Hon. W. M. Martin, Premier of Saskatchewan, addressed one of the largest audiences that ever gathered in the City Hall here on Tuesday evening of this week, and he was given a close and attentive hearing throughout his most interesting, able and instructive address. He is a most fluent speaker; and the straightforward manner in which he discussed the many questions which have had to be solved by the government and the different matters which yet remain to be dealt with, made a most favorable impression on the large audience.

The other speaker of the evening was Mr. O. W. Stewart, of Lac Vert, a farmer, who also gave a most interesting address.

His Worship Mayor Yoerger occupied the chair, and sitting on the platform with him were Premier Martin, Mr. C. W. Stewart, Lac Vert, Mr. Masselman, Lanigan, Mr. Calvert, Lanigan, Mr. Irwin, Lac Vert, Mr. Ernest Gardner, Dr. J. O. King and Robt. Telfer, Humboldt.

Mayor Yoerger, in opening the meeting spoke of the proud record that the Liberal government of this province had behind them after twelve years of office, and said that no Provincial Government of Canada had accomplished so much in the interests of the people or had a better record to show than the Liberal government of Saskatchewan, and he looked for the return of the government, and also the re election of the member for this constituency, Hon. W.F.A. Turgeon, by a large majority.

Mr. Stewart, of Lac Vert, said that as a representative of hundreds of farmers in the constituency he was supporting Mr. Turgeon and the government because this government had listened to the requests of the farmers and had passed a vast amount of useful legislation that was of great interest and a great benefit to the farmers. One evidence of this was to be found in the Co-operative Elevator Co., which grew out of a demand by the organized farmers for relief from the elevator monopoly. The legislation regarding the sale of farm machinery, which was enacted after a careful investigation, had so removed many of the difficulties which had heretofore existed between the farmer and the implement company and had proven of great benefit to all concerned. On the matter of education Mr. Stewart said that out farmers are and always have been strong for better schools, and the government was doing all in its power to provide better educational facilities in the rural districts, and in this connection were endeavoring to bring the high schools more closely to the rural population, thereby giving the children from the farms a better opportunity to take advantage of the high school training. Legislation of great importance to the women of the province had been passed by the government, one of the most important of which was that which gave the women the right to vote, thereby placing them on equal footing in this regard with the men; and he hoped the women would make full use of this right at election time. Another piece of important legislation of great importance to the women; and which gave them

Premier Martin was then introduced by the chairman, and on raising was greeted with a great outburst of applause. He said it was indeed a great pleasure for him to have the opportunity and the privilege of coming to Humboldt and addressing the people of this town and vicinity. You are here, he said, to hear the past and present policies of the government discussed and hear them discussed fairly. He took up first the charges that had been made against the government The first were known as the liquor charges, and he would say that had these charges been made in the House of Commons at Ottawa they never would have been dealt with, as they were not made in accordance with parliamentary procedure. The government of Saskatchewan had, however, caused the fullest investigations to be made in connection with the charges that had been laid against the government. The charge in this connection was that one or two private members of the legislature, not members of the government, had accepted bribes to vote against a certain bill which the government was about to introduce in connection with the liquor traffic. He wanted to know if it would be likely for the government to bribe its own members to defeat its own measure. Such a thing was absolutely absurd. After the fullest investigation it was found that the government had absolutely no connection with the charge. The private members, however, who had been found guilty of accepting a bribe, were properly and severely punished.

He next took up the highway charges, and in discussing this matter said the opposition had stated that the government was a seething mass of corruption. He wanted to know if he would have been likely to have resigned his seat in the Commons at Ottawa, and become the head of a government that was a seething mass of corruption; or would Hon. Mr. Dunning, who was a high salaried and important official of a great farmers' organization, have been likely to give up his position to join a government that was corrupt. He did not think so, nor would anybody else. Premier Martin said that the opposition had a duty they owed to the people just the same as the government, but in this case they had sacrificed the people's interests so that they might gain some political advantage. They knew that an employee in the highways department was stealing money for a considerable time before they made that fact known to the government and then they made such vague statements that the parties guilty escaped, which cost the province many thousands of dollars to capture them and have them brought to trial.