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t --" l & * C y Gree . mqaloi e P mereert f 7 o ns ~ > + eamage is hi ie m f «; _ |JToronto was the better city. ~"Toron-- 9/ j : f \to is evangelical ; Montreal is eccles-- #o & 1 f 1 lastical ; Toronto believes in justifica-- |tion by faith, while Montreal believes y ' * in pay--as--you--enter," said Mr. Roberts -- HE GOVERNMENT (M§SSmomtse t .. ) have a police force which is a regular | comic opera. It is either inefficient $E : igemmmanmmmegs or corrupt. But even in Montreal we e J *+ ldon't send our drunkards to jail," »> [ | said the speaker. '"We have dem(';- a y e yneama===" > 7. P I cratic methods of treating the liquor + e traffic. Our inebriates are sent t A TEMPERANCE AND miperance eOp e Get NO places for special medical treatmertlz & | | GOVERNMENT Encouragement at Par- and the Government foots the bill. p | $ cmmcracommniioewanimemens R ~I 9 Work of the Roman Catholiecs. hh: | f f liament B"lldlng& "The best thing you Protestant peo-- 4; | | The Ontario branch of the Do-- j o C o . P | o ple can do is to catch up with the s | minion Alliance asked Sir James benmeglnnnnmnnmnnninen, Roman Catholics of Quebec," he ad-- * i : 3 Whitney yesterday to expunge t'"; s vised. The leader of the. Roman f | three--fifths clause from the loca Catholics in _ Quebec, Archbishop ; option law of this Province and PROHIBITION CALLED Bruchesi, had givenothef pledge (lJf : also to enact prohibitive legisla-- temperance to 200,000 of his people l tion affecting the liquor traffic, as AN IMPOSSIBILITK im that Province. $ | f far as it was possible in Ontario. .Four Ways to Get Temperance. | ' ' p I'f)th Of the.\'e p('titi"nfl "':':lve "".' mm mm mm meune ! ThFI'O were four methods Open to equivocally refused by 'i'l"']» lt""';'i"L * 'the people of Quebec ;o adopt local who said it was impossible to have e s | option. First, any municipal Coun-- . perfect prohibition in -- Ontario. Ontarzo Br anch of AIItance |cil may refuse to grfmt licenses, and| Tsc Hon. W. J. Hanna, who was in * |there was no appeal from its decision. | FC: | t company with Sir James, vigorous-- Ends Conventlon After i'tAh]Lr;?(?IEP w'?zqn&)cesigggty dintefi':ll:)serganscee: 3 «3 "I 1: t *, ® "* a s * ¢ # CE #3)"' ly defended the threce--tifths clause an Excztmg Day !(Jmmci]. Secondly, in any polling sub-- y yIR as a force for temperance. He * ;division if a | simple majority is . f & also criticized Rev. Ben. H. Spence 'of the electors signed a petition k | § for bhaving said in convention the ts o :ugainst the granting of licenses, none ', lae s 3 day before, as reported by one could be granted. "g'hirdly. if thirty '1,1 morning newspaper, that the Con-- Full of confidence and with & 7"""3"5 Si'gned a p(f:'tlth!} to the Sfcre- § _\ || servative party had been "treacher-- §tr<)ng knowledge of their case, the a nel .(1)f n on Lo Aeurane gor 4 ¥ 6 ols ¢" Mr. Spence denied al. Convention of the Ontari prohibition poll to be brought on, a F [ | ous. Mr. Spence denied the al e Ontario branch of simple majority at a ratepayers' meet-- A 'j'_',,{';-é legation, and later in the day the Dominion Alliancemarched on 'ing was all that was needed to try the is' .'1'",' denlare«l.tlmt 'his charge ]-l:l(l been the Provincial Parliament buildings question of ]o.ca'l option. And fourth-- e oo that "trickery" was the sin of the yesterday morning, bandied words i/ ly, any mun1c1palxty could get a y _|| _ Conservative _ Government, while with Sir James Whitne S |clause in its charter to prohibit the 8 l Ee || "treachery" charan itney and Hon. W. _ }' manufacture or sale of liquors within § .3 i 'ry" had been the charac-- J. Hanna over the thr 3 s P ocg , i 4 f Th sn es ee--fifths clause i|its limits. M ; f teristic of the Liberal party. and a pprohibitive I * i | . .: The three--fifths clause passed by Yince, and ret e ?lW' for the Pro-- , | Interview Endcd in Disorder. f #a l the -- Whitney _ Government, Mr. s , and returned to Cooke's Church : With one indignant temperance en-- , fff spence claims, was. nothing more n} the :'afternuun to express words of | thusiast shaking his hand in Ssir James t -- P than a political trick. disappointment and indignation. | Whitney's face and declaring that he ; i\ . AWT Officers were elected, the _T % | would "never vote for him again as W /) ie cA ss--o--oo--i_sms. Aliurer's statement w ¢ :e Teks | long as he lived," and others angrily x . oane s § o Cl 20 k_ Nae présented"and 'de.scribing the Prime Minister's state-- f\ iss Pss eports of various committees wero >|ments as nothing but "declamations," & ; is given. The last hours of the