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WL i " THEOSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1929. IIBERAL LEADER 'MAKES ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT (Continued from Page 1) ed by complimenting the convention adopting Mr. Bragg as its candi- te, and paying a tribute to the no- nee as a valuable member of the had predicted in the last session of the legislature that there would be an election this fall, but, he declared, he had not ed an election, as Mr. Fer- guson was saying, He had simply seen the signs of an election, and while Mr, Ferguson had known all along that it was coming, he had re- peatedly said that he did not know ether there would be an election or not. "I would have been qtite satisfied," said Mr. Sinclair, "To wait for the constitutional time, but. the election is here, and we are prepared to discuss the issues, and to meet him at the polls." ; ; . Commenting on Premier Ferguson's anifesto and banquet speech, Mr. Sinclair said there was nothing of any. importance." Mr. Ferguson had said that the Liberal manifesto was got a manifesto, but merely a cry," said the speaker, "But if my mani. festo is a cry, then his is only a whimper, because there is nothing in it, Financial Policy Mr. Sinclair then touched on those paragraphs of his manifesto dealing with the necessity for reduction in taxation, greater local autonomy ian matters to which the municipalities contribute, and economy in expendi- tures, These, he said, were serious matters for the people of Ontario, and in regard to finances, Mr. Fer- son' had proven himself a failure. he speech at the Royal York Hotel had proven this, since it gave an en- tirely wrong impression of the fin- ances and taxes of the province. "What about the gas taxec?" came & voice from the rear of the hall. "His speech was mostly gas," re- torted Mr. Sinclair, and therc was no five cent tax on it." Provincial Finances Mr. Sinclair then turned to a dis- cussion of the provincial finances, speaking as follows: "The premier said, 'I saw an ar- ticle the other day, saying the debt of this Province had mounted to the enormous sum of $393,000,000" He did not need to read it in the paper. He seems not to have heard of it before, The provincial treasurer on February 26th last said, as reported in his speech "printed by order of the Legislative Assembly" and dis- tributed widely as Election propagan- da, that 'the gross debt of Ontario today is $393,747,000" The premier would mislead the people by implying the newspaper was inaccurate but fortunately we have the speech of the Treasurer. "The premier said the outstanding 'borrowings' were $393,000,000. His amazing discovery is that 'only a small portion of it can be regarded as a debt, which the province will 'eventually have to meet from gen- eral revenues' He goes further and calls the debts 'investments' and says that $333,000,000 is invested in public undertakings which repay the trea- sury annually $22,385,000. He says the balance of $60,000,000 is the 'real debt' of Ontario. | says the $60,- 000,000 is made up. of $39,000,000 for buildings and $21,000,000 incurred on account of deficits. : '"His figures. on the deficits are wrong. His government had - four successive deficits. in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926, of the following amounts, 5,195,226.53, $8,468,764.51, $5'107.364.- and $812,140.31, making a total of deficits according to the governments' own figures of -$20,583,496.34, every cent of which is carried in the debt ch |of the province. He says buildings are $39,000,000 and that only $10,000,- 000 was spent in the last five years. The road debt he places at $112,000, 000, while the minister of highways, last session, in an answer which is printed in the journals, says the road debt is $84,000,000. So you cannot go on the premier's figures. Unfortun- ately for him, when he gets into fig- urcs in a speech, he has outstanding against him, the public accounts which surely the government cannot say arc wrong. The premier includes in the revenue producing liabilities in order to reduce his net debt to $60,- 000,000, the highways and says there is a revenue of $12,000,000 from high- ways, Road Revenues The road debt of course is capital. The revenue he speaks of is on or- dinary account. It is made up of gas tax and auto licenses. His argu- ment is because there are provincial highways and there is a large debt in consequence of this, that gas tax and auto licenses arc revenue to mect this, The situation is so absurd that one wonders how the premier ever thought he could put it across. The gas tax and auto license money all goes into current account, It is not applied against the debt. Not oné cent goes to pay for the roads. Be- sides a great part of this revenue is derived from cars which never sce a provincial highway. "But this is not all," said Mr, Sin- clair, "His treasurer says the road debt is a non-revenue producing one, He so classes it in the public ac- counts. In 1927, in his budget speech, he placed the road debt at $85,722,- 688, and particularly referred to it as "non-revenue producing." Again in 1928 he did the same. And again in 1929 he did the same, Yet Premier Ferguson says it is revenue produc- ing. Budget Speech Figures "The official mouthpiece of the government on finance is the trea- surer. His budget speech is the statement of the government on fin- ance. In 1927, he said the net debt, that is the debt against which there is no chance for repayment other than the revenues of the province, was $144,536,000. In 