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LOUIS F. PAUL,.MANAGER and EDITOR
Justin W. Harding
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When the term of Justin W.
Harding ends next January, lie
will undoubtedly leave this coun
tiy and the fiction that he was a
“resident” of Alaska when ap
pointed Judge will be exposed.
More than that, he will be re
membered as a man who was
both ignorant of the law, devoid
of a sense of justice, and tem
peramentally unfit for the office
of Judge of a great court.
Almost his first direction in
court was to slap a fine for
contempt on Simon Hellenthal
in a case in which it was evi
dent to everybody but the in
habitant of the “ermine” that
no contempt was intended.
Even at this time, the worthy
Judge had laid the foundation
for a contempt against William
L Paul by himself ordering a
paper filed in court when Paul
had requested that the paper be
returned. In the proceedings
that followed, Paul was adjudged
in contempt not so much be
cause of the actual proceedings
which Paul had taken to pro
tect his client, but because an
affidavit alleging prejudice on
the part of Mr. Harding was
published in a local newspaper.
It really never occurred to the
worthy Judge that the news
paper might have gotten the
document from the court files.
The Circuit Court said in
short that Judge Harding’s ac
tion, if allowed, would really
start a precedent “unique” in
the annals of law, and further
that Paul should have filed the
affidavit sooner. In other words,
if it be s contempt to file such
an affidavit, that the contempt
was not committed quickly
enough.
The next time this busy Judge,
busy upholding the dignity of
the law, broke into print, was
when he fined Henry Roden for
calling a witness a liar. In this
case, Roden, at the direction of
the court, apologized to the wit
ness, but refused to apologize to
the court. The general belief
was that Roden should have
apologized to the court, but
when he did not, the court
might properly have fined him
$25. In stead however, the court
fined Roden an excessive fine.
Many people thought it re
sembled the days when persons
were hanged for petty stealing.
Now we have the Statter case
in which the Judge publishes a
letter written to himself which
otherwise would not have been
known. The law of Alaska is that
in such cases, the defendant has
the right of a jury trial. This
was requested, but Judge per
haps influenced by his three
years military training in West
Point, refused what the law
plainly allows on the ground
that the facts being admitted
there was nothing for the jury
to decide. Perhaps so. The main
point however is not admitted,
namely, did these facts amount
to a contempt? The Judge per
haps felt safer in pronouncing
a judgement of contempt with
out running the risk of the jury’s
opinion.
To our way of thinking, all cf
these decisions of Judge Hard
ing savor too much of the U. S.
Commissioner of Skagway who
told Judge Brown many years
ago that the complaints against
him were unfounded; that he
had tried fully fifteen cases and
that he “had won all of them
for the government.”
Such a condition could not
exist in Alaska if the courts
were amenable to the people as
they should be in a democracy,
i There is little difference between
taking the colonists to England
for trial and sending a man
from Ohio to Alaska to admin
ister his own brand of justice.
Ammunitions for the Politicians
For two campaigns George B.
Grigsby, candidate for office of
delegate to Congress went before
the people of Alaska asking for
their nomination. Twice he was
decisively defeated. Last year,
Grigsby adopted the platform of
William L. Paul and went before
the people and he lost only by
269 votes. Defection of three Na
tive precincts would have elect
ed him to office—and there was
plenty of reason for that defec
tion—Grigsby HAD adopted the
program of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood which he placed in
the following words:
I am in favor of the Direct
Primary Law and absolutely op
posed to its repeal.
I consider the future admin
istration of the Fisheries of
Alaska the big issue of this cam
paign. Am utterly opposed to the
present bureaucratic control.
I am in favor of THE ABOLI
TION of FISH TRAPS, and as the
most effective means to this end,
will, if elected, work for the
transfer of all Federal control of
the Fisheries to the Alaska Ter
ritorial Legislature. I believe
this can be accomplished with
the advent of a Democratic ad
ministration, which now seems
assured.
I will do my utmost to put the
Bureau of Fisheries out of Busi
ness in the Territory of Alaska,
except for the purpose of scien
tific research.
I am opposed to all forms of
JBureaucr&tic government. No
I
Federal Bureau should have any
power of legislation whatever.
' It will be my endeavor, if
elected, to open the public do
main of Alaska to settlement and
J development under the same lib
(eral laws under which other Ter_
! ritories were developed. This in
| ciudes timber lands, oil and coal
lands. I am opposed to the Leas
ing/System.
| I. am opposed to the Pinchot
I theory of Conservation as ap
, plied to Alaska, believing that
nature and economic conditions
present sufficient barriers to the
development of the Territory,
without additional man-made
restrictions.
The Alaska Legislature should
I have complete control of Game
jand Fur-bearing Animals.
| The Democratic doctrine of
States Rights, advocated for the |
past One Hundred Years, is par- j
ticularly applicable to this Ter-!
ritory. We should be accorded i
i Home Rule in the Territory onj
jail subjects of legislation not'
i purely Federal.
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There is considerable unrest i
j politically in Southeastern Alas- j
I ka. Fishermen are told that “We j
will buy all the sockeye you
bring in but we do not want any j
other kind of salmon.” The can-j
ners are buying all the salmon
; Jhey need from the trap men—1
11&ey do condescend to buy sock-;
j eye salmon from the fishermen.
I The demand for the abolition of,
I the trap system is no less abated
at this time than ten years ago.
Because the fishermen are
silently tightening up their belts
and making no political com
ment is no evidence that they
have given up the struggle.
