The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 24 Feb 1922, p. 1

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, g OF "LIGHT BEER AND WINES" -- e tm T *4 Member for Riverdale, in | «Come Off the Fence." ' * The speaker vigorously defended| Legulature Debate, Also I--llydm and drew a parallel betweein the building of the Chippawa and| says l.L.P. Has Forsaken the Suez ('gnals. The fpoI;mer had | J & been condemned by a commission, Public owne"hlp --5 he said, but eventually was success-t; | ful. Regarding '"Timber Ferguson,'"' | g'Fd'O' Member Urge" the Government, if it had anytfiing. i | against him, should put him behind a lals for Toronto | the bars; if it had not, then "play se | the part of a man, come off the ADMITS GOOD WORK | fence, decorate mother earth, and | make a statement to that effect." | DONE BY SIR ADAM' Coming to the O.T.A., Mr. Mc-- ' Namara @aid he believed the At-- nememenmentmsmmeensemmaneess torncy--General had doneT'hls utmorflat' rar | to enforce the law. oday the ie What has be?ome. O, what has great Canadian indoor sport . was come of Labor's agonizing cry for making "home--brew.'"' He had seen beer and light wines?" was the| some "home--brew"' with the cork| qusstion ht ioseh . Moftamare| iA ipt Chth (Gnerine p9 u00. nde IAF . hy :/. 6 6 = for Pl:iendent Soldier--Labor member | Meved in temperance and not in pro~§ verdale, hurled across the floor hibition; believed in the principles 'of. the Legislature yesterday at the of British justice and the rights of Labor supporters of the Government. minorities. o s pould Mr. McNamara, who resumed the | ingggugeovfr;rzsgfi}gl?ngi.i'b; 182" debate on the reply to the SDeeChi and light wines could be sold in from the Throne, throughout his ad--| shops. The Government could sell dress was caustic at the expense ot' it cheap and could sell it pure. This, :.a:t:orites who are still throwing in | mg\fiur'ev:t(;télr? ga?i(c)lusr?e b((]';'d"erfi)gtmgé_ eir lot with the Government. The| lieve class--consciousness in itself was member for Riverdale, who produced | as evil thing. It was perfectly his wonted oratorical effects dur--| justified when used for a good pur-- ing an hour's effort, raked up item! pose. When the Farmers developed after item that he held u : a party to get what 'they wanted, ir-- '"'brok is P as| respective of the rights of others,; oken promises" of the Labor sup--/ | then it was not right. | porters, His final jibe was on the || Mr. Ferguson asked if it was not! "beer and wine" plea, and --once| true that Mr. Morrison held that, as | again he left no doubt j soon as others got in on the Farmers' | opinion _ of as to his| movement, the movement would die. ; e of . the Ontario Temperance' "'That is not my conception of the | ct as at present constituted. | |Farmers' movement in Canada, %V?dl Defends Class-- | | I will not support it," replied Mr.| The Gov ponecioisnoss. | Watson. The Farmers had laid down | | overnment speaker for the \ a platform. The people in the cltles! Eitrfternoon was Edgar Watson, North \ were saying they agreed with it and ) | Victoria, who wanted to come in. If they were | the Administrgf{ggfledflté'er:eff'%d of denied, then the movement should , the charge of "ClaSS--consciorl)xsg ,tf:,' be destroyed, and would be, by the | eulogized the roads policy, and ni;sis!,l- people of Canada. I :%'e"egot'l}ei;tn the time had come whenf Cold--storage for Farmers. ] closer and '1?1%2:: xinust s _ canicat| Mr. Watson said that the Govern--| over Hydro affairs nti{r{'natel' controli ment ought to develop cold--storage | favorably of the }.adlale a?Io .SDOkei facilities for farmers. Cold--storage | 2quall-tied his stand to thi policy, but and grain facilities should be owned | [he 'hoped the . le l0l tls extent: that by the Government," he asserted.| ido m by the Govegrsa on . brought Regarding roads, he said he, with | cilRate as: much a"nmenltb]womd fa-- other members, had travelled over | velopment of l.ad;a]gOSs' e the de--| a great portion of the new high--| rovernmental guarani dpat!_'t from | ways, and he believed the Provincei |He asserted vigorousl 'e§} ;)Tbonds., was getting value for every dollar | [ought to have a's st) i1at Toronto spent. "I venture to say that when | ystem of radials.l the job is finished the people of | Hydro Emergency Vote Soon. f Ohngario ;Vigi almos; wolrslllip gt the | Before the relli shrine 0 £#gs," he declared. | ton Hay..legrz.l;a},ee:é%sred;'l:e({hvr:gj He admitted Sir Adam Beck had | Drury when his proposed' es ed Mr. done good work in the early days | vote for Hydro would be 1 mergency of Hydro in breaking monopolies.' |once the debate h e brought in, but he argued that the commisson | |Speech from theonTltxrgnrepETV o cope must be under the control of the | cluded:. Mr. Drury said he would Government and of the Legislature. | pring it down immiecdiate! ie would . "The Hydro Commission and all its | UEebate. ately after the entlerprises must be under a closer ;. o mies and more intimate contr :to:ilz])? dfibatfi' h,&" e\Ber.v goes on again Province of Ontario,'" h'e gzludo.f ts° t ]being' the: hext. 3;$ea,}.(ige' Brantford, He prophesied that the Chippawa PC McNamara said ii he scheme would cost $90,000,000 be-- ernment speeches ho fare'® ay. ifore it was finished, and that the fered by the S On}the' fare of-- result would be to increase, rather [E Pnrons--" rerind I;eetlf} from -- the than reduce, the price of power. He | orations, " Aa~t' e; im of funeral was opposed to the scheme of "writ-- | Labor 'artp- 3 ~l}clu-la"y fl1ose of thes ing off"* part of the capital cost. "I fay frolr:1 tli(,z w l) ch is bound to suf-- don't think the Government has any 5s electorate in the days right to saddle the people of On-- to come. . tario with part of the cost of the | Have the principles of Labor | Chippawa," he asserted. | been sacrificed on the altar of in-- i '"'The city of Toronto ought to difference to the emoluments of of--| -- | have radials," he said. "It ought to fice?" he asked. What had become| 'have high--speed lines to alleviate ! of their planks on unemployment, | the abominable congestion. Too | | the eight--hour day, old age, social| much of a man's life is taken up! and unemployment compensation,| standing in street cars." He did not | maternal benefits, free hospital ser--| however, favor the Government as: |vices. free education? He wanted | lsummg any financial responsibility | ' to know aiso what had become of| in the building of radials. | that pact whereby the unearned in--. wwz _nno_ I, 'crement would be eliminated by a tax | * * on land values--in short, what had| become of the entire policy of pub-- lic ownership as enunciated by the Independent Labor party in On-- ; tario. f

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