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HOW RECIPROCITY HELPS THE WORKING MAN

 

DaILy EDITION. TUESDAY, SEPT. 19

 

One of the speakers at the meeting of working men on Sunday
evening pointed out that efforts were being made to stampede the
working men against reciprocity by the cry that if the cost of living
goes down, as it undoubtedly will under reciprocity, wages will drop
also. This is entirely false. In the whole of economic history there
is not a single instance upon which to found such a cry.

The determining factor in deciding the price of labor is not the cost
of living but the supply and demand for labor. That is why the
working man in British Columbia can live more comfortably and
have a greater surplus above the cost: of living than the laborers in
the congested districts of the older communities where labor is more
plentiful.

Reciprocity, while it will reduce the cost of living, is more likely
to increase rather than decrease the rate of wages; for the reason that
on the heels of reciprocity will come a greater demand in British
Columbia and around Prince Rupert, for workmen to build and
operate fleets of fishing vessels, to build and operate lumber mills,
to build and operate pulp mills, to build and operate paper nills, to
build homes and business blocks’ for the increased population and
to supply the manufactured articles this larger population will need.

One of the first consequences of the ratification of reciprocity
will be a labor shortage in the northern part of this province, and
this will give the working man a natural opportunity to secure a higher
rate of pay.

Next Thursday it will be up to the labor unions of British
Columbia to seize this opportunity, and also to see that what
they get they hold.

REMEMBER—THE BALLOT IS SECRET

The efforts of the provincial government to defeat reciprocity
by machine politics is apparent all over Queen Charlotte Islands
and also in the mainland, in Comox and in Atlin, but more especially
in the Skeena district.

Great activity is being displayed on the construction of roads
and trails, and the provincial Conservative machine is operating

through ‘this work to get hold of the country voters. In little places
where there are only ten or a dozen voters a party worker is sent
to act as road foreman. Out of the public funds these voters are
given employment during election time, the obvious intention being
to influence their votes by this bribe in favor of the machine candidate.

An old time politician once remarked that it was easy enough
to buy voters but the important question was whether they would
stay bought. They are a fine class of men, those pioneers on the
Skeena, and can be trusted to vote according to their honest con-
victions. Most of them appreciate the manifest advantages to the
farmer and consumer to be found in the reciprocity pact and—the
ballot is secret.

THE DANGER OF A LIGHT VOTE

When vital public issues are pending there is genuine danger in
a light vote. The stay-at-home vote is a public menace.

The people take a long chance when they fail to go to the polls
on election day. The fact is that many evils against which the people
constantly complain owe their existence to the indifference of many
citizens to their political obligations; and strange as it may seem
the very citizens who complain loudest are the fellows who remain
at home on election day.

Men who are not patriotic enough to vote when they are capable
of qualifying as voters ought to be stopped from any criticism of the
government, or of men in the public service, for if they are not interested
enough in government to seek to make it better, more efficient and more
economice|, by active participation in political contests, then it would
seem that they should have no voice whatever in the matter. Men
who don’t vote ought to keep quiet.

Indeed it is a question whether the state ought not to go further,
if possible, and disfranchise men who fail to vote, except in cases
of sickness or absence from the state. Men who without good excuse
fail to vote in some of the old countries are disfranchised, and if the
principle cannot be introduced into our system we should work out
some other plan either of penalizing the non-voter, or of inducing
or forcing men to exercise their electoral rights. Indifference to
political obligations is as dangerous as it is discreditable, and some
day it is likely to lead to trouble.

Vote early on Thursday. Forget party prejudice. Spurn
party coercion. Use your own mind for your own good and
the good of your own country, Canada, and your own City,
Prince Rupert. Vote early and vote straight for Ross, Reci-

 

 

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Prince Rupert, Sept. 19, 1911.

To the Editor of the Daily News,—Mr. G. R. T. Sawle has
issued a papmhlet entited “The Halibut and Reciprocity’ which
has been scattered broadcast by the Conservative campaign
committee throughout the city. Permit me in your columns
to reply to this.

He states that: ‘For every statement which logic and common
sense does not prove he is prepared to furnish statistics from
public documents.”’ I am afraid Mr. Sawle will have to furnish
the statistics.

