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_THE GLOBE, TORONTO, THURSDAY. MARCH 11, 1920 LEGISLATURE QUIETLY WWiirenlicencn ie e en td e in ct ie i inccaveciec e ® & First Two Speakers in Debate on Reply to the Speech From the Throne Deal f JReRe * a, ® Only in Generalities 4 The Legislature made a quiet start , own district, where, he said, there yesterday. Only two speakers were Eaddbeen ltWO generations of ldvet!;y heard. Edgar Watson, U. F. O. bzagh:vg;t'f:rn';s%%}(;one cou € 'member for North Victoria, and f\V. The farmers, he said, must get \ A. Crockett, Labor-- member or | more control of their marketing. South Wentworth, moved and sec-- 'rl;]';gd'l'gn-?g :rfctyhe n;!rlulsdtdlceg\ean &r;gptgle onded the reply to the Speech from They oppressed the farmer at one the Thl'on('. Neither dealt parthU' end and the workingman__the con-- | !larly with any subject in detail or i"}:mer---at t}':f othferih The day og § «nt i § . |'the eo--operation o e many, an | m't_('le TL O dluesestion. for imuch 'c.;lls | not of the few, had arrived. It was ; ecussion in the future. Their speeches |the business of the Government to | dealt in generalities. encourage organizations such as the |\_ To--day the "big guns" will be |farmers in the West had formed. heard, or at least some of them. H. Union Will Endure. | H. Dewart, Liberal Leader, will be o | first. HMe will be followed by Hon. Condemnation 6of public owner-- G. Howard Ferguson, Leader of the IShID. he said, was an indictment of Conservatives. If there is time |the men in charge of public affairs. Premier Drury will follow Mr. Fer-- | Such wo;'ks shm;;:ll b;a ru&\ 'as bu}sll- guson. In the event of the two |ness, not as pol cal, aiffairs. e |Leaders of the Opposition parties hoped there would 'be criticism, but | |taking up the afternoon, Premier |Criticism for construction, and not | Drury will move the adjournment criticism for criticism's sake. | until next Tuesday, when the debate | . Mr. Crockett spoke of the respon-- on the reply to the Speech from the | Sibility of the U.F.O.--Labor Govern-- Throne will be continued. This ad-- |ment in meeting the post--war prob-- journment has been asked by Mr. Eems. He said the u'mlon of Labor' Dewart, who says that many of his i with the Farmers was onef that | members who wish to speak will be | Would endure. The problems of Capi-- | away over the week--end. -- Mr. Drury |tal and Labor would not 'be solved has consented. M ;umil solved by the intelligence of Government members vesterday | ;)he '}worki}?gman. B;fore t!;{ig could were a little timid. They didn't ap-- | P 'm;]'g't about the workingman | plaud the two speakers, except when | W °},"d ave to be given a l')etter edu-- the Liberals started it. cation. There would have to be a t better trained electorate, and that Must Limit Liberty, |could not be secured until the elec-- | , A [ tors were better educated. | who uttacl\»'«l tllfi' present (JO\'ePn-Ifary training should be abolished ment, alleging '"class x*opresenta-'fmm the schools. He also hoped tion." He said that the time had that somet_hlng would be done to come when men must think into make text--books cheaper. ]each other's problems without con-- Touching on agricultural ques-- |flict. The world was moving away | tions, the speaker said there was no from the era of personal relation-- specific for taking the people back] ships into a great system of imper-- |to the farms. "It would almost ap-- sonal relationships in the vconom.iclpeap as if the CGovernment would iJ order. He was quite sure that in have to take some mean's, either by the past some classes had had too | rural credits or otherwise, so that much power. 1t was for this Gov-- | the people may have more induce-- lomment to restore confidence to the [ ment to go to the farms," he said,l ' masses. j"Those who have been farming | | _ '"The time is past," he continued, |realize that there is no better occu-' '"when we can allow extremo exal-- pation than that of agricuiture, and tation of party to stand in the way |we also believe that when a farm is of business administration." properly managed and worked ac-- Mr. Watson had no use for the cording to scientific up-to-dat.e term "personal liberty," as often ap-- mgthods there is no doubt that it plied. It needed a new definition. | will give an adequate return for the Nobody in a trade that injured so-- |amount of laibor expended upon it." ciety as a whole should be allowed Mr. Crockett spoke of the need of that freedom, he declared. Individ-- conserving timber wealth and of uals must learn subordination to so-- ?inimi}z(ingt f:;e lf)ss{)es. In closlngi clety as a whole. e spoke o e lLabor program 0o The speaker pointed out the dan-- |the League of Nations, compliment-- ger of the exodus from the rural|ed the (}overnment on its promise' districts, and denicd that farmers |}of a mimm'um wage for women, and | were profiteers. As an example of |of mothers' allowances. | the economic conditions under which Mr. Dewart moved the adjourn-- farmers worked, he pointed to his Iment of the debate. '------~-----------_-----_------__--------------_--..--.__--_____--_--------_----'.----------~'