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A. N. B. Publishing Company,
.Published every Friday by the Alaska Native Brotherhood
Publishing Company, at Petersburg, Alaska. Entered in the Post
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The Alaskan, per year, $1.00 Louis F. Paul, Editor-Manager.
EMPIRIC INCONSISTENCIES
From the Juneau Empire
“There is no secret about the
fact that Frank H. Foster, veter- i
an Third Division politician and
legislator, during a recent visit!
here boosted along the harmony
program. In fact, his visit seem
ed to have been largely evangel
istic in its tenor. He took his
text from the handbook of prac
tical politics and expounded
mightily on party fealty and not i
without result.
“After convincing his congre
gation here that the only true'
road to political heaven was in
supporting the Republican can-,
didates from the head of the
ticket right down thru the en-j
tire list he carried his stirring
message to the Ketchikan Gar
cia. His hopeful words brought
Mr. Paul hotfoot to Juneau and
Harmony was a fact accomp
lished.”
In its issue of the 29th ol
August the Empire states that
for obvious reasons the Indian
vote did (would) not turn to the
Democratic leaders for support.
“Therefore to avert political ob
literation, they made overtures
to those men they had opposed:
?n bitterly in April and brought ,
about an alliance of candidates
under a specious plea of party
harmony.”
. .Does the Empire have so poor
cn opinion of its own readers
that it contradicts itself within
a few days of the first statement
which declared Foster had the
big harmony idea and personally
‘ carried the message to the Ket
chikan Garcia.”
Harmony With One Tune
This publication will not sup
port one candidate who does not
subscribe to the platform it ha:
advocated the past four years.
The Republicans, generally, are
appreciating the fact that the
issues advocated by this publi
cation are right and they are in
corporating them in their plat
form. For which reason this
organization is supporting those
candidates who openly subscribe
to and work to secure the ac
complishment of those princip
les.
The Democratic Platform
The platform annunciated by
the Empire over the signature of
Mr. J. J. Connors for the Demo
cratic party may be summarized
in a few words. We paraphrase
a paragraph or two of that plat
form and it will read as Messrs
Pegues and Troy expect it to be
read and understood: .
“Need Intelligent Electorate’’
The Indian “voters do not un
derstand issues or realize their
import; they do not weigh the
candidates and parties they re
present; they are not capable oi
studying those issues nor dc
they read about them in the
Daily Empire and they do not
discuss them with their Demo
cratic fellows. They are an elect
orate dominated by the will oi
one or two leaders that votes a;
a unit oftimes without bein£
able to read the name of the
candidates for whom they vote
and without the knowledge oi
the existence of the office al
stake, they are a real menace tc
self-government. * * * Last Apri
Mr. Gardner and Mr. Scott, run
ning on the anti-Indian tickel
sincerely disturbed the threat oi
mass voting and succeeded ir
breaking through the barrier. II
was an achievment of note, ont
in which Republican and Demo
crat alike rejoiced since it seem
ed to sound the note of fina:
downfall to mass voting and po
lical dominance of the Indian;
in this Division.”
These Lily White Leaders
Whose political doctrines foj
the past eight years have beer
along racial lines, lines of ani
mous and hatreds patriotically
wave the Star Spangled Bannei
and preach doctrines cf Liberty,
Justice'and Equality for All—but
the Indian. Patriots—the kind
ot leeches that make decent,
honest citizens blush at the
very thought of breathing the
same air with such as Pegues
and Troy of the Empire.
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THIS IS PLAIN ENOUGH
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“We are NOT MAKING ANY
FIGHT on Federal bureau be
cause THEY ARE ESSENTIAL
under the present system of
Government.” So says the Ju
nea Empire, that great champi
on of Full Territorial Govern
ment.
. “But we are in earnest in pro
claiming the right of Alaskans
to administer their game, fur,
fisheries and other natural re
sources which are now under
control and direction of Federal
authority and sincere in our
purpose to attain that right
without further delay.”
Which after all means that
the Democratic leaders will not
fight the bureau system which is
like a millstone dragging the
Territory into economic distress.
That having those bureaus, un
der our system of government
Ttey are an essential part of the
Territorial government.
But it does not hurt to spit
■up against the wall and for the
■ake of fooling the average voter
‘declare we are in earnest in
proclaiming the right of Alas
kans to administer their game,
fur, fisheries, etc..”
Declarations without an array
of facts means nothing to offi
cial Washington. So under the
fiat form proclaimed by J. J.
Conners and published by the
Empire, Alaskans may expect
sincere and earnest cooperation
with the bureaus essential, so
called, to the government of the
Territory.
The question is which are the
bureaus essential to our or any
system of government?
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AGAIN O’MALLEY ADMITS WE
ARE RIGHT
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Last week Acting Secretary of
Commerce Morgan, speaking for
| Henry O’Malley, U. S. Commis
| sioner of Fisheries, published a
' regulation permitting the taking
f i salmon in Klawock Inlet fo~
commercial purposes for a peri
od of ten days.
'Ve have pointed out that tht
bureau was breeding only late
fish and giving no protection to
the June and July runs. Last
year we poinfed out that th^
system was causing an over
-tucking of certain streams. Thi ■
venr that theory was again de
monstrated as being correct. Sc
O'Malley by his new regulation,
agrees that overseeding of the
Klawock area was more harmful
than a benefit. In other words
the contentions of The Alaskan
is correct and O’Malley’s system
■ of regulation all wrong.
, More and more the cannery
■ men are coming to agree thal
, the O’Malley system is wrong—
, and the system advocated by the
• Alaska Native Brotherhood anc
other Alaskans, is the correcl
, method of controlling the fish
eries.