conven-- the interview the three--hundred-- { 00e tion in the evening took the form of , |strong deputation had with the Gov-- ns - a public meeting, over which May : |ernment yesterday morning broke up ce P George IL Lees 'f Hamilt C a';'" in something like disorder. * "5:%»"" C * *€ o 1amilton presid-- t 1 «4 %, o( 4 ke s ed, and addresses were delivered by |'*Phree--difthiy" Clatise Attacked, P k' $ J. H. Roberts, Montreal, and Miss The speakers -- of the: dgputation f s cy§ Cora E. Stoddart, Boston, with anilel Hhe arime MiMeLONs Munes: ; g'@&x f ie s Milma nMIMs= ;gntths law without ceremony, a pro-- } L | %J} * ber of selections by the Victoria Uni-- ceeding to which Sir James took warm § w é@ versity Glee Club. exception. On several occasions while | 2. . Vividly co a +4 ; Ssir James was speaking he was in-- | "."':;1 invectivg ;L:ltrgbted with the .fumous terrupted by cries of "That's not so," 1%%5> x$ * ed at the Ontario Gov-- '"'That's not true," and at one point R 4'{, ernment by many of the speakers dur-- : | he became angry and turned on one ; "-'_5.'!%{?' ing the last two days, and most ef-- <\| member of the deputation with a m fective in its reflection upon the posi< . {| CaUstic rebuke. ' > . ule tion assumed by Sir James Whitney in _ _ l Provincial Prohibition Impossible. C o t relation to temperance legislation, was / Sir James declared in unmistakable is an addt.'ess delivered last night on | language that "Provincial prohibition" k p '"'The Situation in Quebec," by Mr. was an impossibility, and marvelled x k l Roberts, the little Welsh Secretary of '| that "any person of ordinary intel-- 4 t %" the Quebec branch of the Dominion ligence, any person who could read K4 Alliance. Mr. Roberts is not unlike and write," could hold such an opin-- > ' > 9 ;l;nle famgu}s.Llolyd-George in appear-- ion. Alk 1 -- ce an » g 4 % istic of theuze'la'yoq(ll'l;rt'.ce isichafACLer "\ Bitter Criticism. s s i > Hon. W. J. Hanna, Provincial Sec-- BefutesA Hon. Mr. Hanna's Statement, retary, expressed in a different form r ! _ Mr. Roberts said that he had been the same opinion, vigorously defend-- t.. | 'an interested listener at the interview ing the three--fifths clause as a force | ; with Sir James Whitney and Hon. W for temperance. The Minister ;ook the ; w * --J. Hanna in the morning, and he had | breath away from the members of the : \@ | noticed that the Provincial Secretary deputation by opening his remarks ; N+. § \had stated that Quebec, which only with a bitter criticism of Rev. Ben| 3 | required a 51 per cent. majority vote Spence, General Secretary of the Do--| fe= 2} R to carry local option, was far behind minion Alliance, for having declared | Bhak J | . Ontario with its three--fifths clause. to & temperance mass meeting yes--| «t | '"I want to say," said Mr. Roberts, terday that the Conservative Govern--| | '"that Mr. Hanna is wrong. Fully two-- ment had dealt "treacherously" with | | thirds of the municipalities in Que-- the temperance people in enacting the' * bec have local option, while in On-- three--fifths law. + y y j » *» 3 fifigomi"nffg&.e only a little over half, The Statement Disowned. | ; 5 7 Y silent, but 3 i Government in Quebec Sympathetic. . Dq atIe{x?,\ when sr lik on anNuded No the OB Quebec was the keystone in the "treachery" statement, several others | * arch which the temperance people of interrupted, declaring that the Gen-- j Canada were trying to build, and the eral Secretary had never used the ex-- | N reason for this position was that pression attributed to him. Quebec had a Liberal Government, "I never said it," concurred Mr. which was absolutely in sympathy Spence, when appealed to. . | with the temperance movement. "Then all I can say," remarked Sir | "Sir Lomer Gouin," said Mr. James, "is that he should have said j i Roberts, "would sacrifice politics any so some time ago." ; dl | time for the cause of prohibitive leg--| Here Hon. Mr. Hanna interpose | islation. We have no three--fifths to explain that before guotlng the | clause in Quebec. It is an unheard of newspaper he had made independent | thing to repeéal local optiop in Que-- inquiries, and had satisfied hxm-| bec. We do nog live under an un-- self that the newspaper reports were ; benevolent despotism, but in an en-- substantially correct. ' iwr +» f lt:gh;ggleacl :£d progressive democracy, | No Word of Encouragement. | | --From one end to the other of the Montreal Versus Toronto. | speeches of the Prime Minister and Ts Referring particularly to Montreal, J the Provincial Secretary there was . 4 e speaker said that he knew that _ I.not a word of encouragement for the