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FOX RANCHES AM) THE NATIVE
Whenever editors Troy and Mor
rissey run out of spleen against the
Natives, and when they see the ne
cessity of giving the race issue a
rest, they manufacture and broad
cast a falsehood by stating that the
Natives wish to destroy and oppose
all fox ranches. What is principle
to such men when the matter of get
ting votes is at stake? However
such falsehoods are in general keep
ing with the policies of their papers,
therefore most of the thinking pub
lic do not take them seriously. In a
recent issue of the Chronicle there
appeared an article stating that a
bill had passed Congress providing
broader leasing privileges for the
fox rancher. The article was closed
with the statement that the Alaska
Native Brotherhood with Delegate
Sutherland opposed the bill. We
declare this a deliberate lie with
malice aforethought. Such state
ments can emanate only from an ac
credited membership in the famous
ivnnanias uiud.
The Natives have opposed fly-by
night speculators who took up is
lands only for the purpose of turn
over and many of them did not even
put stock on said islands. They per
jured themselves when they declar
ed that the island was not used or
occupied by Indians. They secured
leases to the islands and with the
power of the Forestry Department
behind them they tore up cabins
and garden spots. Not one but sev
eral in the Ketchikan district and
on the West Coast of Prince of
Wales. White trollers after anchor
ing have been ordered out of
the bay; a wrecked halibut crew
was ordered off an island when they
could not man the only dory they
had saved. Men have not been per
mitted to land on certain islands
to get wood and water. Even mur
der has been committted.
i nese are the men and methods
that have been condemned and it is
only right that they should be con
demned.
Not all ranchers have been high
handed. Many a courtesy has been
extended troller a,nd trapper by men
who have invested their all in the
Territory. These bona fide invest
ors have made friends of both White
and Native but they have had to
hear the stigma brought upon the
industry by the selfish and unprin
cipled. These good men have done
much to eradicate hard feelings and
and misunderstandings. They have
the sympathy and help of the native.
Now the call comes for the re
moval of some of the burdensome
taxes that this infant industry has
to bear. We are for the removal of
. said taxes. The effort will be made
to have these restrictions removed.
We make no promises for the can
didates on the republican ticket
whom we support but we believe
that they are representative Ameri
cans and that they believe in being
fair and just in matters needing ad
justment.* ’ |
In the meantime, we wonder, if
the editors of the political junkers
lepresenting an aellged indpendent
ticket will correct their misrepre
sentations through their columns.
Frankly we do not believe they have
sufficient calibre to do so.
» WE STEP OUT
With this issue of the Alaskan
we sever all connections. Being em
ployed by the U. S. Bureau of Edu
cation as teacher of their school in
Petersburg we are precluded, as are
all Federal employees from draw
ing salary from civilian labor while I
in the employ of the Government, i
Our connection with this paper
has been short and sweet. Starting
without the price of a postage t
stamp when the Board of Directors c
were scattered from one end of the
division to the other, we somehow
managed to worry our way through
the myriad of bills entailed in
tearing down, packing up shipping,
and up setting up the plant here
and in spite of all obstacles we have
lublished as we saw our best.
We have carried out our end of
the work and will now retire to
ti e staid occupation of pounding a
little education and information into
the willing heads of the little ones.
Perhaps however, we will only
say au revoir for when pertinent
subjects come up we will express
ourselves. In the meantime we take
rhis opportunity of expressing to
friends who have supported us and
cneered up the dark days, our sin
cere appreciation of their good will, j
In the meantime the Alaskan will
continue notwithstanding our press
agent to the contrary.
Louis F. Paul
. READ YOUR CONSTITUTION .
Most of us speak highly of the
Constitution. Few of us ever read
It. A year ago the national elec
tion turned largely on the fear of
changes in it. It is safe to say that
09 out of every 100 voters did not
know what they were voting about.
Many of us do not know what
our scheme of government is. Too
many of our legislators, nuslly turn
ing the handles of the law making
machines, do not know and do not
care whether their brain children
have a legitimate place in the Am
erican scheme. Many officeholders,
earnestly fattening their jobs, do
not know anything about the mean
ing of free government.
The chief purpose of the Consti
tution originally was the protection
?f human rights and individual free
lorn.
Today the federal government is
uusy aoing tnings ruK Us
and doing things TO US. It is a
great and costly service agency en
gaged in about twenty-five thou
sand separate and distinct occupa
tions,. It spends every year billions
of dollars and. it has to spread them
pretty thin to cover all tasks that
enthusiasts, cranks and selfish inter
ests discover it.ill
And while trying to help us with
« re hand, the eovernmem is spank
us with the other. » giess has
passed about fifty thousand laws. No
one could enforce them all. The
desk of every federal attorney i<?
jammed with cases which he eould
rot prepare and bring to trial if he
held office for fifty years. And the
citizen goes his way daily wonder
ing what laws he is breaking.
