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THE RULE OF RADICALS
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The next time you want to
vent your spleen upon the rule,
of radicals, look at Milwaukee.!
ruled by Socialists, so-called1
“radicals.” Less graft in her i
government, most prosperous of j
the major cities—the most effi
cient governed. It is a pity that
there are not more radicals to
govern the rest of the United
States.
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NO MONEY TO HELP
It is interesting to read the
debates between Senator Borah,
Senator LaFollette and Senator
less about the LaFollette-Costi
gan bill which was sent to its
grave in the Senate. Senator
Borah reminded Fess that the
government loaned the banks
end trust companies two billion
dollars to keep them from starv
ing. The government is not in
the business of lending money
to help starving people—but
lending it to banks, that busi
ness-good business for some.
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“CONSERVATION”
The following is taken from a
recent issue of the Seattle
limes:
“It is now the policy to con
trol the injurious species of ani
mals while not exterminating
them entirely. This plan serves
two worthy ends—representa
tives of all forms of wild life
will be preserved, and life jobs
assured to professional hunters
on the federal or state pay roils. '
For the next ten years the
government is setting aside $1,
000,000 annually for co-opera •
tion with state and local agen
cies in the work of controlling
predatory animals.
It is pertinent to remind the
reader that while this bill was
pending last spring that natur
alists and others, big game
hunters and associations, plead
ed earnestly for the various ani -
mals.
They feared the general ex
termination of certain animals
and wished to make sure that
they could go into the wilds at
any time and hear a coyote howl
or see a wolf lope gracefully over
the plains. As a result of the
urgent protests, the Biological
Survey promised to hold its
hand.
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C ONGRESSMAN FREE
OF CALIFORNIA
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Congressman Free of Cali
fornia is recognized in Congress
as the spokesman of Henry O'
Malley. O’Malley furnishes the
propaganda and most of the ma
terial which the California solon
spouts on the floor of Congress
whilst legislating against Alas
kans.
Recently the international
halibut treaty was before the
House and it provided for the
search and seizure of American
vessels on the high seas and pro
vided further that trials were to
be held in California courts. De
legate Wickersham incorporated
on amendment which provided
that in such cases, trial should
be in the nearest Territorial di i -
tiict court. Mr. Free protested
vigorously asserting that “no
Alaskan jury would decree a
forfeiture.” It is suggested that
perhaps the Californian would
hke to have Alaska cases tried
in Gloucester, Mass.
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INDIANA WORTH MORE
UNDER INDIAN RULE
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A press dispatch dated from
Indianapolis, Indiana, recently
stated: “The State of Indiana
was worth more the way the
Indians had it than it is today,
says Richard Lieber, state di
rector of conservation. He ex
plains: Property on the tax dup
licate today is $5,350,000,000; the
state’s, 18,500,000 acres of hard
wood timber, now nearly ex
hausted, would be worth $7,000;
000,000.
So long as some of the Alaska
politicians say that the Territory
is going back to the Indians,
what is the country worth today
with its fisheries in the shape it
is today as compared with but a
short generation back?
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CHICAGO PIKER CITY
We hear much of the rule of
I gangdom in the Windy City—it
| is well press agented, rather
i more maligned would be nearer
correct. Listen:
Memphis, Tenn.. leads 30 pro
minent cities with 58.8 murders
to every 100,000 population; At
lanta follows with 52.G; New
York and Chicago are way down
the list—New York, 7.1 murders
to 100,000 and Chicago 14.4. Bos
ton was lowest with 1.9 per
100,000.
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1876 - - 1932?
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The Democratic platform for
1376 said: “We denounce the
present tariff, levied upon nearly
4.000 articles, as a masterpiece
of injustice, inequality and false
pretense. It yields a dwindling,
not a yearly rising revenue. It
has improverished many indus
tries to subsidize a few. It pro
hibits imports that might pur
chase the products of American
labor. It'has degraded American
commerce from the first to in
ferior rank on the high seas. It
has cut down sales of American'
manufacturers at home and a
broad and depleted the returns
of American agriculture—an in
dustry followed by half of our
people.”
