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* is -v---x"'-------------W e e o h it e We e . 2. ritih w R Tw e , emipenietak. / s i yey" [| | --a0«. ararke convu ' ] x t 'Wlth some llumoxggssedre;g: House | ts : \Gone Crazy Over Hydro ht Forbes Godfrey, Conserarut KB | o |member for West York, ang L/ <44V® | _ '"Why, there are people in the cent controversy with th and his re-- | ~N city of Toronto who _ have sonel General over his "excesslg Ait torney-- simply crazy over Hydro," Mr. of preseriptions. After n?m ssuance & »Clarke said, after® mentioning the| the doctor was permitted (, " 31024 attitude of the past and the present several gallons of liquor at fo_ have Mayors of Toronto. Probably, Mr. Mr. Clarke said: "If 1 count UM® : !Clarke agreed, Torontonians had four or five gallons of lli"d ave t 3 | ta reason to feel grateful to Hydro, 'month, and the right to is;luor a | | but there were thousands and hun-- prescriptions, I could do"m';e Te j dreds of thousands of people on the !majorlty in the next election," y 'back concessions who had derived o es 7 no benefit. Their tolerance of large r M 'Hydro expenditure, he thought, was ' 'a compliment to their broad--minded-- e & ' | ness. ~=" p | Toronto, he said, would radiate} '41 - | | Hydro--radials to every point, "bring-- l j A I I ERS | & | ' ing in people every day to bring to } | ; it business, and wipe out those com--| | fortable little houses scattered_ all TORY M[NDS ' over the country; wipe out those ilitt)e hamlets. 'They hwant tofv:';n- in on rnre omm en i ize everything in the city o o= r f ' | fyaaise sverything Much Information Asked for | ' | Consider Back Concessions. by Members of the f | 1 "I don't care who 'likes it or | | § | who dislikes it," the member for LeQISlature l Northumberland proceeded. "I quite y eR ennram | ! , concur in the position the (}ogern- Timber matters continue to loom "' ment has taken, of not, in tl;o mean-- 'largely in the imaginations of Con-- | time, at any rate, incurring any servative members of the Legis-- | reater liability, so far as the Prov-- la § ! igr:ce of Ontario is concerned. It is fid enttlro' Jqu%ng- Ds continued refer-- | * , | | too big a proposition." He hoped C ces to it in inquiries being made $ | | that before an:,('"(zrm'ernmelrzlt s?nc- of -- the Ministry. . Hon. G,.. H. | tloned HMydro--radials it would take a Ferguson on ratiy 5 ¢ l | look at the back concessions and see nowg asl"' C;)":"!er\ ative -- Leader, is | i the situation of the people there. sking for a return of all cor-- | | _ After paying a tribute to the ac-- respondence between (Government| | | CO}?lD"mafgtS} of S'ill' Ad:m }B:g{(\, f members and E. W. Backus respect--| | | whose worth, he said, was hardly y :realized. he proceeded to state that ns th?_ Lakf' .Of the Woods puilp 'in Toronto there had grown up a concession, White Dog Rapids water | species of Adam Beck worship. power or other water powers, Eng--| ' | | After all, Sir Adam was only a man, | lish River pulp concession Kee-' | | he declared, and liable to err. He watin L m * | | | believed that the work at Chippawa o ,'1 n Lumber Company and the| | ! should proceed. ; Keewatin Power Company. ,' | ) "I am not so sure-- that now H. Hill, Ottawa, asks for details | 3.'s'~t~1'179 1);(109;; 'E:n)e'-o\'o'sg'-)tlol"c"""\ll'lg of payments made to Shirley Deni-- | :ilf;aes?g; of Powes.." _ _ tel son, K.C., and the arrangement un--, ' akey ~Phicdosiand Tinv's." der which he is retained by the Gov--, | 7 Ies 's fl1 * it ernment; also as to payments that | Mr. Clarke said he concurred with might have bee g R&. ho t the member for Riverdale (Mr. Mc-- ~1r~gga d& been paid to I T. 'Ha.rd | Namara) on the liquor question. The '6 and moneys expended by him for 1 step toward total prohibition, he be-- . | the Government. i 11:"'::(1.' ]had ('fe;:nd ,tihen}"r.ooa_p}':: W. D. Black, Addington, wants to| | S:)I;;dli)tligx:.:; ?zi'r fr}(?m 1d(e):'g i# nCt | know what water powers have been| b | "'This whole business," lLe de-- 'applied for by E. W. Backus since a 8 clared, "should have been under the December 15, and if it is the inten-- | control of the Government, under S hurg al t | some kind of a license system." 'iion of the (wovernment to grant his| The Ontario Temperance Act, \hue urther applications. | > * 3 said, had made liars and--thieves out i * of hosts of Ontario citizens, and * * "today people in every little town, h every little harmlet, are doing things . they never thought of doing five, | ten or fifteen years ago. In place of making bread, they are making | home--brew. 1 ; _ More Human Method. "I do not know what the end is > | going to be," he said, "but the time will: come, and it will --come, I think, reasonably. soon--I do nmot & think that you can bring it about i in the middle of Parliament--when L* a more sane and a more rational, and J believe I might say a more human, method of controlling the | liquor of this Province will be in ® force than we have today." j\ : | Mr. Clarke attacked the Attorney-- . General's dispensary system very y 4 strongly, declaring that the high | 1 & | prices exacted for liquor constituted | : ' | robbery of the poor man who re--| % ¢ | quired liquor. 1f dispensaries, he | ' | said, were for distributing beverage | liquor, why, the prices should be | stiff, but if they were for medicinal s | distribution, as at present pretend-- | | ed, then the Government had no a right to make them a revenue--pro-- * | aucing venture. The revenue--produc-- t | | ing system, Mr. Clarke said, was f | | tried out under the license system. it | _ Concluding, he -- expresed the| f \ \ opinion that the Governméent farm-- | |ers' loan venture was not a square | | deal to the people of the Province | | generally. '"This banking, as I see| * I [ It," he said, "is not in the interems\ ' I | of the general public of the Prov-- ; f | ince of Ontario." ' l 1 _ M# CuoAt is ' E* "%, + L0 u0n on ie mss 5.5 Sm son en d