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MARCH   2<;th.    11)
CONDITIONS POLITICAL
-time to think  vvell ^bout what ; they are going to dortT) election day land we believe tney. will  make in   we   local ;no mistake inVvoting to retain political situation have tended tpj the Conservative Government. :
Various factors
the  local
"Neye'r middle^bf
clarify conflicting influences during1 the past two weeks, so that /at this writing the position of the j a doctrin three candidates in the field, re- j    rp^ presenting respectively, Conserv-j t-ne v ative, Liberal, and, Socialist doctrines and  interests^   with   the conventions closed and the issues fairly before the people, may be said to be clearly defined.
From this  timeto the close/ft the polls on election day, i be in order to discuss the person-ality liof, ,the   Candidates,   the
s/-ap   horses, in   the e stream" is as good, now as ever. olicies and  p'atformsof
Seeing North America.
Customs officials and steamship j agents tell us tliaTdiiringeachof ! the last ten years 3(KVO0O to 50(1, -000 North Americans have made tire—grand   tour  of   Europe, .a stream of golden riches diverted frpnTtheir own  land  to fill the coffers of the foreigner.   Aliens holiday-making  in   the  various fatherlands increase this total to over [a   million   persons  whose usual expenditure outside of the United states and Canada aggregates $1,000,000,00d j/y.ear. .   / Happily, this year will witness | a decided change/7 The war will not have been/fought in vain if it teaches north Americans   to appreciate the scenic and other attractions of their homeland, to get a little bjetter acquainted with their own   land.   The   flood of Eurq^ean visitors must take theiri
pleasures of or not at all. peaks and
travel nearer home Here they can view greater  and
gorges
grander than /those of the Alps,
ious parties will be plain-1 lordly streams\and waterfalls be-forth  by •the candidates I side which, the^ beauties of the afryf Press.   In the coming cam-1 Rhine and  Arno,   the Loire and ign  the Tribune is evidently I the Severn shrink surprisingly in the    G o y e r n m e n t, I SCenic  effectiveness ;   they  can the Post is.independent, arid the | ffush over Indian  ruins that are Conservative.    That   is j older than Rome's, and wax elo-
principles anft basis of parties,  and
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
P^-,-,    -/--......   and    where  the
fheir reissues are-to be drawn* to point
spectiye parties,  and Avhiphf-of to-the electorate-where they are the candidates and parties will to find their best interests.
best  serve   the   people   of   the.         —Ł—_—____'
province and the/Fort   George •district.       /
\The selel'tior/ and nomination of t)\e socialis/and liberal can-! Tne "Colonist" of Victoria, in1 Viklates was/ a spiritless affair. | its issue,of March 9th,under the That of tWe conservatives wasl^ove caption edits an article on different/-Several well known,!the- subject of naming the new candidates backed bv their friends 'city just incorporated — Prince and partisan* behind thorn sought! George versus Fort George. -the ifonor of member.                 [   A section of the Incorporation
.1 Bill gives  to the
Herald
as it should be.   A straight open jqUent and enthusiast^ over mir-campaign  knowing where each ;acles of architecture, of painting
and sculpture that are no whit behind the vaunted perfection of
7 party
 stands,'
the old world. And  then, there
are the two
,...... ...._......they  might,   The Olli ^,t0 t]}& People of the
/it Provincial Government will n,ewcity the option of voting on     u     d without  doubt,   face   the  most ,th* questl?j; at the first election mometous conditions and .prob-1 J" ^ay.   We can see no.reason wh    wilLtBaV(,
why the Grand  Trunk   Pacific
conditions and ,prob-lejps-t-he. province has ever-met< On the result of its deliberation wilj rest the'greater or# smaller degree of progress of „the -great
.national resources and-weaitki of British Columbia.     '       ,''¦¦''¦¦' We believe the  Conservative,
-party-the-bes't-fitted^tp^ea the work already^started. have-carefully gone over^therfield and weighed all4h^pros and cons of thfi-&rttiatlon. As set forth; in our last issue,
xwe cannot see where the people are"to gain  by, superseding the present .Government  by ' either Liberal or Social it, or a combina tion of the two;     ^T> - .-
There h'as^sprungjup-r'consider-able talk of opposition to-^tfie Me Bride - Bowser leadershipr^But if tr^ced^'talts^foiindatiori we thmk^-hiore good than bad, more
sworthy than unworthy  motives, more constructive legislation than destructive,! will be found,* the
great Panama expositions on the shores of the Pacific. San Diego opened its hospitable gates on New Year's day and San Fran• cisco on February 20. With practically little or no traffic from the east, the opening attendances broke all exposition records and are continuing their abnormal proportions. When the cheap rates go fully into effect the indications are that the eastern have as mucjj^as can do to handia-the^rowds onward and
