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•STAND ASIDE, O'MALLEY”
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In the days of Alexander the
Cheat, after he had overridden,
overpowered, conquered and
subdued by the force of mighty
armies, by political intrigue and
by financial manipulations, all
i he peoples of the earth, and ev
en the proudest princes had been
brought under submission to his
will and domination, behold,
Alexander the Great did grieve
end sigh, knowing not how to
amuse himself, since there were
no more world’s to conquer.
And in that land, among the
poorest of the poor, there lived
a sage by the name of Diogenes,
who was known throughout
ihe length and breadth of the
land for his wise philosophy and
hi*s independence of spirit. And
Alexander, who was called “The
Great,” besought of this wise
man how he might further his
game to add to his happiness,
And Diogenes, in rags, gazed
with disdain upon Alexander the
e-pat and answered him, say
ing: “Stand to one side, Alexan
der, you are shading my sun
light.” And the great warrior
responded, “Were I not Alexen
der, I would be Diogenes.”
And it came to pass thereafter
in another great land far to the
westward across the great sea,
that another man named Henry
O'Malley who called himseli
“The Great,” heeding not the
example of Alexander, did seek
by political intrigue and by false
ho J.s and misrepresentations tc
those who sat in the seats of the
mighty, to arrogate unto himseli
and to usurp divine power anc
the right to make laws for the
overriding and overpowering ol
the simple fisherfolk of thal
land.
And although that land was
called a free country and boast
ed of equal opportunity for its
citizens, O’Malley “The Great,’
did issue personal edicts which
vrere called regulations, and
which he sought to justify in
the name of conservation, where
by the taking of fish from the
sea by seines was prohibited and
the taking of fish by traps was
Prohibited unless the traps be
owned by non-residents of that
land and were under the dom
inat'on and control of O’Malley
“The Great.”
And the resident fishermen ol
that land became exceedingly
poor and did clothe themselves
m rags while the operators oi
the sc-calied O’Malley traps
waxed fat. Then did the fish
canon take counsel among them
selves and they were not de
ceived. On a certain day in No
vember, they gathered together
at the voting places in that land
according to the precincts there
of and each and every man did
cast one vote according to his
o\"i judgment and according to
the honesty, sobriety and past
records of those who sought the
favor of the electors, and when
the votes were counted, lo, the
forces of greed and monopoly
hod been licked to a frazzle.
And the people of that land
did prosper exceedingly, for it
was a goodly land, flowing with
milk and honey for all its peo
ple and to spare.
But great was the grief and
shame of O’Malley, who had
caked himself Great, and in
bitter anquish of spirit he ex
claimed, “Could I redeem the
irrevocable past; could I be
aught but Henry O’Malley, the
Discredited king of Alaska, ‘I
would choose to be a simple fish
erman in that Alaska land of
peace and plenty.”
UN-AMERICAN ISSUE
Race enmity is an ugly issue.
It has no place in America poli
tics. It is contrary to the prin
ciples of liberty, freedom and
equality laid down with the
adoption of the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitu
tion of the United States.
It bespeaks the smallness of
the political leadership which
stirs up racial angers and ani
mosities. It shows the poverty
of political issues of the party
which raises such issues.
Its preachment is but a policy
to hold down those who should
be aided and guided into highest
citizenship. It is but the ini
quitous idea of tyrants and
Tories and it has no place in
jthical principles.
It is un-American and it is
conceived only by vengeful spirit
which hopes to gain its political
?nd, for personal aggrandize
ment at any cost.
We challenge any right think
ng citizen and patriot to show
my justification of an issue
vhich stirs only hate, jealousy
: nd animosity: to show that it
s of any benefit to mankind or
o decent citizenship or leads to
igher citizenship.
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
OF 1927
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A number of the legislators of
he 1927 session met in Juneau
md adopted the following plat
orm :
1. Elective Territorial Officials
or all major offices.
2. Separation of Territorial
ffices from federal offices.
3. Equitable taxation.
4. Trap-tax. ba^eri on catch.
i 5. Discriminatory tax on non
esident fishermen.
