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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 10 Mar 1926, p. 3

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R We,dhescl a Y , M a rc h 10'"' ¢ % x# & ' Fears Revolution, © f | s I * -- Condemning what NC characterized Wants Hydro in East. lfgislntlon E\ad bge{x advanced by the the "social secret service," Col. Cur--|_,I+ A. Sangster (Liberal, Glengar.| Conservative paftty. In respect of rie said that Ontario Nad more in-- ry) on continuing the, debate re-- the mlleged flirtation between Lib-- ' formers to the square inch than any' ferred directly to the question of| eral and Progressive groups, Mr. § | other country in the world, and also Hydro--Eleciric power, expressing | Colliver said that, in his constitu-- | the worst police Oppres;slon was t?c opinion in this regard that the| ency. matters had advanced beyond | breeding revolulion. he Acclared Eastern part of the Province, from | the flirtation stage, and, while the | that might be little worse than Rus. TP!C) be bailed, had been neglect.|1wo groups had not been united in sis, if unchecked. . Russia's revolu. ed. It was entitled, he felt, to a | Political wedlock, there was every \- -- Hion, he sald. had led 1. to j fair service; especially in view of the | evidence of a mutual understanding ' ing the Funm m'(i(;'"zwiv {rom 't'h" recent statements of Hon, R,. J.| between them. | l Arm is' * gn aWIRd om tn®/ Cooke, Hydro Commissioner, that Charles McKeown, Conservative . | "0!3"223 l'h'o p(-'()ple of Ontario, hejtremendous power was available in | member for Dufferin, lauded thej i :3';('1 T ?.:dl'n?(.d'} it plain tl.mt' they | that section of Ontario. Mr. Sang--| work of Premier Ferguson, who, as | n elieve in the Q.T.A.; the gct ster sald he had heard that 60,000 | Minister of Education, was "bring-- !was _cursing the young people with horsepower supplied the Massera,| ing education back to the farm." {iIntoxication. n taoals 4 N. Y.. plant by the Cedar Rapids|The member for Dufferin thought t ira Ten years ago," said Col,. Curric, power line, was to be transferred to | that the Prime Minister in this man-- ' if '1 boy took a flask to a dance the St. John's district. and suggest-- | ner would, to a large extent, solve | he would not be recognized after-- ed that if such was the case, some|the problem of the away--from--the-- i wtart(}l by the dectent-think!m.; people effort should be made to transfer iti farm movement. s , of the community." to Eastern Ontario instead. Mr.} t Conditions here, said Col. Currie, Sangster said that only 9 per cent. Predicts Balanced Budget. } -- were getting more and more like ; of HMydro distribution was reaching Proceeding, Mr. McKeown ex--| the United States every day. Andlthe East, and this he characterized . tolled the record of the Conservative| | more liquor was being drunk twice | as & situation which in his judgment Government to date in reducing the | over by twicoe as many people as be-- ! was "'not right." $15,000,000 deficit inherited from ! fore the act came into force. On--| Regarding the coal situation, Mr. the Drury Government, and express-- | tario's record for drunks was greater i Sangster declared it was difficult to ed the opinion that, before the Gov--' | than that of the Province of Quebec, ' see why the C.N.R, should reduce ernment again appealed to the elec-- | where Government control--the omy,its freight rates to haul coal into torate, it would have a balanced, | solution of the problem--was in | Ontario, -- particularly when the Budget to show the voters. t ' force. It would take a law like Que-- | C.P.}l. was "allowed to go scot free." Mr. McKeown twitted the Liberal: bee's or Manitoba's, contended Col. | ,"' C. Chambers ~ (Conservative, party, under W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C.,! Currie, to balance. Ontario's B daget. | Wellington West) told the House it for what he declared to be its di-- Holding that the O.T.A. was an up.| "AS very difficult to find anything |vided opinions on the "'wet" -- and | British act, he expressed surprise :lbout' which to talk for the reason '"dry'"' issue, and proceeded to recall / | that so many -- clergymen shoum,th" Government bad nothing for the "howls" that had gone up from ' openly praise its iniquity. "'l]}"h }0 apoligize. f certain quarters when 4.4 beer was "If a man speaks out against the liookine _ mround_ the Covern-- introduced. f Oo.T.A.." said the Colonel, "he is at n ie ." he'gaid, "I «ee fo one migsk-- "The only peoplc"' o e ol L once defined as a home--breaker. I ms---h 's 01 °9 »+ ; hurt by 4.4 beer,'" said Mr. Mc« + have been rccused of that. But w %':' '~. s r).?(:.rmssgng. interlected | Keown, '"'are the hotelkeepers of just the same I advocate a sound -- ¥, N.Sinclait, Liberal LeadeL, this Province. They went to the temperance law,. as does the Prims Confidence in Lyons. trouble and expense in boarding up Minister. And when it comes to the "I hate very much to> see the their bar--rooms, and so forth, and ' issua------" s 7 lha in arecuiaan 2t My made nothing out of it, because it \ C ¢ | Leader of the Opposition let his p faitur It was the greatest' ' a What is the issue?" interrupted | suspicion run away with his better e e bacvara f n g t! § Sam Clarke (Liberal. jJudgment," said Mr. Chambers, in disappointment that' * on gNer pu' 1 j '"'The issue," said Col. Currie, "wm' referring, as Mr. SMinclair had, to on the sta}ut'eq books | in i?ox?e rea; be a sane temperance law. And when| the resignation of Hon. Mr. Lyons, BP8CtS-- * Why" Becgluseh p urn!e M it comes it will get rid of all this late Minister of Lands and Forests, °Ut fhat the I.Ion'ora e Grem et; l oppression -- this vilification -- and "I know when this matter is cleared 404 the Honorable Attorney-- e""{'t & discontent." up that Mr. Lyons will come out with absolutely told the truth about C { o oo us fying colors.'" Can the honorable member for East ! W. ( M cichmtl Last speatker. Mr. Chambers went on to trace thc' \Vellin_gton (Mr Raney) explain to-- | _ W. :C.. Weichel (Conservative, mining development under the ad.