His logic is not convincing. Mr. Sawle says that “to properly
grasp the many phases of the catching and marketing of halibut,
one must first realize that all the fish on the coast of British
Columbia does not belong to Canada. The halibut may be
found in what we claim to be Canadian waters, but until such
time as our national treaties recognize them as Canadian waters
the fish caught there by United States boats must be considered
as American fish, In discussing the tariff we must recognize
both Canadian fish and United States fish.”’

When we get reciprocity Mr. Sawle will not need to flounder
about in these fine distinctions between fish and fish as they
all will be alike before the law, free of duty. Our argument is
that for this very reason all companies will handle their fish
through Prince Rupert because the bulk of American and Can-
adian halibut is caught at our very door. Surely fishing com-
panies will not then carry halibut to Vancouver and Seattle
to treat them. Fish require prompt treatment and the sooner
they are frozen the better their flavor.

No doubt the Conservative candidate would prefer to see
these fish taken to his beloved Vancouver, but reciprocity and
a larger, freer market will not permit it. The New England
Fish Company will be one of the first to locate here in order to
take every advantage of a prompter handling of fish while fresh
and if they do not then a better flavored article supplied by
rival concerns will capture their market.

This is the opinion of J. P. Todd, said by the Seattle Daily
Times to be the best posted man on the fishing industry in the
West. Todd says that when reciprocity comes into effect the
Seattle fishing fleet of 6,000 fishermen will move to Prince Rupert.
This was held in the United States as an argument against reci-
procity. What is their loss will be our gain. When the New
England Fish Company moves its headquarters to Prince Ru-
pert with its large plant, and its army of employees; when these
employees bring their families and become good citizens it mat-
ters little to us whether it is known as the New England Fish
Company or The Loyal Canadian Fish Company; it will then
in effect, be a large Canadian industry with large markets already
secured throughout the cities of the United States.

But I will go further than this. It is well known that the
New England Fish Company has not yet touched one side of
the possibilities of the fishing industry on this north coast. It
does not pretend to supply one one-hundredth part of the demand
for cheap fish in the United States.

Surely Mr. Sawle takes the “‘little Canadian"’ view of the
possibilities of our fish industry, when he is alarmed lest the New
England Fish Company with its five boats can supply the whole
of the Canadian and American markets.

Mr. Sawle says this company is ‘unafraid of any compe-
tition.’’ I fancy that Sir George Doughty and others who have
had wide experience in the fish industry of the old country, and
who have avowed their intention of coming here, will also be
unafraid of the competition of the New England Fish Company
with its puny fleet of five fishing boats on our great halibut banks.

Mr. Sawle points out that up to date the New
Company has been able to kill its rivals in the Canadian fish
business because. the Canadian companies have not been able
to ship to the Eeastern Canadian markets in ‘carload lots, the
home market not being great enough to warrant shipments of
this size, and to overcome which the Dominion Government
has been granting freight rebates to the Canadian companies.
And Mr. Sawle asks: “If reciprocity goes into effect and the duty
comes off halibut, what will happen to the Canadian companies?
If they need a freight rebate from the Government now what
will they need with reciprocity?”

I will answer Mr. Sawle. When reciprocity comes
effect the Canadian companies will not need freight rebates.
They will be able to ship in carload lots because their market
will be a market of 100,000,000 people, instead of 8,000,000 as
formerly. And they will be able to compete with the New Eng-
land Company will be able to supply only a very small fraction
of the increased demard throughout the United States for our
halibut and other fish, consequent upon the reduction in price
occasioned by the removal of the tariff. The tariff has enabled
the New England Company to charge the American market
one cent a pound more for its fish than it will now be able to do.
It will mean cheaper fish for the American people and a tremen-
dous increase in the demand for this article of food.

My argument thus far has referred to the frozen fish industry
only. It is immeasurably stronger when one considers the revo-
lution which the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific will
work in the fish industry. Then a fish company which does not
operate through Prince Rupert will not be able to place fresh
unfrozen fish on its eastern markets, and will in consequence
lose its business, the fresh article being so much superior to the
frozen

Mr. Sawle’s article throughout typifies that narrow, timid,
unenterprising attitude always taken by ‘the Conservative party
whenever the Liberals have advanced any new trade.policy. It
was the same when the Liberals advocated the preferential tariff
with England. It is the same with reciprocity today.