1928 he said thc net debt was $157,779,000, and at the last session, he said the net debt was $173,793,000. Premier Ferguson now says it is $60,000,000. I am not re- quired to contradict the premier, The one-man government will not work in regard to finance. The speech of the treasurer is printed and at page 28 of his 1929 speech the net debt is given as $173,793,000. It should be unnecessary to pursuc the matter further, "But the public accounts of the province are more of an official 'do- cument than the budget speech. They classify buildings and roads together BETTER BRAN FLAKES IN EVERY WAY TRY Kellogg's Pep Bran Flakes. They have that delicious flavor of PEP which is so inviting. And they stay unusually crisp in milk or cream ~--to the last spoonful! But there's more than flavor and extra crispness. You get the food elements and mineral salts of the wheat. Plus just enough bran to be mildly laxative. : A good food for old and young. Let the children eat all they want. Ideal for their evening meal. Grocers everywhere sell these bet- ter bran flakes in the red-and-green package. Made by Kellogg in Lon- don, Ontario. ' PLAT A 7 Bran Flakes IMPORTANT --Xellogts Pep Bran Flakes are mildly laxative. ALL-BRAN --another BETTER ellogg product--is 100% bra: to relieve prin soll sl n ghd BRAN FLAKES guaran. Left, Captain, 8. E. McMillan, Dominion Explorer's pilot, and right, Col, C. D. McAlpine, Toron- to, president .of .Dominion .Ex- plorers Ltd., who are two of the five believed .lost in .sub-arctic wastes between .Coronation Gulf, on the shores of the Arctic ocean, and Athabaska, Northern Alberta, The party were touring the north in two aeroplanes. Fears for safe- ty of the party are increasing be- cause of early signs of winter in far north. and do not place them in the income- producing class. Roads Not Cash Assets "Common sense also should show that roads could not be classed as assets which «can be sold or from which a cash return can be had. In addition they have to be replaced when worn out. There is no reason for including them as revenue-pro- ducing to reduce the net debt to $60,- 000,000, other than a clear desire to mislead the people and make them think the debt is small. The trea- surer says the net debt is $173,793,000. The premier says it is only $60,000,- 000. The argument is between the treasurer and the Public Accounts on one hand and the premier on the other. "When Hon. W. H. Price was trea- surer, he treated it in the same way. He said in 1925, "Road operations yield no revenue, except the general good of the community," Mr. Fer- guson says they yield $12,000,000. On this basis, he then placed the net debt ai $118,000,000. The net debt therefore has increased from $118,- 000,000 in 1924 to $173,793,000 in 1928, or an increase of $35,793,000. Premier Ferguson must have been thinking of the increase in the net debt when he gave the figure of $60,000,000. "And further the committee in 1926 which reported on debt retire- ment placed the debt to be retired at $185,511.454. At that time there must have been a reason for the figure. That much of the debt must have been of a nature that would not re- tire itself. Premier Contradicted "Whatever way the matter is looked at the figure of Premier Ferguson is ridiculous. The people know the debt is $393,000,000. They know the 'province has to pay it off. But when Premier Ferguson says only $60,000,000, has 'to be mct, he is contradicted by both of his treasur- ers, by the public accounts, and by common sense. He should confine himself to his own department... His minister is on record against his pre- sent statement. Who Pays the $58,000,000 "The most amazing statement of the premier is that of the $58,000,000 revenue of the province, only $1,750,- 00 comes directly from the people, and the balance comes as revenues from the public services. "Who pays the Gasoline Tax, $4,- 600,000? : "Who pays hunters' licenses, $196, i "Who pays fishing licenses, $295, 000? Who pays auto licenses, $6,400,000? Who pays Amusement Tax at gate, $1,187,000? "Who pays 668,000? Who pays Land $539,000? : J "Who pays Corporation's Tax Act, $4,853,000? : : "Who pays for anything that is done in Ontario? "The government may say there are services. The last year they charged $100 for each K.C. they handed out. Someone in - Ontario pays 'for the whole $58,000,000 except the federal subsidy. $2,640,000. The people know they are paying for everything they do and every turn they make and further, they are paying on every side line in the Province, because of some act of the legislature or some regulation made by the government. Taxes Growing The premier has had a big banquet. He has been minister. of education and has made regulations which are touching the pockets of all the people of Ontario. He now tries to get the net debt at $60,000,000. His treasurer disproves this. He tries to show that only $1,750,000 out of $58,000,000 comes from the people. Why should he try in the face of Government figures to show this? Because he is afraid of the electors. Taxes today are doubled and trebled in' the muni- cipalities because of regulations and shifting of taxation. The premier should admit the situation. His treasurer and his public accounts show he is wrong. Why then try to deceive the electors? It cannot be done. They are paying heavily and the; know Ferguson is the cause." Growth of Taxation "I leave 'it to the common sense of the people of Ontario to judge of Mr. Ferguson's desire' to deceive them," said Mr. Sinclair, going on to point out that in 1905, when the