THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917

mf 2 Ate ed from what it was a fortnight| sities iain
The Oimineca Miner ago. The producers gay there is I,

80 little of the metal for sale to i
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE| be delivered before July, 1917, ||

GREAT OMINECA DisTRIcT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, special negotiations would be / IF YOU C AN’T FIGHT

necessary for a transaction in a
: ‘ large tonnage.. The sales atime.
A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. corapatatively low prieés it, Wael YOU Cc AN AT LE AST

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a| a8serted, were not large enough

year: Foreign, Three Dollars 2 year. in -bulk to reflect actual market | uF :
ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $2.50 per inch per month; Reading | conditions. - 1 We A

Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion, Legal notices inserted at B.C.

Gazette rates, _ Attractive Savings Plan i ; ~ nae ? were . .
erase =e] MAN WHO FIGHTS
Vor. VI. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917 No, 21} White, thinister of finance, an- : .

nounced today the first step in

Full justification for the Allies’ peace demands are to be found| connection with his campaign for |
in an authoritative article hy a prominent German official, quoted greater national saving and the e

by M. Henri Bazin, of Paris, in a letter to the New York Tribune, |larger participation of the general | f

recently published by that paper in its editorial columns. The| public in financing Canada’s war ei tg
Teuton writer’s statement that Germany, after securing “‘a German expenditure and furnishing Im- . -_
peace’’, must at once begin to prepare for “'the next war’’ merely | perial credits for the purchase of |i

confirms the opinion of Teutonic aims held in Entente countries, | munitions in Canada.

The Tribune article says: An issue of war savings certi- ' ; = -_

“The most highly significant evidence of the German mitd,and | ficates maturing in three years in : THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND
by the same tokeh, never intended for Fublicity outside Germany, |denominations of $25, $50, and] | _ -
is to be found in a recent article’ in the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, | $100 will be created. They will } Which assists the wives and fainilies of Canada’s gallant jj
over the signature of Walter Rathenau, the individual who, for a|be obtainable upon application to soldiers, requires millions of dollars to keep the soldiers’ -
number of years before the war, had complete charge of official any bank, or postal money order nn -
organization among war-need industiral establishments in  the(office in the Dominion, The prices|# home fires burning.
German empire, and who has been deputized to continue this|are $21.50, $48, and $86, respect-|if! District Treasurer: Stephen H. Hoskins, Government Agen
particular work in the supreme effort the Teutonic nation is about ively—that is to say, for every || Hazelton Committee: - ae
to put forth. . $21.50 lent now to thé govern- e , ;

“This article, which is before my eyes as I write, says in full, | ment, $25 will be returned at the ||f J. E. Kirby, HH. Little, RE. Allen, J. Naylor, Wm. Ware
copied verbatim: . end of three years. j) = and C. V. Smith. Monthly Subscriptions are Solicited

“ “We began the war a year too soon. When we have secured) The discount of three dollars|is
a German peace we must begin at once a reorganization upon ajand a half constitutes a most
broader and firmer basis than ever before. Establishments that| attractive interest return. Pro-|/ . . .
produce raw materials essential to the army must nat only continue| vision is made whereby the certi- |} a
their work, but enter into it upon Jines of increased energy, forming|ficates may be surrendered at . ; og ee
thus the kernel of economic Germany in preparing, in the economic}any time during the first twelve |/ THE CANADIAN RED CROSS
sense, for the next war, We must carefully calculate in advance, | months at their purchase price, : ,
in view of lessons learned in this war, what our country Jacksin raw|after twelve months, but within | The Hazelton Branch requests the Support of all in its
material or essentials of raw materiais,and secure immense reserves twenty-four months at $22.25, and {if efforts t ist . th bi Icof this or, Vea
fo remain unused until a day in the future, We must organize asjafter twenty-four months, but © NO assist in the noble work of t is great humanitarian
genuine an industrial mobilization as we had a military mobilization. | within thirty-six months at $28,25 , organization.
Every technician or semi-technician, enrolled or not in the list of | for every $21.50 paid. Thismeans|@ Honorary Presidents: Mrs. (Rev.) John Field; Mrs. (Rév.)
mobilized, must be empowered through official credentials to take|/that the longer the certificates | if W. Hi
charge and direction of a given establishment on the second day |are held the higher rate of inter- | oe » Hogan
following a new declaration of war. Every establishment muaufac: | est will be obtained, ent Chairman: Dr. H. C, Wrinch
turing for commercial purposes must be mobilized also, and officially —— ~—| jj Vice-Presidents: S. H. Hoskins; Mrs. E. R, Cox; W.J. Carr |
understand that upon the third day after the declaration of war BLACKSMITH WANTED |{ H Secretary: Mi Lag
ita entire abilities are to be devoted to serving the army on demand. For part time; pay 60 cents an/f onorary Secretary: Miss J. C. Grant