Read what Mr. Sawle has to say about our business enter-
vrise: ‘Canadians cannot hope to enter the United States market
and sell at profit against such odds as the New England Fish
Company."’ And again:.

“What Canada wants, and what Prince Rupert wants, is a
Canadian inarket for Canadian fish."’ And logically enough,
Mr. Sawle follows this statement up with an attempted knock
at Prince Rupert. He says: ‘There is at the present time suffi-
cient Canadian market for a large halibut plant in Rupert,”’
Evidently our present cold storage plant, in Mr. Sawle’s. eyes,
is our limit,

Mr. Sawle is wrong. We want something more than the
Canadian market for our fish. We want a market of 100,000,000
people, and we are going to get it on the 21st of this month, We
want as many fish companies as are at present engaged in halibut
fishing to come to Prince Rupert with their employees and plants

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RECIPROCITY AND OUR HALIBUT

ARE HOSTILE
AT McBRIDE

Violent Demonstration Against
Provincial Premier at Neison.
Crowd Refused to Listen to
Him for Ten Minutes.
(Canadian Press Despatch)

Nelson, Sept. 18.—There was a
remarkable demonstration here on
Saturday when it was easily ten
minutes before the audience would
allow Premier McBride to speak.
The crowd was hostile to the
Provincial Premier all through the
meeting.

Canadian duties average 25 per
cent—American duties 45 per cent
ad valorem, and the balance of
trade is against us. Is it better]
to raise ours to theirs and have
two tariffs, or wipe out both and
have none?

RUSSIAN PREMIER DYING
Wounds Inflicted by Assassin in
Critical State
(Canadian Press Despatch)
Kieve, Sept. 18.—There is little
chance that Premier Stolypin, shot
in the Grand Opera house last
week, will survive today. Internal
hemorrhages have set in.

SIR WILFRID RESTS

Hon. W. B. Aylesworth to Re-
tain Portfolio Meantime

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Ottawa, Sept. 18.—Sir Wilfrid
Laurier spent Sunday resting in
Ottawa. The Premier has stood
a week's hard
At Sir Wilfrid
Hon. W. G. Aylesworth will retain
his portfolio until after the elec-

campaigning well.
Laurier’s request

tions.

TEST PILES DRIVEN
New Quarantine Wharf 500 Ft.

Long to be Tendered for

Shortly.

Yesterday test piles were driven
at the site of the
department wharf at Digby Island
not far from the
Tenders for this work will be ir
shortly. The wharf will be about
500 ft. long, and when contracts
awarded work will be
It is possible

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wireless station.

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on at high speed.
that the contractors in charge of
the marine may be
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Vote for reciprocity and resent
the imputations of the Bordenites
on your citeiznship.
Deer for Graham Island

The provincial government has
made a shipment of five young
deer to Naden Harbor, two bucks
and three the first of a herd
of twenty-five that are sent
to Queen Charlotte Islands for
purposes of propagation. They
will be sirictly protected and it is
hoped that in a short time this
game will become plentiful on the
island.

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Gold Strike Country
Mr. Angus McLeod, wife of
Angus McLeod, mining engineer
of Carcross, Yukon Territory, is
staying at the Central Hotel.

‘Declined aa Manor
C. M. Hays, president of the
Grand Trunk Railway, is the only
American who ever declined knight-
hoot and a directorship in the
Bank of Montreal in the same
week.—Saturday Evening Post.

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Will Boost Rupert

Mr. J. J. Morris, accountant ai
the Royal Bank here, for some
time past, left here today for
Calgary where he will spend six
months a similar position at
the Calgary branch of the Royal
Bank,

If Great Britain is Canada’s best
market, why has Canada exported
seven times the value
and a hundred times the value
of sheep to the U. S. above the
value shipped to England?—Hon.
Sydney Fisher.

