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More thought is given the pre
servation oi a chair in wnich
Jefferson Davis sat than in the
preservation of the principles of
government set forth by Thomas
Jefferson. The American people
are drifting so far away from
those principles of liberty, jus
tice and right for which their
forefathers died that it is be
coming a joke even among
themselves.
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’TWAS ALWAYS SO
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The Juneau Empire, Stroller’s
Weekly, the Hocus Pocos By-par
tizan party and the Federal Bri
gade are being forced to a show
down at the Legislature at Ju
neau.
In the campaign of last No
vember these political chamele
ons promised the electorate “full
territorial form of government”
and release from the domination
and rachinations of the buric
rats which infest the Territory.
All of them, from the Govern
or down through to the weakest
kneed sister, they are opposed
to any change which will give
control to the people through
election. They oppose the Con
troller Bill and no doubt will kill
it but they are willing to elect
an Auditor, etc. They are all
absolutely in favor of any meas
ure of Home Rule which they
know they can’t get. Some of
them have PECULIAR notions
and our notion of their campaign
pledges can be expressed in a
short and ugly word.
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GOVERNOR FAVORED ITT L
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Governor George A. Parks, in
a statement to Senator Stc ' ex
pressed himself . eel. '
vor of p: .. ■ ■ .
Bill provided the govern
named as one of the Board. He
later expressed the same opinion
to Representatives Winn and Al
len Shattuck.
A «jnange oi tieari
Harry Watson, secretary tc
the governor, jockeyed around
and secured the promise of ten
votes fro rathe House and three
from the Senate for position as
Auditor. The Senate spiked his
ambitions by amending the bill
and eliminating any person con
nected with the federal nayrol'i
less than a year prior to the
passage of the act.
All reports from Juneau now
are that Governor Parks is bend
ing every effort to kill the bill.
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SETTLING THE NARROWS
We have been told that “If the
Foshay interests buy the muni
cipally owned hydro-electric,
they will develop and build up
all along through the Narrows.
How?
. .“Mack” McGiltin secured per
mission from the Forestry hugs
to log in the Narrows for wood
purposes. Incidentally after he
cleared a nice piece of ground,
planted it in seed and cultivat
ed for several years, he asked
the Department to give him title
to forty acres.
They told him it could not be
done. But if he wished he might
make application under the 5
acre tract law. He did. Was then
told permission could not be
granted. Getting rather peev
ed and expressing himself in
no uncertain terms as to what
he thought of the Department.
The forestry representative
then said, “I can have you ar
rested ‘ on a charge of tre s
pass.”
Arrested for attempting to file
on public domain that is not fit
for any purpose—timber, min
eral, manufacturing site or any
thing else other than a home
stead. .
And these ’Buric Rats continue
to MISRULE Alaska.
WHO CAN TELL?
Where do the Forestry officers
administrating the Alaska for
ests get their instructions?
Pending the result of investi
gations of certain charges asked
for by Delegate Sutherland on
behalf of local people and prom
ised by Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine, we are compelled to say,
from Washington. Why then is
Washington so set against any
settlement in Alaska? And also,
; where do the Washington, heads
: of departments get heirt instruc
' tions?
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Do you know that the towns
1 of Southeast AlasKa are missing
j a chance to fix themselves loi
| a future in the matter of Puolic
Parks? The procedure is to file
j for a homestead on the desired
i land—and be a little stubborn in
relinquishing your claims. This
will result in the land being de
clared by the Forestry service
as being set aside for park ana
playground purposes. (See "Pen
ny,” Petersburg Creek.
Every town ought to be able
to rustle up a few public spirit
ed citizens for this purpose. Es
pecially if the parks were named
in their honor. Better step up
now, and avoid the rush.
I or the Juneau “Sports’'
Tush! Tush! Old Top! Why of
course it is of more importance
to have a migratory bird reserve
in the middle of a wilderness
than to have a settler there. Ev
en if it does make a bolshevik
out of a perfectly good citizen
i and violators of the game laws
out of prominent Juneau citi
! zens for whom the Forestry Bu
h/eau did make such a reserva
FREE SPEECH, LTD.
By Forrest Bailey
The tyranny of majorities
majorities works like any other
tyranny. On an assumption ot
infallibility, the majority holds
i given opinion or supports a
given system is no respector of
assenting minorities. It tends
ilways toward the enforcement
>f conformity. The harsher it;
asures to that end. the more
damaging is the effect on the
d; : ties of minorities. It fol
lows that the struggle to main
nin our liberties is a struggle
against preponderant power. In
ociety at large or in smaller
groups it is a struggle for dis
ent and the new idea for the
new or different state of things
as against ancient conformities
and the status quo.
