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WE GO BACK FOUR YEARS
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“Herbert Hoover is something
more than a great engineer,
something more than a great
administrator, something more
than a recognized economic au
thority and successful executive.
He is the greatest humanitarian
of his age; his policy is to be
that of making America a na
tion of homes, a nation of men,1
of women, of children!—Page
271 Republican “Campaign Text
book” of 1928.
We print this in view of the
recent circulation of the “Free
man” published by the Julius
Haldeman Company of Kansas.
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POLITICS AND PEOPLE
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The best minds of Alaska have
been too dumb to give resident
labor relief from the competi
tion of the flsh trap system
v. hich so efficiently eliminates
resident fishermen from that
field of industry. Political prom
ises have been made and in some
instances, effort made to live up
to them—but in others, pressure
by political morons, financial
pressure — and moral — has
swung control from the masses
to the classes.
It will be but a short while*
now when the political stumpers*
V/ill be turning their gas in
tensive on the voters. It seems
to us that the average voter is
thoroughly disgusted with the
breaks that they have received.
Give ten little fishermen an
opportunity to earn a thousand
dollars apiece in Petersburg and
they will take care of taxes,
mortgages, interest payments
and be independent of any help
Jrom any paternal source. With
a little equipment, ten fishermen
can produce enough salmon to
‘-wap for cash to re-swap for
ether essentials, for merchants
to buy and swap to support his
business in order to make it
possible for us to live. It is the
trap system, the sychophantic
business man, the toe-kisser of
the greedy interests, the politi
cal peewee devoid of humane
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interest or moral principle, who
has brought upon Alaska the
financial condition to which it
has sunk.
Don’t forget! The fishermen
produced salmon for the can
ners in the earlier days for \2
cent per salmon and made mo
ney and paid their bills. The
canners sold their packs at 67
cents per dozen and made mo
ney—and then—to prevent in
dustrial strikes, the greedy
Chicago, San Francisco and
Portland Fish Barons, instituted
the trap system and shot their
producing costs up to seventeen
cents per fish and expected to
make money by firing their re
sident labor and hiring tr-e
cheap, infected Oriental laboi
For holding which sentiment,
The Alaskan is never commend -
ed by the toe-kissers of Henry
O’Malley and his bosses—the
big packers. We should worry!
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POISON
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“Protection of the canned
saimon industry will be increas
ed if a bill introduced in Con
gress during middle December
I is passed by the national law
’ makers. The proposed law pro
vides that reports be made on
locations of all Alaska canneries
and that salmon unlawfuly
xaught will be prohibited from
being brought into the United
States proper.— West Coach
Fisheries.
Said bill provides: Any float
ing cannery operating must re
ceive permission from the De
partment of Commerce prior to
December 30 of each year; said
floaters must designate in which
district they shall operate and
may not move from that dis
trict; secondly, trollers shall be
prohibited from bringing salm
on—legally caught—from be
yond the 3-mile limit.
As a conservation measure, it
is a misnomer. Stationary can
neries are permitted to pack
salmon from one district to an
other in scows or tenders or to
shift the salmon of one district
to another by use of several
canneries. This in fact is what
the department declares must
be stopped by a few floating or
small canners TO CONSERVE
THE FISHERIES OF ALASKA.
Secondly, a few trollers were
able to flsh beyond the 3-mtle
limit and bring in to American
ports loads of salmon, increas
ing their earning power whicn
had been cut three months by
departmental ruling. While this
law is advocated, Alaskans hear
rot a word about any prohibi
tions being made against Cana
dian or Cape Flattery troll
caught salmon or transportation
cf salmon from one district to
another.
The West Coast Fishermen
must designate just what they
mean by “protection of the
canned salmon industry” if said
bill is passed.
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PARTY LINES SPLIT UP
For the first time in over ten
years, the political party lines in
Alaska are divided and each
party must go into the primary
m order to nominate candidates
who will make their bid for
election next November. Here
tofore , the Democrats have
crisscrossed into the Republican
primaries, handpicked the can
didates and then double crossed
them in the general election.
The latest evidence of which
was their defection from Tom
Gardiner and Walter Scott of
Juneau, candidates for senator
and representative on the Re
publican ticket.
This year there are three can -
didates on the Democratic tic
kPt for delegate to Congress,
three sets of candidates for na
tional committeeman and two
sets of candidates for the legis
lature. Looking at the line-up, it
appears that Anthony Dimond,
candidate for delegate to con
gress and J. J. Connors are lined
up together on the Juneau fed
eral brigade demo-republican
ticket. George Grigsby, perren
luial candidate for delegate to
Congress is blooming out again
for the honor and with John
Frame, erstwhile, Republican
national committeeman elected
several years back, as his run
ning mate and A. H. Ziegler,
former representative to the le
gislature running with R. E.
Kardcastle lined up as national
committeeman on his ticket.
The legislative line-up i s
split two ways—t h e Juneau
crowd supporting one crowd
with Ketchikan supporting an
other crowd. This is the result of
the break in the Democratic
1 iif ■
convention held in Petersburg
this fall.
One of the primary issues el
the campaign will be the terri
torial primary election laws—
Juneau, the Connors, Dimond,
Troy-Pegues machine wanting
t) abolish the law while Ketchi
kan, Ziegler, Hardcastle, Walker
combination refuse to endorse
abolishment of the law in favor
of the old convention, gangster
politics.
In the Republican primaries,
Delegate Wickersham is unop
posed for re-election to that of
fice while John Rustgard and
Frank H. Foster are going to
point out the weaknesses of each
other and Mr. Truitt of An
chorage will battle the winner
in the fall.
Mr. Lucas, secretary-treasurer
of the Juneau Cold Storage, with
the support of the federals n!
Juneau want to oust Cash Cole
from the office of Auditor while
Mr. Cole is not ready to step out
nor are his friends willing to see
him go; Percy Charles of Ket
chikan form the third angle oi
the triangle. Frank Boyle hopes
to defeat the winner next fall,
perhaps on his legislative record.
In both parties, there are two
complete sets of candidates for
delegates to the national con
ventions. Dr. Will H. Chase or'
Cordova and E. S. Hungerford,
of Petersburg are paired off on
one ticket while Karl Thiele of
Juneau and J. Davies of Ketchi
kan are paired off on the other
side of the Republican primaries
v, ith Albert White of Juneau
running as alternate.
A complete listing of the can
didates has been compiled on
another column of this issue.
Comments will be made later on
from time to time pertinent to
the qualifications of each candi
date. In the meantime, align
ments are being made and
things political are becoming
quite interesting.
In the past, this publication
has taken a lead in endorsing
and supporting candidates, car -
lying the full burden, responsi
bility and blame, without any
credit, for the men on its ticket.
It is taking more or less of a
watchful waiting attitude leav
ing the leadership to those who
allege themselves more fit to
work for the election of the sev
eral candidates. Which is making
matters somewhat interesting,
from our point of view. We are
like Rastus we are willing to
listen to reason. And already we
are receiving reasons as to why
v e should support this, that 01
the other candidate. And as
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