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TALKING OF LITERATE
VOTES
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The Empire makes much adc
/about votes in the First Divi
, j sion: That the Indian voters art
.; unable to select candidates pi’O
perly because of their qualifica
tions. The following letter ad
; I dressed to the Seattle STAR i;
j rather elucidating along thal
line as to the ability of the vot
• err in the States to select candi
L dates:
.j Editor The Star: Why don’t
r you tell us how to vote in tin
• | county primary election? Then
J
are so many candidates that I>
who have no contact with them,
am entirely at sea and know
nothing about their qualifica
tions. Many of your readers, I
am sure, would appreciate hav
ing you tell them how to cast
their ballots. P. N. JARVIS.
Dear Mr. Jarvis: Your letter
is one of many of its type that
have come to The Star recently.
Our belief is that a newspaper’s
function is not to try to dictate
how its readers should vote.
Rather we prefer to lay the
facts before readers and permit
them to use their own good
judgment.
In view of the unprecedented
number of candidates this fall,
and the fact that the election,
in many instances, will be de
cided in the primaries, The Star
is glad to offer its ideas as to
the leading candidates, for the
benefit of many readers who
have asked for such knowledge.
—Editor, The Seattle Star.
* Block Voting
The Empire dominates a cer
tain class of voters who are of
he migratory species, due to the
manner in which they secure
their living. These vote at the
behest of the great Napoleon
Troy and his Field Marshal Pe
gues and at times the shadow
appears greater than the Na
poleonic editor.
That vote is a solid mass vote
—a vote on racial lines rather
than on issues of principle. By
which reason such voting is far
more a menace to good self-gov
ernment than the vote of any
and all the Indians in the Ter
ritory combined.
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WHEN THE SHOE PINCHES
The Wrangell Mill and Power
Company of Wrangell is worse
than bankrupt; the small saw
jmill at Ketchikan is so busted
that its owners—all independ
ently wealthy—refuse to put in
another dime to save it from go
ing on the rocks; the big sawmill
at Ketchikan has its head out of
the waters of financial distress,
but that is about all that can be
said of it. The Juneau Lumber
Mills, though it cut ten million
feec of ,’ogs this year, is scared
stilt for what it sees in the hand
writing on the wall.
At a recent conference held in
,'uneau Mr. C T. Gardner voiced
his opinion as to the conditi m
of the lumber industry. You
would have thought, had you
heard it, that some one was
reading some of the back issues
of The ALASKAN or ALASKA
FISHERMAN or that William L.
Paul was speaking. When the
speaker got through picturing
the dire future outlook of the
logging and lumbering industry,
Mr. Paul said, “That is the situa
tion that has confronted our
people for several years. You
are just beginning to get the
taste of it.”
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A REAL BOLSHIVIK
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We sat listening to a cannery
man, not long since. He was tell
ing us the experiences he had to
go through and some of his
hardships were not imaginary,
by any means. When he got
through, we said: “If we got out
and talked half as plainly to the
people and to the federal offi
cials at Washington we would be
called ‘raving radicals.’ We may
yet tell some of this man’s ex
periences.
There is Nothing
A prominent millman of the
First Division was talking with
William L. Paul, telling of the
regulations of the Forest Bureau
which made it impossible to op
erate at a profit. He asked: “Is
there nothing you can do to se
i cure relief for us”? There is
nothing that Paul or any other
single person can do—but col
lectively—the more white collar
ed Alaskans cry against the con
ditions in Alaska, the more who
i join—with the Indians—or any
other group to better those con
ditions the sooner the relief.
THE PULP MILL MENACE
Up until the past few years,
■ the mill companies of Alaska
had a very good revenue from
box lumber orders from the can
neries. Lately the canners have
been using paper boxes. That
source of revenue to the mills is
being cut off. There is no mar
ket for logs or lumber. Men are
laid off. The local business men
suffer more than the individual
laborer.
Bait
One election year the canners
placed large orders for boxes
with the lumber mills—to keep
the mill men quiet or to secure
their vote on an anti-Indian
platform. The scheme worked.
But since then box lumber or
ders have been negligible. Who
paid the bill?
The Export Market
With no local market for lum
ber and no takers for log orders,
the loggers wanted to go into
the foreign export market. But
they were hedged in by the For
est Bureau. With more logs on
hand and standing than can be
utilizied each year, the local
operators cannot ship one stick
of hemlock to Japan when or
ders for sixty million can be se
cured for the asking.
Who pays the bill? And re
member that the Indians are
i’ghting this condition and only
a small handfull of them are in
the logging business.
Who Secured the Change
Mr. Henry O’Malley, in the in
terest of conservation, so-called,
ruled that resident seiners could
not operate a seine with a hook
off from the beach. What did
tne Juneau Empire or the Demo- i
cratic party of Alaska do about
It? Did they even register a
protest? Not so you would no
tice. The Indian “illiterate, mass
voters sent in protest after pro
test. Through their spokesman,
William L. Paul they demon
strated to Vice President Curtis
the unfairness of the regulation.
He presented the matter to the
Secretary of Commerce who res
cinded that order.
If you are a fisherman and
use the hook-off, remember that
the “mass voter” got it for you.
If you are a merchant and cater
to the fishermen trade, you owe
their added spending power to
the “illiterate voters who do not
understand issues,” sufficiently
to accept the rulings of King
O’Malley.
WHICH LEADS US TO SAY:
That William L. Paul nor any
one else can say that they dic
tate to the members of the Alas
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