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A year ago the

HEAD OFFICE
Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C.

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Provincial

government appointed
mission to investigate how best!

tp develop agricultu

province. This commission was)

composed of ordina

re

ry

a

in

politi-

com-

the |

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cians, and traveled all over the

civilized world in

search

data notwithstanding the

that a commission of experts
had done that work already for
Ontario and that a copy could

be had for the asking.

amount paid for this work was
That is bad enough;
but one of the first remarks of
that report is to the effect that
other
sons” the problem of getting
the land back from the specu-

£48,000.
“financial and

for

lators to the people

come under the scope of this
In other words,
the very first principle in agri-
culture—getting land—was not
to be considered by this com-
mission that was paid £48,000.

commission.”

*
“financial
are very

The
reasons”

“did

and
evident.

other /a recent issue and has the foellow-

high government official

director in the Dominion Stock | 5 Mr. L..Noble
& Bond Company, which holds

some four hundred

is

of}
fact

The

rea-

not

 

A
a

acres of land at Fort George.

If the commission

‘oe te say about him:

Telephone 98.

Contract

dered has vet to be worked out
rhe principle in it-
rund for it

in detail.
self
has worked admirably

is perfectly s
in other

Zea-

always weak

countries, notably New
land. There

sides to the practical carrying

are
out of a government scheme in

a country with the low polti-

cal morals that have been de-
British
Perhaps it would be better for
the to
the bonds of a private company
matter

veloped in Columbia.

government guarantee

which would take this

up. While government assist-

ance is urgently necessary, the

element of private ownership

might secure better efficiency.
Such a company would of
course have to be under gov-

ernment contre! and supervi-

sion.

| GERMAN-AMERICA

_ NEUTRALITY LEAGUE

Formed Recently in United States
—Expected to Take Part
in Politios. .

 

With the entry of the German-
American Neutrality League into
the arena of politics, it is being
asked and how
successful a factor it}
German-American cor-|

 

how important

political
will be.
respondents to the New York pa-
pers tell of large groups banded
together to vote against Wilson

in 1916, and of a coming political

against the “British influence” in
this writer
goes so far as to say that

po
war

even
‘if the
is do not bring the result, civil
to There

going

eountry. One

is sure come.”

seems to be on a more or

sued a cali to common action in
the of “Deutschtum”
und to an “effective participation”
in the city campaign this coming
spring. hough in view of the
large amount of newspaper triti-
cism this notifieation has evoked,
it is but fair to say that one of
its promulgators explains that the

interests /

action is quite innocent and pa-

 

ABOUT ART NOBLE.

Examiner
of Art Noble in

The I ough

has a photograph

Peter

  

“Private Noble, who a son

Is

corner of George

exultant expression to their belief

that the new

triotic, there being no. desire to

influence government policies at

Washington or to change any-j_
bedy’s present political affilia- i
tions, but only to secure the

nomination of “candidates of the
highest caliber.” German papers
in the Fatherland give somewhat

1

league will exert a

Republican considers

timent

Von

Prussia.

THE DAILY NEWS

SCANDINAVIA,

FURIOUS, CALIS
FOR REVENGE ON GERMANY

NORWAY PAPER DECLARES THE NORTHERN POWERS WILL

NOT ALLOW DESTRUCTION

OF VESSE'\.S—DWINDLING

FEELING FOR THE ENEMY.

The indignation of Norway and
Denmark-over the sinking of the
Norwegion tank steamer Belridgae
by a German submarine has done
much to alienate the sympathies
of the small pro-German section
of the publie,

“We will not conceal the fact,
says The Trade and Marine News

union of the millions of Ameri-
cans of German descent andjof Christiania, “that the repeti-
Americans of Irish descent ition of the occurrence will pr

duce an extremely serious posi-
tion between the three Scandina
vian countries and Germany

The paper adds that Norway

will not stand for German inter-

ference with shipping on the high

less systematic organization Of/seas. The Morgenbladet, a daily
Germans in various placeS/pnaper of Christiania, Norway
throughout the country. One a8-/<ays Germany must make a
sociation in Passais, N. J., has is-|ppompt report stating whether

 

The

it only fair

sharacter and effect.’ So

to say that the German alienism

it so deplores “is the more ex-

treme and dangerous to our na-
tional life today than

it would

have heen if the pro-British sen -

more moderat«

had been

and reasonable and tess alien in

its manifestation.”

But other editors do not pause
at this point. They
“Made in Germany,”

see a deep
aid scheme
and conjure up the formidable, if
of General
Von
of

Eagle,

familiar,
Bernhardi,
Treitschke, and
The

OW names
Professor
Prince Henry

Brooklyn

‘ Oe {treats . P : New York Tribune, and New York
and Brock Streets, was a well real, perhaps eventually control-
thousand known athlete in Peterborough : Herald are all mindful of the
ling, power in American polities. ceil . See :
before his departure for the : russian cavalry general in com-
In London, we find a writer in The

had

done

their duty they would have ad-

vised that
owners be

those

their tax of 4 per cent or im-
prove their property. This was
a very good “financial” reason
why the commission could not
time
come, however, when this sub-

interfere. The

ject will be faced in

light, and the earlier, the bet-

ter for the province.
* = *

The problem of getting this
land back to the people is a
If only
speculator was to be consider-
ed, quick work could be made of

complicated one.
it.

In many cases,

them trustees
children.

compelled

large

to

its

however,
this land has been turned over
to innocent parties——many

practically as guilty
Speculator. Any
that is made must

fer widows and]
The government was |
a party to the swindle and is

as

settlement |
therefore |

take congnizance of this.