--| @2Y, his four-l.'zo'tfl" speech on that' | i\('""' Waterloo) was the last speak-- ministration of Hon. Charles Mc--: ter"ible calamity? | on Sristy on ins antenoe 'man, melenierdine and ho ootoe ooo [ tak "Drse" Are Indacere, | \ * e « & CS & C m 2109 C, C % a $ i | by the Province in the fields of in. Drury CGovernment toward which he | .. o C hi e uh'ow tl'(\le smct:eritty. w smde. dustry, eulogized the work of Hon, showed considerable antipathy. The of those who a wt):ca C h?mpet,'x;lanc.' Lincoln Goldie, Provincial Secretary, present Progressive group, he for the purPCse" 9 gu; ne tel:nrl and suggested the erection in Water-- Characterized as the "shifty" group SClves into pow ic kcown no olled' loo County of a lasting memorial to In direct contrast, he stated, was PUTP®F® . Mr.' Jc\}}l\eown i ocA be i | the life and achievements of the late the policy of the Conservative party. that Harl Howe,. M.DP., *X--men Cld t Sir Adam Beck. Mr. Weichel advo. "We always follow our Leader O°f th* Legislature. one of the two | cated the support of the aspestos in like one man," he said, "through M®" who had voted. against 4.4 beer, 1 austry in Ontario; urged that the thick and thin." was opposed in the _ Federal caBm-, | Government give its consideration to "It gets pretty thick somctimes,." lgiyigll by 'dr)' advocates. Rev. l?ln' r the abolition of tax on amateur WAs the caustic comment of w, ;. Pvence, who had NCome into the rid-- sports, as a means of further en-- Bragg (Liberal). ing, Mr. McKeown said, had ibeen t couraging the boys and girls of the . In Closing, Mr. Chambers flayed PUblicly told by one of the Simcoe | Province along the line of athletic the "about--turn" of the old Progres. Clergymen to go back to "'wet" To-- ; | endeavor, and, in speaking of good Sive party on the patronage ques--} Aepeaihermarerarsry 'onox:l'toi ary " 'be: | | roads, stressed the immediate need tion, and at the door of the same: fore preaching to ary ,Srincoe. the ' of a regulation compelling all ve--| party laid the charge of '"doing its| So long as"th_eidO.la.A- Ms Iggown | hicles to carry lights. Referring to| best to kill Sir Adam Beck." At| :s'tatute. bfmks' i All r't ;1(;: behind | prohibition, Mr. Weichel said his! some length Mr. Chambers referred, 'this G('w'erx;]n@ng ';. e anerlv en-- answer to it was to be seen in a to thé Backus "dealings," and addea| !t 2n4 se* that.it is properi; | downtown _ window, where soda; that now the Norman dam -- was forced. let the chips fall whers they | siphons were now on display, and| being built by Backus, with the DO--' may, As soon as in the opiniom of where, _ last week, innumerable| minion Government paying for it. the Government the Province Will flasks, from a lady's size up, had ap--| O.T.A. matters the speaker practi-- be better by a change--just as soola | pealed to the eye. Taking exception| cally ignored, except to declare that | as in the opinion of this Government' t to the recent statements of Carl]| there was much "sniping" at the jit is in the interests of the great| | Homuth that the Government, in| present time, and that more good 'electorate of the Province of On--. filling positions in North Waterloo,| would result if conflicting parties |tario that a change should come-- had given no consideration to re--| were to get together in a common-- !when that will be I cannot say-- ; i turned soldiers, Mr. Weichel turxef'ld sense way. | the Govcrnmentkwmhbe bbi)gl etr:ou:;t:l. ' | back to the time of the Drury ~ 7 6 7 y € iI believe, to take the bu y e ministration, and cited many in--| °CS l-.f'.O.-Libernl Merger. ¢ horns, even if the bull sits over in stances where the Farmer--Labor H. S. Colliver (Conservative, 'the seat opposite." | Government, of which Mr. Homuth] Prince Edward) followed with his Mr. McKeown proceeded to discuss | had been a member, had fillea| maiden speech to the Legislature. the Federal political situation, and | offices, and also had "passed up" Confining his remarks chiefly to, concluded that precedent had dic-- the returned men in doing so. general praise of Government policy| tated that a Government which | under the different dcpurtmentali "hung on to power even though de-- j heads, Mr. Colliver referred to the feated'" would be exterminated polit-- | benefits derived from it by the rid--} ically at the next election, wWith ' |in8' he represented. In c'ommendlngl the Conservatives there would be | | the 4.4 beer policy of Attorney--Gen--! no "compromise of principles in of-- | \ eral Nickle, the speaker said it had| fice." _ Liberals, Progressives and, y «worked great improvement in Prince| U.F.O. might sit in the Conservatlve' | [ Edward County. It was his opinion| band--wagon when that time. came,} | | that 99 per cent. of all temperance! but "they will have to play OuUr| | tune." j I ' N

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