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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1911.

Reforms Are In Sight

After a strenuous election campaign, Canada has decided the

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most momentous question ever submitted to her people and has

deposed from office the veteran statesman Laurier, who for fifteen
years has guided her destinies. Reciprocity will never again
become a factor in Canadian politics.

work out our national destiny untrammelled by any such pact asthe
mistaken policy of the late government would have imposed upon us.
Now that the smoke of battle has begun to clear away, itis
apparent even to those who adhered to the Liberal policy that a
change of government will be of great benefit to the country at
large. Inthe latter years of Laurier’s administration corruption
had crept into various departments, investigations bringing to light
abuses which made right-minded men blush for their fellows,
. With the return to power of the Conservatives, underthe leadership
of so able and conscientious a statesman as Hon. R. L. Borden, the
country may confidently look for the consummation of much needed
reforms. Re-organization, which will be necessary in some depart-
ments, will prove a task of herculean proportions, but the people
will find their confidence in Mr, Borden not misplaced. Canada is
now prosperous, and will advance much further under the clean
and progressive administration which may be expected from the
new government. .

British Columbia’s Needs |

Among the matters in which the new federal government will
be asked to take action are several of considerable importance to
British Columbia. The much vexed question of better terms, on
which Sir Wilfrid Laurier stood opposed to the demands of the
people of this province, will be re-opened, with a likelihood that a
satisfactory decision will be arrived at. In the matter of fisheries
control British Columbia has now a chance of being fairly treated,
while in the coming redistribution of electoral constituencies,. of
interest to the entire West, this province will receive all the con-
sideration she may fairly expect,

Of matters more nearly affecting this district there are many,
‘nd these we hope to see adjusted as soon as may be. Our
member-elect, H. 8. Clements, has pledged himself to work for the
betterment of conditions in his constituency, and his previuus record
a3 a member justifies the belief that his courge at Ottawa will be of
benefit to Comox-Atlin.

We are given to understand that in the matter of the winter
mail service steps have already been taken to give Hazelton and the
Omineca district better facilities than heretofore, and it appears
likely that our winter mails will be satisfactory to the people of the
district. There is a crying necessity for an increase in the staff of
the local postoffice, and efforts are being made to secure the
additional help needed for the handling of the large amount of mail
matter which passes through the Hazelton office, ;

It is possible, also, that a new policy may come into force in the
povernance of the government telegraph system. Residents in
this district have no complaints to make as to the work of the
telegraph staff; but it is thought by many that a reduction of rates
to something like a commercial basis might be made without any
great loss of revenue, and the department will probably be asked to
consider the matter. _ .

The matter of Indian lands and the alleged rights of the aborigi-
nes has from time to time occupied the attention of the public. A
complete and final settlement of this vexed question is not too much
to expect. ‘ ;

' Mr, Clements has pledged himself to endeavor to secure the
assistance of the federal department of agriculture in the work of
developing the great agricultural resources of this district, and-he
may be relied upon to do what may be done in that respect.

Will Advertise This District
An event of .no little importance to this district from an adver-
tising point of view is the Seattle-to-Hazelton automobile trip
undertaken by a motorist from the Puget Sound city. The ad-
venturous motorist hag already surmounted the worst difficulties of
the journey, having safely passed over the trail between Fraser
lake-and Burns lake. He was reported at the latter point three
‘daysago. Although the dispatch announcing his arrival at Burns
lake gave no particulars as to his adventures on the trail, those who
“have travelled over it by the usual method will appreciate the
resourceful qualities of aman who has succeeded in bringing a
motor car over a mountain trail which is hardly good enough for
cAyuses. From Burnslake to the Bulkley summit, while there is
as-yet only a nominal road, the tourists have no insuperable obsta-
cles to meet; while from the summit to the government ranch there
is a passable toad. From the latter point to Hazelton the path-
‘finders will find’a road comparing favorably with many of thehigh-
ways to the south. © ES

ry

" riet_to the notice of ‘a wide public, as the ‘princfpi] newspapers’ of
. “the west are devoting. pages of space to the jourmey: * The Bulk-
ley valley towns have arranged to recelye .the. party’ with great

— eclat; arid it behooves the people of Hazelton to. prepare a warm:

em a reer tw Lo

Rockies as cold and wet and not

We have declared to the
world our confidence in Canada and ourselves, and are prepared to

‘}year 1911, the output this year

Quathiaski Cove, 1,600; Alberni,
. "_{%,000; Clayoquot, 6,000; Work

... “The pathfinding tour, in addition to advertising the projected Island, 2,000.
Pacific Highway, will serve a useful purpose in’ bringing this dist-|cases, _

Radicals in thé House of. Commons, had
just prepared a billto alter the calendar!)

