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Masterly Analysis Of Provincial

Political Campaign Issues By Premier MacMillan, Who Will Deliver A Second Address On Tuesday Night, Outlining Con- servative Platform.

The record of the Provincial Conservative administra-

tion during the past four years, and the unfair nature of much of the criticism made by the Opposition both in the press and from Opposition leaders and spokesmen, was the subject of a masterly broadcast address by Premier Mac- Millan on Friday night. Following is the text of the

l’remier’s remarks:

`I.sdies and gentlemen, electors of Prince Edward Island: It is my privilege tonight to begin to discuss the issues of the coming Pro\'incial Election, and incidentally to begin to discuss with you the record of the Government for the last four years, in order that you may un- derstand the situation and that

you may new the facts placed be- fore you pla nly; because it will be your duty within a few weeks to decide what you want for the negt. five years, whether you want the present Government retained in power or whether you wish to change those who have administ- ered provincial affairs during the last four years and give ,way to the Opposition, who are so loudly clamouring to attain power in this Province.

I only ask for one consideration

in this campaign, and that is that the facts be put before the electors fairly and squarely nnd let them be the judges. Let them decide as to what form of govemment they wish for the next five years.

_ Difficult Years

The past four years have not

been an easy time to administer' government in any Province, or in any country; and we in Prince Ed- ward Island are no exception to that general rule. In the first place we suffered two great losses in our Provincial administration in the untimely death of the late Premier of this Province-the Honourable J. D. Stewart-and the Honourable Leonard MacNeil1, the late Minis-‘ ter of Public Works, who died af- ter being in office for a few months. The loss of two able men has often been the cause of wreck- ing s. Government, but we have been able to carry on to the end of our term and do our work in lhe interests of the people of this Province, as I think you will agree, faithfully and well.

It was not only death that this

Govemment had to contend with. but disaster in its worst forms When only in power a few months we suffered the loss of the largest institution under the controlof the Provincial ’ Government - Falcon- wood Hospital-and ' within a month of that disaster we suffered the loss of Prince of Wales College and Normal School. The loss by fire of those two buildings placed difficulties upon the Provincial Government unheard of in this Province. No Government of Prince Edward Island since we became a Province has been called upon to deal with emergencies and disas- ters such as we have been called upon to deal with.

Prince of Wales College

We have rebuilt Prince of Wales

College and it stands today as an institution which I think you will agree reflects credit not only upon the Gcvemment but upon the people of this Province. We builded that institution with the idea of providing for the necessities of the present and tc make some pro- vision fcr the demands of the fu- ture. Consequently we built a sol- id. fireproof structure and our friends in the Opposition have criticised us for building that in- stitution. One member of the Op- Position started out a. few years ago and stated that by using the old foundation we could have saved $25,000. He has travelled far from that statement, and his contention It the present time is that if we had' used the old foundation we could have saved $300,000! I would not be surprised if before this campaign is over he does not make the statement that if we had re- built on the Wold foundation it would not have cost us anything:

and that statement would perhaps

as logical as many they' are

making at the present time.

The old foundation was not fit

for s modern scientific building- thc central. edifice of _the educa- tional _system of this Province. We wanted to telco particular care Chit the building would earns. pond to all ollveduootionll and public health requirements. The old foundation was ncrsuiisblc for un el it was toorids for its lcngthv and so it was disosrdzd and we built an institution at A very low cost because we rebuilt when the bwlding profession was st its low.- est ebbrwc' called for tenders and we received tenders from all over Unnads.-from British Columbll. from Onfsrio. Quebec, Nova ncstia and Prince ldwsrdi Island. and these who have ,Inv -knowicilile ,ind experience in building sa we gbcve s very remarkable

That building, fully, equipped,

cost less than $400,000. Education- isis and thsoe who are acqurlinted with the administration- of col- leges and universities tell us that it is a splendid building, that it is a credit to us, and that it was a remarkably cheap building. It was the intention of the Government to give the people of this Province something worthwhile, something to which their boys and girls might go and procure an education.