The trap system must go—
there is no ifs and ands about it.
Either that or the people of the
territory must become the re
cipients of federal doles for it is
because of the intriguing and
nefarious machinations of fed
eral machines that the present
situation is creating intoler
able situation. No candidate will
be elected to Congress on a plank
sympathetic or in harmony with
Henry O’Malley and his trap
system. President Hoover can
appoint other men, better with
out a shadow of a doubt than
Henry O’Malley. The Alaskan
and the Alaska Fisherman will
not compromise itself by pre
tending to any idea of harmony
with Henry O’Malley or any sup
porter of his regime in the fish
eries. The problem before the
candidates —Delegate Wicker
isham and Democratic nominee
Tcny Dimond—is How far will
you go towards securing the a
bolition of the salmon trap sys
tem. That is the political ques
tion in which the electorate is
Interested and it is the question
which is going to elect or defeat
according to the answers given.
Plans for School Consolidation
•j
Several years ago. Commis
sioner Lopp of the Bureau of
Education, explained that it was
the plan of his department to
.eventually consolidate the In
dian Bureau Schools with the
I Territorial. The matter had been
highly controversial and the
leading editors of the Territory
had a racial complex which did
not brook of permitting Indian
children in the Territorial
School System. The matter has
rested more or less—except when
spasmodically the politicians
tried to throw the fear into
panicky and weak-kneed citizens
—though the Indian Bureau has
definitely announced the same
plan and policy in the states as
regards the State Indians.
Recently S. H. Thompson, Sup
ervisor in charge of Relations
'with Public Schools in the In
sdian Service’s Education Depart
Iment, was in Juneau. He had
j been in conference with Govern
or George A. Parks and Com
missioner W. K. Keller, Mr.
Charles W. Hawkesworth of the
Indian Bureau and he had con
tacted some of the field stations.
Mr. Thompson announced, ac
cording to the Juneau Empire,
O’Malleyism
Two men went down to the
| Fisheries vessel Brant and not
knowing Henry O’Malley b y
j sight, asked the man at the
gang plank if Mr. O’Malley was
on board. The man answered
‘ No.” The two men then started
away and met another man who
had previously directed them to 1
the Brant who asked them ‘‘Did'
you get to see O’Malley?”
The two men answered “No.
The man at the gang plank tells
us he isn’t on board.”
The third man then said as he
looked at the gang plank: “Why,
that’s Henry O’Malley himself,”
and indeed it was.
These men (small trapmen by
the way) then went to O’Malley
and asked to discuss the new
regulations, to which O’Malley
said, “It is no use to talk with
me about those regulations” and
cursed the men, so we are in
formed.
For obvious reasons, we can- ;
not divulge the names of the
parties, but we can vouch for the'
truthfulness of this story.
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Canadian Fish
Regulations
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We have endorsed the Cana
dian or rather the British Co
lumbia Fish Regulations for
Alaska and are now supported
by many citizens Our opponents
now say that we would be the
first to kick if we did have these
regulations and have pointed
cut certain dangerous features
thereof.
Up until now, we have not
gene into detail about those re
gulations because the public
have not been willing to give the
matter the required attention.
Not all of the Canadian regula
tions would be possible or suit
able to Alaska unless and until
our system of securing enforce-J
that “co-operation between the
Territorial and the Indian Ser
vice school systems in Alaska is
needed to advance the cause of
education, both for efficiency
and economy, and that eventual
ly one unified system will re
place by common agreement the
present dual system.”
! This is the first visit of this
official to Alaska but he hopes
I to make other contacts in this
field. Says the Empire: “He
I doesn’t believe any single school
system will be evolved in the
(Territory overnight, but that it
will come about gradually as a
natural growth encouraged by
Loth the Territory and the Fed
eral Government as a meaps of
| bettering the opportunities for
both whites and Indians and to
economize at the same time.”
The above statements sound
very much like similar state
ments made by leaders of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood sev
eral years ago: Better education
al opportunity; Equal education
al opportunity; one school sys
tem as practical economy:
equality and justice in the demo
cratic school system.
ment officers is changed.
The British Columbia system
is the best.
But that statement presup
poses that enforcement officers
are appointed to enforce the law
and not give a special privilege
as under the Henry O’Malley j
system.
If there is a single enforce
ment officer in Alaska who does j
not favor the big corporations!
because O’Malley wants him to, I
we do not know the man and we |
know many officers. j
Therefore we advocate the1
adoption of only those Canadian1
regulations that fit our own
rotten police system—namely,
the abolishment of all fish traps;
the adoption of a movable dead
line, the line to be determined
by the fish in the creek; the
abolishment of opening and1
closing dates for catching salm
on.
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THE DEMO CONVENTION
The economic situation, th3
soldiers’ bonus, the tariff and
rampant crime got meagre at
tention or applause. But John
Barleycorn got rip-roaring com
mendation. And the man who
attempted to say a word against
him had a hard time being
heard. But did not Will Rogers
say in his talk that the Demo
crats always had their fun at
the convention and not at the
election? He also hinted that the
party ought to leave it to him
to act the fool.
If the recess was a vaudeville,
the night session was a riot. It
took 143 words for the platform
makers to tell how sopping wet
they were. It took nine words for
them to express themselves on
unemployment and old-age in
surance.
Alfalfa Bill Murray did have
the courage to declare for the
poor man and the under dog. He
got them told where the nation
was heading if these were over
looked. He made a good speech
but it fell on wet ears.—J. R
Justice—Seattle star.
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