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Ross and Reciprocity for Rupert

Electors this is YOUR day.

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Prince Rupert Expects Every Man This Day to Do His Duty.
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Your duty to your Country, to your City, and to yourself

your home and your family is to return Duncan Ross.
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You have heard the for and against of the great issue over
which today rages the biggest battie of the ballot ever waged
in the Great Dominion of Canada. Today YOU are in the midst
of the fight. Today YOU strike your blow hard and straight
for Reciprocity and the right policy for Prince Rupert. Today

you vote for Duncan Ross.
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DaILy EDITION. THURSDAY, SEPT. 21

With two strokes of your pencil in the polling booth today
you make your choice between Duncan Ross and H. S. Clements.
You make your choice between Reciprocity and High Pro-
tection. You choose between low prices and high prices for
food. Your +2te for Duncan Ross helps your own pocket and
helps Prince Rupert prosper.

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This is the greatest issue that ever came before Canada.
It is not a choice between Liberal and Tory, but a choice between
expansion of prosperity or restriction of prosperity. It is a battle
between the unbiassed Canadians who want the Great Dominion
to grow, and the enslaved adherents of the Conservative pro-
tectionist party under whose policy the few fatten at the
expense of the many. No wage-earner dare vote for Clements
and increased cost of food.

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A vote for Ross is a vote for Rupert. Duncan Ross stands
firm for Reciprocity, and Reciprocity means progress and
prosperity for Prince Rupert. Duncan Ross is no carpet-bagger,
no knocker from Vancouver. His business is based on Prince
Rupert's progress. He boosts Rupert because he believes in
Rupert, because he likes Rupert. WHO quit Rupert with a
wry face, and went to Vancouver to knock Rupert with ugly
epithets? NOT Duncan Ross! Ask Clemenis for the answer
when you have voted for Ross and Reciprocity.

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Give Duncan Ross your vote today, and give him more,
give him your voice and influence amongst your fellow citizens.
Never was there a time when you could do more for Prince
Rupert, for your own prosperity, and the prosperity of the
Dominion than you can teday. Give Duncan Ross your vote.
Do your part to help on Reciprocity. Then get busy and gather
in votes for Ross as fast as you can. Every vote counts in this
community today. Prince Rupert wants to return Ross with
a majority worthy of candidate and cause.

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Remember the issue—Reciprocity. Don't think that party
is all you need care for in this election. Your vote today counts,
and counts high in the struggle of the purchaser who pays,
againsi the ring of interests that enrich themselves at the
consumers’ expense. Vote for Ross, Reciprocity, and fair prices
for food, fair profits for ihe producer, fair play for the con-
sumer—yourself.

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Vote for Ross, and Vote Early. Don't delay because you have |
made up your mind from the first, and want to be wheedled
a bit by Clements just to tease him. Get your vote in early
for Ross and Reciprocity, and there will be even more spice
for you in the Clements canvassing. Meanwhile, do all the
canvassing you can for your own candidate. Remember
Ross returned means a record rise for Rupert in all that means
the prosperity of a Pacific Coast city.

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Citizens of Prince Rupert—Men who have stayed with
the city and are staying with it today—respect and support |
a big straight man like Duncan Ross whose good word for!
Prince Rupert is never stinted wherever he goes. Record your |
vote for Ross and Reciprocity. Both are Right for Rupert.
And remember that a vote for Clements is a vote for Vancouver.
Revenge those calumnies of Clements’ against Prince Rupert |
by refusing to vote for a quitter, a carpet-bagger, and a knocker
from Vancouver. VOTE EARLY TODAY FOR DUNCAN ROSS
AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK TILL THE POLLS CLOSE.

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 Atlir, 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
tod 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
bought. They are a fine class of men, those pioneers on. the

 

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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-iat-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 peopl
|constantly complain owe their existence to the indifference of many
citizens to their political obligations; and strange as it may secm
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
economical, by active participation in political contests, then it would
seem that they should have no voice whatever in the matter. Mer
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 i
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 t
political obligations is as dangerous as it is disereditable, and som«
day it is likely to lead to trouble.

Vote early Today. 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-
procity, and the return of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to the helm of
the Dominion. He captained Canada to her present prosperity.
You can trust him.

