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Stresszng G'ov’t “
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°\‘-
P. W. C. Colts
k f me` as the ex-
¢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-
ve bam ebte to reduce the
Iuloonwood.
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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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,ing the latest and most modern
mental units in that province.
When the trustees of the Princ
Edward Island Hos ltal wanted to
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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
thc Liberal Govemment did on
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in power, make a contract. for 20.~
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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.
/, ' Trlns-Canada Highway
| 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
B.
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|¢'
t
i due to defective drainage and soil
it
cking
under the April sun." However be-
fore we are through we will know
is
al
ul
in the first instance wh should
6
S
/NUW in Nzbfdi to the highway
ve
lno legislative authority for build-
inauguraied that system themselves.
System is carried an as in 1930. 0
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
d expenditure meet."
r‘\;a;l`y;.every occasion they went to ;§§;n':€lk “gaming frouilnthst may
- uf. wer wer -
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
D
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.
That is as far as I ani goine: to-
night. I thank you for your union-
tion and ask you to listen in zo nie
again on next Tuesday night.
Farewell Gift For ‘ "
Lady Bessborough
l
, .
i
Women of Canada. to Present
Memento of Years Spent in -
This Country.
Women of Canada will be given
an opportunity to take part in pru-
sentlng a farewell gift to the Co,tu.',-
ess of Bemborougll. At if meeting;
held in Ottawa recently over wlurh
Lady Perley, wife of Sir C`.¢-cruz:
Perley, presided. it was rut-.ioruiizcd
that Lady Bessborougll had 'emi-
you deduct. $540,000 from the
amount stated by the Patriot you
will get some $930,000, which is the
debt this Govemment put on the
Province in the last four years,
which we acknowledge and which
we were forced to put on in the in-
terests of humanity.
Mr. Lca's Overdraft
If they had looked after their
overdraft in thc spring of 1931, when
the bond market was favourable, we
would not have had to deal with it
when we came into power. But they
didn’t do it. Mr. Lea says "we didn’t
want the people on the eve of an
election to know there was such an
overdraft." He was most solicitous
They neglected lhe opportune time,
they didn’t issue bonds and when we,
came into power the bank raised the,
interest on our overdraft to 516%. I
They say we did not endeavour to‘
call for tenders on the open marketl
We did, and we did not receive nf
firm bid. I can quote letters from
bond houses in Canada, saying they
couldn‘t give s firm bid. Then the
. fires occurred, the Bank of Montreal
said "and must reduce your over-
draft before you get authority w re-
build." We interviewed the head
sented to accept a nivznculo oi’ tho
, happy years she has spent in Cun-
iada. A movement to present su'-li it
»gift was launched at the lncvtiufg.
The national committee iiiclirdc:
wives of Lieutenant Govci-noi;.» oi
the Provinces, wives of fcricrni cs-’-.--
inet ministers, wives of oilwr yr.-._v
councillors and pr~csid<izv,.= ..»;
women's nationally oi'g:uil‘.~~li "'5-
ieties.
The following tclcgrrun lim. ii _.1
received by Mrs. Dclilois from `L.:;.,iy.'
Perley:
‘ “A preliminary womens national
committee with Lady l‘erlc\' its
chairwoman was formed in Ui‘.a\,\~i.
June 12th to arrange s. farerwil mit
for Her Excellency Lady ll.~<-<-
borough. As in former yi-ars tliri
committee asks that the \vivr.-. of
the Govemors be responsible .or
seeming subscriptions in their rc-
spectlve Provinces. Ouiuv. " rn
the departure of Her Excllfucy lu
_§epternber_the committee uf-lc liz"
me.t`téi-be given your ixunuwlizlto
attention."
Would all those interested knfily
send their contributions to -Mrs.
DeBloi.s at Government liirusfi
within the next week. No one is_n_sk-
ed or expected to coniribuio more
than one dollar.
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I unwu usnlcu.
FRIDAY, J
-ft fessron welcome.
soiisrv useriiici
ward Island Medical Society will be held in i
CANADIAN NATIONAL HOTEL.
_ CI-IARLOTTETOWN.
The Annual Meeting of the Prince 
IILY 12th.
.' Business session 11 a. m. Clinical session
2 p. m. Visiting members of the medical pr_°g;_
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