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An Issue Will be Decided By, HGXL, Ueccuiucu Lab, m “nuns t... ed. It has been clearly defined by the leaders. Premier Ferguson proposes to substitutewa system of Government Control for the present Act, W. E. N. Sinclair and W. E. Ran’ey leaders of the Liberal and Progressive parties de- clare in favor of the enforcement of the O. T. A. until the people by their votes decide against it. An important is- sue will be decided and in order that there may be a clear and definite pronouncement it is necessary that every poss- ible vote should be cast. If an indifferent attitude is to be assumed there will be no definite pronouncement, the elec- tion will be of no avail and we will still have the clamoring against the action of the government whatever it may be. SeldOm if ever has a more serious problem faced the elecâ€" ors and the seriousness of the situation demands that EVERY ELECTOR VOTE ON DECEMBER lst. Vote. Before the next issue of The Liberal, the people of Onâ€" tario will have decided the fate of the O. T. A. Wednesday next, December 1stZ is yoting: day ‘and the issue is not clondâ€" Fair Play Needed It has been made quite evident by the campaign so far as it has gone that there is need for a greater display of the spirit of Christian charity among some. of the people of Ontario. It should be possible for a person to feel convinc- ed that he is right without imputing unworthy motives to those who take another View. There are good people and honest people and people sincerely interested in the promo- tion of real temperanc on both sides. Writers and speakers should be content with the use of legitimate arguments. The cause of temperance is not to be promoted by intemperâ€" ate abuse. A person is not to be denounced as a hypocrite because he advocates the O. T. A.; neither is a person who prefers government control to be treated as one who is de- sirous of promoting the sale and consumption of liquor. _..._L:n-- nmA UALVVIIJ v... r-v-----___o , ; Many people whose motives are beyond question are convinced that only by maintaining the O. T. A. can tem- perance be promoted. :On the othervhand there are just as many, people honestly convinced that under conditions as they are better results are to be expectd from a system of government control. It is a matter in regard to which many people feel very strongly, but that is no reason for intolerance. n A.” vu;\.L u vvvvv Besides it‘ is not good policy to seek support for a cause by abusmg opponents. People who resort to per- sonal abuse or to imputing unworthy motives leave the imâ€" pression, either that they are lacking in legitimate argu- ments, or they have lost faith in their» own ability to preâ€" sent them. An Unusual Campaign It is significant that in the present Ontario Campaign the record of the Ferguson government is receiving very little attention from either friends or opponents. Under other circumstances that record would furnish both cam- paign orators and the newspapers much material for dis- cussion. As it is, it is crowded into the background. By general consent it is admitted that there is one question of sufficient importance to overshadow, for the moment all others. That, of course, is the liquor question. And more and more it is becoming apparent that this Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING C0., LTD. J. Eachern Smith, Manager Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscription $1.50~ per.y.ea§‘â€"To the United States $2.00 A .___'I_ »_ h:~l~~:n‘ barngdé’s Best Suburban District Advertising Rates on Application. Shall W6 saund the retreat? + Thursday, November 25. 1926 After twenty years of struggle, twenty years of "victories hammeted out with blood and tearsâ€"are we now to sacrifice the ground we have gained? In the long, bitter struggle against the liquor traffic, every trench has been held and consolidated. Now the great bulwark of the Ontario Temperance Act is assailed by all those who would make Ontario “wet” again. THE LIBERAL TELEPHONE 9. HE scarred, old battleground of Ontario is about t9 witness the supreme temperance conflict of its history. Is booze coming baclg again? ONTARIO PROHIBITION UNION 24 Bloor Street, East, Toronto. Your Vote 0r Your Failure To Prohibition Candidate Appeals For Support of the 0.T.A. Levi E. Annis. Prohibitionist can- didate in East York who has also the endorsation of Liberals and Progres- sives held his first public meeting in this section of the riding on Satur- day night in Thornhill and again in the Masonic Hall, Richmond Hill on Monday night. At both meetings the candidate was enthusiastically re- ceived and greatly impressed his auâ€" ditors with his sincerity and belief in the cause which he represents. At the Richmond Hill meeting Mr. T. Trench acted as chairman and the speakers in addition to the candidate were Mr. E. P. Chrysler, barrister of Toronto and Mr. Edgar Wall son of Rev. A. A. Wall of the United Church Richmond Hill. (I huc uunv u.u.-v...._ V- Mr. Edgar Wall in an eloquent ad- dress denounced the wobbles of How- ard Ferguson on the liquor issue and urged that every vote be cast in fav- ‘or of the maintenance of the O. T. A. which was the best temperance legâ€" .islation We had ever received. “The present election,”_ he said, “is a strug- gle‘between the belief that liquor is harmful to the individual and demor- alizing to society and should be ab- olished, and the contention that be- cause it is desired by an element in the community-addicted to the satis- faction of their appetite and indif- ferent to the moral health of the com- munity it should be easily procured.” The speaker traced in an interesting manner the wobbles of Mr. Ferguson which he compared to the shimmy- ing of the front wheels of a car. It would stop but you never could tell when it would recurr. “The state- ment has been made that the Fer- guson policy is a dry policy‘y but did you ever see or hear of the brewers supporting a dry . policy? If Mr. Ferguson Wins, the liquor interests will claim a victory. Everyone knows that liquor is deadly to body. mind and soul and ruinous to the