The single issue in thiscampaign
is reciprocity. To extend our
trade is every Canadians wish,
and it is not denied that if the
pact goes into operation that it
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Skeena Land District-—District of Coast Range Vv)
Take notice that I, Peter Erickson of Prince
Rupert, laborer, intend to apply for permiasion |
to purchase the following described lands:
Comphaneing at a post planted on the north |
bank of Wiliams Creek where the railway right- |
of-way crosses and 3 chains back from the creek |
bank, thence south 30 chains, thence east 40
chains, thence north 30 chains, tence west 40)
chains to point of commencement.
Dated July 7, 1911. PETER ERICKSON
Pub. July 25. Fred E. Cowell, Agent

Skeena Land Distriet-—District of Coast Range V
Take notice that i, John Evenson of Prince |
Rupert, laborer, inte nd to apply for permission
to purchase the following described lands:
Commencing a: a post planted at the south-
east corrier of Lot 4416, thence north 80 chains{
thence east 60 chains, thence south 50 chains, |
thence west 60 chains to point of commencement
Dated July 15, 1911. JOHN E Ni
Pub. July 25. Fred E. Cowell, Age nt

Skeena Land District-—Distriet of Coast Range vi

Take notice that I, Benjamin A. Fish of Towner,
N. D., occupation merchant, inten! to apply |
for permission to purchase the following described |
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Commencing at a post planted on the east
boundary and about five chains from the south-
east corner of Lot 4454, thence north 60 chains,
thence east 30 chains, thence south 60 chains,
thence west 30 chains to point of commencement.
Dated June 24, 1911. BENJAMIN A. FISH
Pub. July 26. Fred E. Cowell, Agent |

keena Land District—-District of Coast Range 5
Take notice that Stanley Green of Prince |
Rupert, B. C., occupation miner, intends to apply |
for permiasion to purchase the following described |
land: |
Commencing at a post planted 40 chains south
and 40 chains west of the northweat corner of
* 1733, Lakelse Valley, District of Coast Kange

thence west 40 chains, thence south 80 chains, |

For Rent:
chokes east 40 chains, thence north 80 chains 0)

For Sale
point of commencement.

Staked June 30th, 1911 STANLEY GREEN DYBHAVN
Pub, July 15. Locator |

Skeena Land District— District of Coast Range 5}

Take notice that Percy M. Miller of Prince Ru-
pert, B.C., occupation Civil Engineer, intends to
apply for permission to purchase the following |
described lands

Commencing at a post planted on the left bank
of McNeil River at north weet corner of lot 4409
R.V., thence east 20 chains more or less to west-
erly boundary of timber limit 545 (old number
40616) thence northerly following said westerly
boundary of timber limit 60 chains more or lees
to north west corner of said timber limit, thence
westerly 20 chains more or less to left bank of
MeNeil River, thence southerly fdllowine said
left bank of McNeil River 60 chains more or less
to point of commencement, containing 100 acres

more or less,
PERCY M. MILLER,
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Pub. July 19, 1911
Skeena Land District ~Distriet of Cassiar

Take notice that 1, Thomas Carter, of Prince
Rupert, occupation carpenter, intend to apply
for permission to purchase the following describ-
ed land.

Commencing at a post planted about one mile
south from the mouth of Falls creek and about
160 feet back from the beach, thence 80 chains
north, thence 40 chains west, thence 80 chains
south, thence east 40 chains to pointef commence-
ment, containing 820.acres more or less.

THOMAS CARTER,

Dated July Tih, 1011. Charles Webster Calhoun,
Pub, Aug. 5th. Agent.
Shaene Land District-—District 6f Coast Range V

Take notice that I, Paul Hagen of Prince
Ropers laborer, intend bo apply lor _perruagoe

urchase the following described lands

ommencing at a post planted on the north
bank of Williams Creek about 60 chains south
east from RK. R., thence south 4¢ chains, thence
east 40 chains, ‘thence north 40 chains, thence
west 40 chains to potnt of commencement,

Dated uy gs 191 ‘wid HAGEN
Pub, Jul Fred B, Cowell, Agent
‘Ske ena Land District,

District of Coast, Range 5.

Take notice that Wm, Francis Nichol-
son, of Prince Rupert, B.C,, occupation
locomotive fireman, intend to apply for
permission to purchase the following
described lands;

Commencing at a post planted on the
north bank of the Zim-o-got-itz river, |
about two miles up stream in a wester-
ty direction from the junction of the
little Zim-o-gov-itz river and the main
om 7 A
Zim-o-got-itz river, and marked Wm,
Francis Nicholson's south cast corner,
thence north 40 chains, thence west 40
chains, thence south 40 chains more or
less to shore line of river, thence east
40 chains more or less along shore line
of river to post of commencement, con-
taining 160 acres more or less,

WM. FRANCIS NICHOLSON,
Geo. R, Putman, agent.
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