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LOUIS F. PAUL,.
MANAGER and EDITOR
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
“Four score and seven years
ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new na
tion, conceived in liberty arid
dedicated to the proposition that
ail men are created equal.”
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THE OTHER HALF
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A bill was introduced in Con
gress last week which would pro
vide $675,000 for the relief of
veterans, $75,000 of which shall
be immediately available for use
in the national capital to feed
the hungry veterans who are
pressing for the bonus bill to
pass.
Statement has been made that
.the veterans do not want their
bonus. There is a card in reply
to an application at hand which
is numbered beyond four million
—more than four million appli
cations made before this card
was entered.
And yet, there are editors who
have the audacity to say that
the veterans do not want their
bonus.
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FUNNY, ISN’T IT
A big parade is staged in New
York with the Mayor and other)
leading politicians, citizens and:
even ladies of the land taking
part—a demand for beer. Pro
ceed with the parade—on with
•the march. Let us have beer.
Another parade is started—a
group of unemployed men and
women—without noise or clamor
without even the semblance
of disorder. Banners flying, “the
good old rag” in the van of the
parade and placards asking for
work and the chance to earn
food and bread. Immediately the
parade is declared a menace and
the police come in droves and
break up the parade It is dan
gerous to permit the radicals
and communists and their ilk to
parade.
What a pass this nation has
come to—permissible to demon
strate a plea for beer and net
permissible to permit a plea for
food.
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CAN YOU JOIN THE PARADE
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Two per cent of Americans
own 60 per cent of the national
wealth. Five per cent is owned
by 65 per cent of the Americans.
The burden of most- of the
messages to Congress is to tax
the poor more and the rich less.
‘ To him that hath shall be giv
en and to him that hath not,
even that which he hath shall be
taken away.”
When one dose of castor oil
is insufficient, take two. Join the
two per cent if you can and
stretch out the parade.
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THIS COMES ALSO
FROM ALASKA
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“The heart yearnings and un
quenchable desires of the work
ers are reflected in the appeal of
the masses of the people for the
exercise of the right to work.
They prefer work and the enjoy
ment of opportunities to earn a
living to relief supplied from any
source or sources whatsoever.
Employment and the develop
ment of opportunities to secure
work are of more importance to
(them than the appropriation of
relief.”—From the recent appeal
of the American Federation of
Labor to President Hoover and
to Congress.
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
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In a few more days and the
vortex of national politics will
oe Chicago. First the Republi
cans will be nominating Presi
dent Hoover for another term.
It is not conceeded that any
other man has the ghost of a
chance to get the nomination.
A few more days following
that will come the bray of the
Democrats in the Windy City.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
has the most delegates but in
sufficient to make the grade on
the first ballot. He has enough
tc Stop any other candidate.
“Tex” Garner and A1 Smith have
a corner on sufficient to block
Mr. Roosevelt. The history of
past conventions is that the two
tliirds rule of the democratic
convention invariably defeats
the candidate with the most
delegates and a darkhorse
elected.
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LIVENGOOD NO EXCEPTION
Livengood is a little mining
district in the interior section of
Alaska. Recently one of the
newsprints declared that “men
out of work should not go to
Livengood in the expectation
there will be a demand for their
services at that place.” Said the
Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce: “Please advise anyone
intending coming to Livengood
lor work that there is none to be
had. In fact there is not enougn
for those already here.”
With all of the interior sec
tion to draw from—with all of
the reputed gold areas in the
Fairbanks section, it would ap
pear that the people of that dis
trict would be delighted to have
more men go in and tramp the
hills looking for more gold to
bring out to the banks. But pos
sibly there is no more gold in the
hills and no more development
work to be done. If so, stay
away, Livengood can take care
only of its dead ones.
WHY THIS GOVERNMENT
It is our notion that govern
ment exists for the promotion of
contentment of its citizens thru
proper protection and adminis
tration of its laws. That each
and every citizen shall enjoy the
benefits of his efforts from the
resources of the country and
seas and in the air and the sun
and moon. When this govern
ment has fallen to the point
where it cannot give such con
tentment and protection to its
citizens, it is the right of those
citizens to take such steps as
will insure an early change—call
it revolution, political or econ
omic revolution or a bloody one.
The spirit of ’76 did not tolerate
such slavery conditions as exist
today with its myriads of bu
reaus, snitchers, snoopers and
spies; with its parasitic growths
upon the body politic with the
cancerous political growths that
fester the country.
Since the days of the rebellion
against King George III the
foxy aristocrats began to build
the foundations of this govern
ment upon the quicksands and
quagmires of private profit and
rule by special interests. The
peoples of the country have con
stantly been deluded, derided
and looted by the pious-faced
sanctimonious, hypocritical boss
es—and the rule continues this
hour.
