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a ® Wws h en e . wWnd pot a [lation. It was no argument to say | | that the late Government had not| - |-dono enough for tsmmee:'!or his own part he would admit it. _ But it |Wu surprising to see the position § 'taken by the hon. member for West \ Lambton (Mr. Hanna) in view of the f recent local option contest in Sarnia.} ?3 Coincident with the demand for the' ~ labolitlon of the bar there had come f & 'a call from all over the Province for t3 men who would support the cause , of temperance and carry its advocacy % (from day to day into the councils of | | the nation. + I Mr. McCormick repudiated a state. ment published in The London Free Press, that the Liberal party would * have to disbvense with its present s leader. "What has The Free Press to ; do with Mr. Rowell?" he declared * amid applause. "We are proud of Mr. Rowell. He believes he is right and . has the courage to stand for his con-- victions." \Ur. Wm. McDonald (Centre Bruce) f agreed with Mr. McKeown, that it would be a nice thing if the temper-- ance question could be taken aut of ; politics, but as long as politics was | § the science of government no hopf" could be entertained that the admin-- | 5 istration of the liquor traffic could be | s A divorced from politics. For himself he | f ; had been a temperance advocate all | f his life, and as proprietor of a news-- | f paper had consistently advocated pro. | § } hibition and local option. | Onee loeal option was established, ; $ continued Mr. MeDonald,. the sgsecur--| ity provided by the three--fifths clause | « was its weakness. The tendency was | to induce the temperance forces to! lay down their arms and rest. _ This| disintegration _ of fighting organiza--| tions was not good, and if local op-' !tion was maintained and held by a| | majority vote it would make for more | ® | _ | eficient propaganda work. He was | \ not prepared to answer for the sins \__|of the late Government. and declar-- l ed that it would have been wise for Hir -- George Ross to nail his' |eolors to the mast of total prohibi--| |\ tion and gone down to defeat in that :' | _ | cause. | | | i.\ll'. StudhoImeo's Position. | | | Mr. Allan Studholme (Hast Hamil--| i ton) declared that the temperance | ' | question was the greatest of all ques-- | 'tions before any legislative body. HMe| i I said he would vote both for the re--| | solution and the amendment if he | lwas permitted, and as he did . last year. He would vote for the resolu-- j ltion and would then vote for the | !umendment because he knew he ; would be beaten on the former. -- He| would vote for the latter, for he want-- ' & ¢ ced something done looking to the | curbing of the liquor trafic. . He re-! Iferred to statements made in the \House in the afternoon to the effectl 'that the Government should not go 'beyond public opinion in temperance legislation, and said that if organized \labor never went beyond or ahead of | public opinion it would not be where it was to--day. The Government, he | said. was playing with the liquor traffic, being satisfied with "nipping a little off its tail each year." The' i Opposition would wipe it out with a | | single stroke. The abolition of the | ! bar, he argued, was indisputably for | \the good of the community. «ouniinttienremar aitocectoce niiuragleiareniemmencenmmies | m'*-w__--__-;__----_'----------------__----m@ ' Points F Mr. R & ' | Points From Mr. Rowell's Speech 1 M omm en rmemrne omm e omm en o nerrereemegrmeeeeemoee on e rere en meae en rer mreee ons mereaee en eee eeeemneee e e reere oo omm maeee e en aeeac oo retiatre e tetemee mm mmmmmmmnemmenmmmesom | "Churchmen, -- business men.-- om-- I am ready to help, no matter where s \ployers 'of labor and bodies of men the invitation comes from. | 'h'"'" 'pax?.'ed resolutions: in Afavor of "The abolition of the bar means :thc abolition of the bar in Ontario.| for one thing, the abolition of alll | > hotel liquor licenses. | f | -- "After weighing carefully all the f iracts presented to us, we came to the| "IUlu'l ul']olisht'the-b'dl' policy would '{onclusgion 7 4 inlaif? _ make local option -- permanent. 1% | conclusion that the legisistion 90W | wourg abolish club licenses in all urgently needed is the legislation en | parts of the Province and would wipe :é"t)('llled in our abolish--the--bar resolu-- | out the treating system. | tion. [ (¥ 4 1 E* i5 i ---- | __The effect of our policy would be | | OQut uf 77 municipalities voting on | this; Jut of 835 municipalities thel il.uL"dl option by--laws, there was a ma-- | retail sate of liquor would he entire--l | Jority ut.\'otos for local option in 63 | ly wiped out except in 83 or 84 muni-i ;and a minority in only 14. cipalities where shops exist. j e | I am against the bar anywhere| "We will (abolish the shops) if 0"", l'"d every where. ;hon. friends will support usg. _ | 'wf ss , \~4 "Any means placed at my disposal I "The bar is the most fruitful source' i by which the bar can be wiped out, | of evil." A t MW'MW"