HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. rates on application. THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation Telephone 98 Contract DAILY EDITION ap Saturday, June 12, 1915 i —eE===——o_____— <—— == SPENDING CAPITAL. | The McBride to government history as the} lost its} go down Wil administration which opportunity. Coming power on a flood tide of pros- perity, with the richest prov in Canada waiting to be ti ince developed, it utterly failed ) grasp the possibilities of the situation. Instead of developing the! vast natural of the province, it disposed of them to | | resources corporations which had no} intention of deve them. | Instead of prosperous farmers | ; loping building up thriving communi- ties, we have vast tracts of fer- tile producing nothing, | because ean afford| to pay the price demanded by the grabber. Imagine what British Colum- bia would have been today, had land no farmer every section sold to the specu- lator been placed at the dis- posal of a farmer. Even had the farmer paid only fifty cents an acre, the would have been vastly better off. The sums got so easily on the start from the grabber were a mere fraction of what these farmers would have produced. Produc- tion, and production only, car The money which would have flow- province ever sustain a country. ed into the province from such production would have been in- terest earned on a sound in- vestment. The land would genuinely have advanced in| value, instead of fictitiously as} at present. The government mistook the| money, which for awhile flowed | in rapidly from land sales to| grabbers, for income, poem fact that 4 Starting out on a} or careless of the was capital. career of profligate spending, | it squandered this capital as if! income. What would] of the business | a man who sells divi-| it were think ability of you dend earning property for $100,- | 000 cash, and then spends that sum, which is his whole capi- | | aj the rate of S20 000 THE DAILY NEWS = ROYAL) YEAST SMALL GERMAN TOWNS OST FROM WAR SUFFER M It a mistake for people re- is Sn ee | turning from Berlin or Frankfort | . ito say that the war is not notice- year, and in five years finds . able Germany. There ar himself bankrupt? What *) ,;/many signs of it apart from the would you say if he blamed ’ : irge buildings everywhere con- hard times for his bankruptcy? . : verted into military hospitals and Is he the kind of man you are F he number of invalided and would hire to run your most maimed soldiers. There is, for important business? : instance, much less life, at any This is exactly the course a , rate 1 the smaller towns, ar pursued by the McBride gov- : : at least one fairly large just ernment, and the settlement) +r t the ams are not rurnning day is near. The government : wing to there being so little de- has not only squandered money |°*" to there being 7 and for then In the fields it which it at one time possessed, , is almost exclusively women and but it has got away with mil- ; . children who are preparing th lions of borrowed money. There/-round for the summer crops is an enormous adverse ac- The big army contracts have bee ; } count to settle, and there is no} given by the government entirely escape. You have got to putito large firms in large centres of up your share of that squan- I dered money. Where are you | firms, which is another of the smaller opulation and not to rea- going to get it these days? The/sons why the effects of the wat ; millions of acres of fertile land| gre much more noticeable in the idle cent. That land owes you $15,-|F 000,000, but that is not forth- lying will not provide @/smaller German than ir Ex. towns 1 serlin and other chief cities. coming, and, if it were, it is not ‘ONE EFFECT OF PROHIBITION. revenue, but and should not be used to pay run- ing expenses. Igad those mil- lions of acres been producing crops, your burden would have been light, but, under McBride rule, you have got to pay the share ofthe farmer who ought to |i t capital, r Ss c have been on the land, and your own as well. lege to pay up and look pleas-|i and that the land grabber may hold up your land for do you like it? It is your privi- in order an exorbitant price. How Spending capital is a merry game while it lasts, but there is jolt the is drawing a horrible at The near. always finish. very The tragic part is that, the ers were not squandering their own capital, but yours. Fortu- nately, the land still remains, and, with the McBride gang of gamblers out of the way, the be forced to hand back the land which is not being developed, and, in time, finish in this case, spend- speculator can an era of genuine prosperity, solid lines, will dawn in British Co- lumbia. based upon business FRED STORK’S pervising Treasury Department. Tea stocks “The rapid increase in dry ter- itory in the United States has re- ulted in a shortage of tea, ac- ording to George F. Mitchell, su- tea examiner of the lower The States n the United han they have ever been. are price of tea is advancing stead- ly.”""