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fk e Frtda\{ 3 l:eb C( * s ammmmensig n m on o in namapmamnmngapngimermenpmemmemen*" | , £ en f He referred to the farmers of North York who. on just such an j issue, he said, had come down ; $ armed with pitchforks and fiint-- _ {locks, which prompted Pretmier Fer-- lnuson to query: "Is this a threat?" Without pausing, however, Mr. 'Raney condemned the attitude of the Premier--that, he having made up his mind, there was an end to it. | _ _Mr. Ferguson--What are you go-- llng to do about it? That is the question. ! When Mr. Raney challenged the ; Premier to show a newspaper report }whtch indicated that he had told the people in the last election that the _ |issue was a return to the two--party| ~f system and the expuision of the! 3 third party, Mr. Finlayson said: '"We . all said it." * s Plans of Progressives. Mr. Raney summed up the Pro-- "Jd gressives' proposed course as fol-- lows: 49 "The Prime Minister, in his speech 3 of yesterday to this House, has as-- 3 sumed the position that it is un-- s 'necessary for him to justify, by * argument or show of reason, why the supporters of the late Govern--! ment should not be recognized as the chief Opposition party in this ' ' Assembly. Refusal by a Prime t Minister to recognize the majority , Opposition party as the chief Op-- s position is so obviously contrary to s all Parliamentary practices, and so 3 FPar--reaching is its possible dangers . & 'to the rights of the people's rep-- 3 resentatives, that, as a party, we must continue our protests until P 'suoh time as our requests, as pre-- j aa 'sented in a memorandum to the 3* i Speaker, are granted. " | _ '"Until the rights of the majority | A 'Opposltion party to constitute the f '"ehief Opposition in this House are } L Jx;e_co_gn,ized'. we / shall continue to i _ § Cregister our protest, and make our| x demands with the opening of each legislative session of this Parliament, |and otherwise as occasion and op-- } | portunity may arise.'" ' l | ; E. To Improve O.T.A. Methods. [ > 4 ® No referendum on the Onta.x'io| ; : [ Temperance Act should be heldl f a until the end of the year at least, and when it is held it should be un } i der the guidance and supervision of } . municipally appointed officials, con-- | tended William Finlayson, Conser-- | vative, East Simcoe, in continuing | 1 _| the debate yesterday. Mr. Finlayson . | claimed that the methods of en-- } k qforcing the act. by the. former ' Attpmey-General had stirred up op-- ' position to prohibitior, but methods | had been improved under the pres-- ' ent Attorney--General, and the people | | |should have a certain length of time f A 'to see the act enforced in a reason-- | : able and moderate way before a | vote is taken. o B\ If a vote had been taken last sum-- t mer on this question ths Prov}l:(:e : N would have voted "wet," claimed Mr | MA Finlayson, because the people were | * irritated and annoyed to such an j extent by enforcement methods that ' (| they had '"lost their balance." He | appealed to the Leaders of all the } 'parties '"not to make a football of L the question." _ .People had got it ! j ) l into their heads during the past four | years that the Ontario Temperance y Act was a rich man's law, he assert-- | g, ed. During the course of his speech | f Mr. Finlayson observed that he un--| ' _ | | derstood that it was on the Govern-- | ' _ !| ment program to submit this ques. | e tion. | / !| Rancy as Journalist. ' + The _Simcoe member cr O /) Hon. Mr. Raney respecting Ltéfiifig 4 ( of his published articles since the $ elections as '"attempting to make : 4 money and political capital out of| | f this question," and declared that his | / .| publications in a local newnpaper| | _ _| "were the most offensive series of | s letters ever seen in a public jJournal." | a _ ;\ He declared that Government -- fol-- : ' «_ || lowers would not stand for abuse of | 1 C the Government by Mr. Raney, and | : C added that all the Conservatives in 4 ¥ the House were solidly behinda the / < Premier. Referring to Mr. Raney's, ~ y remark about "glorying in the f «_ | American Revolution," .Mr, Finlay. | _ > |son said, amid Conservative ap-- 1 's plause, that he would _ prefer tot is' \-- j glory in "our ancestry of the United ; __-- |Empire Loyalists.' C _ _|_ Sam Clarke, Liberal, West North: [ | _ | umberland, moved the adaqurnment hi.