Camcgie Grants

Not only that, but by some in-

itiative on the part of the Minister of Education, I was able to induce the Carnegie Corporation to take an interest in educational matters in this Province. I was able to find out why they had never considered Prince Edward Island before. I found out that there had never been an agreement between St. Dunsta.n’s University and Prince of Wales College and the necessary agreement has been entered into. The Carnegie Corporation have Elven us $88,000 to endow a chair in Economics and Sociology, the professor of that chair to give half his time to St, Dunstan's College. Was that worth fighting for and going after? I think you will agree that it was. The opportunity ex- isted long before I became Minis ter of Education and they could have gone after it just as I did. but none of my Liberal friends ever exercised foresight enough to make a try for that. -

As a result of that we have been

able to make Prince of Wales

College a full Junior College, by_

adding to the course we can keep our boys and girls in that institu- tion two years longer and they will get full credit for their marks for those two years when they go into larger universities in whatever

course they Lgmrsue. Is_ that not worth some 'ing to the people of this Province, when they can keep their boys and girls two years longer in Prince Edward Island and with much less expense? $88,000 invested in 5% bonds brings in $4,400 a year. We have made a bargain for five years with the Carnegie Corporation and we are not only paying one professor but we are paying two and thus saving that much to the people of this Province.

It is true wc have added tc the

course. We have appointed addi- tional professors and it is also true the capacity of the college is taxed now. It is not too large. It is not too expensive. and I was very much surprised last night in lis- tening to Honourable Thane A. Campbell on this subject, who is the Commander-in-chief of the Liberal forces on the field, ap- pointed by his leader the Honour- able Walter M. Lea, of whose ill health I am very sorry to leam. I visited Mr. Les and saw for my- self that his health is not good and that he is not able to take part in this contest. I am very sorry to know that, because I would like to meet him on the platform, but he has designated Mr. Campbell to lead in his place. I was surprised that Mr. Campbell last night should have referred as he did to Prince of Walcs College, which probably gave him his groundwork in education. ll-Ie has gone far since; he is a. Rhodes scholar and he knows what s good educational institution means.

I am sorry he was not falrvenough

to say that it is a splendid insti- tution. Noi all he could think of to say was that we are paying 811.- coo more to our professors than under the Liberals. Why shouldn't we pay $11,000 more when we have more pupils to teach? Why shouldnt we do more for them? His statement made last night over this broadcasting system was that $100,000 could have been saved in the erection of Prince Of WSIB! College, I did not think he would be lead away by such foolish statements as that, but it ls won- derful what a man will say when he is trying w seek D°W°\‘-

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¢rg1vhaeg);nstpei\‘fini;ter of Education. The facts are these: In 1980 2 por asipitn colt of Prince of We cg||¢g¢ was $17. In 1031, 0131;!

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been done for the students in this

Province, We made the fees for the Third and Fourth Years fairly high, in order to make the courses sclf supporting.

Prince of Wales College is a

credit to the Province and to the educational system of this Prov- ince. All that is left to the Opposi- tion to do is to try to criticise the Minister of Education and to do something to hurt him in order that they may attain power. ‘

When Dr. Keppel, of the Car-

negie Corporation, was here he said he wanted to do something for every man, woman and child in this Province and it was con- sidered the best way to do that was to give them a library system. However, I am not going to deal fully with the library, which now consists of nearly 35,000 volumes, with 21 branches over this Prov- ince, wlthln access of every man, woman and child in Prince Ed- ward Island_ When the demonstra- tion is completed in 1936 we will have received over $100,000 from the Camegle Corporation for this Province.

‘I have asked members of the

. Womcn's Institutes, \vho have been great workers for education and public health in this Province. I have asked the teachers of schools of Prince Edward Island, I have asked the school trustees, I have asked the pupils, I have asked the public generally, wheth- er the library system which we are enjoying in Prince Edward Island is not something worthwhile. We have those two amounts-$100,000 for the library system and $88,000 - to endow a chair in economics and sociology and I feel that is some- thing for which I can claim some credit; and I think the $2.000 which I have received as Minister of Education and Public Health was money well spent when I was able to bring into this Province nearly $200,000 by using some fore- sight.

