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f *« Marchk-- ia #»~. MWed. ,Wfll Never Be Satisfactory. & Wltt®,., 51 c-- ) |_ L. W. 'Oke, Progressive member ince of Ontario. "That was the first for East Lambton, stated that he }"3 tg""'l'; 0"131' beat ftorot(imlj)eranrfg believed more time should have in the Frovince : 0 ntari0, _ & been given for the present Attorney-- don't you forget it," he declared. General to administer the act with The Attorney--General had never a . view to determining its. working. | said a truer word than when he said gut he 'believed that "the Ontario ,La:tewze:' t}'aitsi}ée gnéario Tex(rl\pte;- emperance Act could never be ad-- | §KC CC 0 ad passe e -- ministered to the entire satisfaction |H°"8° unanimously, Mr, Clarke con-- i of the people of Ontario." tinued. _But look what led up to I it, he added. Not one member of W;{nts a Longer Trial, :}16 Govtexgxmeint on Mg Rowell's mo-- on. H. C. Nixon, Progressive on voted with the Opposition; no member for j i one in the House opposed Sir Wil-- that his constl;z't%!::tsB:vagé :Otf.beig liam Hears}'s measure. a favor of the submission of either | The passing of the O.T.A. was the a plébiscite or a referendum at the only credit standing to the Conserva-- present juncture, believing that the ltive party in Ontario "from the time O.T.A. had not had a sufficient trial |I have known them to the present to justify a move towarnd a change. 'tlme. on the line of temperance." The former Provincial Secretary |The O.T.A. child never was properly stated that the form of the bill be-- e ronu b}b)' o id Cl?ntserfi-ative party fore the House had no precedent parents, he said, but the ex--Attor-- any Province or in thg Domi?xibinn ney--General never had _ abused or To call it a '"blank chequen was to. disowned the Child.' "You.peop!e iput it tco mildly, he said, because it ](;verl th:are.',' dhe thsald'c wavmg;' his really constituted C and owar e onservatives, cheques. a sheaf of blank "createl(li ;md made the law, but you J. A. Sangster, Liberal never helped to support it in your for Glengarry, took the \?iewmtfimr::)eitf. life." # + ?}llxestionslwere to be submitted to Five Per Cent. Beer. the f clear" ami~ everything should be _ He appealed to the Attorney--Gen-- 'cear and aboveboard for the rep-- 1 i f resentatives of the people to decide |erai_to continu« to enforce the at 'upon. If the matter were properly| \for another year, and then any de: dealt with, he said, it might prove to fects L0 be remedled wguldhhal\&e the be a final and conclusive settling of unan'l(mous suppoirtd. (l)d the House the vexed issue of temperance. He ie 4 inerat Barty _ o P onle Hel did not see th ity T Iti-- for the Liberal party, Mr. Clarke de-- plicity of wofdneices:hy dmi;at m"b; clared to the Attorney--General that cause apparentfy nthee G%v?:r?{meriz he believed that if he gave the peo-- had decided the course of the Legis-- ple five per'tcentt. geerk(ln n'g' opin-- lature in the matter. He supported | o oo oo mt o i in Ne en the Li o e 1 cent. beer) it would satisfy eight-- Liberal policy as expressed by j his Leader, W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C | tenths of all the grumbling you have w * * yout MX * FxC * . 4 all over the Province of Ontario." C '/hence Comes the Demand? 6A "It is a thousand times better," he R. H. Kemp, Progressive member | added, "to give the people five per for Lincoln, reiterated the demand cent. beer and try 1t.out than to open upon the (Government that before} up gin, rum, whiskey, the hard being asked to pass the bill the Gov-- | drinks." He urged the Government ernment show wherein lay the de--| to be big enough to give the people mand of the people for an Oppor--| thedthln edge in place of the whole , tunity to pass upon the O.T.A. | weage. Mc hi. o oae -- n y o -- | i cBeace M. A. McCallum, Progressive ilgtm;xbl}filgf;fia.?d that a question be smember for South Bruce, twitted the * s Conservative party with having I «_ s j s :ifréz{xzs'::i}x"atlljzagel;:%';r coughed 'glandlry ";;]l:w(;od thgtligéh:hm thte ';'i"' % ow" for the benefit o e wet elec-- oo mavan rgint sith "Pote in forate "ot 'then Erovince. The Gov, solence." o * » : Mr. Kemp declared that the Legis-- :iOTD;Y&Z%?ggEG; of "}'1'2"%2'1': et'?egr?g lature, in passing the enabling ref-- * * erendum bill, was tying its hands on ch:ngefin éhe law w;sdreqtfxired l°" what the question would be and on g;ir?lon or by any body of. public the legislation that was to follow if a i Mr. McCallum deemed the $15,-- a favorable vote were returned. 000,000 deficit to be a fleabite in im-- If He Were a Cartoonist-- t portance alongside the great moral M. M. MacBride (Independent La-- guestt;]on 6)1 ;'er&pevgnce-id Inhdet'end- bor member for Brantford) de-- ing e 0. T. .. he S@a .t. at even 1clared that if there was one thing if there were some drinking in the more than another in the minds of Province, fit had been driven under _ . the electorate during the election of :g't",e'l'. Wél.ltCh was something to the last June it was the idea of the s credit. * ; § necessity for a return to responsible & George _ Elliott (Conservative, Government. _A former "so--called" i\ofi:'g:ieMé':'dl}eS%fi) %{'Dl'esse'd %;):;?'ér'_':e y ) n n the Ferguson vern-- Government, he declare(_i. nad -- for ment to handle the situation justly, four years adopted a policy the very 1 inciple of respon-- and at considerable length he went opposite of the prmI pth t s l on to review what he deemed to be sible government. n at connec-- / ® ' tion Mr. MacBride noted the Greg-- ihetshgovtgo'mlngs og the thLit:eral ory Commission and the Sandy bill. e ahce probi . o "The Prim Minig. Proceeding, he stated that if he were ?e;ai'nc; m-'iod ij:m' i e "ibf C ms;' a cartoonist he would picture the er Nald #al was impossinie to £ge old horse "Prohibition" lean and an expression of opinion without this A ihllngl')', his ribs Bticklflg out of his glllita'&%l':{d@gblic-Opin'io,'n demanded o + h e within the power of sides, with a big head and scraggy. the Governm A * ent to --grant a vote | neck, and on that horse, he thought, after the passage of the bill lhe could very well depict certain . . | honorable gen}leimen. § is Anele | "Uncalled For," Says Fenton. "In my opinion," he said, "the W. H. Fenton (Progressive, North 'Government's policy is living up to | Bruce) declared the bill to be '"un-- the very highest ideals, as we know necessary, uncalled for, and unasked i them in -- British countries, ¢ gm-," {Ieh '"}3"{'," llmv:e'dA:torneiy- rum for Tem nce. eneral shouw e allio o give First Big D i Peramce longer trial to the present act before Sam Clarke, Liberal member for any change was thought of He . | Northumberland, combated the ar-- auoted from 'The Manitoba Free |guments put forward | by other Press to show the effect of Govern-- _ > | speakers (;h"'t otr!:aefo Ctonservatlve ment control--in this instance re-- #f || party had done m t Lo ipefaance ferred to as an hourly expenditure of than any other party in tpe Prov-- $855 on liquor. # 'lTince. Thirty years ago, 'he said " ® within a few miles of where he lived, there were ten or twelve coun: try taverns; today there was not one b 8 '! The time those hotels were put ou: of commission was when Hon. New: ton Rowall brought in his motio: 3 to abolish the bar all over the Prov;