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BIGOTRY IS TREASON
ThQ “independent” faction In
Territorial politics is trying to
build up a following through fo
menting distinctions and animosi
ties. The slogan of these so-called
Americans is “organization of a
white man’s party.” Control by
means of stirring such hatreds will
retard development of the Terri j
lory more than anything else so,
far attempted. The level of citi j
zenship to which this leadership
has stooped is in keeping only with
its un-American propoganda.
When our government was form
ed our forefathers sought to build
.a government upon the rock of
•freedom. Today attempts are be
ing made to substitute prejudices
for liberty granted us. The most
serious menace to the welfare of
ihe American people today is the
unreasoning prejudices aroused. In
every department of poblic life we
find it a dominating factor.
It is said Governor Smith cannot
bo President because he is a Cath
olic. When President Taft came in-!
to political limelight objections be-|
cause he a Unitarian. On demand
of the men who won the war for
American iudependence, the first
amendment to the Constitution was
adopted asserteing that Congress
“shall make no law respecting the
establishment of religion or pro j
hibiting the free exercise thereof i
find due to the same cause.
Politics has become so warped
and twisted by hates and fears
which have no bearing on actual
problems of government that it is
an institution to be feared. For
gotten is the spirit of freedom and
tolerance without which our gov
ernment could not have been
founded.
In Texas Mrs. M. A. Ferguson be
came governor because she was
heralded as opposed to the Ku Klux
Klan. Not for any especial ability
or worthy administration platform.
Ihe administration of “Ma” Fer
guson probably is the poorest of
any in the history of any in that
State. Racial distrust we find sup
porting religious distrust. The sole
cause of failure of Statesmen to
permanently settle war debts we
find due to the same cause.
Dominated by a class of men de
siring political control for their
own selfish gain; under domination
of such assinine prejudices, we
shut our eyes and ears and forget
how to operate our own minds. So
long as we permit such misunder
standing to smother our faculties,
we are not capable of self-govern
ment.
Many times have these waves ol
racial and religious prejudices be
set the land damning the American
people. Out of them have come no
good. We hate members of other
churches and religions but we con
tinue to preach th$ doctrines of
Jesus Christ.
Participation in the World War
has demonstrated America’s ability
tc take care of herself and to with
stand the efforts of other powers to
destroy her. But injury to America,
and destruction, can come from
within. In many places we find al
leged 100 percent Americans fanat
ically striking at the government
they pretend to serve, through pre
judices.
The foundation stones of our
government are religious liberties
and political independence. Colon
ialists came to the Americas to es
cape religious intolerance of moth
er country. Others have come to
our shores since to escapeeconomic
s’avery and to escape prejudices
and hatreds of Europe.
To make political issues of races
and to stir up animosities is trea
to principles most sacred to our Re
public set forth by our forefathers
It is time thot is given to issues
of benefit to the Territory rather
than to bestir haterd and misun
derstanding.
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BOYLE WITHDRAWS
The withdrawal or Mr. Boyle as
Democratic nominee for delegate to
Congress, formal announcement of
which is contained in telegraphic
advices eceived from Juneau today,
does not come as a surprise. It
merely confirms rumors which have
been in circulation during the last
several months and which have
giown more persistent in recent
weeks as the result of the failure of
Mr. Boyle to take any part in the
campaign or indicate that he might
be expected to become active later
on. The withdrawal will be a dis
appointment to many of Mr.
Boyle’s friends who supported his
candidacy in the primaries and who
stood ready to give him continued
support, but it must be admitted,
oven by his staunchest followers,
that there was small hope to bring
about his election; in view of the
developments since the primary
election, he may be justifld in re
fusing to continue in the race while
many Democrats who should sup
port him have identified them
selves with the independent faction
But there are many who will be
lieve that Mr. Boyle is not the vic
tim of the circumstances he de
scribes but really a party to a poli
tical move which has as its purpose
the strengthening of the candidacy
of the independent candidate.
Whether or not it will have that ef
fect will be disclosed at the polls in
November.—Anchorage Times.
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NO SANCTUARY
Middle-aged, broken in health
and spirit, a man was arrested in
an Indiana village from which he
had fled seventeen years before to
escape trial on a murder charge.
He had wandered to the farthest
corners of this country working un
der an assumed name. Drawn by
loneliness that time could not dis
pel he returned for a sight of his
loved ones.