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The Falconwood Problem

The next great problem was thc

Falconwood Hospital catastrophe. We will always remember the kindness of the citizens who inter- ested themselves at the time of that catastrophe and who helped us out in our difficulty of placing the patients. We had to divide them into three sections nnd se- cure temporary quarters, We had to buy the Simms Building nnd fit. it up for the male patients During these difficult. years we carried on and the only thing, the only word that can be said by the Opposition is "Oh, yes. they spent $35,000 for plans to build a $103,000 building." 'I‘hc.t is all the Opposition can say, despite thi- fact as soon as we were in power I said' to i-he Premier "I am going to bring an expert from the Mental Hygiene Council of Canada here who will give his services free, to investigate condi- tions at Falconwood, because I am not satisfied with conditions there." That report was tabled some years ago and the public know what it contains, but before we received that report we started to work tn improve the disgrace- ful conditions found existlng at Falconwood -As far as the care of supplies was concerned we erected a cold storage plant at a cost of $10,000, into which all meat, fish, butter. groceries and dry goods-in fact everything that is bought at Fal- conwood-ls checked in by a com- petent man and is properly check- ed out again. We established that system there, 'because we were dumbfounded when we went out there on our first official visit to find the disgraceful conditions in which meats were kept, in part of an old bam. Conditions were so disgraceful you would not imagine any government would allow them. but the Liberals did not have any onto or consideration for the patients in the insfitution: they devoted their time to Falconwood farm. However. we built a cold storage plsnt.end it has been the moons of saving thousands of`dol- lsn. We demonstrated that money could be saved. We closed im the leaks and by bminesa manitsemenf-

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cxaminatlorr of every man and woman under our care in Falcon- uood, and everyone in the Infirm- ary, to see just what number of patients we should provide for. Did we not proceed logically and in. telligently when we brought an ex. pert-Dr. Clark-to make a proper examination of every patient un- der our care?

Nails Liberal Misstatement

We appointed an architect and

we showed him the report of Dr. Clark, and I was surprised again at the misstatement of Mr.'Camp-

Years we have brought into this province $74,000. of Federal money to be spent for direct relief. We have brought $218,000. of Federa money on Unemployment Projects. We have brought in $28,000. for labour costs and salvage at Falcon- wocd and Prince of Wales College. We have also brought in 3168.000. Of Federal money for Old Age Pen- sions and $14,000. of Federal money for experimental road work. We have brought in $48,000. of Fed- eral money for two miles of con crete road at Borden and when our commitments are through this fall we will have brought in $268, 000. of Federal money for a trans Canada highway, connecting Char lattetown and Borden. In four years we will have brought to this Pro- ,vince from Ottawa $820,000.

, "Something Worth While”

X T00 $90.000.. the only money

bell last night when he said we had to send an architect all over the North American continent to learn something about ‘mental hos- pitals. That is another misstate- ment, It is quite true Mr. Fowler went to Toronto and consulted the Canadian Mental Hygiene Counci

time visiting insillullons. It is quit true that with the Mental Hygieu Council and the Ontario Govern ment he sat in on many confer- ences to obtain information regard-

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build a hospital they ,sent their trustees, representatives of the med ical board and representatives of the nursing staff to the same pro- vince and elsewhere to get the same information Mr. Fowler was get- ting, to find out the most econom ical type of institution to build. They pursued the same course. When it was decided that the mont economical institution could be copied off one in Ontario our architect was told to go ahead and furnish us -with the plans to suit our needs and number of patients in this province. Did we not proceed logically to deal with the propo- sition? And yet because we have not been able to go ahead and complete the hospital unit we have to listen to the slander of the Op- position that we wasted money. But the mental hospital question is not yet solved; We brought a com- petent man and put him in charge but until there is more building done the mental problem is not solved. What we need more than anything else is a treatment centre, rt dining room and a special con- valescent wing. When patients are besinning to recover their sanity that 'should be taken out of that environment and taken to a more quiet place. That is the logical way of dealing *with the -Falconwood problem. and because we love not been able. on account of financial Slfingfuvy. '£0 go ahead we have to listen to the slander that we spent- $35,000. for plays to build a $100,000. buildhig.

You do not hear any criticism in

this Province about the trustees of the Prince Edward Island Hos- pital-wisc business men who did the some ns we did. You don’t hear any criticism about them. that they .paid $30,000. in architects fccs and plans to build their building. You don’t hear criticism because they had to change their plans two or three times: yet because the gov- ernment of this _province pursued practically the same course they are to be damned throughout the province by those whose whole ob- ject is to obtain political power. and who, while they were in power, proved themselves not very good administrators, though they did not have such desperate conditions to deal with as we have had.

