A : . . - . as " Che wo wa: poe Z . he i | THE OMINECA. HERALD, “FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1985, AY re — Nickerson Had Good: Meeting Old Hazelton Geo, W. Nickerson, Progtesgive - candidate in Skeena riding, held a avery fair meeting in Hazelton on Saturday night. Two factors were against a largerattendance; first was the late session the people had had the night. before, and the second was that the train from the west was two hours late. . Nickerson has been a. life. Jong Liberal and a very active one. He is opposing Fred Stork this time because he believes, with hundreds of other Liberals, that Fred Stork has failed utterly to represent Skeena at Ottawa dur- ing the past four years; because he refused to endorse a resolution passed at a public meeting for protection for the halibut fisher- men against the American Ford- ney tariff, which penalized Cana- dian-caught fish, from two to three cents a pound. The halibut fishermen are the big asset to Prince Rupert, and Prince Rupert is the big market for the interior. Mr, Stork, says Nickerson, im- ‘ports speakers from the provincial house to tell the electors what has been going on at Ottawa. Why does he not tell the electors himself if he knows. Stork does not know, and therefore cannot tell what transpired at Ottawa during the last four years, “Send me to Ottawa and I assuye you I will have to import no speakers to tell you what happen- ed. IJ’! know all about it,” says Niekerson, ‘Fred Stork failed to make Premier King live up to the pro- mises he made in Rupert in 1£20, not one of which has been fulfil- . Jed. But Stork has sat tight and watched Sir Henry Thornton, with Mackenzie King’s approval, take away from the G. Ff. P. branch line what little the Con- servatives had left, and_move it to Vancouver. ; Sic Henry gets a $165, 000 i in- crease in salary and is re engaged for another three years more. At the same time the. section gangs and the shop men on the G.T.P. get wages and time cut, The many high officials on the four big lines taken into the Canadian National Railways are all retained at their same salaries, The C.P.R. operates with one- gixth of the number of those high-salaried officials. "That. is ' Mackenzie King’s and Sir Henry ‘Thornton’s idea of economy, and the G.T.P, branch line shows the result of that economy. = ‘ "Can Fred Stork,’’ Mr. Nicker- gon asked, ‘show i in Hansard any one effort he ever made to draw the attention of the government to the hardships suffered by the pioneer settler-‘due to’ excessive ‘freight rates? Along. the G.T.P, line the freight rates.are.so much higher than they are in the sou: thern part of the province that farm produce from Souhern B,C. can be shipped to.Prince’ Rupert for Jess money. than can Bulkley Valley or Hazelton farm produce. But Mr. Stork has never attempt- bie dae os ~~ The Spirit Moves Smithers Editor ; . a re; ‘ast the spirit moved the, dilatory : ‘Yditor of the jgmithers paper, and in his last.issue he devoted about four - columns of his space to pointing out the things the Omineca ‘Herald might have said. What we would: ‘like to know is, why devote so much space to The Omineca Herald, especially when the Smithers paper admits in the begin- ning, and at frequent intervals throughout,’ ‘that it agrees ‘with The Herald and its campaign for’ the benefit: of Skeena. riding and particularly the interior. We suspect that the Smithers editor is “like 80 many - other Liberals:—He has scratched his bald head, twitched his toes, and: wriggled in. his chair until shis trousers are worn bare, in search of one good reason for supporting the Liberal candidate in this campaign and in this riding. ‘ He may take what consolation,he may out of the fact that there are a good many in this riding just like him. They will vote Liberal in spite of their conscience and better - judgment. The same applies in other parts of the province. Is not the Vancouver Star apologizing. for the calibre of the Liberal candidates in Vancouver and pleading for support for the Great Liberal Party? How funny the change! Every other election the cry has been (especially the Libera! cry), ‘Vote for the best man; that is the only way to get a good government.”’ This time it is an appeal to party prejudices and darn the candidate. The Liberal party has always pretended to be the friend of the north and got away with it once, But the last four years of Mackenzie King’s misrule and Fred Stork’s inactivity will be quite enough, thank you. ‘The only real friendship shown this country was by the Conservative party, which put the railway in first-class shane, increased terminal facilities at Prince Rupert, and started the equalization of freight rates, which Mapkenzie King held up until the eve of another election, . In all the four columns of its last issue the Smithers paper never mentioned Fred ‘Stork, nor did it give one - Yeason why he should receive the votes of the people .in this constituency. Lt mentions nothing that the Liberal party did for the benefit of Skeena, not even the millions tnat were spent on the MacKenzie & Mann line to build up . Vancouver. It did not even mention the cut in wages of section men on the G.T.P. and the reduction of section ‘crews, at times down to one man, in order that more - money might be spent-to build up Vancouver and the MacKenzie & Mann “‘last hone’. | Large portions of the four columns are a . jumble! of words muddled together and made ‘to look like praise for the Liberal failure—like the housewife. who takes the ‘Atbums, Photo | ‘Albums, snapshot Art corners . 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Trial Balance Books “ Detew Bankai. «Towels, paper » Order B ooks i. os. Lypewriting Paper So SS Bw ine Visiting Cards ‘they ever did, ‘waiting-list of Canadians at every -erumbs of bread: and the scraps’ of mush left on the - | Examination Paper" y Was Tanch Rolls breakfast plates, adds the yolk of an egg, mixes together,. Byeshades pe che Were Fame ets bakes for ten minutes, and serves as a pudding for dessert © at lunch. It looks alright, but, gee whiz,- when you diz into it! . T 0 Thanks, just the same, old chap, for the advice. Too he mineca Herald» bad the spirit did-not move you earlier in the game, -NEW HAELTON, B C, a ? ed to have these rates equalized, | from Prince Rupert to Vancouver, ————, ~ neither has Mr. Stord raised his hand in the Province-wide fight for lower freight rates, ’’ In regard to ‘immigration Mr. Nickerson says, first make our ewn people prosperous, and then go to the States and bring back |. our own people who are so numer- ous over there. Canadians are leaying Canada today'as fast as There is a long entry point to the United States. Any talk about Canadians return- ing to Canada now is pure bunk. When the campaign was on for a Pacific outlet ‘for the ‘Peace River country did Fred Stork utter one word to help have that): outlet at Prince Rupert? Not-a word. He is satisfied to let Sir Henry Thornton take the Peace River treffie out by.. Brule and down to Vancouver. : He is also satisfied for Jerry McGeer to'wall: the P.G.E, to the Canadian Na- tional atid make it another artery to take northern traffic away redo t of Victoria for'60 years. . R. &. Sargent acted as ‘chair- man of the. meeting upon the notion of Dr. R, G. Large and 8. J. Winsby. A-dance followed the meeting, “It will be learned with general | regret that EB. H. 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