6. Repeal by Congress of Sec
ion 27 of the Jones Merchant
/larine Act.
A careful study of the Demo
; Tatic platforms or the platforms
ponsored by the Democratic
\nndidates in the past several
ampaigns fails to show any
tanks similar to the above
vhich in a large measure is the
'latform cf the candidates of
he Republican candidates now
before the electors.
Oppose The Platform
The Juneau Empire, official
nouth piece for the Democratic
party has consistently, insis
ently and persistently opposed
election of territorial officials.
This in spite of the fact that
he party, its individual candi
dates and the official mouth
icce always cry for “full” form
f territorial government.”
Tliey have opposed separation
f federal from territorial offices.
Because the patronage of the
system keeps them fat in the
hog troughs of politics.
V/hde they talk of fair taxa
tion they oppose any change in
ihe system which permits the
large mines to operate at a pro
fit before they are subject to any
tax. The net return must show a
profit before they pay the tax to
the Territory. It matters not one
,iota whether a cannery operates
i at a profit or not—they must pay
j their taxes. A great many of the1
.earners would be tickled pink
to pay taxes only after showing
I a net return of profit. This is un
fair and unjust. The tax rolls are
written up by machine politi
cians in the legislature who arej
under the thumb of the mining
interests. And the only interest
that they have is to see that
their corporate interests do not
pay taxes.
Trap-tax based on catch. This
law has been proposed and spon
sored by the Republican legisla
tors. The bigger ihe catch of the
trap the higher the tax rate. The
operation of a trap at a loss!
will mean that that trap will not
pay any tax. The principle is all
right for the big mining in
terests but it is all wrong when
applied to the fishing industry, j
That is why it has met with the!
opposition of the Democratic1
legislators with their me-too re
actionary Republicans.
The discriminatory tax on
non-resident fishermen has
passed to apply on non-resident
trollers. No one can justify this
law when not applied generally.
It is a start and must be made
general. What is good and right
and proper for contral of the
troller—non-resident,—is proper
for the non-resident seiner.
Nor do we ever hear anything
from Grigsby, Ziegler or any of
their co-horts about effort to
repeal the Jones Marine Act
wherein it specifically discrimi
nates against shipment of goods
into Alaska via Canadian ports
on Canadian bottoms.
Under the present law, Sec
tion 27 of the Jones Act, goods
may be billed from eastern or
midwestern ports over Canadian
lines down to Canadian ports on
the Pacific Coast and transport
ed in Canadian bottoms from
those ports to American port'
Section 27 provides that those
same goods may not be shipped
to Alaska in Canadian bottoms.
It is right to ship via Canadian
bottoms to Seattle and Amen.r* *
ports south but all wrong to ship
those same goods north into
Alaska on the same lines.
This is and has been opposed
by the Republican nominees but
never a whisper do we get from
the Troy-Pegues crowd that any
effort will be made by their
crowd to remedy these condi
tions.
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ALBERT DUNDAS
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Last week died in Ketchikan,
Albert Dundas. Born at Metla
katla about forty years ago, he
received his education at Sitka
in the Presbyterian mission
school; later he entered the
Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle,
Penn., under the direction of
that great educator, General R.
H. Pratt. From his short contact
with General Pratt he received
liberal ideas as to the education,
progress and assimilation of the
Indian races which made'it easy
for him to join with the Alaska
Native Brotherhood in its effort
to raise the moral, physical, in
dustrial and political standards
of the Indian peoples of the
Territory.
Last year he attended the con
vention of the Brotherhood at
Haines and it was upon his in
vitation that the Brotherhood
accepted Ketchikan as the next
convention city. The delegates
aw the need of the convention
at Ketchikan as pictured by
Albert. As he entered more into
the spirit of the Brotherhood
work he felt more the impor
tance of that work and regret
ted that he had not joined soon
! er. However, his spirit lives on in
j Ketchil an and from which spirit
I will grew an enthusiasm for the
! work as he had wished and hop
led for while he yet lived.