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SAVINGS TO HOUSEWIFE
PROMISED BY RECIPROCITY

During the past few years there has been a constant cry from the
housewives that the cost of living has been going up. Every hous¢
keeper knows that for one reason or another the expense of maintaining
a table has seemed to steadily increase. General prosperity has led
to some extravagance, and as.a philosopher of the day put it: ‘‘It is
the cost of high living rather than the high cost of living.’’ At the
same time, it would be easy to name dozens of daily necessities that are
more expensive in Canada. today than they were ten years ago. Trad
combinations ard agreements have had not a little to do with this.
One of the features of the reciprocity agreement now before the
country is the reduction of duty on a number of staple articles of food.
The reduction is not large in any instance, but the protest that has
come form the marufacturers of some of the items in this country
shows that they expect to have to make a cut in price, and perhaps
lose a little of the large profit they have been able to exact under the
existing tariff. Some of the items affected, and the tariff reduction
made, by the reciprocity agreement with the United States are as
follows:
Duty Under
Reciprocity

Articles Present Duty

 

Cheese, pound 3c Free
Sweet potatoes, bushel 10c Free
Salmon, prepared. . 30 p.c. Free
Oysters, in bulk, gallon 1c Free
Lobsters, fresh ee 25 p Free
Meats, fresh or refrigerated, lb 3c 11-2c
Bacon and hams, Ib 2X 1 1-4 <«
Beef, salted, in barrels, |b 2c 1 1-4¢
Pork, barrelled in brine, Ib 2c Ll-4e¢
Meats, other, salted, lb X 11-4.
Canned meats and canned poultry 27 1-2c¢ 20 p.
Lard and compounds thereof 2X 1 1-4
Tomatoes and other vegetables ir cans 1 1-2 ¢ 11-4c
Oatmeal ard rolled oats, per 190 Ibs... . 60 50c
Prepared cereals and foods 25 p.c. 17 12 p.c.
Macaroni and vermicelli, |b 1 1-4c¢ l¢
Biscuits, we fers ard cakes, sweetened. 27 1-2 px 25 p.c.
Pickles, sauces and catsups 35 p.c. $2 1-2 px
Sardines, 20-36 0z. boxes 6c 5x
Condensed milk, lb $1-4¢ 2c
Biscuits, without sweetéenirg......... 25 p.c 20 p.c.
Fruits, in airtight tins, Ib 21-4 2c

yurden of an added few cents per
If reciprocity is adopted

Every house keeper knows the t
pound when counted by the week or the year.
the relief given will, in no small degree, compensate for the climbing
prices of the last few years.

Under reciprocity the consumer, as well as the producer will get a
square deal.

are. He states that a monopoly
of the salmon trade beer
established., But he fails to state
that this monopoly is chiefly sus-
tained by the B. C. Government
or Mr. Bowser, which is one and

SAWLE ON SALMON

has

Ross Promises to Give Us Free
Fishing

To the Editor of the News.—A
Conservative Pamphlet designated
as Pamphlet No 2, has been issued
over the signature of G. R. T.

the same thing.
He ought to have fair
enoguh to state that it was first

been

Sawle called the ‘‘Government and
Salmon.”

Mr. Sawle is the paid secretary
of the Conservative camipaign com-
mittee. He is also a job printer
and runs what he calls the Optimist
Job printing establishment. He
was never known to do any job
printing for nothing. His pamph-
let bears the name of the “Op-
timist Job.”’ Therefore, it must

be very apparent to everyone
that Mr. Sawle, the paid sec-

retary, in getting up pamphlets
for Mr. Sawle’s job printing estab-
lishment, is strictly following out
the Sawle traditions of making
everything pay.

But when Mr. Sawle appears
in the role of a critic of the fishing
business he seems to have forgot
many things. He is quite at sea

 

1, and can be trusted to vote according to their honest con-

 

 

when he goes where the salmon

established by Mr. Bowser, and
his limiting of the canneries and
fishing licenses was in force for
a year and a half before the
Oviawa Government ever took a
hand in the matter,

Everyone knows—who knows
anything about the salmon busi-
ness—(this does not include Mr.
Sawle) that these is a-joint control
over that business by the Dominion
and Provincial governments, This
is caused by the fact that these
two governments are in litigation
over their rights in controlling
these fisheries. They have agreed
to leave the matter to the courts
to settle and in the meantime
both are exercising a joint control.

In the limiting of canneries and
fishing licenses a cruel monopoly
has been created. The Dominion

 

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A TENDERFOOT’S WOOING

 

He was Wirhin arm's tength now, and
he made a spring at the fawn’s collar,
touched it, but could not secure his
hold, so that he only frightened the
beast, which in a few bounds reached
the ‘imber. But here it paused, as if
it was as much afraid to go forwurd as
to come back. Of course, Anstruther
followed it. Ags he reached the edge
of the brule a dry bough no thicker
than his little finger, whirled out of
one of the tops and struck him across
the hand, The force of that blow
from so small a thing should have
warned him, but at that moment vic-
tory seemed within his grasp. The
fawn, frightened by something the
man neither saw nor understood, hesl-
tated, until with a quick leap Anstru-
ther sprang in and gripped the leather
collar round its neck.

It would be a curious thing, the man
thought, which would loosen his grip
now until the provoking pet was safely
in its mistress’s keeping, and as the
thought formed itself in his mind
something happened.

