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im 2 Ti do 'T«W"}." l RSVm T [ ( ui old y » S' np iw ym lein / orms s m,nW ' _WEDNESDAY, MARCOH 15, 1916 7 "ot s R L ; e ,}' «it h J';k",x:_k_u FRENCH MEMBEN'S _ \ ' ctoosa mengans | / 0 l'Mr. Ducharme Stirs Debate in | Legislature | ! cevpramnse ce com e n mm in | A CALL FOR PEACE | . { | e e | t :':\ll-dny Debate -- on -- Budget, W'ithj) Many Expressions of Opinion From 1 ' Both -- Sides--Governmment _ Houst: Criticized. \ An all--day debate in the Legislature t yesterday on the Budget was peliev-- i? * ed by Mr. S. Ducharme, the Liberal | ! member for North Essex, in a speech i I which drew forth the plaudits of the IE members on both sides. The French-- | ° Canadian struck a truly patriotic note, ' t and made an earnest call for unity in | * the Province. When the member f¢ r,"f North Essex touched on the war and 1' praised the British constitutian he" had the attention of all present, and | the more eloquent periods evoked p4 marked enthusiasm, ana none joined ;/ more heartily than the Ministers pre-- i sent. Messrs. Hanna, Ferguson, Mco-- |, Garry and Duff. \Ur. _ Ducharme, |; * though a -- French--Canadian, is :1.! speaker of "parts, his English is good | ind his delivery is surpassed by few i in the House. 4 t "From the first until the last mo-- ment. as long as this war i1asts," Mr. l 'Ducharme said, "I say ihis the duty | 'of every man in Canadafto issist as 1 'much as be possibly can," and, amid +. |appluuso, added: "None ought --to 'think and, say that with more reason 'than the nationality I am glad to be-- 1long to, Perhaps we were the most |lucky people on earth that we hap-- | * |pen to have been fostered by the Brit-- | |ish people. _ What would have be-- |come of us if we had been adopted |\by the Prussian people? I say here lin Canada we are a part of the Brit-- lish Empire. We will not separate. 'Wp are not trying to separate, and \never will we separate." (Applause.) \Dron RBelligerent Spirit. ' Touching on the educational gitua-- tion in the Province, the speaker said he did not accuse them, but if the Gavernment of the Province or the ,I)epartment of EAqucation ever enter-- E 'tained 'any belligerent spirit against' the French--speaking people now was | 'the time to drop it. miis remarks ap-- | plied to those on both stdes, and so far as he was concerned he was will -- ing to do his humble best to bring | about unity in the Province aof (m--.| tario, "the Province I will -- never leave unless I am chased out of 4t' (Laughter and applause.} Unhecalthy Debt Increase. Mr. Hugh Munro (Glengarry), con-- tinuing the debate on the Budjget, de-- clared that the expenditure had in-- creased too fast for the results -- that l (were being obtained, and the same 'applied to the public debt. Betweenl '1904 and the present time the public debt <had increased from $11,000,000 to $49,000,000. He did not think this showed a healthy condition. of things. | Mr. Sinclair (South Oxford) con-- gratulated the Provincial -- Treasurer on his Budget, and thought he had taken the right course in giving & statement of the assets of the Prov-- ince. This would have a good ef-- fect on Ontario's credit in the money markets of the world. In reply to Mr. Munro he maintained that agri-- culture was not in a decadent condi-- tion, and praised the work of the De-- partmeyt of Agriculture in South Ox-- for the matter of district repre--