We no\v have our female pat.-

ients at Falconwood in the new east winz. and the male patients in the old Infirmary, which we had to rebuild and fix up according to the plans prepared by the arrhi- tect. We have leased the old Prince .liiward Island Hospital to care for thc infirm and poor people of this province: and so the Falcon- wood problem stands. We have put in a water system there from the City, in order that in future no such calamity will occur as oc- curred in the past, because if a pro- per water supply had been there probably Falconwoocl would not have burned.

Another Slander

There is another slander in this

connection which has been repeat- ed by the members of thc Oppo- sition, that we should have rebuilt the west wing as we rebuilt the cast wing, and saved thousands of dol- lars. As I have explained in the Legislature, I .have the written opinions of construction firms throughout Canada-the Cape Con- struction Compony. the Stewart Construction Company, The Mac- donald Con-struction Company and others, together with two or three architects, to the effect, that the west wing was not capable to be- ing rebuilt because it was crumb- ling in ruins, it was so much older. I hope Mr. McIntyre, the ex-Min- ister of Public Works will be fair enough in this campaign to forego the slander he has been repeating, that we wasted money by no re- building the west wing of Falcon- wood. The reason we did not re- build it wll because it was not

capable _of bein; rebuilt That is the I"a.loonwood. prorns ion, and as I have said before, the care of those patients is the first concern and responsibility of any govern- ment. We have endeavoured to deal fairly with them. as we have tried to deal fairly with the people during our term of office.

Thclo were not only those two

disasters, but we have had to deal with unprecedented conditions of depression during the last four years. It has been our care and concern to do as much in the in- terests of the people of thu pro-

It is quite true he spent a lot oil

e clone what they did before! The

which the Liberal received from iOttawa. was received by the ex- ,Minister of Public Works-the lion. ,l\Ir. McIntyr&.~from "that man R. iii- B0hIl¢¢|».” of whom the Liberal ;p:\rty never have the faimess to . say one good word.

Li In other words there has been

brought into this province from the

C 1 Bennett (invemment $910,000. in C , cold cash, or there will be at the _ , Clld of this fall. Is that not some-

thing worth while?

They say we are an extravagent

government. I suppose if they had belle i-U Power they would have

would have made a lot of promisei las they arc makin; now-promises they never did fulfil, whether they ever intended to fulfil them or not. I W0l1dCr how they would have treated the poor, the suffering, the old people and others in want in this Province during the last four years.

It has been the studied poligy nf

this govemmcnt to do our best in the interests of htunanity in this province. During the past four years we seized every opportunity ‘of bring inging Federal money into the pro- vince. We have tried to spread it fairly ,to those who have been in Wiiht. and for that reason we have had Unemployment Projects and have had road work going on; and they say we are extragagant. be- cause we are seeking the only means possible to put some money into the pockets of those who needed it most.

Old Age Pensions

They scoff at our road policy and

say they will look into a, system of road building when they get in power. They promise they will in- vestigate, and that is as far as they will ever go. That is what they did with Old Age Pensions. They prom- ised it in their platform in 1927. Did they put it in operation? Not at all; it was an empty gesture.

But they did not have a platform

in 1931, it was a "record of per- formance” then, but like most of their platform in 1927, the plank of Old Age Pensions went into , discard. We put the same plank in ,our platform and we can say we i carried it out. There were old people lin Prince Edward Island who had i borne the burden and heat of the iday, who had raised respectable ifamilles, many of them obliged to 'go away to earn their livelihood, i and the old fathe; and mother were i left alone in want, in suffering and i in poverty. In the interests of hu- ; manity we decided the best way to I help them was by c. system of Old . Age Pensions. We put it into ef- ' feet. 'I‘l1e Liberals who are clam- , ourlng to get into office again had 5 the same chance of doing it as we ‘ did, but they never go beyond their 1 promises. It was good business to i put up $1.00 Provincial money and

get $3.00 Federal money.

Mr. Campbell said last night Look how much it is casting the

§ people of this province for Old . Age Pensions $42,000. for Pensions l and $6,000. for administration." - \Vhnt I am looking at, electors of f this Province. is the good it is do-

i ing to the poor old people. who

now have some sense of security,

3 some comfnrt during their declining I years. It is giving them a. few com- forts so we are paying Old Age ; Pensions and we are satisfied to I leave the result of that action in

thc hands of the people cn elec- tion day.

