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WHOSE MIND IS UNCLOUDED?
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The Supreme Court of the
United States first asserted the
right to declare laws unconstitu
tional in th<^ famous case of
Marbury vs. Madison, in 1803. In
that case the doctrine was laid
down in an opinion written by
that very great, conservative jur
ist, Chief Justice Marshal, to the
effect that the court could de
clare laws unconstitutional only
when they were so clearly re
pugnant to some clause in the
constitution that no reasonable
man could hold otherwise.—The
Progressive.
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“RENDER UNTO CEASAR”
“Render unto Ceasar the
things that are Ceasars.” The
people of Juneau may be used to
hearing Pegues quoting scrip
ture. but his recent editorial in
the Empire as above entitled is
about the limit.
Here is the last paragraph
“Those, churches, which, are
trying to run politics and the
country, forgetting the injunc
tion to “yield unto Ceasar the
things that are Ceasar’s” are un
dermining the cause which they
were organized to uphold."
All of this because the Chicago
Federation of Churches has be
gun a secret inquiry into gang
sters’ activities that will be en
tirely apart from the official in
vestigation of the Grand Jury.
BRISTOL BAY PACK A BIG
FAILURE
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Reports from the Westward in
dicate that the pack of red sal
mon of that district will fall short
of the normal. The Bureau of
Fisheries now states that they
expected this condition and that
it has not taken them by sur
prise, atlhough just how that,
helps the canners or residents
cf Alaska is not so plain.
Most of the Westward dis
tricts report light runs. It is es
timated conservatively that the
final pack of reds will be 500,000
cases short. The pink run on the
Alaska Peninsula has been spot
ty, fair in some places and very
light in others. Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet districts
are falling far short also.
The Bureau of Fisheries is pre
dicting heavy runs in Southeast
Alaska. So is this publication—
but that run will be an August
run—almost too late to benefit
the fishermen or packers. So far
the runs are spotty and not ov
erly plentiful. Even the traps
are making a weak showing.
ROAD ALLOTMENTS
Forest Service Headquarters
has announced an allotment of
$126,000 for road construction in
Alaska during the current year.
The Hyder district will be al
lotted $85,000 of this amount for
the extension of the Salmon Riv
er Highway a distance of two
and one-half miles. This wul
carry the road to the interna
tional boundary at Stewart.
Work will start as soon as snow
conditions will permit next
spring.
A stretch of about 20 miles will
be built in two sections of the
Mopse Pass Highway in the Ke
nai Peninsula. This will require
the sum of $40,000.
The remaining $1,000 will be
used for a survey of a short road
connecting the homesite area at
Point Lena with the Glacier
Highway.
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THE “INHERENT RIGHT MYTH
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From The Seattle Star
“The time will come in Ameri
ca—indeed, it is almost here—
when the government will issue
arbitrary instructions, unsup-j
[ported by law, and the citizen
who dares to disobey will be
thrown into jail without trial
or recourse,” says an editorial in
a South Carolina paper.
The editor is a bit late. The
time is here already.
Laws are already made by
judges; the citizen who disobeys
is thrown into jail ‘without tral
or recourse.”
This happens in cases where ci
tizens do not agree with judges.
When they do not, the citizens
are often charged with “con
tempt of court”—but which is
meant something quite different;
contempt of the judge.
When this happens the citizens
are refused trials and disposed
of in any way the judge sees fit.
The judge’s fat-headed “dignity’
las been affronted! Off with the
offender’s head!
Judges now claim the “inher
?nt right” to punish anyone who
offends them. They set aside the
constitution to do as they wish;
abolish jury trials; act as prose
cutor,complaining witness, judge
jury and executioner—“by in
herent right.”
Judges have no inherent
ights whatever; they have no
power save that given them by
the people. But they have as
umed immense power—and they
ire getting away with it. They
will continue to get away with
t unless the people, thru their
legislatures, check the movement
Perhaps the world’s most iron
c spectacle is that of an Ameri
can judge punishing, illegally,
a citizen who has offended him—
and at the same time showing
deliberate contempt for every
principle of American justice.
THE SONG OF ALASKANS
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The national song of British
ers is “God Save the King; the
national song of the United
States is Star Spangled Banner;
and Alaska Territorial song, if
we believed certain editors,
should be God Bless O’Malley.
UNWANTED
“Too old to work” Tired, dis
gusted and discouraged with the
turns of life, William Waite, 62
of Seattle took the gas-route in
his room and bumped out of the
way one labor problem. “He had
looked every day for work but
he was an old man ” The city
buried him. Probably cheaper
to do it than to augment the
“soup line.”
“Am I my brother’s keeper”?
