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" {yllllh regime. (Applause). Well might

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ADDRESS BY

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"'I‘hen the roads close toiwlicrc the asphalt |J€glIl8'B1‘9 in a pretty bad condition.

“We believe that two or three men with a couple of carts ‘and’ shovels could repair all‘ these ap- proaches in a. few days-perhaps less. What on “earth is the reason that they one kept in this state of

» disgrace, annoyance and danger? What's the_matter anyway? v _

“Time and again we have,ln" these columns advocated the em- ployment oi_s._ proper "road maker. ‘Ihore does not appear that such a person is engaged in road mak- ing in Prince Edward Island. ~ ' "Shortly there will be conven- tions and hundreds of visitors to the Island. If we wgm. to make; good impression on these people then let. it" be Sfiénzalliil; thesepp- preaches to the city are put-in proper shapm-A reasonable exer- cise of common sense would reme- dy the whole matter in a. very short time. Perhaps there is too much red tape and too little ne- cessary practical work. Enough money in~one shape or OLil€i"_iS taken from.motor,,'owncrs to con- struct Roman roads." '/

Hon. Mr. Maclntyrcr What date wasthat?

ILL. MacMillan: May- 31, 1928.

‘Hon. Mr. McIntyre: That is the iway we found all the roads .in the Province.‘

Dr. MwcMillan, Yes after being in office for nearly a year. ’ ’

non. Mr. McIntyre: All tvlnlclfi

Dr. MacMillal-n. And most of the summer. When did you come in? Do‘_ you know when you came in?

Hon. Mr. Nlclntyrs: You kllow_ when you. went out. _

Dr. McMillan: We went out pret- ty near t_he_ beginning oi the road work, on the 30th of June; and if the roads were in a. rotten condition on the 31st of May last year the re-

ister; mo" I tellyou ‘that the ‘Pat'- riot never, In the days of the Stew- nre Government, had 4o‘ write. any- thing like the criticism about the approaches to the city ‘of ‘Charlot- tetown thit it had to write under

the Patriot ask: “What "(in earth is the {Upon that they are kept in this slats of disgrace, Annoyance and drnger What's the matter anyway?" ’ Hon‘. Mr. lilclulyre", You told me last year that you were going to save us: paper. I though you lost it.

__ Dr. lifacMlllan: No, I never lose ‘anything like that! (Laiighteri. So then, Mr. ‘Minister of Public Works, you had to change your ideas. We forecasted this predicament, that those blg' motor powei\ machines were not going to do the whole work themselves,—cven _ii they were bought over me telephone. -We.polnt- out that _you cannot maintain roads in this Provillcc ‘without dragging; -ail‘d. if my hon. friend had turned out the officials under his control early last year with those old dis- cardedroad drags that were used by the Stewart Government, he would have had splendid roads all summer. But lie saw fit to experi- ment, and of course lie has. the ‘re-

sults of those experiments; but the v

conditions would have been much worse had not many of his own fol-

lowers ‘and supporters gone on all .

llllnmer with the old fashioned drags and where these were used they. \succceded in keeping fairly decent roads. I unde tllat within the post few ll'l _ ‘ths the. Depart- menthas‘ advertised for road drags.

Hon. Mr/Mclntyre: Quito so. Dr. Macmillan: And I am told

.that there is one in the Agrictllturw o; Building, behind my residence. -

that. is something immense‘ to be- hold. They: say that when that ma? chine gets into operation you‘ will reqfllfo. to have rediishis the roads -to stop people from coming. becausrlt takes everything before

_ would have any life in it if it got .in the way oi this new one.’ I won- __d_e1 if that is a sample of them all?