Ross government was defeated in 1905, the provincial - expenditures were about $6,000,000 a year, and its debt Succession duty, $4,- Transfer Tax, practically nil. Today the debt was 393,000,000 and the atnual expendi- wes $58,000,000. This meant a tre- wendous burden added to the taxa- on the people had to pay. Not only .had provincial taxation increased, but municipal taxation had also grown tremendously, largely through the counties having to pay twenty per cent of the provincial highway costs. This twenty per cent, Mr, Sinclair said, the Liberals proposed to remove from the municipalities, and have the government assume the whole cost of the highways. The Liquor Izcus Turning to the liquor question, Mi, Sinclair was very critical of the pre- mier's declaration that he would not have any plebiscite so long as he was head oi the government. Yet, said the Liberal leader, Mr. Ferguson had endorsed the principle of a plebiscite when he was a member of the cabi- net in 1916 and 1°19, and had him- sclf, as premier, granted one in 1924. "Was the 1916 and 1919 attitude of Mr. Ferguson contrary to the spirit of democratic institutions, as he now claims plebiscites are? asked Mr. Sinclair. Was the 1924 plebiscite a violation of the spirit of responsible government, Why did he give a plebiscite then if he has such strong views. 1 would like to know at what period of his life this great change came over him?" The Liberal Platform Mr. Sinclair reiterated the Liberal platform. on the liquor issue, saying that, since the Liquor Control 'Act was on the statute books, it would be rigidly enforced. and that, as soon as the people of Ontario were ready for it, a plebiscite vould be taken on the question of prohibition. His stand, he said, was exactly in lime with that adopted by the Ontario Prohibition Union, Turning to the Elmvale speech of the premier, Mr, Sinclair said it show- ed that he did not know where he stood on the liquor question, since he had said that if Liquor Control would not work, he would try something else. "If the premier thinks I am wobbly, and he is in favor of either hquor sale or prohibition, I leave it to you to decide just what he is, be- cause I have no words to describe that kind of a fellow. He tries to say that no onc is greatly concerned bout my stand on the liquor issue, but if that is the case, then why is he worrying so much about it? It is because he knows that he is wrong and [ am right that he is worrying about it." Challenge Taken Up Mr. Sinclair took up the premicr's challenge that not onc dollar of pub- lic money had been diverted to ime proper purposes, and read from the public accounts two items of $30 each one for advertising for the Herbert Lennox picnic, and the other for ady vertising in the Ward 4, Toronto, Conservative picnic program, These were not large items, he said, but they showed that Mr, Ferguson should be more careful before he is- sued challenges of that kind. In reply to a question, Mr. Sin- clair said that although it was not referred to in the premier's manifes- to, the people could depend on it that the township. school board plan would 'again be brought forward. His policy was that there should be more local autonomy in: these matters, and that those who paid for these ser- vices should be the ones to say what the policy should be," Vote of At the close of Mr. Sinclair's ad- dress, a vote of confidence in the leadership of Mr, Sinclair, in the One tario hoyse, and of the Rt. Hon. W. L. M. King, premier of Canada ard leader of the Dominion party, was moved by Thomas Holgate oh Bow- manville and carried with three hearty cheers: ; Officers Elected The meeting opened with the pre- sident, W, J, B., " Davison of Port Hope in the chair, After a short business session a committee was ap- pointed to nominate the officers for the ensuing year and while they were in committee a collection was taken up to aid the general funds of the party and which amounted to $37.50, I'he officers nominated in the report of the committee which was adopted were President, W, J. B. Davison, Secretary Treasurer, E. S. Senkler, Executive, president, secretary, W. J. Bragg, H. Elson, R, W, help. Orme Gamsby prominent. Orono sportsman, then moved that W, J. Bragg be nominated as candidate, which was carried unanimously and amid cheers. The whole convention then arose and pledged their support in the coming battle of the polls to the candidate, Ww. J. Bragg then = addressed the meeting in the following words. "Mr, President, ladies and gentlemen I am given to understand that a commit tee of the Temperance Union have drawn up a number of questions that they wish to present before this con- vention and candidate which are per- taining to the stand that we take against the liquor control of the Fer- guson government in this election." Questions Asked Mr. John Rowe then mounted the platforia and delivered the ultimatum of the Union to the meeting. He stated that his society still believed that the O.T.A. was the greatest temperance measure cver introduced in the province and as in the last election was "unalterably opposed" to the government so called control of liquor which was nothing but the sell- ing of liquor by that body. The questions contained in the ultimatum were presented as follows: To the electors and delegates of the Liberal Convention assembled here in the village of Orono, H) Will your candidate if elected vote for the abolition of the Liquor Control Act, (2) Will you submit to the Privy Council a case to prevent the manu- facture and sale of all alcoholic