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i . M T, me," he "id. "when the Warwick align?!" Ae Hag-i up]. will be called upon to deal T ltr ctg',U1'lgf r, e declared tol ith the beer and wine issue. But i as: been unnecessary. except as to that time is not now. The attention ' propaganda, and the Hydro InquirYi ' of the people of Ontario must not be Commission "unnecessary. excess diverted from the record ot the Gov- for mmwewes ernment. , Every tinding of the Gregory Com-| "I find a growing body of public , mission in the last two years WMI opinion in favor of Government con- k a, "nail in the Government's coffin." trol of the sale of liquors, and par- The Toronto member derided the ticularly of beer. There is apparent Government for its actions in re- a revulsion of feeling against pres- ---- ( Hum-mg the gygro to repay "323: out condition: which mare: a,{pre- . ' 'diverted to I Y to purposes m um upon ypocr sy. at a an Calls Drury "Tinker Boss, , than those for Whig: ithWES 07mg? issue which the people must decide . u . i 'all s eciiically vot ' w en, acco .. in due course." and Cabinet Ten Major ; _ 'ifj,r,v,,t'il',iiiiti?i.i'fii.s 011; "Ge Drury (:01? But there was another issue which . . n nment. he sai ' t ly overnmen - ould have been met B uarel - - and Minor Tinkers .3312 had illegally diverted to high- '//l,o/2.lt1,'t'/T.' It was theqduty hf {lie ----------- i 'ways and other prolects money Government, "unless it intended to REVELS Bl i Iborrowed updert the authority of hang on to power by hook or by BITING SAT'RE. the Hydro AM. If the Hydro, hav- crook," to redistribute the seats. . "_.-------- ing given proper accounting, was and give fair representation to the; iwrong, how much more so was the larger centres of population. 1 With sarcasm as brilliant as it was 1 Government which moralized on the i biting, with statistics as to "reckless Slingt-i as floor declara Playing POIMOS- l xt o " S V gorous cro - - h overnmen . i at 'tICT,',?,',',? let" condemnationl l tion to Government members was sileBrtht. t {hgre could btehggtrgi'italrlzq o e attempt to discredit, if not t t in votin down his last ear's .. . . ' . - ha ' tr y Bon---- the Premier is playing politics 2C,",C,.k,,' the Hydro public ownership i resolution condemning the Govern- in a, way that no political party ever 'ltr1terpritseyl' and a denunciation of 'dy,",',),"' practice in this regard, they played them before in this Province." .a party which "fears to face the acid I alone must take the responsibility As for proportional representation it teat of redistribution," H. H. Dewart, if" voting as legal something that!, should not be considered unless. it ICC., Liberal member for Southwest :was not legal. were to be applied equally to rural i2,p"1)htde/invtrtf in the Legislaturel i, "The Ten mm." and urban districts. m o . - " , _ atile ointorihilo 22g,oletrmtti, E Mr. Dewart sent the House into' . The f.'eopiEi,'in','g,',1,.thtt,t, 381501 anx- Drury Government has yet been ' roars 0t, laughter with his descrip- IP,','.. o re 31" p0 e (Ia, . s un- called upon to face. , 1 tion of ",tht,,fitypTryyet of. the Toni willing to fill trait to Ily: aeid "test of Alternating, in his three-hour at-' Pler:1 There was the boss tin-' redistribution. he "on: Il/y,.. '5 not tack, between shafts whose points ker, the Premier, whose offhand} entitled tobe continued npower or to were but slightly softened with readiness made him perfectly will-i goverr} the people of tho Province of humor, and steely, batted arrows of ing to _mend or end Hydro"; the. Ontario. who look for responsible open denunciation, the Southwest "legislative. tinker," the "busiest lit-i government, and who, I am satis- Toronto member held the House and tie tinker of the lot," whose legal, lied, will return to the principle of galleries in the thrall of his satire. "Solder bills" had mounted into hun-l responsible party government." In his ttowery moments he lapsed dreds of thousands of dollar-tr-- i C. F. Swarm (Labor, Magma into .poetry--ra1.2thors., Dewart and ' " . 