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Mr. Sinclair twitted Premier Drury upon his apparent change. of heart upon the subject of "broadening out." as illustrated in his speech of June, 1919, and later ones. in which he clearly advocated "broadening out." Reading from extracts of the Premier's earlier addresses ho stress- ed Hon. Mr. Drury's refrrencos to "the dead and defunct Liberal party," and, as Mr. Sinclair phrased it, "the wicked Conservative party," and re called the terms of the Premier's letter of last summer, which was generally interpreted as the first om- cial move toward "broadening out." Are Not Affinitics. " Bay that there is room in tttmtl- cal life for only two lines of political thought. We cannot, when we dis- cuss politics and national affairs. think occupationally. We must think nationally. We cannot have a series of groups and think nation- ally. but we must think politi- cally as parties. Class conscious- ness has shown its record in the Province of Ontario. and the people of the Province are not going to be long in returning to the two- party system, by means ot which men of business ability, professional men, tradesmen. farmers, and all classes in the community, are repre- sented on the floor of the House, and bring to the Legislature the wisdom and Judgment of the different occu- pations in life." ' Matter of Bookkeeping. "To my mind," said Mr. Sinclair. "there can be no joining of Liberals to the Progressive party. There is a lot of talk going on in that regard. There can be no objection, however. to U.F.O., Progressive, or any other man, who thinks as Liberals think, to join the Liberal party. but the Liberal party is too big, and too old, and has too honored a tradition in the history ot this country and of the Motherland. to take any second place to a party which has been or- ganized on class consciousness and now seeks to shift its foundation and to get dow_n to, some other basis. 'U say that it the class conscious idea, if the U.F.O. idea. has spent its day-as many of us think it has-- there is a. welcome in the Liberal party for any of those who think as Liberals do. But I can assure the Progressives and the Premier of the Province of Ontario, that the Lib- erals of Ontario will not think of falling in behind him, with his record of extravagance over the past three yet1rtr. A he opened wide the gates for the re- ception of any repentant UFO. ad- herents. Liberalism, he declared. represented the. real progressive spirit of the Province and the nation. if there were truth in the rumors of a desire on tho, part of the powers that be for fusion or alliance, they were welcome to enrol themselves under its banner. In one respect. the address of the Liberal f1rraneial critic was a dis- tinct novdty. in that. he did not pre- 48.115 to show wherein the -Diur.v HAS M USE FOR GROUPS be prominently mentioned. As a. Liberal Mr. Sinclair quite. emphati- cally read himself out of the new party during his address on the Bud- get in the House yesterday. "Real Progressives" Although in his "broadening-out" references the Liberal party's finan.. cial critic distinctly expressed the opinion that there should be no exodus frpm the ranks of Liberalism. When Premier Drury announces!» an expectant electorate. the person- nel of his new "Progressive" Cabl- net, w. E. N. Sinclair. K.C., Liberal member tor South Ontario, will not ttttlift jiiiiiii"i' "7 _ jllllrl2i)jll)ly (M',' South Ontario Member Says o. F. 0. Has Nothing m Common With His Party SINCLAIR'S ANSWER 7;." _ WED "um-"mm "o"Ftltssi0n---one to in- quire into agricultural conditions and see if anything could he done 'by the Government to further ag- riculture's interest. In a startling array of figures he held up the increases in public ex- 'pendlture and general liability. and later went on to criticize some of Provincial Treasurer Peter Smith's bond sale transactions. when $20,- 000.000 worth of bonds were sold following a $5n00,000 advent", Upon agriculture he showe statistics that the present C ment had cut in half the p age expenditures upon the be dustry. and said that the Government had missed the opportunity of appointing a worth-while con!mission-conl quire into agricultural cor and see if anything could l; by the Government to furtl: ricylture's interest. 