Less important questions in a Sense are the ce-operation of the States and Canada in preventing "rum-running"' between the two countries, the elimination of the huge profits made by the narcotic drug peddlers is rife—Montreal it may incidentally be said is stated to be almost the headquarters of this traffic—and undesirables being prevented from going from one country to the other. So far as rum-running is concerned it does not look at present as if any steps which both countries can take will stop it. I do not feel at liberty to state the figures which an American Consul gave me as to the amount of liquor which left one distillery alone in Canada, ostensibly cleared for Mexico or some such country; if I could do so, the figures would startle you. And the remarkable fact was added that the boats which set off. their long journeys returned for more similar cargoes in about two days, so the inference is plain as to where they went.
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