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SLUSH FUNDS
Senator James A. Reed, of Mis
souri, chairman of the primary
election “slush fund” investigating
committee has announced that he
will not be a candidate for reelec
tion to the Senate in 1928. He has
served for eighteen yars and de
sires to resume the more lucrative
law practise.
Too bad men of the calibre of Mr.
Reed are not in position to put light
of day on the “slush funds” of Alas
ka. The Honorable Griggsby of
Ketchikan at $500. per month until
after the fall election. Friend
white "Stroller” as campaign man
ager in the Juneau districts to get
more for recopying the Indian com
plex from the pen of a drunken edit
or; Charley Carter who failed to
land a job as deputy marshal gets
a sop of $250. a month. The Em
pire of course is an elimoosinary
institution and all the advertising
the “independents” are geting is be
cause the “Johnny Walker” brand
1 elieves in principal and less of
principle. The expense of the “lily
white” “independents” (?) will run
into figures that proportionately yill
make the Pennsylvania primary
look like a piker.
“Contributions” in some instances
have been declared to be blackmail.
Bat then why should such little
matters be of interest to a gullible
public. For god and “country” in
the press but the splitting of the
swag is always behind closed doors.
But closed doors are not enough to
hide an editor who gets so damnably
pifflicated as to fall of his chair and
unable to get back on to the chair. ^
That part, even at that, might be
overlooked for the “sanctity of the
ballot box.”
As Americans we live and as Am
ericans we participate in the affairs
of government. The right to dictate
government is not that of Canadians
who secure citizenship on the evi
dence of dead men, or of men whose
shady records are halitosis to de
cent citizenship. But such is the
v/ay of political parties in Alaska
whose whole creed is hate and dom
ination through their own particu
lar brand of politics. Perhaps, if
we had a few Jim Reeds in Alaska
the brazen affrontery of peddlers of
slush funds would be more circum
spect in their advertising of salar
ies of campaign danagers and other
henchmen and perhaps the cam
paign insofar as certain newspapers
in Alaska would be much less en
thusiastic.
\WE WANT NO MUSSOLINI
In a Labor Day address at Madi
son, Wisconsin, Secretray Frank
Morrison of the American Federa
tion of Labor said:
“The insidious attacks on the le
gislative branch of our government
is a stab at the heart of democracy.
Note the slurs at Congress by news
papers whose record is 100 percent
defense of privilege. Note the at
tempt to picture the Senate as a
do-nothing, talkative body. This
n the hope that a free forum will be
changed to a controlled machine
where legislation can be jammed
through at the will of the few, and
where open discussion will be limit
ed, as in the House of Representa
tives during the last session.
“TheMussolini idea of government
—or lack of government—is de
fended in the interest of efficiency.
There is no question that it will be
efficient as far as privilege is con
cerned, and that the few can satisfy
their wants because the people will
not be permitted to be informed.
“The man who slurs our Congress
insults the American people. Our
national Representatives and Sena
tors reflect, as a rule, the prevailing
sentiment of their constituents. If
the people sleep on their rights, if
the spirit of democracy is dead in
any constituency, we invariably find
that the Representative or the Sen
ator is a spokesman for privilege,
and that he can be found associated
with every dark and questionable
transaction in the national law-mak
ing branch.
“If on the contrary, the people of
a constituency are alert to the value
of their franchise, if they insist on
forming their own opinions, and are
not bound by narrow, political ties,
if they refuse to accept a false pro
poganda and manufactured senti
ment, the average rule is that the
representatives of those citizens also
reflect their views.”
(Read that again and apply it to
the so-called independent party and
see if the “Mussolini idea of govern
ment” is not the idea that they have
entirely. Representative of the peo
ple—The Bank of Alaska, The Bank
of Petersburg, First National Bank
of Juneau, allied Insurance, and in
sured canneries. Representatives
of privilege would be more like it.
LABOR WINS ELECTION
IN CALIFORNIA
When Governor Friend W. Rich
ardson of California was defeated
ts candidate for renomination in the
Republican primary election recent
ly , it was due to the solid support
t iven his opponent, Lieutenant Gov
ernor C. C. Young, by organized la
bor of that State.
During his entire term of office
Governor Richardson was a bitted
toe of organized labor. Measures
for the betterment of labor condi
tions, sponsored by organized labor
were vetoed in every case by Gov.
Richardson.
Such is the history of the men of
the alleged “independent” party in
Alaska. It has been said that Tom
Marquam stood up with other strike
breakers and helped shoot down fel
low laborers in the railroad strike
on the old Copper River line. Aand
now poses as a friend of labor.