! Passeth out of the work of the
i Brotherhood another able man
and leader. The loss to his fami
ly, relatives and friends in Ket
chikan is also the loss of the
Brotherhood.
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THE FROG THAT WAS
BOILED TO DEATH
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“In one of the leading univer
sities not long ago, they placed a
live bullfrog in a pan of cold
water. The pan was then placed
:=n a specially arranged heater.
The temperature was increased
gradually so that it took more
than one hour for it to reach the
boiling point. The frog never
moved, and was boiled to death
without knowing it.”
Tiie above paragraph was
taken from The Real American
and is here reprinted to illus
trate t.ie condition on which the
resident Alaskan has found him
self. Alaskans are very much like
his frog. When you come to
consider the fishery situation,
we And that by the extention of
the trap system we are being
slowly boiled to death without
knowing it. We wonder at the
decrease in population and we
wonder at the reason why
Dunn’s and Bradstreet’s shows
so many Alaska business con
cerns are really defunct. i
It seems that the ordinary
citizen will not wake up until he;
is boiled to death. And when hej
does wake up, he will be where j
be does not have to kick. i
The Frog that Kicked
Two frogs fell into a pall of
milk and despite their efforts
were unable to climb out. Rest-!
ing for awhile one said to the j
other; “What’s the use of kick
ing around and wasting all of
our strength. If we keep this up
we will just exhaust ourselves
jand drown. If we just lay still
and float in the milk, some one
will come along and lift us out.”
The other frog said: “You'
may lie around and wait until;
someone picks you up and takes
you out. As for me I am going
to keep on kicking. I might be
able to kick my way out.” So he
'kicked and kicked until he had
churned the milk into butter
which gave him a solid footing;
and he was then able to hop
out. The other fellow just went
to sleep and when he was picked
up he was thrown out onto the
pathway and was crushed by
(some of the cattle going by.
■ Which story represents the
•Indian fishermen who are kick
! ing against the conditions and
; i he other fishermen who are
jafraid to kick. There is a way
| out of the smelly mess but it j
' will come only by kicking.
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THE NON-RESIDENT
FISH TAX
Adolph Ziegler, Democratic
candidate for the Alaska Legis
lature, is now claiming author
ship of the tax on non-resident
trollers. Ziegler wants all the
credit for himself and grants
I none to any other person,
j Senator Benjamin wrote the
hill and sponsored it in the Se
nate. When he was writing up
. the bill he went among the legis
lators to find out just what' their
; sentiment was regarding the tax
!and found that they did noo
want to place a larger tax than
$50. Co he wrote in the bill that
amount. He found so much op
i position to a similar tax on
non-resident seiners that he
: wrote to friends that it would
not be wise to incorporate that
jtax He felt that to secure the
'tax cn non-resident trollers was
a start and did not feel that
I such a start should be jeopar
dised by forcing the opposition
i into a unity that would defeat
’the entire bill.
The bill went to the House
and there Ziegler after seeing
| how matters stood, as a shrewd
political move, amended the bill
i to make it read for $250. instead
of S50.
i The credit should go to Se
jnafor Beniamin who fathered
1 c nd sponsored the bill. Credit
goes to Ziegler for his amend
ment—which he made after he
[ found that the electors favored
(the bill. But Ziegler is not en
titled to any more credit than
i is his due.
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ROBERT SHELDON
OF FAIRBANKS
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In the debate in the legisla
ture of 1S25 on fisheries, Mr.
Sheldon, the Representative
from the Fourth Division, made
a speech, a part of which was
substantially as follows: “When
the snow ceases to fall upon the
mountain tops and when the
snow ceases to melt under the
i warming rays of the sun in the
jTanana Valley, then the fish
I will cease to swim in the Pacific
Ocean bordering the shores oi!
Alaska.”
This so called brainy legislator
speaks in other matters of legis-;
'lation with the cockyness with'
which he approached the fish- j
er as question. Not even O'Mai-j
ley himself dare say that thej
fish of Alaska are not being1
depleted, for the only change
that we have noted in the fish
ery policy is that O’Malley has
made it harder for the fisher
men to get any fish at all.
