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Maxrch \9 «ommunmnmmmme nemmngmnmnpeniees o mm pnmmnmmmmmmmpqnmmemees: M.L.A.'s Who Shed T eL.A. $ O e ears For Back Concessi Irk Egli M \} rk Eglinton Member To C! "MF. Kirl r. irby _ congratulated Mr. Those Who Shout and Weep :lvpburr_u ntpd hisr Cabinet for their 'eorganization of the Milk Board +he L o u d e s t Merely i!:)l'd for the benefits they have been & a able to pass on to the farmer. Gentiemen Farrners. Re-- "Those of us who live in the cities," marks Harold K.rby said he, "will not begrudge any-- Cere rareine e ommc ons thing extra these farmers get, pro-- ln% vided they do get it. But it is, , pretty difficult to figure out yet V".ES HEPBURN' HENRY why the producer gets only three | se ammsatneisomennmmengemmee m cents to four cents per quart for | Stinging condemnation of those ""8'"' ';:'.h:'" the dcorf\sun:r\r has '0; nggh c aricls & ay irteen an ourteen cents. members of tl.u Lu.,!.slfslulc who You know, something was said on | continually tried to pit country the hustings in 1934 about an in-- against urban communities, coup-- vestigation into milk and bread led with a vigorous defense of "";3"5" ll\}l}ayh: ';"' shou]d(a'lso ha'\'o p "Tayw Cthaw I & a Bread Board, because it is pretty ::3; (i:ri\lli'lI?::mll:-)o'-o:::::lu *h:\'f;.mln;:s}','\_ hard to understand just why, with » y * w "f e ~1 was voiced during the wind--up of ,:r:::; sitoul'('l' h:o'n}:; gg;re p';:';g':lt the Budgot'_dc'lmto' last mght' by is with wheat at $2.50 per bushel." Harold J. Kirby (Egliinton), Chiedf i k Whip for the Liberal Party. "I am a sincere supporter of the wesent Administration,' deciared Mr, Kirby, "and am a strong believ-- t in party politics, neveriheless my lirst obligation is to my ridinrg and lo the city which I have the honoer to represent in this House, regard-- less of what the consequences might be to me personally." f It had been very amusing, said s Mr, Kirby, to hear so many mem-- bers rise in their places and make such pathetic appeals for the man on "the back concession." The "Dirt Farmer." "*Many members," said he, "shed s crocodile tears for the man they --» call the dirt farmer--the man who earns his living by the sweat of nis brow. And it is surprising to note that those members who shout the loudest and shed the largest tears are not dirt farmers themselves at all, Many of them are speciaiists or what I would prefer to call 3en-- tlemen farmers. Take, for instance, the farmer members of the Cabinet --the Prime Minister and the Pro-- vincial Secretary. Do they look like dirt farmers? Do you think for a minute they earn their bread and butter by the sweat of their brow? Take a look at the Leader of the Opposition? Would you call him a dirt farmer? Nor can I overicok * the Minister of Agricuiture. Would you put him in that class? I ven-- ture to say that he hasn't stood be-- tween a pair of plow handles for forty years." Charging that many things were said on the floor of the House for ; "the mere purpose of political propa--| ganda and personal aggrandize-- ment," Mr. Kirby recalled how re-- peatedly the legal profession, of which he was a member, had been subjected to abuse from alieged farmer legislators. In this connec-- tion he referred particularly to the member for Oxford (P. M. Dewan, Lib.), who, he claimed, on one occa-' sion made one of "the most ven-- omous speeches against urban cen-- tres and lawyers ever uttered in any Legislature." Experience From Books. "His address," claimed Mr. Kirby, "was carefully prepared, and then submitted to the powers that be for | blessing before it was delivered. I' could not think of hurting his feel--| ings by passing him over, because he is known as an agriculturist. But| P his farming experience was mostly * gathered from books. 1 would call him the professional or commercial * farmer because he goes in for wl.at is known as co--operative farming And my understanding is that co-- operative means working jointly for a common end."