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& natran.-- 1 se for the bar. o ie sb itc d' the partics wore "Gol. Machin said he would like to . age. He believed the parties t | know what amendments the Gov--| A too much inclined to seek offite 107 | < t intended introducing to the \ their own benefit instead of the wel-- ' , ernme: The great issue in the 1914 a ; 'fare of the country. Mr. fB&mmii:'t: E)' Tt'lon. had been the abolition of spoke strongly in favor 0 | f Zhec bar. when Sir James Whitney, | itiative and referen(}um.k hen. Mr: | the then Premier, had gone to the | > It was after 11 o'clock when J the "At that time we had in John Calder of Oxford rose to make | oo mrcy as Leader of the Con--| i f his maiden address in the Houseél the Provlncet 'a aw of marvelous | a He was followed by Dr. Jaques of | servative party failth, 8 man\ xt ® | onality and tried faith, Haldimand. | ho ision was clear, who had to | s _ * . ercatest degree a ftund 'of com-- « the greatest degf ' s mon horse sense, and it was u"dq"r s ' lConservatlve Member for the leadership Am il pffret';,' is | '; s 4 James Whitney " i -- ; Kenora Caustically At-- L eturnen Pss dus iesd the sbeok | ity it had," con : s ig i tacks Government on P o. ' e J Temperance Act _ wiiiney Mhe L C +0 oolomgiient" ' ' r the issue of "abolish the § } 3 T 1 ""h}iy]f?d something to do With]the z p ar acl f * < i ad been the marvellous "W"'D FANATIClSM !'esuu'ftll';t*'h L(:]md the splendid in-- 89 npersonality j * HAS BROKEN FAITH tegrity and sane judgment of Sir James Whitney and the desire of sammusmue--um1 f the people of the Province to have e a tried and trusted leader remain at Charges That Llcen'ee' Are the head of the Government that % won the election. '"The people at l Betrayed and SuggCSts that time felt that under the Whit-- i n~t 44-- ney Government the evils of intem-- = MunIClpahtles be A"OW-- perance were reduced to a mini-- s < mum, and that his Government was ed to DeCIde LOC&th!l Of properly enforcing the law." * However, Sir James Whitney died & s Vendors and the present Prime Minister was onfi on es niveiee ierootierinss chosen. What took place in 1916 % n ack he did not know, but the O.T.A. was Denouncing the Ontario Temper-- passed in 1916, the people being ance Act as being brought about by willing to do anything the poli-- wild fanatics, and as a pharisean f }iCita}?S or any:)ne felse said "{:}13 right1 in n the interests of winning the war. measure, and one which deprived "I think our friends the prohibi-- ; the people of their constitutional tionists took a most unfair advan-- | liberties, Col. H. A. C. Machin, Con-- tage in inflaming the minds of the | servative member for Kenora, made l\)veaorple(;naltrt?:dz'ul?jveecrtwggu?r)rxl-ct)h(i)gittigg ) a j a n % ® t a scathing attack on the Government and by stamding the Government l : | in the Legislature last night. His into passing the drastic legislation attack had been advertised previ-- they did," declared Col. Machin. ously as to be one on the Prime Min-- Amazed at People's Attitude. ister. While he did not specifically mention -- Sir William Hearst in While he deplored the unfairness! his -- wholesale denunciation _ of then, he regretted the savagery and the Government for passing the offensiveness shown by the Govern-- Ontario Temperance -- Act, and ment and its officers in persecuting breaking faith with the -- peo-- | people of the Province for breaches ple who elected in 1914,; he 'of the O.T.A. He was amazed that drew a critical comparison between the people had stood for the perse-- the Prime Minister and the former cution. For stealing chickens not * occupant; qf the position, the late Sir valued at more than $20, a person James Whitney. | was fined $20 and costs, but for hav-- Ignore Party Whips. |ing liquor a person was fined $200 8 * |and costs as a minimum. '"'The While stating that he was not in ! penalties provided under the O. T. A. favor of ;zqin;; back to the open bar, and the method by which they have Co!. Machin came out strongly in been enforced are the most fanatical | f favor of the f".overnment, '"'in com-- persecution that the Province has! mon decency, compensating those ever suffered from," he declared. It {:eople vx?o had been put out of was fanatical paternalism that wentl R Tusi:esil DV "thf' passing of the-- O. so far as to even prevent housewives Si.des'ot'tfiheu'}fg-(}q 1115111'!)9'"3 (3:1 b(_)th purchasing extracts of vanilla or' to oo '...e o vote according gingeer except under stringent regu-- } to ;:}t:;n(t)ue'?ci when the amendments lations. : O.T.A. are introduc r » H iev Gmrornment. and not to a'll)(l'(eig l?; :l}:g rj e lilachzn. _be(lrxe\ efl 5 C snn uo5 ;_ Gecision of party leaders While h ; vince was v&aftlph for someone to * belioy o hnal * lle. he speak out. While not a Moses,; he elieved he may have taken his po-- ; 5 litical life in his hands by makin believed that he was as fit as any-- the address he did, Col. Machin %'xig one else to speak on the subject. | that he saw things differently %}x;f'e The scheme which he suggested | having been in France. and hc \\:ould was that each municipality should |never again listen to the orders of have the nght,.by a majority vote, S | party whips, if he was not personally to say whgther it would have a Gov-- in accord with the meagure he was ernment liquor vendor in its midst: | F 'asked to support HMe explained that f that the Government, on approval | t having made his promised attach; being expressed, appoint one within i he_ would return to Ottawa to . Ns sixty days; that only householders be military duties, carefully pointing allowed to secure liquor from thesel out that his absence from the. House vendors, and then only by license: would not be because he was seeklng' that the Government employ civil ' 34 to ge.t. awhy from the issue. Col. servants in these shops, and that the 4 Machin also suggested a system of vendors deliver liquor in case lots' f j y Government vendors to sell liquof to the home. He thought the Gov-' 3 in each municipality, ' ernment should do this at 10 per | 3 Changes Its cent. added on the cost, and that 2 & ts Platform, . part of the profits be returned ?o' # The speaker declared that the the municipality earmarked for edu-- & Conservative party had been elected cational purposes, and that the other ; to power on a definite platform in half be used by the Province for 4 1914. and that in changing its policy pensions for civil servants. | the least it cov'd do was to éom_' We es ho mee n cuges areare t neleien t it t 0004 NGe 000 ttie i ocecnrmincn mr06ttge mate icmnswae | a pensate the people it had put out T Crogariter{ T of business. Up until the passing j of the O. T. A. the liquor traffic had been a legitimate business in the Province. ~It had been encouraged by the Government, although re-- -- $ strictions were going into force but it was understood that if.the liquor a business obeyed the laws of the lana x a their vested rights would be pro-- T tected. For years under Govern-- s € ment control the liquor traffic had become a monopoly. He was sorry : that when Hon. Mr. Rowell intro-- 3 duced a bill to abolish the bar a few £ [ | years ago he had not supported it. + 8 That was the proper thing to dO.' o for the people in the Province had