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Premier Hepburn's Income Tax Should Have Been Imposed Ten Years Ago, Asserts M. M. MacBride HE cancellation of the Quebec Hydro contracts had not harmed Ontario's credit abroad, but the policies and conditions of the Bennett regime at Ottawa might well have damaged it severely, the Ontario Legis. lature was told yesterday afternoon by M. M. MacBride, Liberal member for Brantford. Enemies and Foes. f In . two-tUtd-a-halt-hour speech' the contract decision. He emerges devoted to a defense ot the Hepburn: that, if damage had been done, Government's administration of finano' had been due to former Prime M cial and Hydro matters. the veteran tii1t,eu'i'd,"'i)ith"11ts1i,yu',tiyv.; , , F t a . Bmnttord politician classed tlte op- Themes: bv the addition ct $55 mums of the contract cancellation 000 mm M Cannti; 's, (My f :h* a: g'ge,r, 01f Hydro and foes of pub- he blamed i7/' 8:1:ll"'l' I,,, 1'r,'vtsll ow p. '..s. J:.: "m, "'2 ",3. Mr. MacBride hailed the Provincial :'e,i"11,'; lah') f,,ra11,'ij, 1ef JI:",',,',, "-1.2": acme T, 'te. s""irvigi'e,'.'s 'l'f,t"d'Ji' stock. The day would soon wk 1 tame d /ldetis, mfg "he WEE: however. he predicted. when Canad " an 1 4. sa ' t money credit. would be the strongest in t people ot the Province, after they had world. paid all taxes for which they were liable, had more than 88.000.000.000 left in their pockets. And similarly the corporations in the same period retained 84.000.000.000. Were these. figures an indication that the money- ed class or the great corporations! were suftering. he wanted to know. Could they not well have atrord_eti, ml _ - - - _ ----- Not Ontario Hydro But Bennett Regime Hit Credit, Is Claim my 3 Prirvineial income tax during those years? "The people of wealth." he pro- ceeded, "are only too willing to wave the flag and profess patriotism. But the minute you suggest that they should bear a larger share of the linden of the great. public services and in keeping the unemployed from privatlon. they arise in protest." Dur- ing the war, he said. when business was nourishing. and the money-kn- ders were charging as much as 6 per cent. interest. taxes should have been imposed that were not imposed. Even the Government,, he said. was at the mercy ot the war-time money- cheaters. Meade Policies. He stoutly defended the loan and debenture policies of the present Gov- ernment. and when Colonel W. H. Price, Conservative member for Park- dale, and former vaincial Treas- urer. interrupted to ask him his views on callable loans. Mr. MacBrlde of- tered the opinion that if Provincial lows were issued on a callable basis. much of the dimeultits of Govern- mental financing could be averted. - As for London-, where detractors ot the Government claimed that On- tario's credit had suffered as a result at power contract cancellations. Mr. "Bride asserted that the present and past Governments had done wry little financing in the Empire tapi- tnt for some was past. "In the in- teract of Hydro itself_8_nd ot its con. more." he and. "this t3overnment could hue done nothing but what it did tf the vast Hydro enterprise was to be saved. It was not a pleasant duty to cancel the contracts. but it had to be done. The Brantford member then re- newed the Province's finances during the m yenrs. when. he and. "Hydro a being attacked by the same in- tents that now are criticizing the mediation of the contracts. They lnys have been opposed to public "mership." he said. "Thev were enemies,of Hydro then, and are enemies of Wdro now." Discussing the credit ot Canada and Ontario abroad. Mr. MacBride denied that it ind been atreeted by I The altars of Merl Running, the ( 21-year-old discharged employee ot the Department of Northern Develop- ment at t9tualt Ste. Marie, were back in the limelight in the Legislature Thomas: by the addition ot 3552.