GBAVEL

Tho Minister of Public Works, we Jllinformed, placed a good deal of Irlvei in the _low lying places. That

' is something that every Government believes m. I believe it has done good and thet~lu some. places it ls the

(irgpcr thing. Pl_a_ocs like Haslanfs hill, which is of a naturally“ soft material, have been improved "by Iflyoliing. We know it is an expen- sive business, but it has to be done. And I suppose in two p’; thrermore

"bratty. well covered: that 1111i? ‘WY the road fi-oinflgflt. Peters rm to

the the Western road. but practic-

illy the whole district willbe eover- .

ca. In ma. {It is um I "will" Yhstau now for favored one: In m-

. these activities in road construction,

whether tho‘ Ministe? convey-gm“; with tins matter or not, or what the particular avenue of approach ls by which Drlvate individuals are able to sci» this gravel converted to their private use at the. public expense. We had an example of this last Yf-‘RP. When it was mentioned in the House that quantities of this_gravel were used on the public" streets of 111111113’ Biver. When this matter ""53 referred 1-0. we were told ‘that we had bother be careful, as the Womens Institute at Murray Ptiver asked for it, and if- it was not grunt- 011 they didn't know what would. have 111-1111131196. I hope none ofthst W011i 15 going on now. However, we shall be in a. better position to Judge of the particular merits of this grav- 011111: Work when we see the Public Accounts aild get some account of the bills. But the Minister of Pupil‘; Works should not run away with the idea. that the ‘people ,o‘f this Prov. inoe Imagine that last year we had ‘the best roads in the history of the Province. . _

I would like to have had from the Premier an explanation of the con- cluding sentence of this parligraph: “My Government intends to increase

11$ ‘greatly as" the revenue from-re- latedsourccs will permit." _What are the related sourccsof revenue? Can the Minister of Public Works tell us anything about the revenue from re- lated sources? It is not much won- der that anyone would be amazed at this Speech from the Throne. One might almost say that the in- tentlon of the writer. of the Speech was to frame his Ian gc in such a way that no one would understand him. However, weshall leave that. paragraph and ‘take up the next one, which is even more ‘extraordinary:

"rnonlulriolv uuroitcuhrsm

"I sin happy to say that thePro- hibitiou Act. is now. being r; inforccd." w _ ' ‘Mr. Speaker, it would make any- one hcnnv.’___t_o say that,-if it were true. The Premier elaborated on it; 11B 551's it is quite different now to what it was under our Government. NW6 0f the Prisoners, he assured us. hacl~been let out ofJail. Oh yes; it seems there were two-they were released under doctor's certificates for ill health. I would ask him now: were there B111’ more than two?

Premier Saunders: No, . Dr. lllaoMiiian: The Premier says.‘ there were not any more than two. History repeats itself; last ygar we had the very same thing; -_ho~said" "there were only one on thatccca- slon. 1 asked him if there were not 11115’ more. He said there were two; and I ended up by showing him that there were seventeen‘. ' Hon, Mr. Len-No. - _ Dr. MacMlilian; The Mlnigm- of Agriculture need not say No, because I can produce the figures again.

ilun. Mr. Lea: The figures -don't mean anything.

Hon. -M_r. Stewart: They never do with some people.

Dr. lllacMlllanrThe records mean something, though. ‘

lion. Mr. 112B: you give lli the- l-ccords. and 'they will" mean‘ soine- thing. You‘ are only giving part.

Dr. MucMlllan: I will give" them all. This is a. report of the chief 1n- spcctor,’ B. J. Haywood: _

"50 offenders were committe’ to their Jail sentence and re- mained their dull time except three." _ -

“who is right. my hon". friend or the Inspector?- ‘ _

Premier Saundersi I don't know of any three; all I know is" two.