be- verages in the province of Ontario? (3) 'Will you vote for any advanced legislation in the cause of temper- ance, irrespective of the side of the house from which it comes. Mr. Bragg then rose to answer these questions and to place his plat- form before his followers. Mr. Bragg's Address He stated that since the inception of the L.C.A. in 1927 he had followed with interest the working of it and had, through the time it had heen on the statutes thought it should be en- forced to a much greater extent than had been done. He saw 'very little indication of rigid enforcement" and agreed with the Liberal party at large that it was a dismal failure. In answer to the first question he stated that there was a limitation on the provincial government's power in re- gard to the manufacture of liquor and that it rested with the federal covernment who issued the licenses to manufacture, The provincial house had only the power to regulate the sale of it after it had been made. Replying to the second question, he said he would do all in his power to obtain from the Privy Council what power under the British North Am- efican Act the provincial government had in these matters. On the third question, Mr. Bragg was in full accord with all temper- ance measures, and relied on his re- cord to show that hc had kept his promises in this matter that were made in 1926. 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He denounced the huge ex- penditures made by the Ferguson Government, in the past two years, and was alarmed at the gigantic in- crease in the public debt during the same regime, He compared the Lib- eral Government at Ottawa with their two hundred million dollar de- crease on the national debt and the Ferguson Governmént at Queen's Park with their one hundred million dollar additional, indebtedness. Every source of revenue had been tapped and he saw no other channel by which revenue could be raised with- out the increase of existing taxes." "It spoke well" he said "for the Lib- eral Government at the Capital on the way they had reduced the public debt together with a reduction on taxes." : Mr. Ferguson had promised during the last clection campaign detailed accounts that would be available to the public of each liquor store. He amended this in 1928 so that only the gross sales and profits of all stores combined could be known to the public. There was fifty million dol- lars each year that was being spent in the purchasing of liquor and per- mits. Mr. Bragg stated that he knew of cases in the united counties where people had spent their earnings at the liquor stores and had run credit for groceries and clothing. "The province" he continued "could ill af- ford to spend so huge an amount on what might be called an unproduc- tive industry. YOUTHFUL LABOR SUPPLY DECLINES Report is Issued by Rt. Hon. Margaret Bond- field London, Sept. 24--The decrease in the birth rate before and dur- ing the World War is beginning to result in curtailment of the sup- ply of youthful labor in many areas, according to the 1928 re- port of the advisory committee on juvenile employment, issued by the Minister of Labor, Rt. Hon, Mar- garet Bondfield, last week More- over, the children are somewhat more ready to remain at school after the statutory minimum age for leaving,' the report adds, "and are showing less restlessness and therefore effecting changes in oc- cupation less frequently than they did a few years ago." By the end of 1928 'nearly 2,000 boys and girls had been trans- ferred from depressed mining areas to carefully chosen positions assuring continuous and sufficient employment, the report said In many cases neither the parent nor child had any ideas in regard to an appropriate career for the child when he or she leaves school according to the report. The prin- cipal difficulty with secondary school boys and girls was the gen- eral unqualified demand far cleri- cal work, there appearing to be a notion that practical industrial work was not a worthy occupatios, In regard to overseas employ- ment, the report stated emigration was not favored by the city youth, and enthusiasm had been general- i blue frem the green, ly dampened, HOW AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PEOPLE SPEND THEIR TINE Residents of Riviera Amuse Themselves With Var- ious Cults Cannes, France,, Sept. .24.--The question as to how American and English residents of the Rivera amuse themselves has been set'! d by a polce official who has been stationed in Southern France for many years, "They join cults", he says. It | takes a secretcry to keep track of | the various cults and sects, Rizu! | row we're lacking a nuda cult be- | cause we had to run the last one out of th econntry a few months ago, but T suppose there's another one hanging around some rlace, "We have vegetarian culls | spook cults, raw meat cults, a Spartan cult, and any number of religious cults, most of them on a diet. Take your pick. I suggest a small egg and milk group near St. Raprael. The members solved the high cost of living gestion by eat-. ing only bread, eggs and milk. | They seem prosperous, physical? ond financially, though the local vegeterian cult says eggs and miik | are deadly poisons." The officers took a deep quaff | cf post-war absinthe and confessed | that he ate and drank anything handy. Cults are his specialty. He tries to protect the visitors in his district, But how the Anglo-Saxon bites at the bait. The Simple Life cult leader made a small fortune. Liver trouble? Join 'the Simple | Livers." 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