The dumb citizen enjoys being
improverished; enjoys being in
misery; enjoys being without
the independent spirit of the
i
free heathen. Ninety per cent of
all executive effort in our coun
try is spent in protecting pri
vate interests; private wealth—
the dumb citizen is not even a
cipher in the whole preceeding.
“Jest for instance”—the Recon
struction Finance Board, organ
ized and instituted to dole out
Federal aid (funds) to the hung
ry banks—the starving banks, if
you please. And then just re
member that “a dole is an insult
to the American citizen and will
destroy his economic independ
ence” when effort was made to
institute the five million dollar
bond issue wherewith labor
would be gainfully employed in
public works.
Just look at your own fair
Alaska—with a control of the
fisheries of the world—yet em
ploying non-citizens. Before next
winter sets in right cold, there
will be an appeal for food, for
clothing, for medication—while
today all the laws are for the
benefit of the corporations—the
poor dumb citizen—including
many whitecollared ones—don’t
understand this. They will when
the pin of economic distress Is
stuck into them and their ego
tistic balloons are punctured.
Watch and see.
ANOTHER EVIDENCE
OF MONEY SHORTAGE
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A meeting of the Board of D’
rectors of the Tanana Valley
Fair Association was held re
cently to consider a communica
tion from Governor Parks ask
ing the Board to refrain from
asking for any aid from the Ter
ritorial treasury. The law allows
a certain amount to aid these
fairs from the territorial funds.
The reason given in the com
munication is due to the deplet
ed condition of the Territorial
exchequer which makes it im
possible to meet all appropria
tions provided for in the budget.
Decreased revenues, due to
failure of the last legislature to
pass a revenue bill commensu -
rate with the appropriations is
the real reason for the deficit.
The reason given by the Gov
ernor is due to “decreased rev
enues, due to general economic
conditions, and stressed an un
usual demand for funds for the
relief of destitution, with a very
probably increase in such de
mands during the fall and win
ter.
The Board decided to waive
the allotment for this year and
the territory will be saved a
couple of hundred dollars. Hoo
ray!!!
FOR DUMBHEADS TO READ
OTHERS NEED NOT
The business men of Alaska
are crying about hard times, no
business and wonder what the
future will bring forth. Listen:
The cannery being operated
at Kake employs 120 men—all
but four of whom have been
hired in Seattle. Four men were
hired (in Alaska. Several citizens
of Kake are employed getting
out a few sticks of piles.
Mr. Business Man is interested
in the earnings of Alaska labor.
If it were not for Alaska labor
spending its earnings in Alaska
the business men might just as
well shut up shop. The mail
order houses could do the work
or else the people could all go to
Seattle for the winter. But:
Mr. Business Man has been in
different to the pleas cf Alaska
fishermen to fight the imported
labor system; to fight the too
efficient trap system. The resi
dent labor has no market for his
wares unless he goes to Seattle
and is there hired by canneries
to return to Alaska to labor.
The earnings of the laborers
are insufficient to meet the
poorest kind of living conditions
—Petersburg is no exception.
Most of the fishermen to date
have only been able to exchange
fish for food and supplies in the
most limited way. There is no
cash circulating. There will be
no cash circulating. Those who
benefit from the laborers’ hire
and who have given deaf ear to
their warnings should now be
satisfied. They helped to bring
on such a condition—it must be
what they wanted.
There is a remedy: A united,
undivided effort to get the trap
system out so that a large group
of fishermen may be employed
getting up the salmon pack.
That is the only remedy. The
trap system will not bring any
money to the territory that will
benefit the average business
man. Home rule of the fisheries
is a lot of political hooey—the
immediate necessity is the ab
solute and complete abolishment
of the trap system. Believe it or
not!
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WASHINGTON G. O. P.
FOR ALASK A
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The convention of Washington
State Republicans declared for
‘ a more liberal policy in en
couraging the prospecting of the
natural resources” of Alaska.
The Democrats have declared
in their (territorial plank for
‘ home rule of the fisheries ot
Alaska.”
The interests in Alaska which
talk of “home rule” for its re
sources and citizenship, turn
about and secretly oppose the
very thing they are asking for.
Home rule for the fisheries in
Alaska will mean more stringent
administration of the fisheries
without favor. It will mean th?
tearing off of the mask of con
servation, which has covered
the face of the administrative
policy. This will tear out the pri
vileges of a certain class—the
ruling class if you please. Which
is not so good for when they be
gin to lose on their gratuities,
then they begin to turn against
the masses.
It remains to be seen What
will come forth from the two
national conventions and will be
even more interesting to see just
how the program is carried out.
With either party in control,
Alaskans still remain skeptical.
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Alaska is estimated to contain
600,000 reindeer, descendants of
a herd of ten imported from
Siberia forty years ago.
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