Dr. Macmillan: I shall read them

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to ’ you: ’ Patrick McKenha. of Char- lottetown, restaurant keeper,

found guilty of second offence, convicted and sentenced ,to six months in Queens County Jail, was committed’ on March 27th. 1928, and released on August 30th. 1928 to enter Hospital. Hector McQuarrie of Charlotte- town, laboner, found guilty of first offense. was committed on October 19th. 192B. and released Nov. 2nd. 1928 in enter Kentvillc Scnalorlum for tuberculosis treatment. Wallace Fields‘ of' Charlottetown, convicted in the City Police Court for having liquor in his possssslonugwes fined 0100 orthreo months in’ Queens County, Jail-was com- mitted on December 7th, and re- leased on December 19th, stiffer- lng" from epilepsy fits which in~_ creased after being confined. Pflilhill Blunders: Well, I. must say that r was awafwhcn that lut one Was released. ‘ _ “Dr. Macllflllan: We know that; I om Just pointing out to you that you were mistaken" as usual. We rend further: "Nine. convicted offenders are ~stll1 at large. In souie cuss the commitments have been. shypd by the Commission. The others.»

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will brexecuied as u pol- sible. Several attain have been made in

Ame them minded in» butnthoy are evadinl the ome-

moulhs. My hon. friend will find

now being vigorously enforced."

"Six parties have absconded to avoid the unplcasantness of I. term in Jail and have not. yet rs- turned. "

"Nine offenders convicted for offences under the Act have ap-»~ . plied for a writ of Certiorari to have the. convictions made against them quashed. The principal ground in their appli- cation is the Jurisdiction of the new Magistrate. n. Mr. Tweedy. These cases come before the

’ Supreme Court this, January term and will be settled."

STILL UNSETTLED

These casesV were tried in the Supreme Coilitlind a decision was given: and though I am not a law- yer I believe that the merits of the question, as towheth-er Mr." Tweedy has Jurisdiction or riot, has not been settled; that the decision handed down by the-Judges of the Supreme —Gourt was only on the method of attack, and that tho question will yet have to be'retried.“'l‘his is the fvigorous enforcement" of the Pro- hibition Acf. of which my hon. friends boast.

But here is a strange thing, Mr. Speaker; that in 1928 the convictions against offenders undelytho Prohib- tion Act amounted to 117, and in 1925, when the Stewart Government" was in office-the which, according to the Premier, allowedwhe Prohibition Act to go into dlsrepute and whose only ob- Ject in having a. Prohibition Act, it seems was to make money,‘—how

year, do my hon. friends know?

i Hon. Mr. Lea: That condemns- your system.‘ It shows that you were not trying. v .

Dr. MacMillan: Oh, yes, it shows we were. not trying-been . we only made 103._My. hon. friends have been trying; they multiplied the mach-

honcst effort," to make "the first sincere attemptflfand they have just ‘ ’ the ‘ ‘ ‘ by fourteen over-Dike number under the Stewart G... rnulent inliizfi. jVhat do you think of that, Mr. Speakerf-Isrrt that’ a. wonderful rec- ord afflr all those promises, and af- ter all this talk of "vigorous en- fw- emeni." '

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RECORDS RE PROHIBITION

n my hon. friend the Premier will Just look up the record of prohib- ition convictions, I think it will give him cause for some thou . Let him go back to 1922, when he convic- tions numbered 56.'In 1923, the con- victions were 47; in 1924. o9; in 1925. 103, in 1928, '72; in 1927, ‘89, and in 1928, 117. You will find that there is just a. little gradual increase all the time in the number of convic- tions. I submit that the_oilly infer- ehcepne can draw from this is that there are mor people engaged in the liquor business. That is Just where Prohibition places us. There- are twenty one in the Jail in Sum- merside and I do not know how many are in Jail here; but I know that they are having a. goodtimc. apyway, no matter how many there fro. In fact it seems to be aigreat pleasure to get into that Jail. My hon. friend the Premier stated that the conditions were being made so severe that people wouldn't want to gct fit. They may have cut down the quality of the food a little, but there‘ are other ways of getting "food. This business has developed as one of the fruits of prohibition; they don't mind whether theifisre put on Jail fare or not as Sunday after Sunday one can see parties going out there, lugging the nioeties and duxuries to those bootleggers. My hon. friend can go up to Ot- iawicena tell the Women's cams"- ion Club of the success that prohi- bition is achieving, andwhoit he wouldn't be premier ‘of a province that didn't have prohibition; that Government ControLis worse than "war, pestilence and famine" and that Prince Edward Island. wouldn't think of having anything else but Prohibition now that it is being so "successfully enforced,"— according to the words he put in the Governor's Speech and which almost choked him when he read them. Docs my hon. friend believe, hhTitlf, that the Prohibition Act ls being enforced‘! If so, there is" at least one person who believes" ill But. why doesn't be call In the Chief bl Police. and uk him about the conditions here in Charlottetown? Send over for " the City records; sec the record of the Malice Court mi- lhe use twelve

