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LOUIS F. PAUL,
MANAGER and EDITOR
Taxes Must Be
Reduced
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All through continental Unit
ed States the cry is going forth
that taxes must be reduced.
There is only one logical way to
reduce taxes—quit making ap
propriations and spending taxes.
Reductions in taxes might be
made by arbitrary cuts—reduc
ing the land valuations is an
other way of reducing those
taxes. But to make such re
ductions, it stands to reason,
operating expenses must be cut.
To cut operating expanses means
that additional new improve
ments cannot b~ undertaken as
present incomplete works will be
sufficient, of a load. The utmost
need of making the hydro
eiectric more efficient by com
mon sense repairs is evident.
Properly done this will make
unnecessary the further exten
sion of additional power to the
hydro. This might appear short
sighted at present, but it is not.
There is a balance in bonds of
$130,000 which must be met in
ton years. This means that the
city must set aside $13,000 each
year to meet the obligation. Six
thousand of this should be paid
annually, the balance being
placed on interest so that it will
be available the tenth year
when a total of $75,000 is due
and payable in one lump sum.
In the past ten years not more
than $20,000 has been paid in,
aside from the interest pay
ments, at which rate new bonds
must be issued if the city would
be protected in its holdings and
equity in its plant. At such a
rate—$20,000 in 10 years, it will
take considerable more than
10 years to meet the city’s obli
gations. Therefore it is impera
tive that the city now begin to
undertake meeting the obliga
tions which are of record with
out making additional expendi -
tures—not for awhile at least.
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What Determines
Issues
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We are told that the contemp
lated diesel auxiliary to the hy
dro plant is not a political issue.
We are told that the library is
We are told that Carol Clausen
is an issue. (Whether he will be
retained as city clerk or not).
The proposed diesel plant may
not be an issue but it certainly
has been boosted from various
angles about as strongly as it
could be done. The writer has
been approached b y several
urging that he get back of the
proposal. It must be an issue.
At least, the reduction of taxes
is an issue and to spend $30,000
to $40,000 for such a plant en
tails expenditure of tax money
and then it must be an issue.
The resident fishermen are
not making operating expenses
this year. They are operating in
the red. Most homes, of any
worth, cost a month’s wages in
taxes. Those should be cut, not
aaded to or even held at the old
rates. Therefore, the diesel aux
iliary is an issue.
The library is not an issue. It
is a lot of political smoke raised
for the purpose of creating ill
will towards one of the candi
dates for mayor. The source of
this issue is amazing to those
who are watching the progress'
of the city elections.
Carol Clausen is not an issue—
no one is interested in his job
as city clerk or trying to take it
away from him. Each officer of
the town is considered upon his
record and if the next council,
sees fit to remove any or all of
them, it is well to remember
that no individual has any
mortgage on any appointive or
elective office. Otherwise we
would be having a kingdom and
rot a republic. In talking oi
what will be done with Clausen,
it is well to remember that this
also is but a lot of bunkum to
stir up animosities. The source of
this also is unworthy of its par
ents.
There is only one issue—re
duction of taxes by reduction in
operating costs of the town in
those channels which will be
least hurtful or detrimental to
the town. Continuation of those
projects which are necessary at
a minimum of cost.
There are two candidates—E.
N. Ohmer for re-election and
Edvard Locken. Mr. Ohmer has
served for three years and his
record is his platform. Mr Lock
en served several years ago as
mayor and it is a- record any
candidate might be proud of.
We have not talked with either
one as to their platform or their
pians if elected. But of this we
are certain, the best interests of
the town will be served accord
ing to the ability of the one
elected.
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We Lose Respect
For O'Malley
The more we study that flue
fellow O’Malley, administrator
of Alaska’s fisheries, the less we
like him and respect him and
the more convinced are we that
he is the paid representative of
the Alaska Packers’ Association
- -paid by the tax payers of the
United States to administer the
public’s fish for the benefit of
certain packers. Like it or not
after you read the hearings cn
the Welch bill, you will agree
with us.