“* “Tt must also be determined in advarice just what quaiitities hour, Other work obtainable, |) Honorary Treasurer: H. H. Little, Manager Union Bank’
and sore of ee eatablishment od pomnish the army in iM Good position for old man or one 7 ' Executive Committee:
given time, Hach establishment also should be required to furnish | —: family, if willin ther! 4 pee . ;
a detailed list of workmen who ean be dispensed with, these alone an ated wien ne 1 Mrs, H.C. Wrinch, Mrs, R, G. Moseley, Mrs. Chas. Reid,
to be mobilized in the military sense,  Iton, B.C. f} Miss Hogan, Rev, John Field, Rev, M. Pike, H. H. Phillips

We tmust finally establish some definite commercial under- : j) = Large or Small Contributions will be Gratefully Received
standing with nations outside of Europe that will offer advantages : . ;
to them, to be duly specified in detail, whereby: these nations, as | N S U R A N CE . - .
neutrals, will find it to their direct disadvantage commercially to of all kinds, | : . 4
trade or sell munitions during the war to either ourselves or our 4 oo a
enemies. - We edn afford to offer such conditions ourselves, And Prompt and Liberal Settlements co eo boos
finally, when the next war comes, it must not be a year too soon.’ - ae N a

“Here in a nutshell, or ‘kernel’, to quote franks M. Rathenaly, | 9. —= I SOLDIERS AID & EMP LOYME T
. wae ; ae ining Machinery and Supplies. ||f ; a —: op
is what Allied Europe has long understood, and what has not’ been|~ urs mi no COMMITTEF
truly understood in the United States, save by arelative few.. Foti eradocl 8 wire ces mt: an” 4

_ "Tt is the reason why the war would be continued ten years, if] #stimates given for mways.jg cage ae a I
necessary by France, England, and their allies, It is the reagun — ~ Endeavors to supply. soldiers from Hazelton d istrict with
why nothing short of the 'knuekout’ will srvé, It is the reason J. F. MAGUIRE, Hazelton f such comforts and necessities as cannot be readily otitained ff
why any talk or effort for peace would be ill received,even if backed Fownrance antl Manofactarers? Agen at the front, and will assist them to re-establish themselves ff
by the best of motives and official ‘sanction from the. greatest of 1 ry ~_ ee a ea
neutrals or the smallest, or all the-neutrals collectively, = 2; HOTEL | et a OE ERT : in civil life hen they relurt the Committee . netin e oe mE

“The war-cloud that hung over Europe for thirty years priortof. ~~ =z s} ¢0 - Operation with the Provincial Returned Soldiers’
August, 1914, must be dispersed finally andforever. Theintolerable| © :1 EUROPEAN PLAN a, r i Commission and.thé Military Hospitals Commission ih

e an . : tas ; One Dollar per day and upwards . . ; , re
conditions prevailing must be finally made impossible of repetition, ] Contributions to the Soldiers’ Aid Tobacco Fundare Welcome
Chairman; ‘A. R. Macdonald _

The horrors and miseries, the suffering and privation, the whole PRINGE piplin femal inins and boats Ff
gamut of evil that no single individual ean understand through : a | ol
thea me wing or be grecennt mee ne been felt, oMperienced Green Bros, Burden & Co. |] Honorary Secretary-Treasurer: R.E.Allen; District Forester
rou, e. ven in outer circles, ‘must never Civil Bngindats - {ih ee Hever Ue Ur. wo ape
again be a worldly portion. a, _ Demian, Bat Columbia! | 8. H. Hoskins, A, E. Player, Win. Ware, . Jos, Naylor,
“This. will only. be possible through making war against war]... SRG deck, . H. H, Little, J. K. Frost, F. B, Chettleburgh-
until a humane peace is the reward. It would be impossible under a| “fices at wigictis, Neléon, Fort George — me
German peace as would a railway journey to Mars. a .., .[K. P. Burpey; New Hazelton || tm ne
“Germany realizes all I have written here ina sincerity beyond = | So web Ee
mere words for the telling. She feels her setting sun. Sheis|/@~

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York,dealing with:copper. prices, | for ‘copper to be delivered several | ——— "= — —
reada: “In the. copper ‘trade a months inthe future, which rep-}  DALBY B. MORKILL. - | i nm

esented the’ opiriiotis ig]. ‘British Colymbia Land Surveyor" SAT Aire. = i
resented the'opinionis of the big [Brit wage and Surveyor, 7 N SE R' Tf

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leading producers; There were, price, and. ‘the genbyal 'dtitns of The oben eneineoring Surveys.
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fair amount of business is report-|"" * we oe RVEYOR = I Ae OY.
ie _ {sellers in regard to. the market. | a iets man . ee. eee
ed at :prices considerably’ under + fnilad "yes Hekalton, B. C, . is alld aie