In connection with direct relief,

we have endeavoured to reach out to those in sufferinfz and in want. We have endeavoured to relieve them in every wuy possible and for doing those huumnitarian acts for trying to rrlicvc suffering and poverty, we are held up as an ex- travagant govcmmeut. If that is

and answer to the charge, and Ie! the people judge.

Those Ott,-nm "Plcnlcs" '

jects in every way possible. We

i went to Ottawa and presented our i claims end I am glad to say we

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found gravel in Prince Edward Is- land and used it. We are satisfied thi! P11508 Edwlfd Island gravel

1 will suit the 116865 Of the PI‘0v‘ln('A! The “Budget Blll.lw¢fl" '

and so long as we are in power, whatever is spent on gravel will not go to Nova Scotia.

They ridicule a section of the

experimental road project at South- Dort which has not stood up. we Sold to the people of this province, “We are 201113 to try out this ex- perimental road.” We built a mile et Hsmrbvn and at souris, and a mile on the North River Road and

, three miles at Southport. Some of i it has been fairly satisfactory bu

conditions at Southport some of did not stand up and it is now being repaired by the company at their own expense. For this we are being criticized. The Patriot newspaper stated "The highway is era

what is satisfactory and what worthwhile so far as economic road work is concerned. If the ex- perlment did not prove success!

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the government be criticized, W have endeavoured to do somethin in the interests of the people of this Province and I think those who travel over that road in the next. few weeks will see that the

erglpgriment has indeed been worth- w e.

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| to Borden, which they say we ha

iiflg- 1Vf.r. Campbell resorts to statement that it is a strange thing that unemployment work done last yi-*ill* was not entered into Public Accounts until the next year. They

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The unemployment expenditure of 1930 was not shown in the Public Accounts until 1931. He knows very well the legislative authority is given when the amount of money required is known, when the pro- ject is completed, and the same

We are satisfied to take any crit- icism regarding the highway to Borden. The people of this prov- 11106 have been clamouring for years for something that would help out on the roads. It has been generally recognized that much of the money spent on roads for many years has been monrey largely wasted, and the Government decided we should have some type of hard surface road and we are having it laid now. When that road is laid down, look what a convenience it is going to be. When you d.rlve out now to the portion that is laid it is crowd- ed with cars. The drivers know what a convenience and what il. saving on cars it is going to be.

This Government has endeavour-

ed to encourage the tourist traffic; first by having the exorbitant fares on the car ferry reduced, and now by giving a hard surface road from Borden to Charlottetown, thus elim- inating the dust nuisance. People living along this road wil have their cars out a. month or six weeks ear- lier in the spring and will keep them out a month or six weeks lat- er in the fall, and the amount we receive from gasoline tax will go far toward paying our portion of the cost of the highway. I think you will agree with me that our highway policy has been a wise one.

If the Liberals come in power

what are they going to do? “Invest- igate the best system of road mak- ing! That is all they will do, invest- igate and nothing else. That is the Liberal record.

A Hopeless Platform

If you look at the Liberal plat-

form, what do you find. 'I‘he chief plank in their platform is the pro- mise to make revenue and expendi- ture meet. I want to say to the elec- tors of this Province that if they study the Liberal platform carefully, the labourers, the farmers and the

fishermen who aretllp n{zed,dthey will find that a mos ope ess ocu- ment. There is absolutely no hope hcld out to the labouring man in this so called Liberal platform, whose chief object will be to make revenue and expenditure meet. Probably we could have marie rev-

enue and cxpcnditurp meetvdurixég the last four years, oo. e ne

not have brought iphtéhliis money from Oztawa. We m g ave gone on to try and make revenue and ex- penditure meet, if we thought that

‘was the highest statesmanship,- ,when children were going to bed ,hungry We could have done that, and the Liberals promise to do that ,|-row. ,What do you think of it? i what hope have you who are lab-

ull we are quite prepared to stand. curing for your living, ln the next

i five years, if the Liberals come into power and attempt an put this clai- form into effect? That is the pro-

position you have to consider on el- , ection day. You know the record of

We sought Unemployment Pro- this Govemment. You know we

have exercised every faculty we pos-

were not satisfied to sit in ` our` scss. We have willingly worked hard offices in thc Provincial Building, in the interests of this Prlpvince to as me Liber-,~,1 gnvc-rnment did We; do something for those W 0 are in

need.