Be it remembered a Republi
jCan president was in the chair
a ;'the time the above was incor
porated in the Democratic plat
form. The electors of the coun
try immediately elected Hayes,
a Republican into office. If we
would read some consolation to
day from the dire condition of
the country and the threats of
changing from one major party
to another, we might stop a few
minutes and look back to 1875.
The people today are not much
different from 1876.
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A MAN AFTER OUR OWN
HEART
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uut in Missouri, while the
Jackson banquet was going on,
ex-Senator James Reed, indicat
ed that he was willing to be
drafted as a candidate for
nomination for President of the
United States. He made seven
proposals which will oe suffi -
ciently plenty for any other
candidate to follow—all indi
cating decentralization of the
federal government and all of
them summed up in his second
proposal, which reads thus:
“We should repeal every fed
eral statue which imposes upon
the federal government powers
cr duties that can as well be
performed by the states.”
By and large we would say
that the senator would be term
ed a “radical” in Alaska or he
would be a progressive republi
can and no doubt not allowed to
even mention that he ever was
a democrat by that faction
which has trimmed the territory
for not a few years.
There is considerable dissatis
faction with the conditions in
Alaska, with the condition which
permits federals to dominate
territorial affairs and dictate to
its duly elected officials. And
that dissatisfaction is not en
tirely with the progressive re
publicans. Not one bit of it—a
great many democrats are in
sympathy with the demand of
giving the territory back to its
duly elected officials and to the
election of more officers. But
this dissatisfaction is confined
mostly to that element which Is
not so used to braying about
the country and therefore is
never in high places where they
might b eheard.
But the next election wiil
show the general support of the
idea of giving the territory back
to the people. This is prophetic.
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A MAN OF INDEPENDENCE
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Good for Cash Cole! A man
after our own heart. The Terri
torial Auditor filed for reelection
with the slogan on his standard:
•'Exclusion of all Federal officers
irom participating in Territorial
affairs.” That plank should elect
him and no wonder the Federal?
hate Cole. —Seward Gateway.
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UNREASONABLE AND
IRRESPONSIBL I
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The people of the Territory o
Alaska are-unreasonable and ir
responsible.
Now please do not get angry
ever this statement for we can
prove it by no less an authority
than the Alaska Road Commis
sion.
Section 29 of the Compiled
Laws, an Act of Congress passed
May 14, 1906, provides in part:
‘ The said board (Alaska Road
Commission) shall prepare maps,
{.dans and specifications of every
road or trail they' may locate
and lay out, and whenever more
than $20,000 in the aggregate,
shall have to be expended in the
actual construction of any road
or section of road designed to be
permanent contract for the work
shall be let by them to the lowest
responsible bidder, upon sealed
bids, after due notice, under
rules and regulations to be pre
scribed by the Secretary of War.
The board may reject any bid if
they find they deem the same
unreasonably high or if they
find that there is a combination
among bidders. In case no re
sponsible and reasonable bid cai
be secured, then the work mav
be carried on with material and
men procured and hired by the
board.The same rules as to
the manner in which the work
of repair shall be done, wheth
er by contract or otherwise, shal
govern as in case of origina
construction of the road o.
trail.”
Under the Act of Congress
creating the Alaska Fund the
Alaska Road Commission has re
ceived from license taxes de
rived from the Territory $3,770,
000; it has also received froir
Lhe Territorial Legislature, un
cer the so-called cooperative
agreement, $1,700,000 and fron
the Federal government $11.
760,000, a total of SEVENTEEN
MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRET
AND SEVENTY-TWO THOU
SAND DOLLARS.
We are unble to find any re
cord of a contract ever being let
for the construction of any road
by the Alaska Road Commission
nor can we find any trace of
bids ever being called for.
It is therefore, quite evident
that the Alaska Road Commis
sion finds the people of Alaska
either unreasonable or irrespon
sible.
Experience has taught th?
v alue of competition in the con
struction of public works. A1
buildings, even in Alaska, art
constructed upon competitivt
bids; the Bureau of Public Road,
functions satisfactorily undo
the same system; every state o
municipal road building activity
n the Union works on this basis
Congress by the law quoted a
have, attempted to extend the
same principle to Alaska, bu
the Alaska Road Commissioi
calmly disregards the clear pro
vision of the statue, builds uj
its own machine and does as it
pleases.—Seward Gateway.
