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LOUIS F. PAUL.MANAGER and EDITOR
Proof of the Pudding
In each of the towns in
Southeastern Alaska, proof of
the failure of the industrial
system in Alaska is being made
evident. In a country which has
natural resources not one bit
less valuable than the resources
in Canada, we find business
houses closing their doors. Hop
ing against hope that the resi
dent labor market will be able to
purchase supplies some of these
concerns held open their doors.
Now that the season is over and
the buying public has nothing
to buy with it is good business
policy to wind up affairs for
there is nothing to be gained by
remaining open during the com
ing winter months when there
will be less to hope for.
For twelve years the writer
has pointed out the fact that the
hiring and paying off of the
cannery workers in Seattle was
not developing Alaska properly;
that the discrimination under
the O’Malley administration of
fisheries in favor of the mechan
ical traps did not tend to con
serve either fish or labor; that
the misdirected regulation of
the forests was driving loggers
out of the country and bank
rupting saw mills. That the resi
dents were becoming poorer and
poorer and that as the individual
units became poorer, it was onJv j
a matter of time when the in
vestment units would follow
suit in bankruptcy. Like it or
not, every part of the territory
is feeling more this year the fu
tility of allowing ignoramuses
and bigoted demagogues to con
trol the resources of Alaska.
Only the united action in op
posing continuation of such poli -
cy will put a stop to it. Silence
gives consent—and if your si
lence is consent it is because you
desire such conditions to con
tinue. The poor ye have with you
and they are getting poorer but;
the disease of any part of a body,
has its effect upon all other
parts so that in time the unaf
fected parts also become diseas
ed. Calling the doctor after the
disease has spread to all parrs'
of the body will be too late. And
usually, anyhow, the calling of
the doctor is when there is notj
much hope of any kind of a cure.,
John Rustgard--Atto?fley General
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Mr. Rustgard is a candidate
for reelection to the office of at
torney general which office he
has now held twelve years. This
year he must explain not only
what he has done, but more im
portant to the fishing population
of this Division, what he has
NOT done.
In 1927, at his own request, he
appeared with Walstein G.
Smith and opposed the bill to
tax the big catches of fish traps.
In that hearing, he took the side
of the fish trust and was respon
sible for defeating the bill which
would have been of great help to
seiners.
In 1929, Representative J. E.
Johnson, of Ketchikan, was a
bout to introduce a resolution in
the legislature directing the at
torney general to test the fishery
laws of 1924 which says that
‘there shall be no exclusive grant
of the right of fishery” but
every regulation shall be of gen
eral application. Lawyers are a
greed that the fish trap is an
exclusive form of fishery and un
lawful under the laws of the
United States. Mr. Rustgard per
suaded Mr. Johnson NOl to in
troduce that resolution. Why?
In 1931, Senator Wesley L.
Jones got President Hoover to
nominate Mr. Rustgard to be the
federal judge at Nome. But the
man who persuaded Senator
Jones to do this was P. E. Harris j
of fishery trust fame, big can
neryman, big trapman. Harris
has one fish trap that catches
over one milllion sockeye yearly,
on which he would have had to
pay a decent tax instead of the
mere $200. which Rustgard pro
cured for the trust in 1929 when
he voluntarily appeared against
the trap tax bill. The man who
asked the courtesy of the floor
for Mr. Rustgard was Nate
Hardy, a Democrat who has since
been rewarded by appointment
as fish warden altho at the time
he did not know the difference
between a catfish and a humpy.
Why did P. E. Harris endorse
Mr. Rustgard?
Mr. Rustgard, Republican can
didate, recently accused Repub
lican President Hoover of con
spiracy when Mr. Hoover sent
Rustgard’s name into the Senate
Sot the Judgeship at Nome. Mr.
Rustgard said that Messrs Hoov
er, Mitchell and Wickersham
merely wanted to give him a
temporary office at Nome to get
him out of his office to which he
said his reelection was merely a
matter of counting the ballots
and when that was done, the
office at Nome would be abolish
ed and Rustgard would again be
a private citizen—the real ob
jective of Mr. Hoover. Mr. Rust
gard in “protecting” himself a
gainst Mr. Hoover’s conspiracy,1
wired to his attorney general,
Mr. Mitchell, and demanded as
surance that the job at Nome
would not be abolished before
two years, otherwise he, Rust-;
gard, “would not be interested
‘n the office.” j
What makes Mr. Rustgard a
Republican? The Republican!
paper Stroller’s Weekly says thatj
he is preeminently the most out
standing individual in Alaska if'
not in the world the best fitted!
to be attorney general of Alaska,
perhaps that paper can explain ’
what right John Rustgard has
to appeal for Republican support
Ke has three employees in his
office and all are Democrats.
The fishing population is in-1
terested. They want Mr. Rusi-'
gard to explain why he has done
absolutely nothing to fight for,
their cause. In the campaign of
1929, he refused to join with the
other Republicans in denounc
ing the fish trap. He said fish
traps were not an issue in his
office, Aren’t they?
The White Fish Bill makes it1
unlawful to “grant an exclusive
right of fishery.” Lawyers are!
agreed that the fish trap is an1
“exclusive grant” from its verv1
nature and thus unlawful. Whtf!
has Rustgard done nothing to
protect the rights of Alaskans j
against the fish trap which is
slowly destroying the business of
Alaska? P. E. Harris perhaps has'
a better view of what harm a I
fearless attorney general could1
do. Will Rustgard if re-elected,
do some thing to compell O’Mal
ley to enforce the law?
The White fish bill says that
it shall be unlawful to “take
catch, or kill” any salmon from
six o’clock Saturday evening to!
six o’clock Monday morning. Mr.
Rustgard knows that every time
a, trap is “lifted” on Sunday,
salmon are killed. Why hasn't
Mr. Rustgard done anything to
enforce this law? He has long
clamored to be freed from the
restrictions of his office. Is there
anything to prevent him from
demanding that the Bureau of
Fisheries or the District Attorn
ey enforce this law?
John Rustgard must explain—
1. Why he defended the fish
trust on the tax bill;
2. Why he opposed the Johnson
resolution;
3. Why P. E. Harris endorsed
him for Judgeship;
4. Why he accused his President'
of conspiracy; j
а. Why the “take, catch or kill”
clause is not enforced;
б. Why his office employs only
Democrats;
7. Why his office employs out
side attorneys to do his work;
8. Why his every act has sup-1
ported the federal governor a-'
gainst the auditor’s office;
f). Why he failed to support
Auditor Cole in protecting school
funds.
Giving Jobs to Alaskans
The Ketchikan Chamber of
Commerce recently petitioned
Gov. Parks and other omcials of
the Government to take any ac
tion necessary to insure the em
ployment of Alaskans on a road
project about to be undertaken
there by the United States Bu
reau of Public Roads. The organ
ization asserted it was confident
the Government agents here
either had the power to do what
was asked or could get it from
Washington by asking for it.
it was wrong on both counts.
Neither'Juneau nor Washington
authorities can legally put limits
on contractors that will deprive
them of the right to hire labor
where they please. Of course, the
Ketchikan business men were
perfectly justified in their ef
forts to protect their unemploy
ment workers. The spirit they
exhibited is commendable. How
ever, no official action, even
were it possible, will be needed.
R. H. Stock, the successful bid
der for the Ketchikan work along
with two other projects, has set
all fears at rest by the announce
ment that no labor will brought
from the States for any of this
work.
The number of men to be put
to work, 45, while not impres
sive, means that 45 Alaskans
will be able to earn enough wag
es to tide them through the com
ing winter. If the Territory could
get a few more projects opened
up and work launched on them
jby the early Fall months, and
I some funds are now available
for that purpose, every man so
taken care of would be just that
many less who will need relief
j before next Winter comes to an
end. Authorities who are in
charge of Federal road funds in
Alaska, and who certainly are
familiar with existing unemploy
ment conditions and the need
for easing them, ought to leave
no effort unspared to get ap
proval from Washington, if need
ed, to expand their activities
here to the utmost extent that
their funds will permit.—Juneau
Empire.
Petersburg has already had a
taste of the fine policy of the
Aberdeen contractor in the con
struction of the Scow Bay-Pe
tersburg Road. All single men
and all hired in Juneau. The
policy is not building friends for
the contractor and so far as get
ting approval for further exten
sions of this work—Petersburg
will be money ahead if the fed
eral road commission undertak
es direct hiring and firing of the
men on the job. In fact, as a
means of bringing back prosper! -
t.y that is the only way to handle
the job. All the money appro
priated for such jobs will be us
ed while under the contract sys
tem mule and slave drivers and
petty grafters usually see to ii
that they get more than their
own profit out of the contract.
What Is Civilization?
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia Univer
sity has declared that “Civili
zation has as its foundation
five fundamental institutions.
Upon these five fundamental
institutions civilization rests and
has long rested, and as they are
strengthened, purified, perpetu
ated, civilization grows richer
and fuller and the cornerstone
of our whole domestic and social
cider. Destroy the family, weak
en the family, take away the
family, and civilization, as we
know it and have known it,
would cease to exist.
“The second of these funda
mental institutions is property:
the right to ownership and con
trol of that which may be law
fully gained. Property is the
cornerstone and the foundation
of our whole economic order.
The third of these is the state,
and the state, of course, come
later than the family or proper
ty. The state is that institution
which man has buildea in order
that we may live happily and
helpfully together in organized
society. The state erects govern
ments.
The fourth is the church. The
church has been brought into
existence in ancient as well as
in modern times, in order that
man may give expression to his
sense of dependence upon a
higher power, to his faith and to
his wish to worship.
The fifth is the university. The
university came into being in
order that man might satisfy his
curiosity, that mind to break
through boundaries that sepa
rate the known and the un
known, to learn new truth, to
establish new fact, to bring him
self in touch with new experi
ences, to lift himself out of the
present, the new, the static, into
the future, the tomorrow, the
moving, the dynamic.”
| Having these five fundament
als of civilization—the entire
governed world having these five
fundamentals of civilization—
can it truly be said that there
is a civilization?
j The illiterate, yes, the ignorant
Indian of Alaska had none of
.these prior to the coming of the
‘ civilized” races but he recog
nized property rights and did
not need the force of law or
courts or armies to force a res
pect of the rights of others.
He had his government —by
clans and tribes; he had his law
economic and social which were
far more rigid than any law of
any nation and the penalties for
violation were carried out to the
letter nor was there any mis
carriage of justice.
He had his belief in a Super
ior Being, a Power Above, with
out the tenets of theologies and
if another did not follow his be- (
hefs he did not kill through
wars as did the Catholics andi
Protestants through the ages, j
He had a respect for the beliefs]
of others.
He had no universities but he^
had his schools of thought and
training whereby his mind could
be developed and broadened out.
Through experience and obser
vation handed down through
the generations but each gen
eration benefitted from the ex
periences of those who preceded.
In comparison, the civilization
I under the new has its advan
(tages but we must admit that it
has its disadvantages - also. And
such a thing as “Christian civili
zation” to the heathen is a sad
joke for primitive man with his
hates and passions, however
civilized education might make
I him, is not one bit better than
, the civilization of the people of
the heathen ages.
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