but the Liberal Party during th

000 tons a year for three year.; for four years they were in power ex Nova s‘ct’n gravel and bring it in ceeded their estimates by nelrl

_ vm and spread it on the roads and tbre`:~1.unrtel{\‘of gm mi1l'i;>n dgiah

year ce as it was possible to do. chu.r1e.it up to capital account. So V “we cr t m PU I

melt; lor imtmag du;-ing our four Tint has not been our policy. We, intbdilleifofmfdr ih°l1‘0'f1|i1|¢'

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inauguraied that system themselves.

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1 never came _ home" cmliify-hzndcll. m¥h%l§;'i;_e;;1gn€I‘Y §_.xi'::x‘;33°; with "dhmg hm' Km” eu' ’ " power, put us in and we will make

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Prlgf t"°“§;fc Elgin ‘t’,§‘e‘*’““‘§,‘;y;;‘°’,§l vliiii-Eiseriyina aim orpouus Ro; * ec 5 ' 1,l'l7,000i four euro. a

:elping th? who Ocoiuld not swho' on :mm ng; of pawn- ave been repo n any er wa . _ gr," in uw bmp of 51,. We were not able to raise markets ov-gmy Br, the gentleman 101' Our h0mf‘- l‘f0fl\1CiS but We were who want to come into power and able to reach out and provide un- who 5”. in thug 153°,-m that them .°“"Pl°Ym°“i W°"k ”“ Work 0" the will be the stricaat economy in all roads, on hauling gravel, brush dnpm-¢memg_1 gxpmqiqm-eg, no in ¢\1¢iiI\8» making fill#-and W Rive, crease over the estimates without some money to the people who de# the approval or use saecunve coun served it. € cn or me Treasury Board. It is very And remember when we sal” difficult for a Government to kee gravel we mean Prince Edward Is- within its estimates. That is what land gravel. we didn’t do as our this platform amounts to. 1‘his Liberal friends did when the were Government exceeded its estimates

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ance. because they have been great violators in that respect.

I How are they going to make rev- . enue and expenditure meet? Thy indicated it in the Legislature. They are going to out the solaris, even to the school teachers, and last year they were going to cut down enough in the Public Works Department to make revenue and expenditure meet. They dou’t intend to cue for the labouring man, for the poor mln. for those who need coma help, if they attain power. That is the nn- alysls of their platform.

They say they can save L lot of money. Mr. Campbell referred to the extravagant use of carl. auto- mobiles, and what they were 301118 to save. When this Government came into power they ordered new automobiles, just the same as they did, but the electors know that the same number of cars ue used in this Province to-day.-with the ex- ception of one-as was used in their time. If they should go through with this promise, how do they pro- pose to get the Minister 0! Public Works. and the Minister of Agricul- ture, the Livestock Superintendent, the Dairy Inspector, the Supervisor of Women's Institutes and the nur- ses i.n the Public Health Department to the field of duty if tney have no cars? If they devise any other means the result will be that those officials will not be in contact with their work and their work will not be as efficient.

But don't you thing they are

. about the last ones who should talk about the extravagant use of cars. Evan the Leader, Mr. Lea, has made the statement that when he comes into power there will be no more Premier's car. I say the proper time for him to have said that was when he was in_ power, but he was satis- fled to use the Premiers car to drive from Charlottetown to Victoria. When he comes into power he will find no Prcmier’s car, because this extravagant man Mbclvllllan sold the Premicr's oar for $1,000 and put that $1,000 into rod machinery for the benefit of the people 0( I-hi! Province. Mr. Ra should be the ` last to talk about the Premieis car. The prment Premier does not drive his car at the expense of the people ,of this Province,

They are also going to reduce the

number of officials. There has not been any great increase in that res- ‘ pect. nothing to speak about. They cannot make any saving there.