To him it seemed that a terrific
crash was followed by instant and com-
plete darkness, sccompanied by a curt
ous sensation of numbness and a let
ting go of all things, all things except
that leather collar. To that he clung
instinctively, even when everything
rose and went away from him, feeling
and thought, wind and rain, and even
the crashing of the bruie, and the an-
ger at Kitty Clifford's laughter.

 

CHAPTER VIII.

By Clive Phillips Wolley
+ (AUTHOR OF GOLD, GOLD IN CARIBOO, ETC.)
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what to do to save one dear life.

Anstruther might be dying for some
little help which they could have given
him if only they knew what was the
matter with him, but they did not
know,

There was no broken bone that they
could find, no bleeding wound for
them to staunch, and yet whenever
consciousness returned to him, at the
first effort to move or speak he fainted,
and each faint seemed more and more
like death.

The resources of the ordinary ranch
in such cases as this are pitifully in-
adequate. As a rule the wife knows
a little about the treatment of ordi-
nary accidents and the simpler ail-
ments, and in the house there is gen-
erally some book which professes to
be a substitute for the physician. You
have only to turn to it In an emergency
to discover how little there fe to jus-
tify ite claims.

Mrs. Rolt read such a volume from
cover to cover, only to fall back in
despair upon such simple remedies as
warmth and quiet. She could only
give nature a fair chance. Probably |
she could have done no better, and
half the doctor’s success at least de-
pends upon the patient’s faith in him,
but when you good folk at home boast |
yourselves of your many colonial pos- |
sessions, in which you take only an |
occasional pride and a very little ser-|
ious interest, allow something not only |
for the courage of the men who hew
out fresh dominions for you all over.
the world, but something too for the |

 

 

Jim to the Rescue

“Put it out of its misery; it's back
is broken.”

Anstruther recognized Mrs. Rolt'’s
voice, and wondered in an idle dreamy
fashion whose back was broken, and
whether if its back was broken
would wish to be put out of its misery.

in any misery.
and turning to see was struck by a
hideous shock of pain, after,which it
was night again.

When he came to himee!{ he knew
that he was dead. He knew more than
that.
could smell] the new boards of it, and
they were nailing down the lid, but
this strangely enough did not worry
him a bit. Death was a silly painless
thing after all, very much like sleep.
How even their strokes were. There
were two of them at work, one on each
side of him, beat, beat, beat! The
ring of their hammers was rhythmi
cal; rather good dream music he
thought, but how hard they worked,
and what a lot of nailing up that coffin
required. He wished that they had
not thrown the earth in before they
nailed him down, the weight of it
above him was 60 great that he could
not move his limbs, And then quite
suddenly the weight was lifted, and he
drew a great breath, and again the
fierce pain came and took him away
into the cool dark where there was no
trouble.

Reckless of falling limbs and risking,
with eyes open to their danger, a fate
similar to that of the man below them,
two of the half-breed boys of the ranch
had been swinging their axes as they
had never swung them before, and as
the blades bit and the white chips
flew, two pale faced women, drenched

with rain, and wild with grief and ter
ror of the storm, pleaded with them to
work “faster, faster, for God's sake,
faster,” clenching their feeble hands,
and, yearning for something to do
where there was nothing they could
do.

Heavens! how long the time seemed.
Surely between them they could lift
the tree off him now, and they strained
| at a trunk, ove limb of which was tuo
| heavy for their united strength.
| might as well have tried to lift the
;/rapch house. Those only who have

 

| handled a Douglas pine know what the |

| weight of it is.

The Indians way was the only wey,
jand there was no help but theirs,
| though by scme miracle Frank Anstru-
| ther lived still. The hand that poor

| Kitty held in hers was limp and cold |

|as a dead man’s, but he was not dead
yet. Not yet. Surely the men could
work more quickly. Ah, if only Jim
had been there.

At the very last the half-breeds
stopped and consulted. Those two
men, as if time was of no value, con-|
sulted and argued, and then one of
them went to the house for a saw. |
That was the most insufferable five}
minutes of all to Kitty, and even when |
the saw cut through, and the ends of |
the log were free, the log did not rise
an inch. Another cut had to be made, |
and all the agony of waiting endured |
agein. Even when a six-foot length |
had been sawn out of the pine those |
two imbeciles could not lift it, a log
which Jim would have carried on his}
shoulders.

It was well for Anstruther that they |
could not. But for the broken limb on
the underside which had buried itself |
many feet deep, and held now like a
tap root, Anstruther would long since
have learned the great secret.

Thanks to that bough he was held)
as in a vice but not crushed, as a Dou-
glas crushes what it falls upon, With |
levers and bars and all the ingenuity |
of practised loggers the men at last
pried up the log sufficiently for their
purpose, and drew out their man, still
uncertain whether he was dead or)
alive. |

With gentle strength they unclench-|
ed the long white fingers from the)
fawn's collar, Poor beast. It at any

ate would not come in again from
hat storm, The tree had broken its
ack, and a merciful axe stroke had)
plit its graceful head from end to end.
And yet Kitty, who at another time
‘would have wept for a day over her
pet, had now no thought of it.