COLUMBIA RIVER FISHERIES
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People who are familiar wit!'
1 he magnitude of the fisheries of
tile Columbia River, and the siz<.
and flow of the river know tha
a conservation must be given
such a program at the time tht
detail of these projects are made
The Astorian Budget present,
the following in an article of
November 23, 1931, relative to
the development in the Columbir
River:
“The fishing industry of th
Columbia produces in normal
years in the neighborhood of
$8,000,000 of income which is 5
percent return on an investment!
of $160,000,000 and there are pro-|
bably 10,000 people directly de
pendent upon it, so that it is a
little difficult to classify it as a
small or unimportant industry
It is at least actual while the re-j
turns from the dam projects are
conjectual.
“The fishing industry and tne
communities most interested in
it do not want to be placed in the
position of opposing any legiti
mate industrial project but they
are abundantly justified in in-j
sisting that the prior rights of,
this established industry be re-|
cognized and protected against
damage from new industries,
and they should at once mobilize
tneir forces to defend this posi
ii.”
Washington News Letter
By Will A. Steel
The bill introduced in the
House by Delegate Wickersham
to repeal the Alaska Bone Dry
Law, which conflicts with the
Volstead Act, was given its se
cond hearing before the Com
mittee on Territories on Feb 2.
A few days ago previous the at
torney for Bishop Cannon pre -
pared a statement and had it
filed with the committee, giving
his objections to the bill of re
peal. These were replied to in
detail by the Delegate at the
meeting, which was also attend
ed by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Presi
dent of the National Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union
and who spoke in opposition to
' the bill, as did also the attorney,
| requiring further explanation
and argument by the Delegate
As some of the members of the
committee could not be present
at the next meeting on Feb. 9th
it was decided to authorize the
Chairman to call a special meet
jing at an opportune time, when
j a vote would be taken on ap
proval or disapproval of the bill.
There has been considerable'
controversy over the office ofj
iFostmaster at Fairbanks during
j the past year, but the general
desire for the reinstatement of
Wilkie T. Pinkerton has been so
convincing that the Department
' has decided to send his name to
the Senate for confirmation
with the next batch of post
' masters.*
Attending the seventh Wo
men’s Patriotic Conference on
National Defense, which ended
Ir. Washington on Feb. 3rd, was
Mrs. Andrew Johnson of Peters
burg, representing the American
legion Auxiliary, and the only
delegate present from Alaska.
Walter Schaffer, who was as
£'Stant to James A. Smiser, Unit
ed States Attorney at Juneau in
1021, and who has been in the!
j service of the United States^
Shipping Board, located at New,
York, recently resigned his posi-,
tion and is now in the general j
practice of law in the city of
Washington.
Delegate Wickersham is send
ing to all the Masonic lodges in
Alaska pictures of George Wash
ington in Masonic regalia. To all
the libraries in the Territory he
is sending a chart reproduced in
colors, of flags used during the
American Revolution, under the
title of “Flags of American, lib
erty.”
* * *
C. F. Johnson, having gradu
ated from Annapolis under ap
pointment from Hon. Guinn
Williams, of Texas, later resigned
and was offered a position with
the International Packing Com
pany with operations in Alaska,
which he still holds. He is now in,
Washington to represent hisj
company in opposition to * the
Welch fisheries bill, which will
have a hearing before the House
Fisheries committee on Feb. 11
The president of the same com
pany, S. Chase, Jr., and A. H
Bradford, president of the As
sociated Fishermen of Alaska,
accompanied by his bride, will
also reach Washington in a few
'days to attend the hearing.
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As the postmaster of Hyda
urg was unfortunate enough to
:et into financial difficulties
here is a vacancy in the office,;
,nd Rev. Samuel G. Davis, has
;een recommended for appoint^
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Secretary, Joseph Jackson
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Visiting members welcome
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Pres., Mrs. Paddy Thomas
Sec., Mrs. William Tamaree
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