W. H. Chase ana E. S. Hunger
ford as delegates to the Repub
lican convention will register
most vehemently their obejec
tions to the continuance of O’
Malley in his office and your
vote for them is a protest a
gainst the past four years of
O’Malleyism. Karl Thiele is a
federal appointee—there are too
damned many federals running
Alaska now. Try getting Alas
kans not on federal payroll 10
represent you for a change. In
ether words, assert your rightful
independence and pick a citizen,
not a government employee to
represent you; nor a canner who
will wink his eye at the malad
ministration of Alaska’s fisheries
for fear of reprisals from the
Czar of Alaska.
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Shows Ulterior
Motive
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That our readers might know
just why the Welch Bill was in
troduced we print Commission
er O’Malley’s own statement
from the hearings on that bill —
page 181. Mr. Lehlbach. But the
chairman asked you the reason
why this restriction was placed,
cn outside fishing and bringing!
fish into Alaska in the closed
season was put in.
Mr. O’Malley. I beg your
pardon; the real reason was at
the time this bill was under
consideration purse seines were
making a drive on the fisheries
in Bristol Bay and they were
going clear down to Egegik and
Ugashik, away outside of the 3
nile limit and catching fish
there and bringing them into
the canneries in Kvichak Bay
two or three days before the or
dinary fishermen had a chance
to get them.” v
The real reason therefore was
that seine fishermen were get
ting fish before the imported
Alaska Fishermen’s Union could
get their gill nets working on
the poor fish. From which the
following conclusion can be
drawn: As the seiners got the
fish first and interfered with the
companies union, the on’y thing
to do was to get them out of the
way. To get them out of the
way, Mr. O’Malley could support
a bill prohibiting the taking of
fish from beyond the 3-mile limit
during any closed seasou in
Alaska. Amendment in the bill
said exclude Washington from
the inhibition.
Protect 98 Per
Cent Against 2
Mr. O’Malley and others d --
clared throughout the hearings
on the Welch bill that it was
urged as a conservation mea
sure. They did not really declare
it was to conserve the fisheries—
ihough they did try to have it
so implied. Look at the following
figures and see if they are cor
rect:
Page 36 of the same hearings:
“Mr. Sirovich. Now an industry
that has fixed canneries that
sends out 5,400,000 cases—I
would like every gentleman here
| to get this, because to me the
whole bill is contingent upon
this thought—5,400,000 cases of
salmon are sent out every year.
AH that these floating canneries
Shipped out, because of the
! catch they had made, represent
■ ed 160,000 cases last year. If you
| divide 5,400,000 cases into 160,
! 000 it represents about 2 per
| cent, or a little over 2 per cent,
as all the work that is being
J done through the floating can
neries.
Captain Petersen. Two and
seven-tenths per cent.
Mr. Sirovich. Yes. Do you
think, sir, that an organization
that gets protection to the ex
tend of 97.3 per cent, does not
need any legislation to look af~
j ter its interests—when all of the
! floating canneries that we have
in all of Alaska, that are doing
j this nefarious work that has
i been alleged, have only three
^ floating canneries and the other
two, from what I understand,
have been chained down? I do
not see where we need any leg
islation to make an absolute
monopoly for the fixed can
neries, when they have 97.3 per
cent of all the business of Alas
ka today. Why should Congress
protect them with more laws? '•v
This is the LITTLE bill that
our friend O’Malley has spon
sored for the poor, insignificant
little corporations like the Alas
ka Packers’ Association—or the
California Canners Association,
and the Pacific American Fish
eries, and a few other little fel
lows who control the entire in
(dustry—not only control the
entire industry but tells O’Mal
ley what kind of regulations to
write, when and how.
And O’Malley must be asham
ed of the bill which he sponsored
but which he refused to father —
a poor illigimate child—fathered
bv the “Alaska Fishermen’s
Union” of California because its
own fathers were ashamed of it.
Protects Fisheries
Monopoly
Effort was made to have the
various organizations protest
the Welch Bill—H. R. 6483—A
bill to provide for the protection
of fish by requiring reports on
tne location of canneries in
Alaska, and prohibiting certain
salmon unlawfully caught from
being brought into the United
States and for other purposes”!