The most significant thing
that has happened in Western
Pennsylvania, apart from the
Brutality of the police, the
breaking up of lawful meetings
of strikers and the restrictions
«n free speech, is the employ
ment of the injunctive process in
behalf of the operating com
panies. The Schoonmaker in
:unction, issued to the Pittsburg
Terming 1 Coal Corporation
makes effective picketing impos
sible. It prohibits the United
Mine Workers from expending
monies to keep families in com
pany houses by paying their
rent, when ejectment proceed
ings are started against them
The Langham injunction, issued
fo the Clearfield Bituminous
Coal Corporation, is similar but
harsher in its restrictions. In
both cases this judge-made law
is based on the theory that to
give support to a coal strike is
to enter into a conspiracy in re
straint of trade. The anti-trade
-monopoly provisions of the
Clayton and Sherman Acts are
thus converted by the sophistry
of judges into a weapon to use
against workers.
A thorough-going radicle her
esy may even prove to be suffi
cient ground, as a certain recent
tragic event has shown, for
sending aliens to the electric
chair without their having fair
opportunity to prove their inno
cence of the crime charged
against them. Monstrous ab
surdities are perpetrated in the
name of patriotism. A small
boy was taken from.the custo
dy of his parents because their
religious tenets forbade him to
salute the flag. A young man
was arrested in New York and
fined by a jocular magistrate
because he failed to take oft' his
hat while the Star Spangled
Banner was being sung in honor
of Colonel Lindbergh.
MY COUNTRY ’TIS OF THEE
SWEET LAND OF —
During the late World War, a
man in Wisconsin was arrested
for saying that “Liberty Bonds
are not pf par value/’ He was
arrested, tried and found guilty.
The judge imposed a fine of
|*$ 1,000 on him. He was permit
j ted to go home to secure money
with which to pay the line. He
returned to the court and hand
ed over a thousand dollars in
Liberty Bonds whereupon the
judge said, “I will take your
bonds but must advise you that
it is insufficient to meet the fine
imposed by this court.” It was
never told that the judge was
arrested for his statement.
DIMOND AND DUNN LIVE UP
TO FEDERAL MACHINE
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Unable, to keep the federal
Political Messenger Boy on the
ob, fc>on.v,ors Diuiond and Dunn,
iOpcnents of “limine Rule and
Pull Territorial Government, in
roduced a bill which puts into
Ae full control of the federal
governor the entire school sys
em of the Territory. Giving
rim power to hire and fire any
Commissioner for ANY reason
regardless of his qualifications.
Putting school boards expend
ng municipal funds under the
eontroi of the Commissioner of
Education and domination Oi. the
’ederal brigade of transitory
•ulers of Alaska whose greatest
nvestment in Alaska is in lead
pencils.
There is not one oit of doubt
hat the aesire of the oiparti
san machine in Juneau is to lire
Breur, successor to the depos
ed Henderson just because he
was not named by the “federal
Democratic machine.” We hold
no brief for Mr. Breur. Know
nothing of his qualifications.
But if he plays fair with the
people of the Territory, he will
leave with more wellwishes of
one electorate man cad Hencier- |
' son. Aside from the wailing j'
\ federal sychophants, Hender- I
| son’s leaving is not bringing so j
many tears from the general <
public. Not so much as the fed- j
5 oral by-Repub-Demo press would 1
‘ iave thought. j
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POWER TRUST LOSES BATTLEj
Hydro won another skirmish
n the “battle of Bruce County,
Ottowa. It is really a struggle
i-o determine whether the Power
Trust or public ownership shall
. dominate that part of the pro
; vince.
1 The Fosliay interests of Min
neapolis represent the trust.
„ They have been endeavoring to
5 grab electric light plants thru
; out Bruce county. Last week’s
i fight was at Southampton and
>! the people, by a vote of 228 to
Jil94, decided to purchase the lo
, j cal plant for $33,000 and become
; j a part of the Hydro.
5 The trust immediately appeal
■ ed to the courts for an injunc
1 tion, but nydro’s supporters are
confident they will not be able
r M.o reverse the people’s decision, j
. j With Southampton in its fold,
■ | the Hydro seems assured of su- j
lr premacy thruout Bruce county.
