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much at In". We wish Mr. Show: toniirGfiiiiitrufeintttirVriruiatttrf Aire are so well acquainted that we would not like to lose him." Referring again to Mr. .xepbum. Pre- mier Henry doubted that he wished to get into the Legislature. ,"He lets some one else go to the slaughter." he declared. "He wants to remain outside. irrespon- sible, free to come and go, and not to be called to account for his views." He said he noted that the Liberal Leader across the floor of the House had not participated in the lay-elections, and those who had attended meetings in Grenville had spoken at small meet- Wits where they were not reported. "Campaign of TitmeaMon." "There have been Administrations in this Province that the people have thrown out of office and then tried to; forget." Premier Henry continued. "but even during such Administrations there; has never been such a campaign or vilitication and abuse " that directedl against the Government in the last few} months. There were accusations that; women would have their pensions and: mothers' allowances taken from them it, they voted against the Government. They were women ot the imagination; only. There were even letters written me and asking me most specific ques- trons-but; they were letters that never got into my office. During the seven years ot the Conservative ,',e,iiii's?'iii'f:'j tion the Public Accounts Committee has had the fullest opportunity of scruti-y nizing the expenditures of hundreds oft millions of dollars. and not one dollar- has exer'been found to have gone; last , Mr. Nix-n asked if the . Prime In Minister could point with any pride to plan the reduced majorities which his party I mm had had in the ridings of West Hamil- v. tion ;on and Grenville. {at t The Prime Minister said that the situation was very different in Hamilton in the by-election than in other elec- tions. In the past the late Hon. Fred I'. Smye, an outstanding business man 1nd otmmunity leader, had been known to his riding for some thirty years. The Liberals had had difficulty in finding candidates to run against him. They ran them, not with any hope of win- ning, he contended, but merely to put an a show. Mr. Henry-ts my honorable friend serious about that question? My. Nixon-I certainly am. Different In Hamilton. Mr. Henry was glad to find, he stated, that the Liberal Party, in spite of the difficulties which the convention had recently plunged it into, had made some progress in the last twelve months. They had come to see eye to eye with the Government; that Government con- trol was the only satisfactory manner of handling the liquor traffic. "They have arrived," said he, "and they are one with us." "Not yet," put in Charles A. Robert- son (Liberal. North Huron). , Mr. Henry-Well, your party says so Mr. Robertson-You Just wait a while. Mr. H-my-Well, you are the elec- tive representatives ot your party. You are the only Liberals in the public life of this Province. Tt'is to you that we look to for a. decision on this question. Co-operation of all parties and all ranks was welcomed by the Govern- ment, Mr. Henry added, in the edu- cational work which the Government was prepared to extend in educating the public to the benefits of a tem- perate life and to the abuses and evils of strong drink. Stock Situation. Another unjustified form of cam- Henry declared: paign in the by-elections, the Prime than I the plig1 Minister contended. was the effort on though there wa the part ot the Liberal candidates to 'year. he is worm hold the Government responsible simply cause of the Tt because stock into which a man might lproduce and the put his money might go down. This .chasing power Ol sort of talk was hurled all through the: er8. I welcome 1 campaigns, he stated, and illustrations ILeader.s on the a of cases were set forth. In the form to- improve mud? ot a contrast. the Premier produced The Premier S; the Holmeted letter, which was ye- forts should be 1 produced by the Conservative Preto, ditlons, the Gove during the election, as an "unsolicited addsed to go a letter" received by the Attorney-Gren- within its income eral tmen. on out-and-out Liberal, . ay." praising the Attorner-deiieiit' the whit he had done in bringing unscrupulous. brokers to task, generally, end com- mending the Conservative Government for putting the Security Frauds Pre- vention Act on the statute books of the Province. i Prom the editorial campaign carried] on by The Globe, continued Premier Henry, one would think "that murders, were being committed and no one was being arrested for it, that we were 9.1-"l most making Ontario tt happy hunting ground for the gangster; one would al- most think the paper was advertising