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zResuming the debate after re- cola, Mr. Blanchard said that when the prospectus sent out by the Gov- or to the bond uiarkets was proper in 1923 ‘the outside audit- or employed by the Government was in Charlottetown and at work. and his statement bears date the 15th of October. The ink was .,nut dry onthst prospectus when Mr. Blanohardw report was in. How than could the Government excuse itself? It would have been far bet- tor had the hon. member for Char- lottetown never mentioned it. I-lon. Dr. McMlLLAN: Better for you! (Laughton) _ In 1924 the External Auditor places the debt of the province nt $1,574,000, continued Mr. Blanch- ard. The Public Accounts Com- mittee accepted that statetnont. But in 1925, in the-Journals of the House, what does the committee say. It was composed of tiie some men, with the exception or one. They say that the outstanding tnx collections proved to be more of 1i liability than an asset. Mr. Blan- chard could believe that they had some difllculty iu collecting the whole of the poll tax. but in the campaign of 1923 the Conservatives said that every cent due to the Government would be collected.

f And here we have the admission of

the Committee that the best part of that $215,000 has not been col- lected, and is more in the nature of a‘ liability.

Mr. Blanchard wished to make a brief review of the deeds of both parties from 1877 to the present time. The Liberals, he said, built al the public buildings, the Court

ouse, the Asylum, the annex and Infirmary, the Prince of Wales Col- lege, the steamer Hillsboro. Where are the public buildings that the Conservatives built? Can they be seen, can they be located in any part of the province? We have two buildings that have been bought by the Conservatives and they have been paid for out of the agricultur- al grant from 0ttawa;———the ngri- cultural building here and another one in Summerside-two old wood- en buildings that are no credit to any Government. Winter naviga- tion was made by the Liberals when they placed the steamer Nor- thern Light on the route. Next we have-the steamer ZVlitito, the Earl Grey, the Murray Harbor branch railway, the Hillsboro Bridge—~—-

A MEMBER: The car ferry! (Laughter)

The Liberals gave us the stand- ard gauge from Summer I\4 to Tlgnish and from Charlazmtwrn h.- Georgetown, Mr. Blanchard said. He hoped that the wide gauge will be put on the Murray Harbor branch in a short time. Besides these things the Liberals of $100,000 to our subsidy.

What

do we find under the Conservativesifl The very first thing they did was‘addicted to drink? That is wrong.

to draw $200,000 from the capital that we had at Ottawa, thereby en tailing a loss of $5,000 every year for all time to come. They got an increase of $20,000 to our subsi dy; they got $100,000 under the Mathieson Government; they go the steamer Stanley; they got the car ferry (applause) and the piers As regards the car ferry, the Con servatives sold the steamer Mintn and the Earl Grey and got enough money to pay for tho car ferry. (Laughter) What happened? Just as soon as the Dominion Govern ment gavc us the car_ ferry in 1911 they raised and raised until g-cmii next to prohibitive. l MEMBERS: Prohibition‘, (Laugh- er.) In other words, continued Air. Blanchard, they are making us pay :for the car ferry and the improve- ments they gave us in the shape of freight rates. During all the years "that the Liberals got the Murray

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affairs under license. Both church

es, Catholic and Protestant, united in order to put this curse down. Bishop McIntyre accompanied by Mr. Murray, addressed meetings in every part of the province. calliilzg t e

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upon tbs people_to give all

assistance they possibly will’! put the curse down. rnembered the last remarks Father McGilvray before the elect- ors. In his closing words he said, "l hope on the evening of the elect- tion that the Scott Act will be carried by a handsome majority, and I will clap my hands and dance with joy." The Scott Act was carried. Things went fairly well for a while. But the rum sellers, or the bootleggers, as we call them, began to find ways of selling. In other words it drove the rum from the licensed houses into a great many bad holes in this province. where people gathered. drinking and carrying on all night. People got dissatisfied with the law, and Prohibition was introduced, which prohibited the entry or the sale of liquor of every description in the province. The hon. member for Egmont Bay made the statement the other night, which is very true, that we are free men, and we can take a drink of whiskey whenever we want to. We have that right, without taking any harm. Mr. Blanchard was with him in that. The hon. member also said the principle of Prohibition is wrong, inasmuch as it denies the right of a citizen to take what he has a right to get. Mr. Blanchard was with him there, too. That was all very fine, but there is another side of the ques- tion. Unfortunately, there is a class of people that makes an abuse of liquor, and something has to be done. It is not possible to put them all in jail or to fine them. If you fine the father of a family who spends all his earnings in drink, what then? It makes matters worse.. if you put him in Jail, does it make it any better for his family? The only way is to keep it away from him. That is why Prohibition was introduced. If Mr. Blanchard was a candidate in the field he woud stand by Pro- hibition, and if defeated he would not be ashamed to show himself before the public. Something was said by some of the previous speak- ers about. hypocrisy. Mr. Blanchard did not know to whom they appli- ed that term. Did they apply it to the clergyman who worked so hard and meant so well in favor of the Scott Act and also of Prohibition? Mr. Blanchard understood that under the proposed new law all that will be required will be a cer- tificate, and you can walk in and get what amount your certificate

‘ibe he did not know, but was it not opening the door to men who are

; There should be no law 1 that would legalize the gale of liq uor in that shape .