The debate over States rights is
iivlier than ever. The dread of cen
tralized power stalks abroad. One
group cries out that we are suffer
ing from “government by the
courts.” Another replies that the
courts are our only bulwarks of
Americanism.
There should be no rush and sud
den changes in our system, but we
know that changes must and will
be made. Unless a majority of the
leople know what it is all about
we shall go on prescribing cures
which are worse than the diseases
to be remedied.
Every officeholder takes an oath
to “defend the Constitution.” Ci
tizenship carries the same obliga
tion. How can we defend it if we
lon’t know what it is? Read your
Constitution. -Exchange
The Navy seaplane finally made g
he trip from Seattle to San Diego S
rithout mishap last week.
Try John Fanning for Arch Sa
er Shoes for men, women and chil
dren. First class hosery on hand.
Beach Combings
By AHN-KUTTY
THE HILLS
High up they tower above the mist
in picturesque array;
At sunrise, clear-cut amethyst;
At twilight, purple gray;
I walk in them,
I talk to them
And pay.
God must have loved, to thus create
Such beauty for us here;
T cannot look on them ajid hate,
Nor walk in them and fear;
I want them more,
I haunt them more
Each year.
I think that God, when He did see
These hills which he had made,
Must then have blessed each gra
cious tree;
Each bit of sun and shade;
Each towering crest,
Each flowering crest
And glade.
Some sing of plain or storm-tossed
sea;
T. sing of His green hills;
'I hey whisper sweetest thoughts to
me,
My heart with gladness thrills;
It learns of Him,
It yearns of him—
And stills.
-J. E. Paxton.
"‘If Great Britain went to war
'vith the United States, Canada
would of course, stick to the Unit
ed States. Thusly declared Leon
Tootzky, the great Red Army build
er of Russia. Many of Trotzky’s
prophecies have worked out mar
velously correct. Some of his fore
casts, on the other hand, haven’t I
panned out so accurately. We don’t
Know how this particuelar predic- 4
tion would shape itself, but we do *i
know that there’d be an awful pull *i
at our heart strings, in case of such j
a conflict, to find our very close and !)
agreeable neighbor rallying under 3
he banner of the Cross of St.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, in
m address before the biennial con
vention of the General Federation
of Women’s Clubs, in Atlantic City,
for the ratification of the Child-La
bor Amendment, said in part:
“It is the natural right of all
children to be free from bodily
toil and crushing discipline*. It is
inhuman to take a child from it’s
mother’s care, love and protection
and place it by a hazardous piece
of machinery to perform manual la
bor. It is criminal to maim and
cripple these little ones. It is a sin
against Heaven to earn a profit
irom the fatigue of an undeveloped,
undernourished girl or boy.” All
of which is very good and absolute
ly true, but there are task masters
who won’t pay any attention to any
addresses of William Green or to
the adoption of resolutions of
Women’s Clubs, until they just have
to. And in the meantime two mil
lions of children, between the ages
of ten and fiifteen years are numb
ing soul and body on the treadmill
of sordid commercialism and we
call ourselves “civilized.”
No more dry rubber nipples, no
more baby pacifiers, no more sugar
teats in France.. That’s settled by
the Legislators of France. That
country can gleefully heave chunks
of street litter at American visitors
it can work itself into a frenzy over
war debts, but the little pacifier
must go and stay gone. Getting un
der the hysterical hide of the
French-man we find out, that in a
moment of calm consideration, it
was conclusively proven that the
poor imitations of the natural
breast caused adenoids. Rous mit
em,
Improvement in standards ' of
teacher training throughout the
United States was referred to by
Dr John J. Tygert. United States
Commissioner of Education, a one
of the outstanding impressions re
ceived from his recent tour of sum
mer teacher training institutions in
the West.
Dr. Tigert declared that the
teaching profession has more well
trained members today than ever
before. He stated that, in his opin
ion, improved state regulations re
garding salaries and minimum re
quirements as to number of years
one must attend school before being
granted a teachers’ certificate are
largely responsible for the advanc
ed condition.
Fresh strawberry short cake
lots of whipped cream at the Totem
Pole. i
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40 ft. 25 h. p. Standard engine Bids
will be received up to and including Sept.
30th. 1926 The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids
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Port Beauclerc Alaska
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HEALTH RESORT
Rate $3.00 per
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ALASKA CAFE
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Meals at all Hours
Good Services, Fair Prices
We Solicit Your Trade
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H Reasonable Rates
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EYESIGHT SPECIALIST
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
Home Service Mending
of Laundered Goods
We give full value for your
money.
H. OYAMA, pro.
SKYMAN'S
Barber and Beauty Shoppe
Busy all the time.
There’s a reason why
Opposite Post Office
Built
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