—Chicago Tribune, April 22. “A Dollar In Time, Saves Nine” VISIT to The Bank of A British North America for the purpose of depositing part of your earnings, becomes a pleasant and profitable habit, when once you have acquired it. The dollar you use to open an account in the Savings Department in turn saves others, as the habit of saving grows. THE BANK OF British Norm America 78 YEARS IN BUSINESS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $7,884,000, PRINCE RUPERT BRANCH ‘FARMERS LOOK FOR | BIG PRICES FOR WOOL Se Steamships Prince Rupert and Prince George For Vancouver Victoria and Seattle AT 10 A. M. ON TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYs Close Connections Made for San Francisco, San Diego, Etc SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO THE EAST GOOD RETURNING TILL OCTOBER 31st. Thursdays & Satur. Cars through to allowing Liberal Stop- G. T. P. TICKET OFFICE, THIRD AVENUE, PRINCE RUPERT, 5. o PHONE 260 AGENCY ALL ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINES eeenee eee ees —_— hone 554 P.O. Box ¢ APERHANGING AINTING OLISHING AND WALL TINTING High grade gina. J i2 In view act : 13 year's expe! perative w 1 ma g « i the sheep ow! jers who participated receiving ' if 6 1-4 to 8 cents per pound iva on the price of the year } en it is quite natural that the Trains Leave Prince Rupert at 10:30 A. M., on Mondays, days, carrying Electric Lighted Siceping and Dining f the department to aga Winnipeg. Tourist Sleeper every Monday. went should be For Special Excursion Rates to All Eastern Points, = 7 tee over Privileges, Apply to— wi iv at pte na is ia yea W W rh } I. ! I ative _ le i s, S| se t th irs W nh were s¢€ { | oe MUSIC jassurances that 15,500 . Teacher of Violin and All be shipped this w : * Band Instruments ‘ s ‘ A. PESCOTT against i } ast yea \ 462 Eighth Ave. East Phone Green 327 S t t s a I ’ i $ ts |} p i is q " wit! th inge of poss ty monial.—Ex. PACIFIC COAST MAY °° | BASE IN DARDANELLES IS HISTORIC ISLAND rhe Isla Le s, wh Allies a said tol sing a base f the itt s } Dardanelles, has a long a va-| i history, but is now ed | chiefly for ts ed a earth. This earth, which bee been highly esteemed in the East! since classic times as a cure for | umer s a ents and an anti-! lote to poisor mes from ad y | mound near the village of Kot schinos, and can only be dug be- fore daybreak on one day in the veal Aust 6—when Greek priest| and Turkish hodja both attend] ind go through an elaborate cere- RESTAURANT FOR SALE. The unexpired twenty-one | nonths’ lease of a restaura t| suilding situated on Ma street Smithers, adjoining the Star| Pool Room, is now for sale, “to-| gether with all fixtures. For par- ticulars, apply to J. M renee Smithers. sect HALIBUT RECEIPTS HARDWARE —————S——E—— Carpenters’ Tools Wire Cable Stee! Blocks Iron Pipe Pipe Fittings Rope Valves Pumps Hose 710 SECOND Builders’ Hardware Ship Chandlery Stoves and Ranges Rubberoid Roofing Corrugated Iron “WE SELL NOTHING BUT THE BEST” Fishing Tackle Rifles and Shotguns Ammunkion Paint FRED STORK’S HARDWARE Coughing scatters germs Scoop Demonstrates The “Fade-Away” P 1 By independent schoo at Seattle 3,42 By company vessels at Seattl 1,1 By regular steamers from Alaska 31 | Arrivals at Prince Rupert 1,123,¢ Arrivals at Van ver 1,502 Arrivals at Steveston, B. ( 2t¢ | Arrivals at Victoria 15,000 | Total 7,412,5 Pacific Fisherman | | —Stop it "oF hing increases the irritation of the already in- flamed mucuons membranes and is moreover apt to carry disease to others, Mathieu's Syrup of Tar and Cod Liver Oil promptly sto coughing, and soon, thanks to its tonic properties, effects &@ permanent cure. e€ wonderful popularity of Mathieu’s Syrup of Tar and Cod Liver Oil is specially due to. its t value as a permanent lung and bron- chia! healer. Sold everywhere, 45c large bottles. . 4. L. MATHIEU CO, Prop. Sherbrooke, P.Q. DENTISTRY CROWN AND GRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY DRS. GILROY & BROWN OENTISTS Office: Smith Block, Third Avenue Phone 454 FOR _A_TAXI} Set * PRINCE RUPERT AUTO CO PERERA EREDAR B. C. UNDERTAKERS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EM- SALMERS — SATISFACTION GUAR- ANTEED-OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 117 2ND STREET—-PHONE 41 BRUCE MORTON, Funeral Director 6 ere Canadian STEAM LAUNDRY for a trial bundle Vote Our Address: Latest and Approved Methods Only Skilled Operators Employed Phone us and we will call 515 SIXTH AVENUE WEST NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Canadian Steam Laundry SEEDS! SEEDS! WE HANDLE. Brigg's Also Fertilizers Stock Hay, Grain, and Feed Vancouver Prices 808 Third Ave. RECEIVED OUR 1915 SEEDS Rennie’s Ferry’s, Steele's, Garden and Field Seeds We Take Orders for Nursery Chicken Feed a Specialty Mall orders promptly attended to Prince Rupert Feed Co. Phone 68 at Drawn for The -~By eeeee Dally News, “Hop.” . 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