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NOT A SINGLE MILE _ WILL BE ADDED NoW THINKS PROPAGANDA To TRONKHIGEWAYS O U.F.0. LEADERS Mr. W. E. N. Sinclair, M.P.P Provincial Liberal Leader; Hon Manning Doherty, M.P.P., and Re John MacNeill also addressed * meeting. Gasoline taxation. he suggested was a very equitable and also a probable future form of raising road revenue. The scheme had its limi-- tations, but it was under consid eration. Hon. F. C. Biggs, M.P.P., forme; Minister of Highways, suggested to the Premier the alternative of a ti:, tax. Difficulties would arise in th, administering of a "gas" tax, sinc., it would be difficult to avoid taxin>: tractors, yachts, farm machiner; and other machinery used in th» production of Provincial wealth None of these used tires. the time had come when the "high speeder" and the "heavy loade:= would have to pay more. At th: present time the express truck an the freight hauler in general we not paying in taxation an amoun: anywhére near commensurate wit) the degree of road wear the: caused. Biggs Urges The Tax. Nor Will Province Assum{ -- Entire Cost, Says Pre-- mier Ferguson and the necessity for local good roads had dictated the policy. Wop't Assume Whole Cost. WILL BUILD LOCAL ROADS From many quarters, said the Premier, there were coming re-- quests and suggestions that the Province should assume 100 per cent. of the cost of Provincial high-- ways. "As long as I am Premier." he said, "we are not going to do ii. The present system is a fully equi-- table one." Local county roads, hc pointed out, received aid to the ex-- tent of 20 per cent. of their cost. because their greatest benefit was not to the Province at large, bu: to the locality served. Conversely. the Provincial trunk system, which was subsidized to the extent of 80 per cent. bencfited the people o( the Province as a whole, in addition to proving of definite service to the counties through which they ran. Premier Ferguson outlined the Government's roads policy -- last night. Addressing the annual ban-- quet of the Ontario €§Good -- Roads Association in the King Edward Hotel, he indicated that the High-- ways Department would in future reverse its former line of activity in road construction, and devoto greater attention to the encouragt-- ment of secondary roads. The Pro-- vincial trunk roads would, o( course, be maintained, but for some time not a single mile would be added to the system. Econom» In future the Government hoped to deal more generously with th local county roads. Many counties, /; the past, had been overburdened |> the taxation to meet the cost 0| Provincial -- highway -- constructio and in consequence had been forc> io neglect their secondary roads. Heavy Loader Must Pay More. Tourist traffic, he admitted, w« important, and the taxpayer, s-- well, had a right to good roads. Eu maintenance of the highways wa b_ecoming_ increasingly heavy, and 'Heavy Loader'® and 'Speeder cyRRIE ATTACKS PAPERS to Pay More--Biggs Ad-- ----_-------- vocates Tire Tax intare peen irsuestcd 9y . "adl (--:""I' had ~money'® in 'one,"~: Mr. | Mageau said, '"and I paid up like | a brick. I regarded it as a good | political investment, anyway. . But |I knew they couldn't last, and they | didn't." Zotique Mageau Says Third Party in House Is Useless Chimera Declaring the U. F. O. movement to have been instigated by "dis-- gruntled Tories and Grits," Zotique Mageau, Liberal member for Stur-- geon Falls, speaking in the Legisla-- ture yesterday, urged "the remnants" of its adherents to return to their original parties, "and let us have a straight fight, like men." Result of Propaganda. In a fighting speech, the member for Sturgeon Falls blamed present-- day unsatisfactory agricultural con-- ditions on the "bad education" that had been preached to the farmers of Ontario from high places in the last four or five years. It was cx-- ceedingly bad business for the Prov-- ince and for the farmer, he stated, that the agriculturist should have been prevailed upon to view with distrust those with whom he had to do business in the urban centres. The same evil doctrines, he de-- clared, had led the farmers to put their faith and their money into the disastrous co--operative store ven-- ture. It had served not only to par-- tially ruin town merchants, but to lose money 'for its shareholders. _ Used for Campaign FPund? ida,, fteb ag* The Liberal member declared he knew that the co--operatives were contributors to the political cam-- paign funds of the U. F. O. party, and he told of a candidate stating