home, the community and to the nation. Now we have a Government asking to make this evil much morexeasy to access. We have at chance to hit this proposed Government sale of liquor with our ballots on Dec. 1 and ,,,L LI..." 1: ..12A Aux..uuv..u ...... Mr. Chrysler who was the first speaker harshly criticized the Fer- guson Government for their flouting of the people in refusing representa- tion to the seven vacant ridings and for a general high handedness in handling the business of the province. He did not agree with Mr. Ferguson’s policy regarding the University of Toronto which he stated were not in the best interests of education. ‘ lef; us hit Mr. Wall. question cannot be fought out on the 01d lines of Wet and Dry, any more than it can be fought out along the old party lines. It is probably the most remarkable campaign ever held in Ontario. It is not a question of Grit vs. Tory, of DO NOT NEGLECT TO CAST YOUR VOTE ON DEC- EMBER lst. YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF, YOUR COM- ‘MUNITY AND YOUR PROVINCE. llClu AAA Vllva-Av- ._ Prohibition vs. license, of total abstinence vs. moderate drinking. It is a question of choice between two systems, each claiming as its sole purpose the promotion of practical temperance. Not only are recognized party people, men and women, prepared to cross the party line which they never crossed before, but men who have been active temperance workers are divided. Th unfortunate feature of the whole thingis that when the smoke of battle has cleared away probably we will have no definite pronouncement either on the liquor question or on general policies of parties. It is regrettable that the tyvo are mixed in an election appeal. . lit a knéékwout blow.” said Levi Annis, the candidate was givâ€" l en an enthusiastic reception and was heartily applauded when he said he .’ was in the contest not through desire ‘for honor of office but in opposition lto organized effort of the liquor in- terests. “I am here to-night in re- sponse to a large body of this elec- torate comprising members of all ‘parties who are opposed to the liquâ€" ior policy of Howard Ferguson. It has been a source of regret to me, that Mr. Ferguson a man of many admirable qualities should have yield- ed to the clamor of the liquor trade.” The candidate stated that he had been a close personal friend of Hon. G. S Henry for a number of years and personally held him in high esteem but when he appeared as a candidate :of Mr. Ferguson’s in this election he felt it his duty oppose him. “I have to do my duty, and sacrifice the com- {forts of my quiet life and home at even the risk to my health for the sake of the principles in which I firmly believe, and that is why I am before you tonight as your candidate,” said Mr. Annis. “I am directly op- posed to the 'principles as laid down lby an autocratic premier, mind you {not the poliCy of the Conservative Iparty but the policy of the premier. ‘I believe that the so-called Govern- ment control is a backward step. I have been a Liberal all my life but [twenty-five years ago I refused the party nomination in this riding when the Liberal leader of that time could not give me a satisfactory pronoun- icement of the liquor] question." ____ a, i It must be remembered that this program does not mean the open bars. No one wants the old conditions that existed prior to 1916 back again. But What everyone does want is :1 law which can be respected and enforced and that, to my mind, is what Prem- ier Ferguson intends giving this province. Although much is heard on the street of a good many strong party men breaking from their old lparty. I have no doubt but by elec- tion day when all sides of the liquor issue, have been considered, these will come back to the fold. i The Conservative party has been [responsible for the O. T. A. and it is Ionly natural that they should try and improve on it and that is what Premier Ferguson wants to do. He does not, as some people are trying ’to broadcast, want to bring back the 'days of the foot rail with all its at- tending evils. To the contrary, he wants a law which will do away with Ia lot of the present evils attached to l'the O .T. A. and which will at the same time control the sale of liquor. I TEMPERANCE. The candidate resented the charge of the premier and Mr. Henry that the temperance people had been backward in the line of temperance education and paid tribute to the Young People’s Societies, the W. C. T. U. and other organizations engag- ed in the Work. He gave a number of statistics showing the improve- ment brought about in the province by the O. T. A. and pointed out the deplorable conditions in provinces Where there was government Control. No one in the face of the present conditions could say Ithat the O. T. A. had not done much good. It was en- acted by Sir William Hearst who was defeated not by the Liberals but by the wets and it was the same Wets who were now clamoring that Fer- guson go back as premier. It is fol- ly to say that the O. T. A. will mere- ly be amended. If the Control poli- cy is introduced the O. T. A. is at once abolished ~“I feel that th.e O. T. A. has been helpful to the Prov- ince of Ontario and I favor itr; main- tenance and enforcement in a fearless manner and on these grounds I ap- peal for your support on December 1,” said the candidate amid applause. Experience, it is said, is the best teacher, and experience has shown that the O. T. A. is a failure and al- though three Attorney-Generals have had a try at it. this Act, seemineg cannot be enforced. It has undoubt- edly done some good but it also has created conditions which will take a long time to put right, and in my 01)- inion Premier Ferguson, who has giv- Editor Liberal Sir:â€" en us a sound, sane adminisrafinn and has done a great work in hrmging about better conditions in this provâ€" ince, should be given a chance with his government control program Letters From the Peopie Favors Government Control Wi‘dowdale, Nov. 17, 1926 §§§§Friday Evsg, Nevember 26 Don’t Fail to attend the. __ I SPEAKERS: Hon. G. S. Henry, Leo. Macaulay Everybody Come. 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