Public Health

One surprising thing last night was that Mr. campbell made no re- ference to the Public Health De- partment of this Province, nor ll there any reference in their plat- form to public health - one thing which is very important to the peo- , ple of this Province. What do they l intend to do in the matter of public lhealth? I-Ie took great credit 10! , the help they gave to the Senator- ium. They helped the Provincial ‘ ssnatorium during their term of o!- fice by $56,000 for capital and main- tenance, after the W0men's Instit- utes had clrcularlzed the people of this Province and had raised over $70,000. We have helped the Son- atorlum to the extent of $64,000 against their $56,000, but we are not crossing about it. We are not hola- ing it up but when they ‘hold lt up as part of their expenditure why shoud we not do the same?

Now we come to this bond issue,

why we issued a $1,000,000 6% bonds. I will tell you why we did: because we were forced to issue bonds. If the Liberals had exercised that busi- ness ability which they boast so much about and which they ny the present Premier does not possess, they would not have left a. deficit of $1,041,000 to deal with. The Patriot, I notice, made a xnisstatcrnent the other day. It stated that from Dc- cember 31, 1930, to December 31, 1934, the debt of this Province had increased $1,470,000 and it tried to insinuata it was duo topoor ed- ministration. But it very conveni- ently forgot that $540,000 of that debt was run up by the Liberals dur- ing the last eight months they were in power. That is why they are so fond of not wanting to ta.ke the el- ection year into consideration. If

all

office of the Bank of Montreal and

the R/oyll Trust Company and they

Bold "dQI1'i» I0 0!! U18 0139” mar

again." They sicdhthglyewoilljlidl for n. lyndicbte. W Y` _.£9 they ouered to take 81.000000 of-1 bonds et s. blank price, which uife wetzdused. While negotiationawor

going on s. 'Ibrontn firm came acr with an offer to buy our bonds an , we sold them at 8%. because vid cou1d.u’t get an offer from the Iiynn dlolto. , » ~[~ _

Mr. Campbell made a staicmeru

which is not correct, because ‘th large syndicate was dealing with th proposition ell the time and whell the deal was concluded thcy.cam¢ across and said it was a better price than they could have given ‘us These are the facts, and it is a, re- markable fact that we sold .Sil- bcnds the same as Mr. Lea did, in 1021 and at almost the same figure.

What surprises me is that -Mr.

Lea makes the statement that were was something wrong about thl matter. He stated at political mcct- ings that when he came into power ha would investigate it, but when I challenged him on the floor of- tha House, and offered to appoint a committee, did he say yes? Hcsaid no: that he did not want a. commit- tee to investigate it! Ile damned his own political statement that there was nothing in it, when ha was not prepared to substantiate it, evm to the extent of agreeing to tho appointment of a. committee to_in-

vestllaie the matter.

Those are some of the things

which they say are evidences ofpoor administration, but I leave it to you, ladies and gentlemen, electorsof this Province, to say whether we have not endeavoured fairly and squarely to deal with those emergencies dur- ing the most trying period of Cali- sda's history. 0

Tuesday Night‘s Meeting . `

There are many other matters OY

paramount importance to the people of this Province, which I will not have suiiicient time at my disposal to-nightto deal .with. I proposa_to deal with them at 8. Public xnectilll in the Capitol Theatre in this 'City next Tuesday evening, where I will also announce the policy of the Con- servative Party and where I will deal with the question of claims and show why Mr. Campbell went very slightlngly over the question of claims last night and laughed atiiic increase of $150,000 in subsidy which we have obtained. I will show why the Liberal Party when they were in power never obtained any incrc-use of subsidy. I will answer the state- ` ment they made on the floor of the House, that it was because the Con- servative Premiers of Nova Scotia. and New Brunswick woud not co- operate with the Liberal Premier of this Province. I will prove conclus- ively that it was not the Conserv a- tive Premier of Nova Scotia or__New Brunswick who refused to eo-opcr- ate, but it was the Liberal Premier of this Province; and I will prove over their own signature that u~lic.t- ever rqrrecexltatioris they made to Mackenzie King were only laughed at. Since 1912 three inrrensts of subsidy have been made to this Pro- vince-$l00,000 in 1912 by the pres- ent Chief Justice Matliicsiixi. $125,- 000 obtained by the Stewart Govern- ment from the Dlmcan Comluisslou in 1926 md 1927, and $150,000 oh- tuined by the Maclilillan Govern- ment in 1931-$375,000 in all.