that time were M9 prosecutions in the Charlottetown Court lest your against pol-sous ‘ ged”w_i’lb bclng under the Influence of liquor. Ifbu. Mr. IarPoge: Thire "was a new chief of police here. rounding thtrn up. " ~ Drvlacltllillh: __And .n6 Jiquor? daughter.) M!‘ plosecutlons make almost one for ovary any of the year. And N10 Wilt of it ll thli. there

Governrnenti "

many convictions were made in that _

inery; they were going to make "an —

kinds of liquor. go outcto certain districts, Mr.

might be able to get some. went oilt in the District represented by the hon. member of the Govern- ment from Rustieo you would not have to come heme m. ,1: you wviii down to theft ‘District when my hon. friend from Murray Harbor comes from. you wouldn't coils home very" dry either. ~11 you went into the eastern districts of Kins! County. even now, you could get any brand of liquor that you wanted. Yd 111i‘ one year ego the Premier got up in‘

crease of eighty per cent over the year before. Let the Premier or any member of the Temperance Alliance or thcfProhibltlon Commission ex- plain that.

many in a city of 13,000.

Dr. MacMillan: ’Ohl '31“? 34s ar- rests in‘ the past year is something. lion. Mr. Lea: Well, pnc’ a day.

DI‘._MJCM1IIIH7 One every day is

A Member: It"wii.s not enough in previous years. t Dr. "MacMillan: ‘You say tile-Pro- hibition Act is being rigorously en- Forced. »‘I may tell my hon. friend the Premier that the Prohibition ‘set

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is not much‘ "wonder that a Minister from his own home town had to get up and broadcast the fact that the

of the Dollticlanm-and by "politic- ians" he meant the Liberal Govern-

leader. Herc is one famousmmend- ment put In the Prohibition Act last year: _ ~ " “53a. Any person who con- sumes or drinks any liquors which have been obtained or Pfflcuipd in contravention of the provisions of this Aeiqshall be liable on summary" conviction to a. penalty for the first offence of notiless than two hundred dol- lars, nor more than four hund- red~dollars and in default of im- mediate payment oi said fine and costs, to imprisonment ‘in the common Jail of the’ County wherein such offence shall take place for not less than three months "months, unless the said penalty and’ all costs and charges and all costs of the commitment and carrying the offender to the said Jail are sooner paid. and for a second or any subsequenteoffence ’to imprisonment in such Jail for not less than six months nor , more than twelve months." Now _1 want to ask the Premier:

0f those _.'§45 persons who were ar-

Charlottctown last your, scrum of them “drunk andineapable,” others “drunk and disorderly" how many were fined under that section?

Mr. W. C. S. MlwLure: Make him answer.