His the old, old story every fu
gitive can tell—and who has not
been a fugitive real or potential at
come time? Those who run from
the consequences of guilt are few
compared with the many who have
tried to escape the bitterness of
disappointment or humiliation, the
poignancy of grief, only to find that
no one has been able to get away
from himself.— Collier’s Weekly.
While it is impossible to enforce
fishing regulations without work
ing a hardship on vested interests
in many localities we are firmly of
the belief that Assistant Fish Com
missioner O’Malley is endeavoring
to carry out the policy of conser
vation without fear favor. (Hear
Hear). If the fish of Alaska is to
be conserved conservation must be
rigidly enforced. In other words
the way to conserve is to conserve.
"Stroller’s Weekly. Wfth the pre
sent system of conservation in
spite of the fact that not a seine is
operating within thirty miles of
Petersburg Creek less salmon es
capement has been noted this year
under present methods of conserva
tion than when seines operated
more intensively than under the
present farce called conservation.
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Accidents cause losses and other
expenses other than workmen’s
compensation costs, doctor and hos
pital bills. These additional losses
are due to such causes as damaged
materia-ls, injured machinery, labor
turnover and to the disorganization
that naturally follows an accident.
I Beach Combings
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By AHN-KUTTY
It has been said that if there
were no pocket pickers there would
also, be no philanthropists.
“Marquam meets old friends in
Haines and Skagway,” says the
Empire.
This is fine, but for results the
gentleman should meet a whole lot
of new friends.
We shoud like to know whether
Dr. Tigert, U. S. Bureau of Educa
tion Commissioner, is builidng hie
political machine for himself, and
some of his close followers, or is it
another one of those queer stunts?
No, it isn’t a fact that the re
cent blustery and damaging wind
down in the Florida country was
the exhilation of a combination of
real estate and promotion men.
To the sordid plant of money
love grow the flowers of Congres
sional investigation.
Meyer London, former Socialist
Congressman from New York’s East
Side-, is dead. He was feared by the
plunderbund. Putocracy held its
tail between its legs when in his
presence. Big-mitters shied clear
of him. His friends were those of
the working class, and his funeral
brought forth the greatest demon
stration of affection ever witnessed
in New York.
In the death of Robert T. Lin
coin the nation has lost an honor
able and able citizen. Well he serv
ed his country in time of conflict
and in tranquility. Withal and
seemingly strange, he never ad
vanced beyond the shadow of his
father, the late President Abraham
Uncoln. Great parental respect was
a background that no one explored
nor many thought of, and the dis
tant and somewhat lonely trail he
followed in life was blazed more
t» rough weeping willow than stur
dy oak and on sun flecked field.
Years ago, to reach those ports
oft the line of steamship travel one
had to go by canoe or small sail
boat. There was always consider
able risk and progress was slow
The motor boat has shelved the
crafts of paddles and canvas. Still
when one sizes up the odd and di
minutive gas engined things on
passenger and mail runs here and
there on the turbulent strait and
sound, he can’t help but ask: Has
the risk decreased? Is it safer to
travel today than yesterday? Ap
parently, the average gas mail
boat and Safety First are strangers
One of the smelly stunts of this
administration was the firing of
Capt. Crowly, head of the Emergen
cy Fleet Corporation. The Cool-j
idge majority of the U. S. Shipping!
Board didn’t like Crowly because
1 the said Cowly had so managd af
fairs that the government merchant
marine was really becoming useful
and on a fair run to make money.
This would never do. Making money
out of anything is a privilege only
: of the plunderbund. This bunch of
j financial pirates has ordained that
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the merchant marine fleet must be
given over to them for little or
nothing and,, unless there’s a big
holler made by all of just ordinary
folk, we’ll have no ships. Through
Crowly’s efforts the Dollar family
of steamship owners had to pay a
third more for the goverment ves-!
sols, they recently purchased, than
they originally bid. This was ter
rible—for the gouging aggregation.
The money lords dug up, scraped
up and piled up anything they
to hinder successful maanagement
and operation of the railrroads
during the war. They are hellbent
on the destruction of the Alaska
railroad as a government institu
tion. They want it. They are af
ter it, and if we don’t do a lot of
squealing and a deal or work ourj
road will go as goes the merchant
fleet. Our boats and roads are
managed by a lot of its friends.
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