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-jyears fifty per cent.

Omir mtrmermtrs ermine “~@ |" Reciprocity and the Farmer
‘Tei is important _— PeyEiaead
; . for. you ‘to. In the keenness with which fora gener-
| . that have stock and. 4 | ation: past many Canadians have held
; : know appliances to turnout § |.that reciprocity with the United States
po all kinda of CARRIAGE WORK,
. Bpecial Sleighs, Wagon and

to qyerlook the relativeness of all things,

‘| including: ihe relativeness of thecircum-

stances ‘under which ‘the present réci-
procity proposal hasbeen submitted to
them.

There is, in the ordinary marketing of
the produce of Canada, a good deal yet
to bedesired,'a good deal that insistent-
ly calls for alteration. .

Let us take wheat. for a striking ex-
ample. -The average ‘price which’ the
Canadian farmer veceives for hia wheat
whether for export or for home con-
BuMmption, is on an average the lowest
received by the farmers in any wheat-
growing country in the world,

According to the government report,
“Wholesale Prices in Canada’? the av-
erage price of Number one Northern
wheat per, bushel at Winnipeg during
the four montha from Soptember to
December, 1909, the months in which
thost farmers are compelled to sell their
crops, cither because of the lack of
granary accommodation or because of
pressing needs for money, varied from
96 1-2 to 983-4 cents, giving an average
of 96 5-I6t43 eants. *

Number one Northern wheat waa the
class of twelve million bushela of wheat
out of a total wheat-inspeetion j in Canada
of cighty million bushela. .

The figures given above show a gain
in ten yours of seventeen and two-thirds
per cent in price. So far, so good.
Yet during the same period the price of
flour wholesale at Toronto has risen
fifty four per cent, the price of shorta
wholesale hes risen fifty nine per cent;
and the price of bran wholes le, has
risen sixty seven per cent, and ‘doe price
of woolens, lowest in 1902, rose in five
‘During the last
twenty years the price of lumber in the
Ottawa valley hes raised over aeventy-
nine per cant, and another instanee,
common building bricks in eastern Can-
ada have, in thirteen years, raised over
seventy per cent,

Let us now torn to a result from
these prices, premising that good prices |+
are of course desirable if the industry
that pays them can stand them, .

According to the report of the Burean
of Industries for Ontario, the cheese
production of that province decreased
from I65 million pounds In 1908 to 125-
‘taillion pounds in.1909, During the
same period, butter fell from ten million
pounds to nine million pounds, . During

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the last three yeara the decrease in the

tt takes only $95 cash an

and annexation by the: United ‘States Ontario decreased from--1,760,000. to
are one, the same Canadians.are apt| 1,180,000 ‘and .the’ number annually

: number ‘of inilch cows in: “Ontario was
76,000, and “of all: other: cattle II, 000;
| the decrease In hogs has been nearly
half a million; ‘during 1909 there ‘were 8.
million fewer: hoga ‘slaughtered i in- ‘On-
tario than three years earlier: from
I90I to 1909 the number of sheep in

slaughtered and sold from 726 thousand
to 533 thousand, |

The condition. of things: which éxista.|
in Ontario is also to be found in all the
older Provinces of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward [stand and
Quebec. It. is beginning too, even in
Manitoba, where the wheat acreage in
1906 was 8,441,000, in 1909 the wheat
acreage ‘thera was only 2,642,000; in
other crops there was an increase; but.a
decrease: in total acreage under crop of
upwards of three quarters of a milion
acres, ~~

The cause of this serious condition is
according to some. people one and the
same, namely, the excessive cost of
living ‘and of production without a cor-
responding increase in the value of
agricultural products, The excessive
cost is the result of Tariffs, Mergers,
Combines, Trusta; the relatively low
price of agricultural produca is the re-
sult of organized buying. Will recipro-
city reduce the excessive cost? will
reciprocity increase the low price? and
if it does either, are Canadiang agree-
able to their country heing opened up
for the campaigns of the American
Combines and the American Trusts
under the color of reejpracity?

‘Americans Want Canada

When we-come to consider
what the Americans want, we
find another new condition in
that the plan of. campaign has
been changed utterly. Roughly
speaking, the Americans have al-
ways wanted Canada. And yet
it is insisted by certain short-
sighted sentimentalists that our
neighbors no longer covet our
country. These people either do
not know or do not stop to think
that thia is equivalent to claim-
ing that the Americans have sud-
denly become quite different from
every other people in the world,

Britain has been “annexing”.
all the territory she could, ever
since she became a self-conscious:
nation, She “annexed” Canada
herself from France, and did it:

ready to fight for the privilege of
“annexing” Movoeco, .. Germany
“annexed’’ Alsace and Lorraine,.

tions’’ with a hunery eye.

zegovina; Japan ‘annexed’
Corea; Russia is “annexing” Per-
‘gta,

, Only the angelic. United States
would not dream of such a thing.
Her little operations at Panama
and in the various Spanish islands
she acquired, were momentary
aberrations.
“joking.’? Hearst—who made
the Cuban war—talks ‘‘Annexa-
tion” for fon.,
quisitive but - Uncle Sam. That

those who pretend that the Am-
ericans do not want Canada,

No Supply Shortage

For the first time in several
res the peopleof Omineca dist-
trict.can view the cloge of the
season of navigation without the
fear of a winter shortage of sup-'
plies.. The waters of the Skeena
are gradually falling to the stage
which renders the running of
steamers impracticable; but the
rwarehouses of the merchants in
the local towns and those of the
‘contr’ actors on construetion are
full of supplies, and there should
be a sufficiency of every neces-
‘sity during the winter. season.
There is still much freight to be
brought up the river, but with
the railway in operation for over
a hundred miles and seven big
steamers bringing freight to up-
river points, everything will be
brought up’ before the steamers
go out of commission.

, Prince Rupert advices indicate
that the Grand Trank Pacific is
‘preparing for the erection of a
‘modern hotel and depot at the
‘terminal city. . Notice has been
‘given occupants of buildings on
the railway reserve. that the re-
moval of all buildings will be re-
quired oh amonth'snotice, —

by force. France has “‘annexed’’

and is looking for more ‘‘‘annexa- | |
Aus- |,
tria “annexed’’ Bosnia and Her- |}

Champ Clarke was |

is the basis of the argument of |¥

large. sections of. Africa, and i is |

We are all ac-!3°

__ THE OMINECA' MINER, SATURDAY, SHPTEMBER 16, to

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at 8 o'clock for Aldermere and Telkwa. 4
leaves Aldermere and Telkwa Tuesday and Friday

arriving here Wednesday. and Saturday at noon.

Retuming,

. Horses for hire for private parties.

Horses, Onts, ‘Wheat and Bran for sale. .

E. E. Charleson, Manager

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