And also to remind the reader
it is almost time for the plund
erbund to begin scaring voters
away with the wail that we
should not scare capital away.
If the truth would be known
by Alaskans—it is the bureaus
which diive away capital and
labor also.
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TURNING BACK THE
PAGES OF HISTORY
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“Fifteen years ago the people
of Ketchikan were interested in
building up a permanent fishery
population in Alaska. In a Grand
Jury report, dated Ketchikan,
November 2, 1911, the following
paragraph was contained:
“We earnestly recommend that
the law be so amefided as to ab- i
solutely prohibit aliens, whether!
as laborers or otherwise, from j
drawing or assisting in drawing:
fish from the waters of Alaska.” |
In spite of that recommenda- j
tion twenty-two years ago, the j
policy of importing alien laborers >
and fishermen has not been
changed one bit—except to bring
in more of them. And because of
this policy, Alaska is made the
goat—like it or not.
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ABOUT TAXES IN 1926
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One of the Republican candi
dates for election to the terri
torial Legislature in 1926 declar
ed in his speeches:
“At the last session of the
Legislature the Republican mem
bers from the First Division
sought unsuccessfully to bring
about a policy of retrenchment
in appropriations and a reduc
tion in taxes. The present Re
publican Legislative nominees
believe that the time has arrived
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when relief from matty Terri
torial taxes should be given the
people, and they will, if elected,
bend their sincere efforts to se
cure this accomplishment. In
every department of govern
ment—National, State, Terri
torial and City— there is loud
protest against the gradually in
creasing burden of taxation."
At any time there was a sur-1
plus of one mollion dollars in the
Territorial Treasury. This was a1
reserve sum way beyond the re
quirements of Territorial neces
sity.
Since that time the Legislators
have had an orgy of spending
and tax raising. And despite all
effort to the contrary, they made
no change—had no desire to
change. During the last legisla
tive sessions it was pointed out
that the appropriations were j
more than a quarter of a million j
dollars greater than the revenue i
or the Territory and that the
outlook in the fishery industry
was poorer than in many years.
But the appropriations bill was
sent to the Governor for his
signature—he signed it with the
expectation that the increased
revenue bill would also come for
h.'s signature. The controlling
elements of the legislature fool
cd him for they only sent him!
the old revenue bill. The next|
legislature will have a mighty
big job ahead of it to balance a
budget with decreasing revenu
es. Just how it will be done, that
is their problem.
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RASMU SON: REPUBLICAN
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For the first time in the his
tory of the Territory of Alaska,
the Republican party is a unit,
acting under the leadership of a !
'real Republican, E. A. Rasmus
! on.
S The strength of the Democrats
in Alaska has never been in
numerical superiority. On the
contrary, conservative estimates
place the normal Republican
vote at 70 per cent of the total.
But what the Democrats lack in
numbers, they make up in guile,
ballyhoo and buncombe. Through
clever manipulation and foxy
politics, the Bourbons have stir
red up strife in the enemies’
camp to the end that, staunch
Republicans have frequently
awakened on the day after elec
tion to find that they had suc
ceeded in placing their oppon
ents in office.
The new Committeeman, Mi.
Rasmuson, has made an auspic;
ous start. The various dissenting
factions are gathered together
under a united organization, with
a solid front to the enemy.
More power to the party
which had the foresight to put
a real Alaskan plank in its
platform.—Stroller’s Weekly.
THE OBLIGATION
OF THE GOVERNMENT
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Calvin Coolidge, former presi
dent of the United States in a
recent issue of The Saturday
Evening Post, declared:
A large majority of our peo
ple are wage earners. They had
come to enjoy the highest stand
ards of compensation, and there
fore of living, that ever existed
in the world. Their welfare is
Lhe ultimate social obligation of
cur Government. In time of dis
tress they have always been the
first to suffer and heretofore
nave had the least consideration
[The first suspicion of declining
| business has usually been a
signal for drastic reduction of
wages.”
Need we say more about the
obligation of Government to the
resident laborer^ of Alaska?
They have suffered through lack
‘of employment—now the next
'group must suffer. That is a
foregone conclusion. And no
body calls Calvin Coolidge a
“radical” for expressing the very
same sentiment that the editor
cf this paper has asserted for
jthe past several years. But it
should be given greater consid
eration in Alaska than the bang
'ings of the editor of a little
country weekly.
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MARKER TO HONOR DREYFUS
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Forty years ago, Lieut. Alfred
: Dreyfus a Jew, was the central
I figure in a sensational treason
case. After being convicted of
treason this under officer was
sent to the Island where France
held her criminals. The whole
world took interest in the case
and even the United States used
■ its influence to secure the liber
ty of this persecuted Jew. Later
!high French officials confessed
and others committed suicide
following the confession so that
the innocence of Dreyfus was
fully established. Recehtly the
League for Human Rights de
dicated a slab to commemorate
the spot at Port Halibguer.
where he stepped ashore after
serving five years of a life sen
tence on Devil’s Island follow
ing conviction of his alleged
treasonable acts.
For sixteen years Tom Moon
ey, American labor leader has
i>»—--m.9*
been incarcerated in a Californ
ia penitentiary for alleged parti
cipation in the bombing of a
San Francisco Prepardness Pa
rade. A photograph taken at
2:01 p.m., on the day of the
parade, showed the clock hands
at that time, and to one side, a
j man identified as Mooney wat
j cliing the parade from the top
iof the building. Five minutes
| later a bomb exploded more than
a mile away killing sixteen per
sons. Mooney’s defense claimed
the photograph revealed that he
could not have planted the bomb
and made his way to the roof top
before it exploded. Oxman the
Oregon cattleman, it was proven,
was not even in San Francisco
at the time of the explosion al
though he swore that he saw and
recognized Mooney as the man
who placed the bomb on the
street. He was saved from pre
jury conviction by the able
senator from California but
Mooney remains in prison on
that prejured testimony. I
On the 20th of August work -
men destroyed the most import- j
ant bit of testimony in this casef
by taking down the “alibi”
clock on which he based his
claim of innocence. Incidentally,
it is pointed out that this testi
mony was not permitted as evi
dence in the trial.
Perhaps some day, who can
tell, perhaps the American peo
ple will honor Tom Mooney by
placing a slab to commemorate
his persecution and incarcera -
tion in prison for the crime of
opposing the capitalistic oppres
sion of labor. Perhaps a slab will
be erected to honor Mooney and
to commemorate once again the
fundamental guarantee of Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Hap
pmess. Who knows? Even though
America has long since strayed
from actual practice of these
fundamentals, —perhaps— the
people will awaken and to shame
its past history, honor the man
whom they have dishonored for
sixteen years.
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