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e e Ne e ocm /C *WT Shem o | it was attem ' y _ t platform. Is it any wonder that _ ' 4 t in . |Th was -- | commission. He justiied the ap-- e : g::::e 2 shocked at this sud pointment of the Hydro--radials Com-- He twitted Hon. Mr. Foerguson ._| mission by saying that the proposed ugon hés admission th%t thei Conservy.-- _ A > e ative overnment, when in power, radials agreements left the munici had hosts of things under way, but --| palities responsible if Hydro--radials 'none of them ready. In the last were succesetul._ and the Province lyear of a "do something" Govern-- responsible if they were a failure. Imcmt. he said, a forestry policy that Briefly. but with convincing de-- | had lain dormant 16 years had been A launched in the Province and already tail, he reviewed the legislation of six counties--Simeoe, Durham, Nor-- last session, and generously accord-- folk, Ontario, York and Northum-- ed credit to opposing groups for their h'erlag\d----ha.d mker;'r a,dxéanta.ge of * P f the Government's offer of co--opsra-- sympathetic support. . He appealed Hon and were establishing muni-- for a continuation of their co--opera-- cipally--owned.forests. tion during the present session. If _ ~'The same situation may have ex-- it were forthcoming he felt that last |isted, he said, in regard to the Moth-- year's "grand legislative -- record |ers' Pensions and educational better-- could be equ'aHed. ment. The Conservative Govern-- The Premier spoke }o a friendly |ment may bave '"proposed" certain House, and applause was almost as things, but again the tree did not !eflel'ou.]y flccorded to 'the left as to vhring 'fnrth. u"vho was it Said," the | the right of the Speaker. The gal-- Premier asked, "the saddest work of leries were almost as crowded as tongue or vben is '!It might ha\'ei on opening day, as many women as been' ?" * > men attending to hear the Premier. -- * | When the Premier concluded his ad-- Tho People's Pariyg. i dress of little more than an hour's The Premier advised the Leaders | duration he was given warm ap-- of the Liberal and Conservative plause from all sections. groups not to take too seriously | Nothing But Compliments. Rhewspaper stafements of fact con-- * cerning the Farmers' Government. Premier Drury said he ought to "I would advise them not to pay too compliment Hon. Mr. Ferguson and much attention to any gossip they Mr. Dewart, Conservative and Liber-- may hear about us. It is not wise to al Leaders, for the unconcious trib-- § !get your ears open too wide. Youl utes they had paid to the Govern-- may hear a good deal that is not | ' ment in their addresses. "I looked ' _itruse and be put off the track of | for a great deal of criticism," Prem-- | things that are really important.| ier Drury stated, "hutnl found no-- a | Who can predict the future of poli-- thing but compliments." Mr. Dewart |tical parties in this country when, ags had only one serious fault to find, II said, the two historic parties are he said, and Hon. Mr. Ferguson had © [apparently in liquidation? none. '"When over a year ago I was ask-- The Liberal Leader's chicf point of !od to accept the Leadershin I an-- complaint, the Premier said, was the I nounced plainly and without equivo-- fippointment of what he termed the ! cation what 1 believed should be the one--man power Civil Service Com-- | policy ot the party. That policy has H'lissiox_l." "I find," the Premier said, ;never been questioned. It stands." -that it was one of the ofices we The Premier then quoted his stand inherited and have not shaken. 1 ias enunciated over a year ago, to the find that the office was created in effect that the Government repre-- the session of 1918 and that my hon-- ! sents in a very real sense not alone _\ orable friend from Southwest To-- 'the farmers, but all classes, and ronto had a place in that legislation." would expand and broadert out Although the commissioner was not '"until it shall become not only a the appointee of the Drury Govern-- Farmoers' party, but in a very real ment the Premier declared he had senseo a People's party. found him to be actuated by zeal for "It has never been -- challenged, lh?' welfiye of the }'rovlnce. never questioned," he declared. "On , a, This Government," he'proceeded, that declaration I stand to--day. And | can look back and say it has been !I am glad to say this, that while I actuated only by one motive in mak-- ibelieve in the beginning we had only ing appointments, and that has been 'a minority of the people behind us, the motlvg of getting the right man now the ~breadth of our plat-- for the right place. We have ap-- form appeals to others besides far-- pointed no one because of previous mers. -- party connection." _ "Quotations have been read from The Scerious Step. the columns of The Farmers' Sun as though the Government were ac-- It had been impossible, the Prem-- countable for every line that ap--| ier said, to announce last session pears in The Sun, even when it is | the appointment of the Hydro--radial \taken ¥from the news lines--and | . Commission because the cireum-- |probably distorted. We haveo no | stances that' made its appointmeni . party Press, We #ecognize the in-; necessary did not arise until after ldependence of the Press and ye re-- adjournment. '"The appointing of serve our own independence tromi that commission," he said, "was a |tha.t source." serious step, a step in which the $ From The Globe of last year hel Govemment_ took its political life quoted an editorial comment com--| into its hands, a step we would not plimenting the Government on its | have taken had we been playing "excellent'" results attained. Neither | politics, had we not been actuated |The Globe nor The Mail and Empire, | _ _ by a desire to serve the people of which also gave credit, he said, could | _ the Provlnce.' It was not politics, be regarded as a Government organ. __it was very impolitical so far as "We have more to do," he said, } pol.i.tics. as understood in the past. "than to bicker over small things. §go.. We did a grand thing last year so \| Both Leaders of the Opposition f *® far as legislation is concerned, And groups," the Premier went on, this session we will welcome cp--0p-- "seemed to tako a great deal of eration of anyone, no matter where pains to explain why they were not he sits in the House. ::,Doweg. I find all sorts of reasons "If we are any good, if we are ful-- 1 vanced. <-- It seemed to me like a ; is eople havo re-- sort of winding up, or a giving of ;_:(l)l;:dg it,r;str;bet t;Sreepno!t): to make ; account to a receivership of the for-- party differences or class differ-- ; tunes of the old parties. It seemed ences. We are here to use our best ; to me that both gentlemen misinter-- brains in shaping good legislation. \, pretod the situation, that they were Last session we did that. | treating political evolution, political "There was a charge that the Gov-- | development, as though it did not ernment has shirked responsibility. exist. : During the last session the. Govern-- If thess gentlemen would look ment bas shown no lack of courage a little closer into their own re-- in assuming responsibility on great !' cords they would see, perhaps, there questions. We ivill stand or falt by | vital reasons ror the thing that has our administrative record. I hope | taken place. 'The bane of party poli-- we will duplicate the grand record ties, as we have had them during the we made last year. J havo been last few years, has been the lack of giving credit freely during the sum-- sincerity. $ * mer to the whole House.'spflfiking Did Mr. D ¢ over the whole country, Because ewart Know? think it is a thing that ought not to The Premier referred to the op--| be--any body of men di"'d"d into position 6f H. H, Dewayt, K.C., to a two groups, taking advantage of measure introduced last session to each other and neglecting the work tg: improvements on a lower basis 'they were elected for." n land. And yet that principle, f :1: said, was one of the planks in Attitude on Hydro. ' to' 'il-"":"a-l platform. "I would like He did not intend, he said, to de-- added ".'."tz own guess," the Pren!ler sert either responsibility or friends , _ --nat the honorable gentle-- f in dealing with matters relating to did not know it was in the pPe :