d antfoo-4 le-setting
Railway should  be given' eitheH     .-¦•     ¦•     .         >*?           *
sun.   Onejmportant  lesson   ot
jsr^ioaTfairs has beenjvell learn -ed and putjjTto practice. The'Sa'ri1
provide modern hotel accdmodations for
vaiivcj-r-*                     rn*r?C^      1 J"(! i*s patrons at from $1 to $3 a day
~*iC7^\ .be abandoned. -r-TiTthe people of ---",., ,         /.    .       f       ¦-   , rr>on •         <-r-i<C. .     ¦ •-.     .T       rand   clean, fresh and comfort-
'theilistnct this isa real and burn-!  ,,   ,  , .      ,,   i\>   ¦    o. .   CA
able lodgings   at from 35 to 50
be'thejast- groat war.    When it is over, we -hope • coninipj]! sirise -will ti'iumphi; somehow or other the civilised states will combine to ensure that.no such:tragic lio'r-ror shall, ever disfigure human history again.   Has .there' ever been in recorded history a s,cene_j like that which took place  on| Christmas Day in the North.j?..f j France ? Soldiers of both sides, j fresh , from   slaughtering, each j other's comrades by every mech:: an ism of destruction,  met' be-1 tween the trenches, and raised, in their different languages, the cry "Down with war!" And then j they went back to' their burrows,! with grim faces, to kill one another in order that war might cease.. 4 'Down ;with war I'' What a chorus for hostile soldiers to join in, oh the actual field of battle.^ It isnb,t only among ourselves and our allies that this feeling is to be fovund. Tfie Germans show it too. Whatever their officers, and their frothing  professors,   and   their frantic journalists may sŁy   in praise of the glory of War, the men  in  the trenches Jtnow that there is very little glory, only unimaginable misery, aiout modern
warfare/-Not long
 since   the   Berliner
is is a real and burning question.: And it has much weight and argument to sustain it besides that of sentiment and historic association.,.
"Fort" has the-sdggestioniTo the
[.cents a day.
If that^spipit^Becomes general ig"the caterers to the needs of tourists in our innumerable j sight-seeing centres, the inevit-
-peqpleby noting to sustain what has been done thlftTtb^try new servants, untrained and inexperienced, who will ..necessaritv take time to digest and adjust ^themselves to the conditions.   3?he
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ilndians fierce and warlike. The contrary is the actual truth. The Indians wejiave had or nowjiave' are the reverse of^arljke or evep likable^^Hence why endanger bthe^flojtation of Joans at high ratesf because perforce, the people might not like the name of the town with the '"Fort" prefixed as an investment mediumi And sentiment very often sways the purchase of securities. But above-
time, a weakening of the present situation, n when we need eVeYy possible propy to maintain the provincial and business fabric. Thej; business of the provfnc.e admits of no tampering with doctrines, ,( disturbance in wjhjcji4-rre"presen t Govern men i <ttf*Br»tish 'Columbia has had no responsibility, but with the people of the province -is a' victim, business and financial conditiors have put a, stop to advancement at the present and everybody is turned aside to save the Empire. It is impossible either in private or public business to make!pjro-gr^ss unjtil this all important question is settled, and we maintain that the best hands to intrust the work to are those, of the present' govern ment.
foreign   wor.ldr'(^specially   the! money-Tnarkets  where without'
rSSbt   the   n^v  city   following i mond wanderer8,  Jhe beau-tradition-will;have to go to secure the: flotation of i ts bonds for civic
able result will be to revolutionize the ideas and viewpoints of our
 y                        T    bu
 ties of our own land will be more
improvements,) of stockades, of
all the name Fort George-has a distinct flavor of;unpleasantness. I attachedto it.   Many of the peo-1   would like to see, it retained were it riot for the past.   It is synonomous   with   real ^ estate
speculations, in which many peo- „.
v                -     S^1* i thorp
pie the world over are^stuCK in ],
the mire. ^U_is^tile^name that ^as^spjalMl"Istrife, and bad feel-it^between jthe sections of the district. ¦,  ... \'   ': 'V   -''"'' ^
Let us get a^ay from it and start life anew  with the name
correctly appreciated and the, temporary obliteratio^of^Eufope will have a permanent effect of Limpqrjtantr benefit to our people as a whole.
Dreams of Permanent Peace.
Tageblatt published a very striking letter from a young Prussian officer, ^ince killed in battle, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein. He, spoke shudderingly of' the hideousnesis of war as_ _he had seen it. He prayed that when the nightmare was over, his country might dbitself the honor of taking the lead in working out a more rational method of settling j differenceSi          .