the Province along that line. Look at the records, and you will find there is no Justification for that fact. The ii) ccntage of solved murders during the) last three years was higher than any time during the last ten or twenty years, and the climax comes when they sent-4 don't, know whether they sent him-their editorial writer, anyway, goes to Hamilton and tries his luck In the campaign. The climax of the campaign entered on two or three years ago against the administration ot the At- torney-General's Department." - --_v -'munnuvnl In bile Tmr, phasing power on the part of consum- l ere. I welcome the co-operation ot the ILeaders on the other side of the House I to _ improve conditions." "Sometimes I read in this Journal published on Melinda Street an edi- torial on moral and religious matters. I think sometimes I get good from it.) And I feel like suggesting to them that} they might get one of their editorial' wril.2rs---possiNy Captain Philpott him- self; after his experience he ought to be able to speak from the hearb--to write an editoriardn ths'folly of muck- raking." Bus Problem Premier Remyf spent some time ex- plaining the Government's attitude to- ward busses. There has been a sugges- tion, he said. that busses were favored at the expense of the railways. This was not true. "The department is not in league with the bus companies," he declared. "It is seeking to take care ot a service that the public demands. The diversion of traffle from railways to busses is a modern trend." Regarding the a ctivities of the De-l, nartment of Public 1Lalth, tyet,.'.) Henry said. "The Government is seri-i ously considering the idea cf making; radium treatment available to ail suf-i raters from cancer. Plans have not! been fully completed, but we are pm- paring the way.to make radium, and the services ot the men skilled in its use, available to people so they will not have to depend on treatments at large centres and institutions." son regime the debt increase had been $10,000,000 less than that figure. Mr. Nixon-Will my honorable friend give the figures on the indirect debt? rhe Premier rebutted the suggestion in Mr. Binehtir's speech that there was B lowering in the percentage of total revenue devoted to agriculture. "Millions of dollars go to rural On- tario in increased school grants, Hydro extensions, mothers' allowances, and other ways," he said. Referring to Mr. Sinclair's remarks on the depression in farming and his appeal for a serious non-part?sap study ot the problem with The Premier said that, While a forts should be made to improve ditions, the Government Would be addsed to go a little ttlower am within its income. a view to 'tindintt a remedy, Premier Henry declared: "No one knows better than I the plight of the farmer. Al- though there was a bumper crop this year, he is worse off than before, be- cause of the reduced prices for his EB. lit regiuction in the would be viii; and live con - er. "You Lower Yonrs and 'iiin" Willing to Take Le," He Tells Government - Liberal House Leader, "Not for Party, But for ' the State," Makes Con- structive Suggestions It was a new Sinclair the Ontario Legislature saw in action yesterday--" man who, now "freed from the limita- tions of party leadership," spoke, as Liberal lawyer, Liberal farmer and Liberal citizen, an emphatic desire to co-operate rather than to criticize-an old guardsman who buried the hatchet on the brokerage and the "booze" ques- tions that he was so prone to slash at nd into in other sessions, to plead. itt uiet but compelling language, the nausc ot the Ontario farmer Lnder jresent-day depressed conditions, and to urge upon the House and Govern- ment the immediate adoption of steps which, in his opinion. would aid imo I?,','.'.,:',)',,",,',";?, in relieving the agricul- turist's plight. MUCH APPLAUSE FROM ALL HOUSE "My suggestion today," said Mr. Sin- clair during the debate, "is that this session be given over almost entirely to a study of farm 'ret conditions in this sf.2s "gaa . Province. I am 5.9-" " Mt';:..'.:;.':?.. " ' L-. making the sugges- £5- "P . ,'. tion early. so it ' , ""1ii.i"::rijii..i.'i.:i:'i.:.'.i.'a, cannot be said . _,.:...-,,.-,::.,:,.::,":::".'."'? there is no time." t "V , iiiiBNtll FN' The Agricufiure 1'rq,r(i'iif..iisNt. i'iitialllhql Committee of the , l, House-a commit- if; . w...NEW"i.i.':..:i'.itaRlE . mo .- q M-'-.~;~:-:.- tee which, he, con- 'lb. "i"i'4i:?ifiilifiill.F, tended. had long . "'rt'kttiia' been "a society for ....r:ti.yY.MFr .: the entertainment "lift':?).!)..'.:.?:) fl . and improvement" 'rii:'ii. , r,./,y, ot the farmer f_.'I.-' .- Bt --' members of the W.E.N. Sinclair. Assembly. and, as such. 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