- C'o0.000 to Canada's debt. for which he Named Mr. Emma: by th, Sys- katelewan dr-ttttht, and the shrink- ing ot the markets for Western 1w stock. The day would soon come. however. he predicted. when Canada's oreqip would be the strongest in the the contract decision. He suggested that. it damage had been done, it had been due to former Prime Min- ister Bennett's "blasting" policy: by his breach with Right, Hon. J. H. Colonel W. H. Price. former Attor- ney-Genus], who previously had clawed that Dr. A. D. Roberts. the Sault member, had been responsible for Running', dismissal. produced a copy of a letter written by Running to Dr. Roberts reviewing the circum- stances of the dlsmissal. In the letter. Running claimed that Dr. Roberts had entered the depart- ment omce " the Sault on July li, 1986, and told Running he was "through." The letter further quoted Quotes Letter on Sault Dismissal PRICE Mllll1 RAPS ROBERTS engaged in work for a Conservative association while employed by the Gov- ernment. Furthermore, Dr. Roberts asked: Was it reasonable to believe that he. a membet of the Legislature, would discuss his own political am- bitions with a youth who was leaving the Government service. and was an active M? He denied that he per- sonally had amused the lad. election, his father was a Causewa- tive, and that, anyhow. he (Roberts) had promised a lot of men jobs- Rob- erts. the letter claimed. then discussed how he had been disappointed at not getting a portfolio in the Hepburn Cabinet Running himself had -rtot voted in the Dr. Roberta heatedly told the House that the letter was untrue. Running had been replaced try a. returned soldier with 1. ttunily. and had been actively March as m «m "lii11iillt" FORGE lt TORY GLAIM Six miles of partially completed highway had been abandoned by the Government because of the demand- of "a group of petty party heelers" in Peterboro' County. the Legislature was told last night by T. P. Lancaster. Conservative member for that riding. Long after Department of Highways engineers had agreed on the route of the Burleigh Falls-Apeley-Bancroft Road. and work had been started, one stretch was left to fall into disuse when political- pressure was brought to bear by Liberal farmers who want- ed the new mad to pass their doors, the Tory member said. Mr. Lancaster. who described him- self as the only Conservative peturpeq to the Legislature in the last election with an increased ma- jority - since his majority rose from 29 to M-urged the following steps upon the Hepburn Administration: less "petty bickering across the floor of this House"; the appointment of a non-political Commission to admin- ister fish and game affairs; the rein- statement of dismissed game over- seers; the propagation and testocking of muskellunge in Peterboro' County and elsewhere; the reinstatement of a. motor vehicle license issuer named Curtis at Havelock, who, he said. had been dismissed in favor of a. butcher at Marmora; efforts made to attract, tourists who. he said were ignoring Ontario in favor of other Provinces: a rebate on motor license fees for farmers and villagers unable to drive their cars during the winter: Oovern- ment-subsidized prospecting in his riding as well as in New Ontario; and finally. Government study and sup- port of the settlement scheme at King Ridges. where the Rev. Father Mc- Goey is establishing unemployed fam- ilies on the land on his own initiative. In closing. the PeteNtom' member speculated on the political future of Prime Minister Hepburn, in View ot newspaper revivals ot reports that he might retire. "I just, Wonder," he hamrded, "it the Prime Minister is going to shake the fathers of Ontario Liberalism off his feet and leap to the higher fields of Dominion politics?" Dr. M. T. Armstrong. Liberal mem- her tor Parry Sound, who out of sheer modesty has been dimdently postpon- ing for almost two entire sessions his maiden speech in the Legislature, fintuly took the plunge last night, and informed the Opposition that they were "splendid fellows individually, but a total less as a group." He would be forgiven. the Northern member said. if he asked for a gener- ous slice ot appropriations for his rid- ing. Reforestation was badly needed, particularly in pine, since some wees in the district looked like " plucked port tabled in the Legislature yes- terday by Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon. The Department of Highways bought most ears-IT-- all of which. it was stated, rephced old cars. Of the " trucks. 25 were for the Highways Department, " for Northern Development and " for Lands and Forests. IN THE PAST YEAR the Ontario Government bought 49 motor cars, 58 trucks, and " snowplows and 14 tractors. according to a re- K. _ »"'r* . ry'rk' r __ Trr"" , .411; LT)