to him his intention of going down to Becretary J. J. Morrison to get some money. "I am sure,"' he said, "that J. 3. Morrison didn't give money from his own pockets."' s t T "You have had your day," he declared, waving his arm toward the Progressive section. *"You have had your Government. And you made an AWful fizzle of it, Let us be friends. Those of you who are Grits come over here, and I will give my seat at the front to the first one. Let the Tories go over to the Tories, and we will have a straight fight Ot u.ll Mr. Mageau declared himsclf to be in favor of a promipt referendum on the question of the Ontario Temper-- ance Act, which lve declared to be a farce as at present administered. He wondered if the Government had anything up its sleeve in the way of revenue expectations from a changed system of O.T.A. administration. In any event, he said, he knew that 75 per cent. of the people of Northern Ontario would vote for a system of Government control. His Opinion of the North. "Not that we want to swim in. it," he declared. "Much.of the present BLIGHT TO FARMERS protest is from people who don't |drink liquor at all. But they have 'come to the conclusion that the pres-- 'ent act ought to be changed. No-- 'body wants to go back to the old conditions."' THINKS PROPAGANDA BLIGHT TO FARMERS i John A. Currie, resuming the Budget debate, declared that in the 'qual'ity of membership the present lOnta'rio House was the best he had \ever seen. Discussing certain types | of laws, Mr. Currie declared On-- 'tario should divest its miind from the 'l'nltfed States form of laws passed \today, and which required men sent |out armed with automatic pistols to 'enforce them. _--Mr. Mageau joined with his Lib-- eral colleagues in criticizing Provin-- clal Treasurer Price's Budget specch where it failed to indicate financial policies of the future, The Liberal member put up a strong plea for considieration for Northern Ontario from the present Administration. . When he appealed to the preponderant (Government }forr-es to gee to t that fair play was given to ridings which had returned Liberal representatives he was met by a burst of Conservative applause. On behalf of Hon. H. C. Nixon, former Provincial Secretary, J. Freeborn, Progressive Whip, ad-- journed the debate yesterday, after which Premier Ferguson gave notice of the institution of night #sessions next week. He thought that the Budget debate ought to wind up dutr-- ing the coming week. _Currie in Usual Role. | He wished to warn the farmers | from the back concessions against | the press propaganda, he said. Only \two weeks ago, he went on, an ed-- 'itor of a new paiper in Toronto had come to him and said no further | advertising was available from cer-- | tain agencies 'because these agencies |d<id not want tihe paper to be too Canadian or too British, bu ed articles tinged in favor Umnited States. Hon. Frank gsaid Mr. Curric, had told advertis'ng agencies refused him anvy business. "I z gond a Canadian," was explanation, Mr. Curr: terday In Toronto &n / tinued. a number agenciss eantrolled lars of United State: nanies Jaid it down as that if the papers wone iy national they would nize them and give ths Where His "Shoe Pinches." Challenged by Hor. W. E. Raney (U.F.O., Hast Wellingtorn) to name papers Mr. Curric sid were "anti-- nattonal,""* the Toronto member named The Toronto Giobs, Toronito Star, and The Manitoba Free Press, whick, he said, woere antt--Canadian. "Fven the OConservative papéers ate afraid, and will not say tomorrow what & say today, for fear of ad-- vertising being cancelled. There :s more given to Ramsay MacDonald in The Giobe today than to this House yesterday," he declared. As far as The Star was concerned, he added: "Don't you ever belteve anything The Star says.' Mr. Currie covered a wide field in his Gebate, and urged colonization in the North on the Australian sYyS-- tem. He twitted . former Cabinet Ministers on their leaving farm life for business, and extolled Manitoulin iIslan-d as a place of beauty and a tourist resort. He -- made strong Icriticism of Progressive leaders, and | said the --Progressive party was "pink." -- Mr. Currie spoke. in all, \a,n hour and a half yesterday. During Mr. Currie's speech Prée-- mier Ferguson interjected a remark on the recognition of the Farmer group as Opposition: "Neither the Leader of the House nor any mem-- ber of the House has anything !to say as to who shall be paid a's'l':if'!'.\'. veyrt (Continued from Page 9, Column 6.) 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