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DREDGING FOR MUD OR MONEY?
There is a report out that had the
Alaska Steamship Company and the
Admiral Line Steamship Company
been willing to dig up a certain sum
per boat per voyage for the benefit
of the coffers of the dredging com
pany now working in the Narrows,
there would have been no delays,
nor failures to call, at Petersburg
since the dredging has been in pro
gress.
It is reported, farther, that the
Canadian Pacific Lines were willing
to pay the dredge company toll, but
the other lines demurred with tin;
declaration that if the Narrows
could be opened any time for price,
it could be opened for transporta
tion free.
It is said that the toll, per boat,
was a three figure sum and amount
ed to nothing, more or less, than
a hold-up.
From this it appears that the big
mitt proclivities of a private com
pany on a public job have caused
a deal of inconvenience all around
The Government engineers con
nected with the improvements have
proclaimed repeatedly that the Nar
rows were closed unless at occasion
al times when actual dredging was
n’t going on and they gave notice
accordingly that the water way was
open and safe.
Apparently, the dredging outfit
didn’t think this official closing no
tice binding on it if there was any
one willing to pay to get through.
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PROPERTY WANING
We don't have to be told that
times aren't as flush as they were
Locally, we thought that, perhaps,
the salmon failure had a whole lot ,
to do with the general tightness of !
things, but this isn’t altogether so.
In the States there are bread lines,
there is a wide spread pinching erf j
everything financial and a slowing j
down of industry. It isn’t the poli- |
cv of the press of the States to bal
ly-hoo any downward tendency in
trade, in labor conditions, in clear
ing house reports and trade de
clines. The press is paid to contin
ually print prosperity with a big
‘ P”. However, what it prints and
what are facts differ widely. Oc
casionally a publication jumps the
traces and blurts out a flare of real
conditions. Here are paragraphs
taken from an editorial in a maga
zine of recent date:
“There are signs in the United
States that business is somewhat
slowing up. Trade generally is on
a smaller scale.’”
“There is not so much building
as there was. Post-war construc
tion needs seem now to have been
fully met.”
“This means that there is less de
mand for all matrials that go into
bjuildingj—sand, gravel^ cement,
stone, bricks, lumber, steel.”
“Goods are being moved in dimin
ishing rather than increasing quan
tities. Railroad loadings^ always
a reliable baramoter of business,
are off.”
“When trade is off, employment
is off. Wages are lower, and wage
earners haven’t so much money to
spend. When less money is speny
trade declines.”
“It is a kind of circle. The situ
ation turns in upon itself and makes
itself worse. If this went on to a
logical conclusion all human activi
ty would cease.”
“Such an idea is, of course, ab
surd. Things don”t go on in the
same way indefinitely. But the
thought emphasizes what everybody
knows—that the hand of destiny
sometimes needs a bit of guiding.”
Then going on and taking up what
the editor calls a “helpful influence”
to tide over these panics there is
this:
( “There ought to be more roads
j and wider roads. Get into the
Sunday afternoon line on any main
highway, if you don’t believe it.”
I ‘‘The same is true of many court
I try roads. If (he governments will,
| (hoy can not only meet an acute
need, but they can do a lot to check
what looks like a recession of good
I times.”
“Another aspect of the same thing
i is water transport. We haven’t
i,
| been doing much about that. The
governments could confer a vast
benelit on the country by increasing
I the usefulness of our navigabl riv
I ers.
“People who cry, “Cut taxes
; whatever you do,” don’t find an
j echo in this editorial mind. Tf cut
, ting taxes keeps people out of work,
i it is the same old circle again.”
A\ hen private work slacks up,
i public labor should increase. Then,
j when employment picks up and pri
i vate industry is calling, public works
I should be slowed down.”
I “Intelligent and progressive gov
ernments could thus put into effect
la kind of reservoir of labor.”
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BACK TO OCR OWN
The National Society to Restore
| Representative Government is out
with a printed pamphlet and states
its objects as follows: “To re-in
carnate the spirit of Our Republic
in the hearts and minds of the ci
tizens of the United States, that the
Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves
and to Our Posterity may be pre
served, and that representative gov
ernment shall not be submerged in
centralized autocracy.
..Here are excerptc: .“The stu
dents of government and observers
of current events well know that the
I'nited States, as administered, is
bureaucratic and autocratic.”