In this age of Christianity (?)
and civilization (?) is there any
need of such men taking the
“gas” or similar route? Is the
modern age any improvement
over the barbarous heathen who
at least fed and clothed the ag
ed and helpless? We wonder if
this cloak of religion and civili
zation isn’t but a thin veneer to
hide the barbaric heathenism of
our modern age of jazz and
shams and lawless sophistica
tion.
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ISN’T IT THE TRUTH
With few exceptions whenev
er a Territorial committee is ap
pointed, a same lineup of names
can be depended upon. Not that
they are unworthy of the va
rious honors but it would seem
that some fresh stock should be
added occasionally. — Seward
Gateway.
Washington which benefits to
the greatest extent from the
fisheries of Alaska secures an
appropriation to aid in a devel
opment of its great university
Alaska which produces the most
salmon and has greatest need of
a fish laboratory in Alaska so
cures no consideration when it
came to making appropriation
for the plant. Washington’s
gain is a distinct loss to Alaska
The sovereign state of Arkan
sas felt the need of a fish hatch
cry. It appropriated $200,000
and started construction of a
plant which will be the largest
of its kind in the world There
is a difference between states
just as there is a difference be
tween men.
The hatchery costing about
$200,000. is being financed by
revenue derived from the sale of
hunting and fishing licenses
Construction work and sto k
ing of the plant is under the di
rection of Dell Brown, superin
tendent of the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries.
A DIAGNOSIS
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Adolph Heinrich had gone to a
picinc up in Carmichael, a Penn
sylvania Dutch settlement. No
special significance to this event
in his young life aside from the
fact that Adolph himself was a
Pennsylvania Dutch transplant
ed to the mining regions of Al
t.oonah. He had therefore grown
away from the customs of the
good Dutch of Carmichael.
When he arrived at the grove,
several miles out of town where
the picnic was to be held, he saw
a great crowd of people scattered
here and there, their linen dot
ting the green sward and cover
ed with rich and delicious foods
as only the Pennsylvania Dutch
can put up. So Adolph set out
to enjoy himself—by packing un
der his belt all of the rich viands
that he could store Before the
end of day, he could hardly walk
and no one could gainsay that
the joy was not his.
That night Adolph was awak
ened by a sharp pain in the pic
nic storehouse and before long
was rolling, moaning and groan
ing on his great feather bed.
Tt was not long till his Aunt Isol
da heard him and going to him
asked “What is the matter, son
ny”? The pain was so terrific
that Adolph by this time was
unable to more than point to his
stomach. Fearful that the old
home remedies would be unavail
ing and fearful of losing her sis
ter’s only boy. Aunty Isolda sent
the hired man for the doctor.
The doctor, a young man recent
ly out of medical school and all
up to the new fangled ideas and
remedies, produced a box of lit
tle pink pills with Latin name
and ordered that Adolph be giv
en one every half hour. When
the whole boxful were down at
the spot where they were sup
posed to do the most good,
Adolph was suffering the most
excruciating pain and the doctor
i seemingly unable to do any thing
to re'ieve the pain, aside from
giving a morphia. This could not
continue. Adolph was fast los
ii g weight and strength so Aunty
: Isolda took upon herself respons
| ibility of using heroic measures.
Back to the old fashioned rem
edies of her fathers and to the
| crude instruments used by her
grandmothers and before anoth
er day, Adolph was able to forget
the pains that came from that
most enjoyable picnic and he
was ready for another.
Adolph? Oh he was just the
salmon packer of Alaska who
packed so much salmon last year
that under consumption by the
markets of the states has caused
an over production of salmon on
the market. Adolph?—he is the
the glutton. The doctor—phoey
O’Malley, the doctor of Alaska’s
ailing fisheries industry. And
Aunty Isolda—she is the resi
dent Alaskan who will give Mr.
Adolph Heinrich Canner several
good doses of castor oil and like
remedies in order that the in-,
dustry may get back to a sound
basis once again. The pink pills
of regulations are sugar coated
and a Ibt of bunkum set forth
by Doctor O’Malley and which
have failed to reach the sick spot
of the industry.
Alaskans are truly concerned
over their fisheries—except the
sycophants who dance when
they are told to dance and who
pick up the crumbs scattered for
beggars. Hie death of the in-,
dustry would be most calamatous
to the Territory and it is not the
wish of any Alaskan that this
industry commit hari kari just
so that dividends for this year
may be paid. The future of the
industry is wished for and one
that is truly a succesful future.
So away with the pink pill, su
gar coated regulations for the
industry and bring on the real
remedy that will begin to give
immediate relief.
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P. J. Peppin fell with a heavy
timber down at the Northwest
Mills and broke his arm in three
places, Thursday.
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51 per cent of all the cars registered in the State
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