’ —LABOR, Washington, D. C. i
JOBLESS IN FRANCE, 1955
. Total Is One of the Smallest Re
l corded in Country Since War
J\ . .With Great Britain, Germany
! i and' the- United States all re
r j porting out-of-work armies of
) 1,1)00,000 or more, considerable
! interest is attached to the offi- i
, cial figures of the aggregate
| number of persons unemployed ;
! throughout France on March <
16. ;
The number is now reduced to ;
the amazing low figure of 1,995, «
of whom 264 are women. This is !
one of the smallest totals in the ;
■ history of the post-war industri- ;
' al life of France and is regarded !
as an excellent indication of the ;
: present widespread prosperity. ;
The bulk of unemployed, 1,148, «
were in the Paris district. For !
the Wfeek ended March 16 the ;
number of foreign workers per- •
mitted to enter France was 1,
853, while 550 left the country. -
Editors Note:—The unemploy- •
ed in Alaska alone is greater 1
than the above in spite of the *
great improvement in trans- *
portation which Governor Parks •
says is proof of our prosperity. J
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THERE’S ANOTHER STORY
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The following is being given •;
publicity by Stroller’s Weekly! I]
and is an'interesting sidelight i i
on iou.rnalistic abortion of truth: !*]
MAR.TUAM GIVES STORY TO ]
NEW YORK TIMES j
Prominent Alaskan Now in Wash 5
ington Gives Aviation Inter- j
view to Correspondent. -j
The following special corres- !j
pondence from Washington ap- *
peared in a late issue of the New
York Times:
The airplane, which scorns the
storms and snowbound trails of
winter as well as the unbriaged
rivers of summer, threatens the
supremacy of dog teams as a ma
jor means of transportation in
United States territory up
around the Arctic Circle.
Organized air routes of In
terior Alaska are beseiging the
Postoffice Department for per
mission to bid on equal terms
with other carriers for trans
porting the United States mail
to the far-flung towns and min
ing settlements. (All very worthy
of mention but listen)—A pio
neer enthusiast in Alaska aero
nautics, Thomas A. Marquam,
former mayor of Fairbanks and
for four years governor for Alas
ka of the National Aeronautical
Association, is in Washington,
now to urge the project.
Editor’s Note:—Pears to us
-hat Tom’s visit to Washington
was made after judge of the dis
trict court required him to put
up bond for his appearance be
ore the Court in Washington
or violation of the election laws,
Pears to us that he entered a
'ilea of not guilty and that the
aeronautical part is the child
of his brain to camouflage the
*eal reason for his “visit” to the
United States capitol.
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GIVING AWAV MORE TIMBEE
But Not to Alaskans
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A report from down the coas
says that several hundred thou
•and acres of timber land alon^
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the Alaska Railroad has recently
been assigned by contract with
the government to the Puget
Sound Pulp and Timber Com
pany of Everett, Washington.
The Forestry Bureau,dominat-,
ed by the Timber Kings of the
Coast will continue to give away
timber holdings until there is
nothing to give. The resident
timber men and sawmills will
continue to scratch along under
the worst kind of handicaps and
the overlords continue their
domineering misrule of Alaska
until there are none left to dom
ineer over save the Indian. And
are just so ignorant that they
want to know What’s the matter
with Alaska.
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| WITH THE HEROIC DEAD
A place has been reserved for
I humble Jim Parks in the great
i Valhalla, where America’s dis
: tinguished dead lie. Uncle Jim,
an 84-year-old negro, will be
buried in Arlington National
National Cemetery when he dies.
I There he was born.
| No other man, so the records
i show, outside of the army and
j navy, has been so honored in
| this day and generation. The
i War Department has entered a
formal order that Uncle Jim be
buried in Arlington. His fore
fathers lie there, too.
Uncle Jim’s years are upon
' him, but he may be found almost
any day at his tasks in Arling
ton. He knew the 1100-acre re
; servation when it was an ante
• bellum plantation. He was a
> slave there, the property of
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George Washington. Then he
served Colonel Robert E. Lee.
The burial permit was obtain
ed through the intervention of
Enock A. Chase, a Washington
lawyer.
BEANS HATH MUSIC
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A recent issue of Popular Mech
anics reports that a woman
heard music emanating from a
mess of beans she was stirring
on her kitchen stove. It would
have been possible, says the
writer, in the opinion of engin
eers, for the hot air alone to
have reproduced the music. The
old sourdoughs can now lay off
purchasing radio sets and invest
in a sack of “Alaska strawber
ries.
C. H. Sundmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
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