On a rude stretcher, improvised by
the Chinaman whilst the Indians
chopped, Mrs. Rolt and the three men
carried Anstruther to the house and
Jaid him in the warm, firelit room on
the Boss's bed, and then the greatest
terror, the only one of ranch life, faced
those women. As long as all goes
well to those who are country bred,
there is no hardship in the enforced
separation from the town and its thou-
sand and one conveniences. Every
difficulty is a joke to be laughed at, a

uzzle which natural ingenuity will de-
ight in overcoming. You can do with-
out the shops and the theatres, you can
hold service if you want to, and the!
strong man needs no policeman to pro-
tect him; but the time comes when
even he caunot do without the doctor,
when he would give all that the world

 

 

it}

His back was not broken nor was he}
He wondered who was, |

He was lying in his coffin; he}

}arm, and

}to him in trouble,

| thought

of good values and nobby pat-

obstruction,
consistent in the claim that both
holds for someone who could tell him’ will gain by removals.

martyrdoms of women, who watch
| through the long nights of lone lands, |
| growing old between a sun’s setting |
land a sun's rising, whilst all that.
| makes life valuable for them is fading
| Away under their eyes, for want of that |

which to you is but a natural accesory |

|of your every-day life. i

Through that long and wild night)
those two women watched; whilst it)
seemed to them that the winds clam-

ored round the house for the prey
which had escaped them.
Towards morning, Mrs. Rolt, who |

had been dozing in a chair by the fire-
side asked:

“Is he sleeping now, Kitty?” i

“No, he is pretending to, but I can/|
see how his poor lips are pressed to- |
gether. 1 don’t believe he has slept
once since they carried him in,” she

whispered.

“Oh, nonsense, He was sleeping

nicely through the night while I
!

watched.”

“He was shamming, Mary, so that |
we should not worry. Isn't it brave of |
him?” and bending over her head, she
pressed her fair head upon Mrs. Rolt’s |
shoulder to smother tthe sobs which

shook her. 1
Mrs. Rolt’s arm wound round the)
girl, and drew her gently to her knee, |
soothing her quietly, whilst a very/
wistful motherly look came into her |
own steady grey eyes. }
This woman had a right to know)
Love when she met him, for she had |
served him very faithfully, and she
knew him how. |
Whatever had been her dreams for |

| Jim Combe she recognized that they |
had only been dreams. Whether he
lived or died, the man lying there with
strained pale face, would always hold |
the first place in Kitty Cliftord’s heart, |
so her arm held up her younger sister
whilst she whispered to her, “Be brave
darling, and we will save him for you. |
If only God wouid send our men home.” |
Hardly were the words out of her
mouth, when the girl sprang from her
and stood with lips parted and head
| bent forward listening. |

“He has, Mary,” she cried. “He has.
| I can hear the beat of the hoofs.”
But Mary Rolt, looking out into the

blizzard, could neither hear nor see
anything.

“Not yet, dear, I am afraid, but they
;}cannot be more than another day
}now,” and her own heart failed her,
wondering whether it was al! well
with her own man, j

But the great hounds, chained near
the stables, contradicted her. First a
low growl, and then a chorus: Glory,

They}

| Lupus, and Venom, bayed their wel-
;}come as, dim and indistinct from the
; driving sleet, half a dozen horsemen
}emerged and dismounted in the corral,

and before Mrs. Rolt could reach the |
door Kitty, all her waywardness for- |
gotten, was clinging to Jim Combe’'s |
dragging him towards the |
house.

For the others she had no word, not
even the Boss. but enly, with wild hair
flying in the storm, she clung to her
old friend, crying:

“Ob, Jim, Jim; you dear old Jim;
come quickly. I want you so badly.”

And Jim fell into his old place at

nce,

It was so natural to him to serve
this spoiled child, who always came
that he forgot him-
self and answered:

“What is it, dear? What do you
want Jim to do for you. Can't ‘it
wait?”

“No, no, not a second. Come,” and
she drew him away from his horse,
which he would have left etanding in
the storm for no other person on earth.
“Oh, Jim, he has waited so long. I
that you would never come,
He's almoet dead, Jim,” and her sweet
mouth quivered in a way that made

him wince. . ahie 51 ouse with
“Who is nearly dead?” he asked, |Comfortable 0!
climbing» the stairs three at a time te] near
with clanking spurs, bath, on 5!s
“Frank. Mr. Anstruther.” McBr ide Ov
Jim's face contracted as with physl-
cal pain, but he controlled hir: elf.
and said no word until he was in the ment
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