THE OMINECA MINER, §

A Splendid Exhibit © *

At the Toronto exhibition this
fall half million people inspected.
the British Columbia. exhibit,
which was of a character to do
credit to the province, Speak-
ing of the display an exchange
says:

“For quality and variety the
fruit and vegetables exhibits defy
comparison. They illustrate the
remarkable diversity of climates
in British Columbia, Eastern
Canada has been in the habit of
regarding the land ‘beyond the

‘| very productive, but when these
doubters inspect the British Co-
lumbia exhibit and see peaches
and apricots along with apples,
pears, plums, nectarines and
vegetables all grown in British
Columbia their eyes are opened:

The exhibit of fruit and timber
from British Columbia in the
Horticulture building has been
shown this. summer already at
Brandon, Regina, Edmonton and

from Toronto, The exhibit is
under the direction of the depart-
ment of agriculture of British
Columbia, It consists of huge
blocks of timber, including fir,
spruce, cedar and hemlock, in
rounds and squares, There are
also photographs of forest scenes,
helping those examining the ex-
hibit to realize the immense size
to which timber grows in the
Pacific province.
“There are orchard scenes and
fishing scenes. In the latter is a
photograph of 100,000 sockeye on
the wharf of one cannery.
is also a photograph of an onion
patch at Kelowna, which shows.
a yield of forty-two tons to the

than was ever produced in On-
tario. Another interesting fea-
ture of the exhibit is an array of
200 bottles of various kinds of
fruit not now in season..
“Tn the fresh fruits there is a
collection such as cannot be shown,
by any other province in the.
Dominion, and comprising apples;
pears, plums, peaches, apricots,
nectarines and cherries.” 7

The Salmon Pack

Now that the canning season
for 1911 is practically over,
packers are engaged in figuring
out what the total pack for British
Columbia will be. Some of the
Fraser river men estimate that it
will amount close on to 750,000
cases, and that the season in com-
parison to last year will not be
as unsttecessful as it was first
thought. In 1910 the canneries
of this province put-up 762,201
cases of salmon, but the sockeye
catch was far larger than this
season,

The sockeyes, which are the
most valuable of the salmon
tribe, have been scarce this year,
and the total catch amounts to
but 365,000 cases, in comparison

dred and thirty-five thousand
eases were put up* on the Fraser
last year, but this season the can-:

spring, humpbacks and cohoes

of the sockeye, .
Allowing a pack of 760,000 cases
of all kinds of salmon for the

will be in excess of that of 1907,
the year in the four-cycle period

with the present season, In 1907).
the total of all kinds of salmon’:
packed was 647,459 cases, which
gives a balance of 200,000 cases!
in favor of this year. nl
The estimated pack of sockeyes'
in British Columbia this year is
as follows: Skeena River, 120,000
cases; Fraser River, 60,000 cases;
Naas, 92,000; Lowe Inlet, 13,000;
Namu, 6,000; Rivers’ Inlet, 87, -
000; Smith Inlet, 18,000; Alert
Bay, 4,000; Knight Inlet, 1,600;).

‘Total, “366,000

‘To Change Calender .
Sir Heriry’ Dalziel, leader of the uitra-

/Feeeption for the pathfinders, who should be here within a few days,

This bill, known 6a the Fited Calendar:

ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1411,

| BIN, ‘sontaina soma novel features, ~ Aa

Winnipeg, and will go te London

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acre, a yield considerably larger!

to 566,000 last season. One hun-|}.

neries packed but 60,000, The!:

will more. than ‘equal the output |

of salmon runs which corresponds |:

