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C mm F7 fiw Rp ns -- dictat T enz y was the way it had been dictated, ns . : 3 was--I was going to say the most[ lt views, and he urged that the Pre-- mier and the movers of the two crooked ballot in the world--not a R amendments get together and bring fls o fair ballot. We have made good +4 'progresa in the Jast fifteen yoars in some sane temperance measure 1 4. lThink of it, All the bars are gone, xz:gg;;:um meet the approval of all | . and yet you could not get fifteen per * | cent. of the people to vote for thieir Are in Dilemna. | return. Yes, but you want religion it fet i | to come all at once, and you cannot If we were debating +~mothers get it. If I were the Prime Min-- pensions, or some legislation to give ister I would go a little sparingly. heln to unfortunate widows with |I'd give the hard--working man in Childl"en. thel:e would not be a 'cor-- | the shop his glass of beer." poral's guard' in the gallenes'. sar» With all due respect to the tem-- castically commented Mr. Swayze, f % R | |Labor member for Nia ara -- Falls ' perance element, Mr. Clarke declar--| | & s . ed, there must be a little of human--| | with regard to the numbers of men | ity exhibited. Beer to many had| and won'imn in the galleries, | | been a food all their days. Prob--| He pointed to the dilemma mem-- | ably most of them had never been bers found themselves in on being ' ' | drunk in their Hves. Sentimentalif_y' asked to do one thing by one tem-: | had been introduced. "People," he perance body and another tl'l'ing by | said, "won't understand humanlty! another temperance body. I"holdg tari"ht." Many a time, he said, he . that the Brackin amendment, he ; 4 S y p | said, '"'is right, and that we should * | had taken in a tired workingman in | i' his home town and given him a' go to the Dominion Government and ' Irink. "Yes," he added, amid laugh-- ask them to tell us fairly if the bm' ' |<r ai 'a do it asain if I were applies to the Province of Ontario. | I ter, and Td do it again i . s i 'pu}19dv fOY' {t tn_morrow. ;f ;t 3.(;;318"!1(", tilen C}lange tlle bill' O & | 'l:\pplmldfll by House. With Mr. Mageau, Mr. Swayze | [ _ e at 3 e living for?' he ask-- was in favor of the Swedish system, | nd,":'r;:lit'l':lr: t': be mfn; living to be of hand]lr}g liquor. If some suc'h frank and honest; living to help each measure were 1ntr0ducod,' he be!ie»-' l A be broad--minded. You ed, within ten years the liquor ques-- pother:_ to De L ie C C tion in this country would be swept| | cannot make people Christians, You * L. 4 away. '"'This restriction of importa-; { cannot make them absolutely tem-- tion of liquor into Ontario," he said, perate, "will not create the conditions that; *"What I call the greatest tem-- you hope for." If an element in the | 3 perance in this world is the man, Province were determined to brlngl 3 who is big enough to do what he| about "bone--dry" conditions, then| §' thinks is right, the man who has let them, he said, concentrate their| < humanity enough to feed or help' forces, go to the Dominion Govern--| § any man who needs it I tell you ment and ask them to prohibit the | H right now, Mr. Speaker, undielilj;ldi'; inanufacture of it entirely, : clous management, shops, with four | ¥ | 3 \ per cent. beer for five or ten years, Tired of Being Fooled, +| 3 ' in my opinion, would probably be the Briefly Lieut.--Col. H. S, Cooper,| i best thing that ever happened the| TLiberal member for Northeast To--| * Province of Ontario. 'To--day you ronto, declared that there was no| ; have men drinking wood alcohol.| doubt of the demand from the peo--| E | To--day they are taking drugs. It| ple of the Province for advanced would be far better to feed them a| temperance -- legislation. But the | little legitimate stuff, and not b'e'% people were sick and tired of being| Al dictated to by this or that fanatic. fooled. He was in favor of the | @ MAtCtlhekconcluslon of hd;;' ac(l)crlll';?.i Brackin fl'n]f)n?}?}})e'ndt' CFo | n r. arke was persona C ® s Mr. J. G. Le ridge, C.FP.O. mem--| S tulated by every Labor member' ber for South Middlesex, said he had i * from the ()ovorn{nent benches. Ho:i., been makinp;_ temperance Speechegi , | Messrs. Grant, Smith, and Doherfty| throughout his section of the coun-- | walked across the filoor to shake| try for years, and was for the Mc--| hands with him, and the whole j Creary resolution. It was time he| house, including U.F.O. members[ sald. that the political forces ceased: A and the Premier himself, warmly ap--| making temperance a political foot--| ¢ plauded his speech. | ball, and for that reason llxxe was er(;-, f | Thinks Prohi possible. | tirely opposed to the Hill amend--| " _ Mr. 2 Ma:ei:i:nlfi':eral bmember' ment. F The B'fzggizpz?':?pd:'_':;':; g} | & % a i 0 nion, mi a ® | for Sturgeon Falls, complained thaj! s }}t?ga{)ion. and in the meantime peo--| a | there had been "too much play le would be filling their cellars | | is stew * ho. "Ler nyooveriss be done with HGuor. -- When Ontario has thig a plea was: "Le ocrisy be ' strictions of the| f awax;' with." He ln{x?nced the effort | law, "Qfil? (figfarir;h;r OJX a nhzu'e what| | | of a friend of his to secure a bottle | Sandy 16 voted for last October. * | | of Scotch whiskey, which, when zthe people vote 6 | a ' finally procured, cost $10.50, and de-- | pmseerenateneasmmmmezenmemememns «4 clared, "I say, Mr. Speaker, that any l law, I don't care what it is, or where 3 --% | | it is, that allows anything of the kind -- , , to be perpetrated on the good citizens 9 I of this Province is not a good law, ' | |and it is time that it should be | amended." B » a s \ l In Mr. Mageau's opinion, '"you |can overdo anything.'" He proceed-- ed: "Why not have a sane policy ; enacted? Let the people get around B 8 together. That is all. The people who are asking measures must un-- i f derstand that there are other people ' to be considered in this country. If k you attempt to make this a 'bone-- s I | dry' Province you cannot raise § | enough revenue to make it so, So 4 | long as man lives liquor is going 4 $ I to be made. It is being made every-- 4 } where in homes to--day.'" | Would Copy Scandinavia. [ It was a good thing that the bar} . | was gone, he said. Nobody deslredi P that it should return. But let the Government take charge of legltl-l mate sale of lHquor. Absolute pro--| y A hibition laws, he believed, were not. f in the interests of temperance, He called the way whiskey was being handled throughout the Province at. present a curse. Some system such as was operated in Norway -- and * . Sweden should be inaugurated -- in Ontario, whereby the man who wanted a little liquor could procure } ) a license to have it. He differed from & | the opinion that a private member . j should not introduce a temperance + measure. The effort had always been to secure full and free discussion wA On\}he ma:ter in the House. * wone of the propositions to be s w2 -- |submitted, he said, met with -- his ; *