5 Accepting the challenge which had been thrown out from the Govern- ment benches to show items of 91' penditure in public accounts which were not necessary expenditures. Mr. Sinclair read out a dozen items of various sizes, admitting at the same time that he did not pretend to be able to learn from the context of, the accounts Just what the purposei of the expenditure was. He humor-z ously criticized certain items refer- ring to "living allowance" granted' to Commissioner Gregory and his. colleagues of the Hydro Inquiry Commission, and of the $1,000 per month salary to Mr. Wegenast, and concluded that the whole expendi- ture of $146,000 on the Hydro In- quiry Commission was unwarranted. Another item on which he desired enlightenment was that of $3,000- odd for revolvers. and he wanted to know if the Prox'inelal Police deteir. ed two weapons each, "one to shoot frontward and the other backward." There was hardly a department that Mr. Sinclair did not touch upon in his aexhaustlye resume and criti- ' Another reference. taken from the pith of Mr. Sinclair's financial criti- Icisms. was a reminder to the House of the mounting expenditures under the Drury Government. "On the basis of 1919 expenditure of the, Province," he declared, "our surplusi this year would have been $18,534.-! 459. If we had spent no more than; in 1920 our surplus would have been,' $12,500,000. It we had spent no more than in 1921 our surplus would have been $10,000,000. Those fig- ures show the startling spread there. is between the figures of the not too distant past and the figures of the present time." Reads Out Items. plus. In this connection, the member for South Ontario ventured the opinion that the Government', sinking fund proposal would also next year, be found to have gone by the boards. if the pursuit of that policy was found to involve the crea- tion of a deficit rather than a sur- the miujop-dofiGrGurp1us ind, million-dollar deficit. Sees Rocks Ahead. -, FE y r present Govern the $1,000 per . Wegenast, and whole expendi- the Hydro In- showed from the tutlCrri- the Drury 28, adVertiEé: percent Another item in Mr. Sinclair's criticism was the discarding on the part of the Government of its pro- posed scheme to take two million dollars out of the revenue from motor licenses and capitalize it for road-building and maintenance pur- poses. Mr. Sinclair intimated that he didn't blame the Government for reconsidering its decision to take this amount out of the ordinary rev- enue. because it would have changed, .---',. -- t ------, Mri'/isFirrrtiTii'g mittton-doitiir iitirplun was really a, deficit, and he did not utter one word of criticism of the Provincial.Treasurer's methods of bookkeeping. by which he arrived at a surplus. Mr. Sinclair content- ed himself in this regard with com. mentlng that surpluses were always a matter of bookkeeping, and with pointin'g out. that but for two items ot revenue-one entirely unexpected and received perilously near the close of the year-ot $1,800,000, pgr. tial payment of succession duties on the estate of the late Sir John Eaton, and of $3,000,000 revenue from the tax on rape-tracks, the Public Aécounts would have Shown a tremendous deficit. grand really 923. r - v...nn.-A. "owever, "was quite prepared to argue the (merits of that particular sale, and "rose in his place to make his ex- ll plantation. I ll "Seven Book-makers." ) Whereas the former Administra- i'iion had become famous, under thf igsnubriquet of "The Seven sltept.ry,", 'l the present Administration. Mr. Sin-l {Nair declared, should go down in his- I tory as "The .Seven Bookmakers." {Although Mr. Sinclair's particular h'eference was to the previous ispeeches of Attorney-General Raney land Hon. Manning Doherty, which. :he assumed, were for subsequent presentation to the electorate. he said he would leave the House to draw another inference if it so desired. in which connection he would go even so far as to call them "The Seven HayyiboAt-tuiG"t:sf; Mr. Sinclair also made frequent excursions into the book of U.F.O. platforms, which, he mid, called for economy in Provincial affairs and good roads for the many. He also made some sarcastic comments upon platforms and policies as contrasted to actual tteeomrt1No-da, ment. Hon. Mr, an d polieieiGi"; accomplishments. ,.._ unuucl LII: " "The Seven Sleepers," Administration. Mr. Sin- d, should 539 dpwn in his- Smith, howevi/r,