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his opponent. I have people tell me, good people down in the Second District of kings, who have never supported Conservatives, but they are going to now because they just don't like — where is the tradition of the Liberal Party? The fine tra- dition that they had? Is it going to be darkened by allowing of such as some without its elected representatives? Don’t forget those same rat-like personalities that you

have to destrvy when you go down in the herd, they will tear you down like the very wolves they are. (Applause)

This man and Jens Moe are ten times as guilty as some would believe, they

would not do as much harm to this province as the hate that is being generated by some. (Applause)

We deny a man even to make a livelihood and would subject his family and friends to almost persecution. (Applause) And this is serious, Mr. Minister of Edu- cation. that when they come home from school they ask their mother is it right that they are going to put Daddy in Jail? (Applause)

Now there are some few people, and I believe there are many, many more, even among you people over there, that are not guilty of a thing like this but it is dangerous all the same by those same few. The children whom this man dearly loves are subjected to this type of thing that is continued after an election campaign is over. Those things perhaps very well should be forgotten.

And I never heard this man cry on anybody’s shoulder, and he would be the last to suggest that I should say what I am saying today. This is just the type of man he is.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Quiet in here this afternoon.

J. Walter Dingwell: It is quiet, and it will be quieter for a while yet. But I will defend him. This is not as much a rebuke to you over there in the government benches. although as I have said before I hold you all equally responsible, but it is a challenge to stamp out the insidious evil that you have apparently endorsed through one of your Cabinet Minister and an Assistant to the Premier. (Applause)

You, Mr. Minister of Agriculture, who stand there, in my opinion, an upright man, and an honourable man of character, despite our difference of opinion politically. With an apparent inability to cope with some of the problems we have today. You who left a leg and arm in the defence of decency, truth and honour, and who saw like many others, a campaign of hate and malice and evil done to six million Jews and many millions of other people. I know you can’t endorse one of your members circulating this kind of thing. You have defended even a man’s right to be wrong in a democratic society, but you can’t defend a member of your Cabinet, of the Cabinet of Government in your party, spreading the seeds of wild oats that can never grow into fruitful seed. (Applause)

You, Mr. Minister of Welfare. and it matters not to me whether you get ten thousand or fifty thousand dollars from the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, but it matters much to me whether you are of the type of man or not, I think you are, and always have thought you were. you have much to do with the suffering of man’s body. Do you have anything of the conscience of what happens to a man’s soul? (Applause) When even some of his friends might deny him.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Cheer up. Too sad in here. Let us have some ideas on the agricultural situation.

J. Walter Dingwell: I gave you a few and you didn’t listen to them, you turned down a Resolution the other day that would have done some good. I talked for half an

hour on that, and you turned it down. (Applause)

I am talking of other matters now, and if you want me to refer on what basis I talk to them on, I simply allow you to turn to paragraph four of this report, and it says: ‘The General Assembly of the United Nations has proclaimed this year to be ‘The International Year for Human Rights.’ You will be asked to make pro- vision for statutory recognition of equal and inalienable rights for each citizen of

this Province.” And this is the basis I am talking on at the present time, and there is much

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