Poor lad ! Perhaps he was happy in dying without realizing that his country must bear the responsibility for all this misery; that his country, far from starting such a movement, has been the one state which' has-for fifty years past.put~~eVery obstacle ihe-wajfof every such ma Even amojutoufenemies, then, among the neutrals t of all among the Allies fightingJor liberty, this earn, is the one con-id the horrors of the out^of all the misery e a great good for the ^vorld—Permanent Peace.
,WILt THISi-'.WAR END WAR?
Prince George, no' matter who it
In all the history of England, there has never been a war about which the whole nation  was,soi united and so resol^ed^^snt is about this^js»rr;s^nd yet there i^Seen a war about which was less excitement and less enthusiasm.
We all hate it. There are very few of us who would not have been willing to make the greatest sacrifices to be able to avoid it without dishonor.  It is a hideous
is named after, no matter what .,        ,
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relationship or non-relationship it'
may have.,                     -
The»'name is'on the map, if is
recognized by the Postal Department, the Ilailroads and Express Companies, ahdx the people the world °ovejv It is launched,/ it does specify something different from the old boundaries, then let us retain it by all means.    _i^
nightmare; we can only set our teeth and determine to see it We have notsen.tered" it to gain glory, or territory, or even trade ; nothing that we can
win will compensate us for what we have to pay in life and suger-ing. We'; want only peace—secure
m.        °r.:-.—-••.-_   | .     ^         : j,e mea.    We  shall   do enough  if The voters and thepeop e have ^ fornt oursclyes tubegobdones.—B.u
In the meantime we vare Iwrnldnly to
we Burke.
is the: niost strikihgfea-u ture of this war : that in ajll lands
neutral as?" well   as. belligerent.
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For The Farmer.
In Quebec they have a banking system of special benefit to the farmers. Mr. Desjardins says of this :— •' Our presjent banking system we must concede, was organized to meet the required ments of manufacturing and comntiercer»iorthose of agriculture. It is strange that our far-seeing legislators have not seen before this, that the banking system tells against the farmer and against the great basal industry of the country. The farmer needs long credits to make the more costly necessary improvements which are slow in bringing in returns. He needs also short time credits to help him market his produce and to tide over an unfavorable period. Such credited are now hard tosecurje-ancl only at a high ratejo^-hij^rest. ¦ ^\
"tUy&Aarme-time forthe gov-ernnient to come to the farmers' assistence, especially when he is being asked to increase production of grain and.live-stock. The country wHI not be satisfied until it has a banking system adapted to agriculture as welfas our present system-is to commerce, pro-v/iding, first/ long term payments on land; short credits on supplies jand three, provision for marketing crops bo as to avoid congestion and panic.'-
The more one studies the Agricultural Bill passed by the last Provincial Legislature, the great^ it evoke from  province*   The
er satisfaction the people of the
 pp            pnce*   The
Herajd is In receipt of increasing evidence that it meets" the views ofnhe-peciple and that it will sojvein large measure the dim%
men have :.;betnjhbping, and try-j cuTtieslof thpse=who-till "the soil ing to pursuade themselves ever and who will add to the agricul-since the war Lefran, that it is to tural value of the provinc'e._
TO ENCOURAGE LOCAL'•AGRICULTURAL BEVEU OPMENT,' WE ARE OFFERING SEVERAL CtfOICK FARMS CLOSE TO TOWN 'AT SPECIAL PRICES AND-ON EASY  TERMS.        ::          ::         ::         .'.
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North Coast Land Co., Ltd
Phone 15.         PRINCE  GEORGE, B. C.
L. K. WAIJUCB. O«acral Ac«at.      '
AMERICAN PLAN
EXCELLENT CUISINE
Corner Hamilton & Third
South Fort George. B.C.
The newest and most modern hotel in the northern interior
Bent of wines Liquors and c
Rates   $2.50 and $3
M«nthljp and WHkly rates •¦ ap. pllcatloa
Albert Johnson,
J
J. W. SANDIFORD,
Undertaker and Funeral Director.
Caskets, Funeral Supplies, & Shipping Cases always on hand, ,     Out-of-town calls promptly attended to. Phone 23 Fort George.
ce George and Fort George.
Just Stop and Think
of the risk andjrjcohv^nlence^ of burning coal oil. Why nottbeiOpvto-date? Have your house wired, Jpjtfbut ajtrifle more.   Rates on applieatioli atr  office - Rooms 7 & 8, Post-Buil3ing, George, Street, and at the plant, South Fort George^ We have a stock of lamps," shades, fixtures, irons, and handle all utility devices.
Northern Telephone
Electric light Service and Power Furnished.
House Wiring and Electrical Fixtures of all kinds...
 ,        :...,, __; Phone 19- Four Rings; South Fort George,
. Phone 10^ Prince GjBojrge.                     _!/
Sheet Metal/  Furnaces a Specialty. Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water
GENERAL   REPAIRING. PIiaiias n«. lsoirm roirr cboimse
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For Your Groceries.
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