1 Falls) pointed out t.ha.t (governments Kipling-and, in a brilliant exp05i- _ Tinker, tinker, little man, i from time immemorial had been sub- tion of Liberalism, quoted exten- Oft I wonder how you can, ject to such fiery denunciation and sively from a memorable speech of With your little legal brain, , such sweeping condemnation as had; the Hon. George Brown in Parlia- ' Stand the unexpected strain" I been poured out dBuring theh deblati'. ment, dealing with the principles of l on the Budget. ut in t e as responsible government. f 73h: ','.,i,'y,e'lt,a,ad,irithh',1e.rr fd'ote, analysis all the talking had hut very' _ , n ere a ay m nts, an P our little real significance. "It's a con- No Ministerial support, plutocratic friend,_ the Provincial test of wits between men who make I "Responsible party government," Treasurer, "1n,t,niit,1, Juggler and politics their business." When the (Mr. Dewart declared, "is one of the Tinker of I ublic Accounts. . These. hour of reckoning has passed, he felt fundamental principles of Liberal- with yys21ipiilt.tr, of Agriculture that the country would discover that ism. It implies the existence of and the tive major prophets. t the people who formed the backbone 2g,r,efiunt,,thp,rsttttee gimme??? a: !l"Everyday Tinkere." _ of this Province did not share the Government. It is opposed to the . "There are still tive minor prophets1 rr,oy/avia1tie;uetguag2otve.,fil1eiet'.'s Principle of Druryism that desires to ---common, everyday journeymen l 0.____---------------------' _ -. . _ govern without Ministerial responsi- tinkers, whose departments are lu/l; ' _- bility, but Druryism will be a for- as they are run themselves---by their _ gotten cult when responsible party 'lofficials - the amiable Minister of ' government-the outcome of cen- 'Education, the lackadaisicai Provin- . turies of constitutional struggles---- cial Secretary, the Minister whoi is well established in Canada and Iwanted to put a tinkering tax oni throughout the British Empire." . *gold mines; the Minister of (Labor,! 9yptandiryr: perhaps, in his with his tinkering Labor legislation! _criticisrns of "the Ten Tinkers" and {that gets you nowhere, and the Min-", g "the Government of broken pledges" liste: of Lands and Forests, who is' was his vigorous condemnation ot inot allowed to do his own tinkering. ', the Drury Government's pursuit of 'The boss tinker does it for him. I Sir Adam Beck. In language that do not refer to the Minister of Power, ' bit deeply, he assailed the appoint- lwho has never functioned." ment ot the Gregory and Sutherland Commissions, and denounced them Liquor Issue. as "propaganda ventures," and pro" With that the speaker turned to ceeded to put up a strong and seem- touch on rumors of a referendum on ingly unassailable argument for mu- the beer and wine issue. "The time nicipai representation on the Hydro _ Commission. Besides Mr. Dewart, John Joynt, " Conservative member tor North Huron, and Charles Swayze, Labor member for Niagara Falls, con- tributed to the debate. - Trying to "'rock Hydro. Delving exhaustively into Hydro 'matters, Mr. Dewart charged the , Drury Government with "attempting . ' to discredit, it not wreck, the Hydro ,public ownership enterprise of this (Province, and failing to give the ':municirelitiet! representation on the Hydro Board, to which they are' .justly entitled. The Hydro-electric ,business of the Province. though _leontrolied and guaranteed by the (d,overnment, is really the undertak- . ing of the municipalities of the Province." . After declaring that Toronto and other Hydro municipalities might well be concerned to see that there . was a municipal representative on: the Hydro Commission, he went oni to show that the saving to power! consumers in all the 216 municipali- ties in Ontario had amounted to the vast sum of "2,000,000. He asked the House to consider the statistical 's evidence ot financial strength which the Hydro displayed in all the mu- e" iiieipalities, and the recent further decrease in Hydro power prices. . The Gregory Commission he de- scribed as a commission "to damn the Hydro and Hydro-radials .and . bgost highways," and its Chairman,1 _--------------------.-., . Ad