In the hearings the following is
brought out:
Mr. Sirovich. It is a closed1
corporation. That land was
practically purchased from Civil'
War Veterans at an early date
and no one has ever been able1
to get in there for 25 years; is
that right Judge Wikersham?
(Bristol Bay district).
Mr. Wickersham. Just let me
tell you that story, will you?
Mr. Sirovich. Yes, sir.
Mr. Wickersham. About 25
years ago this bay was prac
tically closed up in this way, M;.
Chairman. These 27 canneries in
Bristol Bay occupy of course, the
favored cannery sites in that,
bay and they are owned by’
these people ^pout whom we are j
talking. Now there are other
cannery sites there and do you
know what they did? These men
who were owned by the big
packing companies there sent up
surveyors who surveyed every,
possible site in Bristol Bay where
you could build a cannery and
they purchased those sites with
soldiers’ additional homestead
script, which does not require
any improvement, and they own
them now. And between the 27
canneries which they have and j
which they operate and the sites;
which they have bought for the |
purpose of excluding any other j
American citizens from coming (
in there, they control Bristol j
Eay. They control the greatest
- :,:ural food supply that the
American prop'e have. New they
only want this bill p^sed so as
to exclude the floating canneries
Mr. Chairman, nothing can get
in there but a floating cannery
and if you exclude the floating
cannery you have given those
I people a monopoly of the great - j
est food supply which the peo
ple of this country own without
any hope—
Mr. Sirovich. Judge Wicker
sham, do you think this oill
should be called a bill to con
serve the red salmon for the
benefit of the Alaska packers
end the California packers?
Mr. Wickersham. Well it is for I
their benefit. I do not know j
what you might call it, I have
called it a whole lot worse
names than that. (Laughter).
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Hitting Gossips
WHISPERING CAMPAIGN
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In every campaign we find
so-called men coming out a
gainst certain candidates not
cpenly and on the public forum
where the verity of their charges
or assertions may be judged,
but by sneaking around the
corners, whispering furtively, in
m effort to destroy the good
name of the candidates.
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The case in point which we
decry at this time is the asser
tion that R. E .Hardcastle, de
mocratic nominee for national
committeeman was O’Malley’s
agent and “it is said that he is
a relative o f O’Malley’s b y
marriage.”
Mr. Hardcastle does not deny
tnat he was an agent under
O’Malley. He declares that he
was a good agent during the
time he served and if the words
[of fishermen on the West Coast
of Prince of Wales are to be be
lieved, he was fair and honest
with the residents of the Terri
tory in the administration of
his work under O’Malley. He did
not let his job bloat his ego to
the point where he thought he
was king of a large principality.
He was fair; he was kind; he
v/as honest. Not many men un -
der O’Malley can be so branded
Not by the fishermen nor their
friends.
“Relation of O’Malley’s”
Mr. Hardcastle does not deny
that he is related to O’Malley
We believe, and he will bear us
out, that his wifes brother-in
law’s sister is related to O’Mal
ley by marriage. Now, if the vile
mouthed snakes would establish
just what O’Malley’s relation is
to Hardcastle, in fairness to the
voters we will publish it.
He Quit His Job
We personally asked Hard
castle how he happened to sev
er his relations with a nice, soft
snap of a job with certain pay
aitached to enter into civil life
with its many uncertainties. He
declared: “I could not honestly
follow out the rotten system as
administered by O’Malley. It was
imjust to the people of Alaska;
P was discriminatory against
them; it was bending too much
to giving assistance to the pack
ers. I have said to O’Malley
worse things about his adminis
tration of Alaska’s fisheries than
any other Alaskan. I am for
Alaskans first and always a -
gainst the policies of O’Malley.’'
When a minor employee
stands up and tells his boss that
he (the boss is wrong) and sev
ers his connection forthwith
that employee has a stamina
that cannot be mistaken. That is'
just the position that Hardcastle
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