Who is asking for this change from the Prohibition Law? ls there any society from one end of the Island lto the other that is asking for a ‘change? is there a respectable body of men who have asked for

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aboard the trains at any place and they are sate; women om so 1° tea-Parties and they are safe. Was it so in the years no by? Not by any means. W y all this talk of people knowing where liqI-lfll‘ l! sold? Mr. Blanchard just wanted somebody to give him the name of a place and hewould PM 1i- Olll "l commission in iforty-elght hours. But no one will tell him where ' they are. (Laughter). Every man in the Province is an instru- ment to administer justice in some way. If someone knows where liquor is sold against the law and does not report it, what kind of a man is he? How many men were like the member for Egmont Bay and could take a glass of liquor and see no harm in it? That was all right; Mr. Blanchard agreed with that; but those melt will not in any case report where liquor is sold because -they want to get some themselves. How many laws have we in this Province that are but in force to the letter; that are not dlsobeyod? Take the question of smuggling. It is not only liquor-that is smug- gled. Take the report of the Com- mission of Enquiry and what do we find? Everything else besides liquor is smuggled. Would you abolish the Customs laws for that‘! Take the fishing regulations, the

mer. ls it obeyed to the letter? Not by any means! Do we want to cancel that? Prohibition has not put a. stop en- tlrely to drinking that we want to put it away? Under the Bell Government there were 100 prescriptions allow- ed to each doctor. This Govern- ment, Mr. Blanchard said, is giving them an unlimited number. That is the way they are enforcing Pro- hibition. They say they want to work in the interest of Temper- ance; and yet they are making it easier to go liquor. They say, "We will give the people permits. and whoever acts the blackguard his name will be cancelled." Where will the bootlegger be then? Just as soon as they put one man on the black-list, that is a custom- er for the bootlegger or the smug- gler. Furthermore, they say a minor cannot get it. Mr. Blanch- ard professed to know a little about how boys act with liquor, and men too. He never saw a young boy or a man buy o. bottle of liquor and drink it by‘himself. He had known men call at ten o'clock at night and rouse out their friends to give them a drink. Will the boy who drinks have any trouble getting it? You say he will be reported? You are afraid to report the man-that sells now, and will you report the man who gives liquor to the boy of eighteen or fifteen? No matter what law we have there will be trouble, and the best way Mr. Blanchard could see was to stick by Prohibition and ask everyone to lend a hand to see it enforced. He blamed the Government for not doing its duty because offend- ers against the Prohibition law serving terms in the Jail had been pardoned. Was that helping Pro- hibition any? Mention has been made of the grants made, by the present Gov- ernment to the Red Cross Society and the Orphanagcs. Mr. Blanch- ard professed himself altogether in accord with that. But the Gov- ernment was going to introduce an Act that- will counteract all the good that the Red (‘ross is doing. Doctors will tell us that the great- est cause that leads to tuberculosis

Who, then, is asking for the "change, he would like to ask the Leader of the Government. More than that, he had been told by Gov- ernment speakers that they know that smuggling is going on, and home-brew being made, and per- Jury in the Courts. The Attorney- General is the man who is sup- posed to enforce the law. If the members who made that state- ment are correct, what are we to infer? if they know of places where liquor is sold or moonshine i5 made- Why don't they report it? "Give mo," said Mr. Blanchard, the name of one place where liquor is sold or manufactured. and in

is liquor: that- in the case of puru- monia beware of the alcoholic heart. This Government, Mr. Blanchard argued, wants to make it easier for ‘men to get it. They are open- ing up a road to the Lunatic Asy- lum, and another to the Jail. Und- er prcsent conditions, if a young mau comes home drunk, what do his parents say? They are not at all pleased. If he got it from the bootlegger or in an illegal way, and if they take pains they may find out where he got it. But if

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r. Blanchard next tool; up Pro hlbltlon. In looking ‘lack over the‘ last fifty years or more he well iemembered when we had the license system on the Island. He was living in Rustico then. The time came when the people of Rus- tico, New London and Hope Riv- er would have to look out to get home before dark, or they would meet trouble on the way. ’l‘hiugs got so interesting that he knew of a young girl who was shot one Sun- day afternoon by a couple of drunk- en boys, when she was coining home from church. He remember- eduwhen a young boy was shot at

9959""!- Why does not the Gov- ernment introduce its legislation

too early. and there is a reaction now in the country against this

now instead of allowing twelve months to go by? The leader (jf the Government has a large major- ity at his back, and if he has a law which he says is in the interests of temperance and morality why doesn't he introduce it now’! He shouldn't hesitate one moment, But it was lust an election dodge, Mr. Blanchard argued. The Min- ister of Agriculture tendered his resignation some time ago and met with defeat in the federal field, and the Government has not had the courage to call a bye-election to fill the vacancy because they thought they would set defeated. There was not the ghost of», chance to win the next general election unless they brought flllg on. because the next election is go- ing to be fought on the "wet" and t “dry" question. The f‘ - o; the country and everything else will be left overboard, .and that will be the fight. The liquor ques- tion should not be made a political football- of. By who: woe“, o; reasoning can the Government ar- rive at the conclusion that their

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proposed Temperance law. had no great notion of being in the fight at the next general election, but this was one why he intended going into it. He believed there was one good fight left ln him yet, and he would use? it in favor of Prohibition. the new Act come into force, how-f ever, he trusted that part of the money received from liquor sales would be given to the Orphanages, and another large part to the poor of the country.

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