The Alaskan challenges Mr. ]
O'Malley or any other person to
show wherein the fishermen, re- ]
sident fishermen and small in- -
dividual fishermen have benefit- <
ted by O’Malley policy. We fur- ]
ther challenge anyone to prove 1
that the present system is not a 1
part of the scheme laid down by 1
the packers to eliminate fisher
men out of the game entirely;
and that O’Malley is not aware; 1
of the whole nefarious scheme. ,
HENRY O’MALLEY PROMISES S
TO GIVE CONSIDERATION ]
TO SMALL SEINERS
“It is contemplated to elimi
nate all traps from the heads of j
bays and close certain other 3
areas. It would appear that the
committee has made a great deal
of progress by voluntarily re
moving the traps from the up
per ends of bays, but not out of
the other ends and the narrow
estuaries and islands at the en-;
trances of channels, known to be
frequented by salmon. I shall
accept, in part, what the packers j
have accomplished and shall al-j‘
so go a step farther and ELIMI-1
NATE TRAPS OUT OF ALL
BAYS ESTUARIES AND NAR
ROW CHANNELS in fact this
is the recommendation which I!
transmitted to Washington this!
morning and it is on this basis j
that the regulations for the i
coming year will be prepared.” j
“This plan of eliminating
"raps out of the above mention- j
cd areas will give the small in-j
dividual purse seiners of Alaska
a fair opportunity to make their
livlhcod.***A letter to the Pack
ers Association.
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FOR SALE—CHEAP
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“For Sale 6-room house, Fur
nace, cheap.”
So read an advertisement in
an Alaskan newspaper published
in a prosperous community.
The owner has been a resident
of the Territory for more than
twenty-five years. He is a fish
erman. Regulations by O’Mal
cy have made him afraid to buy
new gear to replace wornout
year in his possession. He does
not want to spend a thousand
dollars for replacement just for
he pleasure of spending money.
Tie is afraid that O’Malley will
make regulations which would
be virtually confiscation of his
gear and he would be holding
an empty sack and out of mon
ey for his pains.
He has to live. He is going to
live—IN THE STATES. He has
been driven put of the Territory, j
And yet business men wonder
why it is that their volume of
business is not increasing.
Traps do net have teeth pull
ed; traps do not have surgical
operations; traps do not have
machine shop bills; traps do not:
have shoe repair bills; nor need i
new suits of clothes; they get no'
hair cuts nor shaves; traps do
not play pool nor card games in
the pool halls; nor do they eat
in the restuarants nor go to the
churches and Sunday schools
or go to the movies; traps do not
build our streets; nor build our
roads.
Traps do import their labor
and ships them out and pays
them off in Seattle; they import j
their foods and supplies and dC|
not support resident supply hous
es; they oppose residents in ev
ery matter of legislation and im
pose inequitable taxation to the
burdensome point on resident
business houses and individuals.
The trap system through its
systematic efficiency and con- j
nivance of federal officials has:
made it impossible for fishermen j
to earn a saving wage. Which
results in those people leaving;
the Territory for other labor i
markets. That system retards
growth of every community and j
makes decrease in population
not only possible, but an accom- j
plished fact.
And these things and facts
the ALASKAN has made plain; :
opposing those things which do
not tend toward development of
the Territory. If we are and
have been wrong, write in and
show wherein we have been in
the wrong. If we are and have
seen right, write in and com
21 end us for doing those things j
hat? others have failed to do for j
’ear of reprisal from their sup- ^
sorters. <■
we are not now ana we imve j
lever opposed any measure that (
vould be to the benefit of fish- ^
;rman or businessman. We are
lot now political opportunists 1
vho seeing the handwriting on 1
he wall, switch from silent ag- 1
jressiveness against the fisher- ]
men to one of seemingly open (
support just because the politi- <
lal cards mean something to us. j
3e a principle popular or not
Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Co.
Ohmer Will Buy Halibut For The
Fresh Fish Market. See Earl
1 Before You Sell Your Fare.
Halibut, Salmon,and Trout
SKYMAN’S My,
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