Speech of the Hon. R. Harcourt, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario

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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. R. Harcourt, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario: Delivered on the Twenty-Eighth Day of February, 1895, in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, on Moving the House Into Committee of SupplySimultaneously with a steady reduction in the number of licenses issued, and with the falling revenue, to which I have already alluded, during the last few years we have had a very noticeable reduction in the number of commitments for drunkenness in the Province. There has been a steady reduction year by year since 1888 in the number of such commitments. While in 1888 the number was last year it fell to The number last year was less than that of the previous year by 378. In 1884 the commitments in round numbers were one for every 400 of our popu lation, in 1894 one to every 900.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.