The Society ‘‘will conduct no radi
cal destructive movement, but an
educational program in the cardinal
principles of our government. Its
supreme purpose will be to awaken
t he citizens of this country to a deep
er sense of their individual respons
ibility alike to State and National |
government; to the realization of
the impending danger of representa
tive government, being submerged
by subtle encroachments of fed
oral bureaucracy and executive
usurpation of power, which are an
nihilating individual rights as the
people are becoming more and more
SUBMISSIVELY INDIFFERENT; to
correct and check the tendency of
Congress to surrender powers to ex
ecutive bureaus conferring upon
them the power to make regulations
which have the effect of laws, and
leaving them to construe and inter
pret their powers, which primarily
is the cause of the growing evil of
bureaucracy.”* * * * * * * * * *
The Society ‘‘will endeavor to
arouse public opposition to the dis- (
creditable practice of police author- t
ities throughout the United States (
of the so-called third degree, which L
is but the recrudescense of the Span
ish Inquisition of the Middle Ages,
and which has been condemned re- c
peatedly by the courts, both Fed- ]
E:ral and State, but is tolerated and
continued.”
1
‘‘It will protest against the tol- (
crance of public officers using their t
?uns when attempting to apprehend l
persons whom they suspect of violat- (
ng law, often to the peril of life t
md limb of innocent bystanders, l
which practice is without legal jus- t
ification and is reducing law ad- l
ministration to a state of warfare *
setween suspected persons and po- c
ice officials, and against the same r
luthorities violating constitution- t
il rights in the arrest and deten- t
ion of persons, and in search and e
seizure of premises, without law
mi warrant first obtained; and af- c
:er arrest and detention, exercising c
judicial functions to release the ar
rested person, without preferring
charges before the court, and in
permitting them to appear, when
bound over, if they forfeit cash
bonds, without further effort to re
arrest and bring them to trial.”
-‘‘Notwithstanding the (Fourth
Amendment to the Constitution ex
pressly provides that: The right of
the people to be secure in their per
sons, houses, papers and effects,
shall not be violated, and no war
rants shall issue, but on probable
cause, supported by oath and affirm
ation, and particularly describing
the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized; and
notwithstanding the Supreme Court j
of the United States has emphatical
ly held that: No law of Congress
can place in the hands of officials of
the Postal Service any authority
to invade the secrecy of letters and
such sealed packages in the mail,
and all regulations adopted as to
mail matter of this kind must be in
subordination of the great principle
embodied in the Fourth Amend
ment.” (90-U. S. 733).
“The fact is well, if not generally
known, that Government secret ser
vice men are given by Government
executives the authority to enter
any post office, call for the mail of
any one, open it, take photostatic
copies, then reseal the letters so
that the person to whom addressee
shall not be the wiser.”
“If public opinion is not aroused
to demand cessation of this wrong
ful practice, the lawless evil will
continue, the secrecy of the mails
a sham pretense, and another right
of the people guaranteed by the
Constitution be crushed under the
heel of autocracy.”
Local Self Government. Every
community, city, county, district and
state, or other subdivision of the
United States, is entitled to enjoy
what the late President Wilson apt
ly defined as “Self Determination,”
each within its own sphere of ac
tion. But until the people of this
nation realize the dangerous tend
ency, instigated by would be re
formers, regulators and modernized
regenerators of heaven and earth, to
centralize matters of state concern
in Federal bureaus at Washington,
the time honored principle of self
governing communities upon which
English and American liberty have
been based will be discarded and
autocracy will take into its hands
the reigns of government.”
The Society “will try to so arouse
the people to the increasing dangers
of this bureaucracy that they will
demand of our legislators the elim
ination and curtailment of these
bureaus, whether in military, na
val, financial or other departments,
and to reduce the authority con
ferred upon and by them arrogated
in order that our Government may
be conducted as was originally in
tended in spirit and in fact for all
the people, and not at the arbitrary
will and autocratic spirit of official
incubents.”
“The Constitution of the United
States confers upon Congress the
exclusive power to: Coin money,
’egulate the value thereof and of'
’oreign coin, and the Supreme Court
)f the United States has held in
he legal tender cases that the pow
?r extends to making Treasury notes
)f the United States legal tender in
he payment of private debts in time
)f peace as in time of war; but while
he Congress may continue the coin
tge of metal, the power to issue and
egulate legal-tender notes has been
urrendered to the Federal Rserve
Sank, which claims to be a PRI
VATE BANK with the government
nerely as a stock holder, and the
lirectors of it have power to con
ract or limit the currency of the
Tnited States, limit or extend cre
lit to member banks, who, subjected
o its supervision and influence, will
imit or extend credit to their pa
rons. Whether the power be wise
y or unwisely exercised—and its
xercise in instances has been the
ubject of bitter controversy—it
narks the passing of the control of
he currency of the people from
hir representatives in Congress to
financial oligarchy of Bankers.”
“It has been said that they who
ontrol its currency can control the j
lestiny of a nation.”