1/Were defeated by Great’ Britain; to
the memorandum which accompanied it.| South America, from which she ia re-
explains, the bill purposes to substitute | pelled by the Monroa doctrine; ‘and to
for the present irregular calendar ‘a! Morocco, from which she ia being warn-
fixed calendar having regular perioda,|ed way by the recent energetic and
of which the week is the common mes-| significant utterances of the British
Bore, ; parliamentary leaders. In. the same
The Calendar Reform Bill, intréduced | vein of territorial covetousness, Herr
in 1908, sought to make the months as|Bassermann, leader of the German
uniform in length as possible, but as a] Liberal party, declared that ‘““Gormany
difference in this respect is unavoidable | has not received a share corresponding
in a year with twelve months, it is|to her economie needs in the partition
thought better to increase that differ-|of the world. Territory on the Congo
ence 60 as to allow of the week being alis.not an adequate indemnification for
common measure of all months, This |Germany’s economic interests in Mo-
arrangement makes it possible for each jroceo,"?
month to begin on a Sunday dnd end on | these interests is amusing:
& Saturday. _“Germany’s economic interests in
A table giving the proposed fixed|Moraceo are infinitesimal, Of Ger-
calendar shows that the months of Janw-| many’s foreign trade exactly 1-1500th,
. . that is, one fifteenth of one per cent, is
ary, February, April, May, July, Aug-| with Morocco, Of the imports into
ust, Octoker and November would each | Mo-oceo Germany supplied in 1909, ac-
consist of twenty-eight days, while the | cording to the British statistics, only
remaining months of March, June, Sep-
tember and December would cach have
thirty-five days. ‘(New Year Day” is
set apart, thus bringing the total of
days up to the requisite number of 365,
while for Leap years a special day is
set apart as ‘‘Leap Day,’’ which is to
br intercalated between the last day of
June and the first day of July, aa re- are valueless. Lastly, of the 16,485

constituted by the bill. ‘|Europeans in Morocco, only 150 are

A clause in the bill Jays down that Germans according to the latest official
the New Year Day and Leap Day shall figures available, This number may
neither be accounted days of the week, possibly have jnereased by DOW je ft
and shall not, except where specially many’s important economic interests in
mentioned or provided for, be held to! Moroeco have no existence in fact.
be included in any computation of days,

Germany’s real interests in Morocco
but shall otherwise be public and bank

are territorial, political and especially
holidays, The ‘conditions of labor on stratagetical. By touching the button in
those two days and the remuneration

Moroeco Germany can at any moment
produce a revolt in the neighboring Al-
therefor, under the bill, would conform | geria and throw France into convulsions.
aa fer aa possible to what prevails on| rom Moroceo she can threaten the
Sundays. A fixed date, April 15, is se-
lected for Baster Day.

preat trade routes and Gibraltar, and
Finally the bill, if passed by parlia-

compel Great Britain to divide her na-
ment, will not become operative until

yal forces. Germany’s establishment
in Morocco means her permanent domi-
the governmént decides that sufficient
international concurrence has been se-

nation of France, and an ever-present
cured,

supplied 37.1 per cent. and France 41,5
ercent. During the period 1904-1909
ermany’s exports toa Morocco averag-

ed, according to the German statistics,

exactly £104,160 per annum, about as
much as the yearly turnover of a medi-
um sized shop. It is true that German
citizens have acquired from the natives
certain mining concessions, but in the
absence of a Moroccan mining law these

danger to British trade and commerce.
_ ‘Last but not least,’’ he continues,
“the future great route to the Far East
hy way of the Panama Canal, which
may become the greatest trade route
of all, would pass by Agadir, and that
port would be a most excellent base
whence to attack the United States in
their most yulnerable spots; the Pana-
ma canal and the American war harbors
in the Antilles protecting it,’

Although German longing for an ex-
tension of her European military em-
pire in South America lends some
plausibility to the suggestion last
named, it will disappear when subject-
ed to closer reflection. Whatever their
emperor's ambition should lead the

German-French Dispute’

In world polities the Moroccan em-
broglio is still the important question,
An article orn’ “The German Designs in
Afriea’’ in the Nineteenth Century for
August not only throws light upon the
Moroceo crisis but shows how the
United States, as well as Great Britain,
might be concerned, ;

_Germany’a demand for territorial ex-
pansion seems to obsess alike her
princes, politicians and newspaper| German forces to attempt in Africa, it
press, The argument is thus condensed | ™ay be confidently predicted that, ex-

and quoted from the Frankfurter Zie-|¢ept a8 professional men, bankers,
merchants and artisans, :they will

never. cross the Atlantic ocean.

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the outlets which she may. need for Two-Mile -
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to the peace of the world and must Sealey

some day tead toa fursting of the bonds

whic ave. been laid upon e€hation .

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