H. C. Brewster, the leader of
the Liberal party in this prov-

land

pay

must

true

the

f
of

West, having been a star soccer

and Rugby player. He enlisted in
Prince Rupert, B, C., and was
here for a few hours yesterday on

His battalion was
the Duke
Private Noble saw

his way East.
nspected in Ottawa by
of Connaught
service in the Spanish-American
war.

A Seotch registrar, gifted with
a strong sense of humor.
that

notice

says
the
between

he
of
couple in middle life.

was one day taking

a marriage a
“Have you
before?”

sir.

ever married

“No,
to the woman.
the
‘but it was twenty vears ago, and
he fell

been
asked the
you?”

he
“Have
‘Well, yes,
reply:

man.

have was laconie

off-a house and killed him-

 

 

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Mr. |

 

ince, seems to have hit on the |
right idea in his recent speech |

in Vancouver,

He said that his |
policy was to increase the t

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ax)
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on wild land so as to make it}

prohibitive and on

get in and develop it.
* . .

The rhanner in

the other |
hand render government

which

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as-/|

sistance to the man who would!

'
V-

ernment assistance wil! be ren-

-_——

self when we'd been married only

a week, so it really ain't worth

mentionin’,”

 

 

Canadian

STEAM LAUNDRY

 

Daily Chronicle affirming that
the war has united the German
race in America and brought into)
prominence a serious problem for
American polities’; though The
Times is eonfident that “Ameri-
cans, whose loyalty to

will know how to take

1

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is only

America,

 

care of this menacing piece of ef-
As for our own press,
it be that while}
many indignant at the “ef-
frontery,” hardly any find it a se-

frontery.”
should noted
are
rious “menace.”

The formation of the German-|,
American Neutrality League was I
fully
and the opinions quoted of critics le
the Boston Transcript and |
New York Times, Sun, World, and ’

ié

discussed in our last issue,

like

 

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part of the press in the United

States which has sympathized
frequent lapses from the correct
position, and much of the hysteri-

by German-

‘
cal passion shown
Americans is a natural reaction
point of view
American

against a more «

British than in

tries

from which,

lisolated

Fatherland, and St. Louis West-|ithey may also |}

Chureh

Kootenay.

nenting on the formation-of the

Neutrality League in Washington.
jSays The Herald: “That gathering

f leaders

rould not

GERMAN-american
more clearly have fol-
owed Von Bernhardi's dictation
f it had been presided over by the

general himself instead of by Mr.
Richard Barthotdt.”
to a translation of “Germany and
the Next War,” we find this para-

And turning

graph:

“The further duty of support-

ing the Germans in foreign coun-

in their struggle for exist-

‘nce and of thus keeping them
oyal to their nationality is one
inter-

The

Germans

in our direct
an not withdraw.
of

benefit

sts, we c
groups

abroad greatly our trade,

Globe, and of well-wishers like | cinee by preference they obtain
the New York Staats-Zeitung and |tneip goods from Germany: but

 

 

liche Post and Mississippi Blaet- Hitieally, as we discover in Ameri-
ter. But the political plank in the/,, The American Germans have
organization's platform is still /tormed a political alliance with |
calling forth comment. There/the Irish, and, thus united, con-
are two viewpoints as to the) .titute a power in the State with
origin and meaning of this R€W/ which the government must
departure. It seems simple reckon.” Literary Digest

though reprehensible to the ie: ar

{Spr ingfield Republican, which! BISHOP HONORED.

thinks it very likely that “that

In a recent issue of The Daily

Colonist there is a vhotograph of
|with the Allies has been guilty of the dignitaries of the Anglican

who attended the recent
of the Bishop of
Among them is Bish-

sonseeration

op Du Vernet, who has been hon-
vred by the appointment of Met. |
ils ropolitan of British Columbia.

‘ ent

useful to us po- |

the torpedoing of the Belt idge was
If it was an accident,
the

not

an accident
indemnify

if
suggests

Germany must

handsomely, and
a the
that Norway seize a Germany ship
the taking ref-

in its ports for each Norwe-

owners
accident paper

m many now

destroyed
that the

lessen

gian merchantman

Phe in-

among neu-

remarks
but

ldwindling sympathy

paper
cannot

tral nations for Germany

! rhe articles continues Neu
ltral countries are not to be
fricht frightened by piratical
frightened by piratical German

submarines,”
rhe Aftenposten, another even
of
evidently

ing paper Christiania, says
|
Germany 1s becoming

idesperate and warns that power

|that though neutral countries are

l relatively weak they will not stand
the eynical brushing aside of
their rights. Not a singl@ news-
paper in Norway regards the
Belridge sinking as an accident, |
and expressions of indignation

from civilians and even uniform-
ed army officers in the cafes, the
street cars are con-

hotels, and

jsiderably more than heated.

| Indication of British confidence
in the of the North

fleet a blockade
igiven of the
Englishman,
the fateful
for a three
He

that Lioyds offered him a special

powet sea

to

is

prevent

byw the insur-|

of
days before

case
who
18th

weeks

ance an a
few
left Newcastle
stay in Norway. informs me
blockade policy providing for the
payment of #10,000 to his widow

should be die by drowning, explo

sion, or gunfire for #100 if his 35- PHONE 35
voyage was aboard a British ves- | ™ a.

sel. He traveled on a neutral

ship and got a similar policy for|

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Conflicts between sick and dy-/!

See ee ee ee eR ee eee

Rus-
Nor-|
sanitariums |
lately, the |
weapons used being crutches, pil-|
lows and medicine bottles As al
of these health

announeing

ing Britons, Germans, and

sians who are patients in

wegian mountain

have been frequent

result many in-|

stitutions are they |
will refuse to admit patients from|

belligerent nations. ’

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