"It will arouse apprenhension of
all patriots to reflect that here re
cently there have been held at the
seat of our government secret, deep
and dark, conferences between the
heads of the Bank of England,
France, Germany and the Federal
Reserve Bank, which necessarily in
volves the finances, credits and cur
rency of this country. It is unhesi
tatingly asserted by Mr. William
Hard, prominent newspaper writer
of national standing, in the Wash
ington Star, issue of July 10th, that
apart from the discussion by the
conference of the gold reserves of
the four countries, the money ex
change movements betwen them, the
financial assets of each, and the
joinder of the four in the mainten
ance of the gold standard, the most
important subject considered wa3
their power, to influence the gener
al trend of the prices of commodi
ties and thus to help to raise the
apparent cost of living, for the hun
dreds of millions of citizens of the
four outstanding leading countries
of the world.
"What becomes of our far famed
policy of PITILESS PUBLICITY
when such deep and dark conferenc
es. as Mr. Hard denotes them, may
be held as to matters of vast im
portance to our people?”
"It is not alone to the Federal
Reserve Bank that Congress has
surrendered the power of legisla
tion, which the constitution conferr
ed upon that body, but it has sur
rendered similar powers to various
bureaus and commissions; like
those of the United States Tariff
Commission with power upon ap
proval of the President to increase
or lower import duties under cer
tain conditions; like the Interstate
Commerce Commission, with vast
powers over railroads; like the Fed
eral Trade Commission, with power
over industrial concerns and limita
tions of their activities; like the
Civil Service Commission, prescrib
ing qualifications for entrance into
government employ, classifying and
rating employees; and other bureas
and commissions, some under and
some not under the Executive De
partments of the Government; and
as they are all given power to make
rules and regulations within the
scope of their conferred powers,
which have the effect of law, the
administration of our government
has become involved and bureau
cratic until persons having busi
ness with it find it necessary to
retain an expert to guide him in his
transactions with his own govern
ment.” I
AND THIS BY THE PEOPLES
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE’
Juneau, Alaska
“There is no section of our coun
try where representative govern
ment is so much in peril of absolute
submergence in centralized auto
cracy as in Alaska.”
“Do you know that Federal Bu
reaus and federal appointed officials
have a strangle hold on the adminis
tration of our territorial govern
ment as well as on Federal affairs?”
“Do you know that control of
your local government has been
handed over to federal appointed of
ficials by your elected legislative re- j
presentatives? Do you know that j
one-half of your members of the |
Alaska House of Representatives in
1925 voted to lessen the power of
the people to select their delegates
to Congress, and the’’’ Attorney
General in an attempt to return to
the old caucus system of nomina
tions and thus place the selection
of candidates with the appointed
officials of the Territory?”
“Do you know that the Attorney
General of Alaska, the only terri
torial official that your representa
tives have permitted the people to
select, has been placed in absolute
control of federal officials? Do you
know that the office was originally
created for the purpose of defend
ing the rights of the Alaska people
in the courts? Do you know that
since the office was created the le
gislature has tied the hands of the
Attorney General until he cannot
act for the people without the con
sent of the federal officials? Do
you know that when the Department
of Commerce undertook to set aside
fishery reservations for the benefit
of a few corporations, the Attorney
General could not act in defense of
the rights of the people in the
courts because the Governor of the
Territory would not permit him to
do so?”
“Do you know that all territorial
appropriations for the construction
of roads are controlled by federal
officials, and that all allotments of
road funds are made by thees offi
cials?”
‘‘Do you know that the territorial
road engineer whose salary and ex
penses are paid by the territory, is
selected by federal officials, and that
he is responsible in the spending of
YOUR MONEY to these officials on
ly?”
‘‘Do you know that an aged resi
dent of Alaska cannot be admitteu
to the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka ex
cept by permission of federal offi
cials.? Do you know that the
Trustees of the Home are respons
ible to federal officials only? They
receive their appointment from fed
eral officials and neither the people
of the Territory nor their represent
atives have any voice in the selec
tion. An aged Alaskan cannot re
ceive a pension except by consent
of federal officials.”
Now good folk, since you have
given this the once over, what do
you think of it? May be we’ll gpt
some relief—some time—from bu
reaucratic rule since we know that
the people of the States are getting
mighy tired of it. Still, it is all tip
to YOU.
NOT A CITIZEN
Unitd States, Appellant vs. Am
brose Javier. No. 454 3. Court of Ap
peals of the District of Columbia.
Held: That a native-born Fili
pino, not being a ‘‘free white- per
son” or of African nativity and njot
having served in the United Statjes
Navy, Marine Corps or Naval Aujx
iliary Service, is not entitled to na
turalization and the court herei
decides that his certificate of nati^T
alization should be canceled.
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