DAN SPEAKS AT ANCHORAGE
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The subsidized press would have
the public believe that the divisions
to the westward are all “flocking”
(lord fotbid) to the “standard” of
Tom Marquam. Occasionally some
of the papers cannot refrain from
telling the truth. We report wrhere
the Anchorage Times slipped up:
A hearty applause greeted Dan
Sutherland, Territorial Delegate to
Congress, when he stepped forward
on the platform to begin his talk.
With a story to illustrate his point
he told that brevity is very essential
in opening of congressional sessions
by the chaplain and that brevity
was also an essential in the giving i
cL talks at county fairs.” His talk
being fitted to the occasion and hav
ing no political bearing at the mo
ment. A meeting later was to be
given at which time tie would give
an account of his stewardship.
VOMEN VOTERS TRICKED
During the last parliamentary ses
sion in Italy, the story is told, the
dictators publicity .bureau spread
the information over the world that
Mussolini had enfranchised the wo
en. An examination of the decree
showed it was full of “jokers.” As
a matter of fact it granted to a lim
ited number of Italian women the
right to vote in municipal elections.
Now, before .they, have had a
rhance to cast a ballot, they are to
he deprived of even that poor pri
vilege. A fascist decree was issued
recently abolishing all municipal
elections.
Under this scheme, the dictator
will name the rulers of every city
town and village in Italy.
The dictators of Alaska, hench
men of the Fish Barons of Seattle,
Chicago and San Francisco would j
institute just such an institution if
they could get away with it. The In- j
dian war scare they are trying to j
resurrect is a sample of attempt to |
destroy the right of election no bet
tor than the decree of the dictator
of Italy.
OBSERVATIONS
BY WILL A. STEEL
WHERE DUTY RESTS
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Secretary of Commerce Herbert j
Hoover made quite a hit at the Se~ j
attle Stadium on the evening of 1
August 21. He emphatically endors-J
ed the Columbia River irrigation j
project, before an audience of 6,000,. j
and incidentally he paid a high tri- •
bute to the worth and leadership of ]
Senator Wesley L. Jones, who intro-j
duced the speaker of the evening. j
The Secretary stressed one point. :
that was particularly encouraging ]
to an Alaskan Republican Senatorial !
iiominee, who strongly favors coor- ;
dination and believes that Territori- I
al affairs should be administered b>r
elective Alaskans and not by Fed
eral officials responsible only to pro
tect Washington. After declaring
that the regulation of utility rates
to protect the public is responsibil
ity of the State * governments, sec
retary Hoover said:
“Coordinate federal, state and lo
cal governments and private inter
ests—in the program for the full
utilization of the waters of the na
tion's rivers, streams and lakes, for
irrigation, power, navigation and.
flood control.”
While he did not express the thot
io the same words, he sought to
convey the idea expressed by Presi
dent Coolidge at Williamsburg, Va...
on May 15. when he said: “The
federal government ought to resist
the tendency to be loaded up with
unties which the states should per
form. It does not follow that be
cause something ought to be done
the national government ought to
do it.”
And so in Alaska the duties and
privileges extended by Congress to
*he Territories ought not to be turn
ed back to federal officials thru Leg
islative action. Whg ask for more
“Home Rule”, when we don’t per
form the duties now imposed on us?
If the Republican nominees in the
F:'rst Division are elected they will
advance every principle of “Home
Rule.” They wll follow the in
junction of the President who fur
ther said: “The states should not
be induced by coertion or favor to
surrender the management of their
own affairs.” Substitute “Terri
tory” for “States” and we have a
c;rect mandate from President Cool
idge not to shunt duties on to Fed
eral officials, who are appointed for
other purposes.
In Salt Lakei City I met a friend
who expressed indignant surprise
that the Indians—90 percent illiter
ate—were permitted to vote in Alas
ka. And he rather thought the gov
ernment was making a signal mis
take in appropriating four to five
(hundred thousand dollars a year
Tor the education of the Natives,
when such little good was accom
plished.
Endeavoring to convince him of
his own collossal mistake with re
ference to illiteracy, and asserting
that over 90 percent, of the 800 Na
tives who voted in the Frst Division
a*-e educated and well qualified to
exercise the privilege the govern
ment acorda them, he insisted on
differing with me. Then he produced
as his authority a cop»y of a report
made last March, by Chairman Cur
ry of the Territories Committee, in
the House, on the Alaska bill. And
this startling and most unbelievable
statement that he read:
“Your committee is Informed in
a telegram from Mayor J. J. Con
nors and Mr. Shattuck, president of
the Chamber of Commerce of Juneua
that a careful check of the returns
of the 1924 general election showed
a minimum jof 1,100 Indian votes in'
that jndiciail division, and that 90
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