THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, JASUARY 1, 115 A a aun mam “The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE Great OmInECA DIstRicT OF British COLUMBIA. A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Caneda and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year: Forcign, Three Dollara a year. ADVERTISING RATES: . Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Gazeite rates, Display, $2.50 per inch per month; Reading Legal notices inserted at B, C. VoL. IV. SATURDAY, — 1, 1915. The Miner wishes all its Readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year . . - WHAT THIS WAR _ . MEANS TO CANADA _ But the war is here, and Can- adians are going. And why? -: The mother of us ali is. in need. “Of'that reason, says the Halifax Chronicle, we ave not ashamed, “But that man searches the hearts and minds of Canadians but super- ' ficially who finds in the marching. of our men but the response of _ thebroodtothe tribal call. Slow- ly. but surely, it. is being borne in upon-the minds of the thought- ful people of Canada that this is no mere European war, no-.mere ‘accidental failure of an insincere diplomacy, no mere brutal struggle of the engaged nations |, for acommon coveted prize. ‘The enemy now held back behind that swaying line of French and British bayonets will struggle valiantly, desperately, frantically to break through, But to-what?: To Paris! to Loncon! For national preatigel . For cold'cash! For Empire! - That last demand brings the} Canadian gun up hard against the Canadian ‘shoulder. here’ talked . and bragged. of. Em- 7 Rigg, but this’ longing that leaps _- out. dross’ ‘Belgiain: “and down in- té "Berbia’ ‘is not- the’ thing of our! childish boasting, We néver con- “ nived at any schenie to rob a selé- respecting ‘people ‘of their’ rights, 1) 86y to che... “We: are, ourselves. a _ little’ ‘people, legs, than 8,000, 0001 i " ‘Boills,, scattered ayer. thousands of . niftes, >We are? ‘free and self- governing today, not because we’ . have. sufficient power of defence, but because we are’ Britigh and en- joy. ‘British. benevolence and. the British. guarantee, But let Us never forget: that the ene my ‘that “oy would . humble Britain, deliber- “Btély sought to reduce Serbia, in- to ‘the. degrading condition of a ” Lyaspal state—that that enemy tod ay. glories over the humiliation| * "of an-independent Belgium. : We} 7 are repeatedly told that Germany|. not Jpterid i in the ¢ event of N ; at | Gourt: of Reviaioy : an ‘| tha provisions ¢f the ‘Taxation Act??, ' Ni Gainees cA the asgespment rolla of tha ‘of which we Canadians enjoy our Miner. Print Shop. We thave|: ing to realize that this is a Can- adian war. It is no Européan family quarrel, The old worn- out imperialism which was ever the enemy of the independence and self-respect cf small nations and little peoples, is again ram- pant, The German aggression ig in direct defiance of that inter- national righteousness, by virtue rights and liberties as a people. Let that defiance once become triumphant, and the war we now wage for a principle, we shall chen be forced to wage, and des- perately, for existence. | Platinum has advanced in price go much in recent years that gold is being used to alloy it to lessen the cost of electrical apparatus in which it i is necessary. Commercial Printing at The NOTICE - OMINECA ASSESSMENT: DISTRICT. -— ‘NOTICE is “hereby given, in aiteora- : ‘anes with the, Statutes, that all agaess- fed -taxes ond income-tax assessed and |- levied under the ‘Taxation Act’* are due ‘and payable on the second of Jan- uary, 1915, the } due ond payable at my office, situated in-the Provincial Government Building,. in the Town.of Hazelton, BY C.. - This notice, ‘in ‘tarms of: law, ip equivalent te 2 personal demand by me upon all persone liable for taxes, ‘ Dated ‘at Hazelton, B: C., , December 2ath, 1914.. ‘HH. WELCH, Assessor and Collector _ or the Lo Omineca Apsessment District. | ‘omic Ager ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NOTICE is tered Appeal, under mace Assesamont District for the aoa 1915, will. be held in the Govern. i wre | ; the - 14th January,” 1915; at’ the ¥ ty day Office, Hazelton, B,C,,.on-T hott hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ' - Dated at Hazelton, B. O.,. . December 2th, 1914! . ‘STEPHEN HL. 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