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FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1916. ¢ | | ' emostommntsizenomcemt | | Hon. Mr. Hearst Calls for Tem i perance Advance ' MR. ROWELL _ APPROVES: # | Proposed Prohibitory Legislation, in Accord With Need for Sacriflces.: 1 Meets Hearty Endorsation of Op--| | position Leader, | On the principle of prohibition there was practicalhy no divergence of opinion expressed in the speeches of the two leaders in the Legislature yesterday on the Address in reply to | the Speech from the Throne. 'The | Government has come to the conclu-- 5 sion that the time has arrived whens further legislation might be enacted | without introducing greater evils than ' those we are attempting to destroy," was the declaration of Premler' , Hearst, while Mr. Rowell assured the | House: "I am prepared to cordially | ] support the Government.in carrying? out the proposals they submit if J these proposals are, as 1 understand they are to be, as outlined in the ; Speech from the Throne.'" The leader i | of the Opposition suggested -- ag an | | | alternative method--though -- failing / | that he would co--operate with the | Government in their proposals as he / | understood them--of enacting legisla-- | [ tion, to go into effect at the earliest | 'pra,ctica.ble date, which would com--| pletely wipe out all hotel, shop and | club licenses, and would continue in | force during-- the period of the war and for & reasonable" period -- thereafter, during the period of reconstruction, and that it should not be repealed ex-- | cept by the vote of the people, to be | taken at a later date. Mr. Rowell also ' undertook, if a bill as he understood | the proposal in the Speech from the | Throne was submitted to the people.! to join the Premier and other mem-l bers of the Government in going be-- fore the people ana asking for en-- dorsement and ratification of the measure, A Call for Sacrifice. : Premier Hearst, who spoke from a | written address, also reached a loftyf plane., -- He emphasized the call now, | "d most earnest and special one for | service and sacrifice by everyone in the Province," and declarea that '"every reasonable step should be taken at this time of stress and strain that would add to the strength of the country and would conserve our resources in every way possible for the great taslkt." The steady ad-- vance in local option until there were now nearly two "dry" municipalities for every "wet" municipality © in Op. tario had, in his judgment, helped in a marked degree to prepare the ground for any further advance in temperance legislation. The Premierp. | | after he had spoken for 45 minutes, | ; received word from his medical agd.-- |