-Dr.‘ MncMillan: Mr. Premier, as you are so happy that this Act is novv liclng "rigorously enforced," will ‘you answer that question? ‘ (The Premier did not reply.)

i) LAX ENFORCEMENT

Rcsumlng the debate on March 22nd, Dr. MacMillan said: You will recall. Mr. Speaker, the

when the Prohibition Act was made "more workable" he would show the great things the Government would do in the way of enforcement. Is it an index _of "the co-operation b:- tween the Government and the Pr'o- hibltion" Commission that he does not appear ‘to know even the num- ber oi’ prisoners released. He says two, whereas 'there have been three. If this “co-operation was no better than that existing between the Government and the Temperance Alliance, it cannot be of a very high girder. Yesterday he was repudiating the views of a melriier of theAl- liance, said by him to be a Conser- votive. Aha this is hot the ‘first time that‘he "has done- so. Does he claim that only Liberals can take any interest in the Alliance. or that the Liberal "party and prohibition ‘are synonymous? But when we have members of‘ that Alliance saying pub- llcly, that they have been duped and deceived by the polltlcians— ’ Liberal politicians-mum. are we to he Prohibi-

think?’ As‘ I said yesterday,

tlon. Act, so for from being "rigor- ously enforced," ls not-being enforc- ed at all. I instanced section 53a whereby persons guilty of drunken- ness are to be prosecuted under that provision and fined $200 or sent to Jail for thred months. Has any at- tempt been made to enforce this pro- vision? You can go thruogh this whole Act from beginning to and and you will find 1hr! some discrepancy between the actual facts and tho statements of my hon. friends.___.

' RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS

We know how easy it is in certain parts of this province to pr0curq”all You have only to

Speaker; for instance, if you went out

to that District represented by my

hon. friend from New Haven you If you

, . gbgiiiporojthlt. If; IPIIUIYIIII! tho statement in the M06111 "I I111

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lion. Mr. Lea: Ono drunk is not.

not much, my hon. friend says. How

' mucll was it the year ‘bfiore?

is not being enforced at all; and it

tcmperancepcople are only the tools

ment of which my hon.’ friend is the

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nor "more than six _

rested and convicted in the city of’

enforce Prohibition?’ and he went up. as j-hg Premier of this Province, to-nddress the Women's "Canadian Club of Ottawa, to address the Ro- tary Ciub,of Quebec, to address the -Gyro Club of Nioncton; and he told them wliata wonderful Prohibition Act we have, and how‘ vigorously it is being enforced in this Province which has the honor of having him" as Premier. What a ridiculous state- ment! All lie would have to do would be to go to his own homo town of Summerslde and look‘ at the records of the Police Court, under his very eyes, and he would find nnlncrease in drunkenness, an increase in the criminal record, an increase in the number of convictions under this Act. "Oh," he says, “but that is ‘the way we are enforcing the Act. The more there are arrested for drunken- ness the better the Act is being cri- forced." » Iwclaim, Mr. Speaker, that if you are going to enforce the Pro- hibltion Act, that is notthe proper way. If you are goi to allow all kinds of liquor to come nbo the pro- vir/g/you cannot enforce Prohibition by arresting and fining some of the drunks. The question is, how are you going to deal with the supply of liquof that is continuing to come in under the "Act which my hon. friend has "improyed" and made "more workable" last session? _

WHERIEARE Tull DIGUNTIES?

The Leader of the Qpposition has

ut a very pertinent“ enquiry: “Where are. those mounted policemen who were going to create such’ a re- volution incthe- chin-cement of lthe Prohibition Act?" Where are they today? Where didthey come from and for what purpose? "Brought here through the machinations‘ of my hon. friends on the other side o‘! the House, probably aided and "abet- ted by some of the Liberal members of the House of Commons. For what purpose? Was it to promote temperance, to stomp out bootlegglng or suppress the drink evil? No! not at all. They were brought hgge for one express purpose, and that was to try to get this wonderful S8279‘ gallon that we see before us elected to control the, government of~ fill! Province: and Just as-soon as their work was over, Just so soon» were they allowed to go out of the Prov- ince. One of the mast billable‘ “I095 that any body of memstoolni i" in order we?“ eleeievl: The Premier said that it. was his ambltioii to be- come Ieuderof the Government. H‘: