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The seiners at Chatham, high
boat, caught 50,000 salmon and
were paid 3 cents for the pinks.
Total $1,500 for five men, or a
gross of $300 per man. By the
time operating expenses, and a
bit of grub is taken from the
gross earnings, there is not much
left with which to pay old ac
counts which have been stand -
ing since last sunyner.
The high boat in Excursion
Inlet caught 30,000 salmon and
grossed $1,200 for five men. By
the time their living and operat
ing expenses are deducted, the
men will have earned about $100
which they will spend in their
home towns with their local bus
iness men. Second high boat
got 18,000 salmon—earned $540.
gross, or share of $108. If op
erating expenses were $300, it
would leave $240 to be divided
among five men—or $48. From
this men of families must meet
local bills at the cannery before
returning home. The average
at Excursion Inlet, reputed one
of the best in the country, will
be around 12,000 salmon or a
gross of $360 for each five men.
The wonderful generosity and
philanthropy of the canners iJ
to be commended. They are sc
solicitous of the welfare of then
labor and of the business inter
ests of the Territory that thej
see to it that but little money ii
left in the Territory to be spenl
and with which to conduct busi
ness, That is what the business
interests want, they should bt
well satisfied this fall when the?;
balance up accounts with the
fishermen.
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THE TROLLERS LIKE IT
The trollers are prohibited by c
the Bureau of Fisheries from v
“fishing for. taking or killing’(t
salmon “for sale or barter” froni|l
6 o’clock Saturdays till 6 o’clock i
Monday mornings.. That is the <
law and the law must be respect- 1
ed by the beach combers and (
herring chokers. The dignity of i
the law must be upheld—by the 1
Bureau of Fisheries, and it is— 1
by forcing the. trollers and sein- :
ers to observe this law. But <
the law was evidently not made :
for the trap operators. From the :
way the Bureau of Fisheries '
winks at the violations, one can
not. but wonder it the “sinews :
cf war” greases the way.
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*. THE CONSERVATIVE
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Always ha$ he been in evi
dence—since before the war, in
Roman times, and in the old
Stone Age. Left to his own ini
tiative, he would still be making
fire by rubbing together two
sticks, or by striking iron with a
flint—if, indeed, he had advanc
ed that far; for it was no con
servative who first struck fire.
His eyes are seemingly in the
back of his head, for he has
a much keener view for the past
than for the future, being very
much satisfied with the Golden
Age of his own boyhood.
Sometime in early manhood his
brain crystalized, and whatev
er knowledge has been devel
oped in the world since that
time is for him taboo.
If he acquired a medical edu
cation before the development
of the science of bacteriology,
he cannot speak in too much
contempt of what he is pleased
to call the “germ theory.” If
he could altogether discredit his
senses, he might also refer to the
typewriter, the automobile, the
linotype, the airplane, and the
wireless as “theories;” for they
did not have these things when
he was a boy.
He makes a constant and des
perate effort to maintain theva-.
lidity of his ideas, and to this j
end, he ignores much that has
been learned later than his re- i
ceptive period. The conserva
tive in politics and in business
is altogether of a different type.
He knows a good thing when he
sees it, and does not propose to
let it escape his grasp.
He knows full well that it is
tetter to be on the inside of the
ring than on the outside, and
he antagonizes every movement
intended to give the common
man a chance. He is strongly
cf the belief that privilege for
ithe lew is preferable to justice
i lor all, for he happens to be of
the few.
In plain terms his eye is on
the buttered side of the bread.
Perhaps it is human nature
for the man Who has been raised
with a silver or a golden spoon
in his mouth to object to its re
moval. Occasionally, there is a
man who, with opportunity to
enjoy all the fruits of privilege,
deliberately sets about to share
it with those who are not so for
tunate. Such a man has tapped
the true source of happiness.
But he will never be under
stood by the conservative, who
will be dead sure that either he
is “weak in the upper story,” or
else he “has something up his
sleeve.” The conservative, whetn
1 er in politics or in business,
while sharp enough to look out
for number one, has never ac
quired that broad vision of life
that makes it a delight to help
raise the weaker brother.
~ ~ “BUNK”
* (From Our Dumb Animals)
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We dislike this wcrd. Whence
it came we know not. We think
vie know its meaning. We apol
ogize for using it, but it should
stand above a deliverance of Se -
[•retary of the Interior Wilbur
which appeared in Current His
tory. We had been led to be
lieve most of our life, from some
study of the subject and the
common report of men, that the
treatment of the Indians in this
country by us was a shame and
disgrace to us as a nation. In
the face of this, Secretary Wil
bur says: “While we by no means
look back over our long record
of Indian policy with uniform
satisfaction, yet I think we car
say that no native people has ev
er been better treated by the in
vader of his dominating civili
zation than the American In
dian by the Government of the
United States.
Besides these words read wha(
a student of many years of In
dian affairs says:
“The American Indian in 187
became a political war prisoner
and that is the ‘basic law’ undei
which our great Democratic
Government still holds some
250,000 American Indians—no
only of some of the original pris
oners, but the same imprison
ment applies to their innocen
offspring.”
In 1870 our Congress abolish
ed (after only five years of ex
istence) the Freedmen’s Bureau
a like bureau to our Bureau o
Indian Affairs, whereupon fou
million Negroes, former slave:
for generations, were receivec
into our national life on ful
equality of citizenship.
With its equality of citizen
ship, the Negro race has toda:
its members in all profession
and walks of our country’s lif1
and the race has become a na
tional power, while the Americai
Indian (until 1871 a free pcopli
with renowned leaders) has beei
repressed, degraded, pauperized
and in every manner retarded ii
advancement though for genra
tions Bureau spokesmen have
promised, as does Secretary Wil
bur, to “re-habilitate” the In
dian with only a few more years
of control.
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balance of mind.
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WAGE RAISES DEPRESSION |
SOLUTION, DECLARES WOLL
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An immediate raise in wages
to increase the nation’s purchas
ing power 50 per cent was cited
recently in New York as the sur
est cure for depression ill, by
Mathew Woll, vice president of
the American Federation of La
bor, in an addres before the In
ternational Longshoremen’s Un
ion.
Mr. Woll estimated that there
are probably more than 12,000
000 workers in the country eith
er unemployed or only partially
employed. He pointed out that
despite the increasing serious
ness of the unemployment prob
lem, mechanization of labor pro
cesses and the merging of in
dustries continue to go on, caus
ing the ranks of the unemployed
to enlarge constantly.
“Today we are convinced,” he
said, “that an unemployed labor
market is of service neither to
commerce, industry nor finance,
and is a detriment to govern
ment.
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SEATTLE COPS
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Chief of Police, William R.
Kent of Seattle, is starting out
his administrative duties with
instructions to his force of law
enforcers, that cannot be mis
understood. He lays down the
principal of kindly treatment of
prisoners as follows.
“I have heard many complaints
of cossackism and brutality on
the part of policemen and de
tectives. I believe that Seattle
is freer from this sort of thing
than many cities, but I am mak
ing it clearly understood that I
will not tolerate it so long as I
am chief.
“Any member of the depart-1
ment found guilty of using brut • |
al methods of handling a prison
er will be fired and will stay fir
ed.”
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HOME RULE AND SOME OF
ITS PROPONENTS
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During the past several elec
tion campaigns, certain political
elements always insisted that
jthe powers given the people of
Alaska in the government pro
vided by Judge Wickersham’s
Organic Act were so meager, so
much less than those given the
people of other Territories, that
we have not real Home Rule, and
will not have until Congress can
be induced to give us what Pres
ident Taft and President Wilson
called “full Territorial form of
government.”
Now, this “limited” law gave
Alaskans the right to elect a
Territorial Treasurer. Can any
person justify the demand for a
“full Territorial form of govern
ment” yet oppose in every man
ner shape and form election of
a Territorial Treasurer and a
Territorial Auditor? Can any
one justify the efforts of the last
Legislature in its effort to abol
ish the office of Territorial Aud
itor?
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Special Sales held
Now, the Organic Act gave thei
people of Alaska the right to
elect their own Auditor. Who
:>p;.osed that measure? And
why?
This same act gave Alaska the
right to manage our own Pion
eers' Home, and who manages it
and who opposes its direct man
agement by Alaskans?
This same act gave us the rignt
to direct every strictly territorial
activity, and this includes the
Fairbanks College old age pen
sion funds, indigent funds, and
so forth. Yet that element which
always demands a “full Terri to' ■
;al iorm of government” is most
active in its ‘effort to withhold
those activities and duties from
Alaskans. And why, pray, should
not the Auditor function in a
strict way, as does every Auditor
in every state? Why should not
he be a check upon the Terri
torial treasurer, upon the funds
oi the Territory.
And those proponents of a
‘full Territorial form of govenu
merit,” where are they when the
present form of political auton
omy is slowly but gradually be
ing taken from the people. Let
us Quit talking home rule until
we have learned to use and do
use the powers now conferred
upon us by virtue of the Organic
Act.
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RESOURCES AND
REPRESENTATION
(Anchorage Times)
The suggestion made at Doug
las recently by Frank Foster,
who lately has moved from the
Third to the First Division, that
there is need of a change in di
visional representation because
the First and Third Divisions
have more population and pay
more taxes than do the Second
and Fourth Divisions sounds
much like the agitation that has
been going on in Juneau since
the very early days of the Terri
tory. Long ago it was argued
by Juneau politicians that be
cause most of the timber sales
were made in the First Division,
most of the money realized from
such sales should be expended in
the First Division, to the exclu
sion of those Divisions not pos
sessing saleable timber. And
now Mr. Fester advances the ar
gument by inference at least,
that revenues from the fisheries
similarly belong to the Divisions'
possessing those fisheries.
The Times realizes that it'
would be very helpful to the!
Third Division, which Mr. Foster j
says contributes more than half
of the Territorial taxes, if it
could retain all of that money
for .expenditure within the di
vision. But it is not fair to claim
that the fisheries which produce
the bulk of the tax revenue, be
long more to this Division than
to the Fourth or Second Division,
where there are no fisheries.)
And it is not fair to claim that
the National Forests are the pro
perty of any particular locality
just because they happen to be
where, they are. They are na
tural resources which belong
to the whole Territory for the
benefit of the whole Territory,
insofar as the Federal govern
ment will permit them to bene
fit under its bureaucratic system
of control.
There may come a time when
there will be sufficient popula
tion in the First and Third Di
visions to justify a craim for
statehood, but there Is good
leason to believe that until that
time arrives, Territorial reven
ues will continue to be divided
with reasonable equality among
the four Divisions and that the
Divisions will continue to have
equal voice in legislative delib
erations.”
A Pertinent Question
Does the Anchorage Times
believe that the Territorial re
venues are being “divided with
reasonable equality among the
Four Divisions? It might be in
teresting if the disposition of
icvenues were shown, by Divi
[ sicns, and it will be more sur
prising to learn that the First
Division is not getting its share
by a big jugful.
The reason for which is the
alignment of the Second and
Fourth Division Legislators, with
the cut-offs from the Democrat
ic party, like such men as Re
presentatives Ziegler and Boyle,
and Senator Shattuck; and also
by defection of Republicans of
other Divisions who hare ilsten
1 to the cry “domination of the
Indians.
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Habits arc at first cobwebs, at
last cables.
Some womemn grow old be
fore their time trving to look
! young after their time.
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