the psychological effect of the great amount of organized law-breaking which, though not enough to supply liquor to the ordinary man, is said to be extensive enough to have the most detrimental effects on " good citizenship." It is with regard to this difficulty that other experiments in dealing with the liquor question need careful investigation and com- parison with the American policy. Canada alone affords many different working models—notably the "State purchase" system in the Province of Quebec, of which we wrote last week, but of which we have seen no really comprehensive and en- lightened account. Again, at the moment, Sweden has just preferred by a Referendum vote a system of restricted sale to one of total Prohibition. It is certainly the duty of this country to watch most closely these various attempts to deal with the problem and to seek to evolve a remedy most suitable to our own very urgent needs.
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