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A wish never yet hooked a fish.
Nor poolroom talk swing any
public opinion. Pitiless publicity
makes many a change in admin
istration.
You can’t drivs uphill with
your brakes set; nor can .your
mind accept facts when blinded
by prejudice,
’ Old hens are flighty, but can’t
fly. And they lay many an egg..
John Rustgard Eulogizes Judge
James Wicker sham
Hundreds of men thruout Alaska are ever
willing to pay tribute to the great achievements
for the Territory accomplished by Judge Wicker
sham. when he was delegate to Congress. He has
a record along that line that is unassailable. And
possibly no one has paid him greater honor than
did Attorney General John Rustgard in his fa
mous speech at Anchorage more than two years
ago.
While it is true that Mr. Rustgard has re
canted from most of his expressed views so earn
estly delivered at Anchorage, it is also true that he
has given no public expression of a change in the
estimate he then held of the worth and accomp
lishments of the man who is today the opponent
of Mr. Rustgard for the Republican nomination
for Delegate to Congress.
_The fact that Judge Wickersham’s friends,
when they knew that Dan Sutherland would not
again be a candidate for office, insisted that the
Judge should enter the political arena, which he
has done with all his old time vigor, should not of
itself be any reason why Mr. Rustgard should
change his estimate of the worth of Alaska’s
leading citizen. And there is no reason to believe
that he has done so.
And so it is interesting to know just what
John Rustgard really thinks of James Wicker
sham. Part of the many favorable expressions
in that famous Anchorage speech are contained
in the following paragraphs.
“What is there about this man Wickersham
that strikes such terror into his opponents?
“Here is a man with no newspaper to boost
him. There is no private, predatory interests back
of him. He has been out of politics for eight
years. There is no office holder in the Territory
indebted to him for appointment. He has no
private means with which to purchase political
support. Yet, they tell us they cannot prevent
his election should he offer himself for an elect
ive office. What an enconium to pronounce on
any individual.
“If we knew nothing else about the man would
we not be justified in believing that he is possess
ed of those elements which make some people
great in the eyes of historians? ‘Men, as ships,
are measured by the waves which follow them.’
One is tempted to believe that those who so bit
terly denounce him are the spiritual descend
ants of the traducers of Washington and Lincoln
and Roosevelt. I could wish for no greater as
surance of the real- worth than that which our
bipartizans have thus so freely given Judge Wick
ersham.
“Whether we like the man or not, we must
admit that he is the one above all who raised the
banner of autonomy for Alaska. He carried it
defiantly thru the storm of many campaigns, and
before he withdrew from public life planted it
firmly at the Capital of the Nation where it has
been ably defended by his successor. It was not
until the Legislature had permitted strangers to
pilfer what he secured for us that his voice rung
out over the Territory calling the people to arms
to protect their inheritance.
“I think I am in position to say that he has
no aspirations to hold public office again. But if
ever thru mishap or deceit, the honor of the Ter
ritory should be threatened or its aspirations mis
interpreted by any man sent to represent us at
the Capital, this veteran fighter will again grab
the old banner and hold it towards the stars, and
I know enough of the temper of the people of
this Territory to assure you, that when he does so
they will back him with a greater majority than
ever before sent him or any other man to Wash
ington.
“The types of mind that deprecate democratic
institutions because the people are prone to elect
such men to office are not American except in
name. They possess none of the spirit of the men
and women of the past whom we love to honoi
today. Had they lived during the days of the
Civil War they would have been Copperheads; had
they lived during the Rebellion, they would have
been Tories; had they lived during the days of the
Stuarts of England, they woold have been in
formers at the Court or would have been hang
men reveling in the execution of the champions
of liberty. Every age and every country has that
type of characters to contend with, and we in
Alaska always have had and always will have oui
share of them. It is the type that makes eternal
vigilance the price of liberty.
“Tlite man’s enemies, though few, are vfru
lent, and most of them occupy official positions 01
vantage. When in Congress he secured the pass
age of a law creating the Agricultural College and
School of Mines at Fairbanks, and endowing the
same with large tracts of land which will ulti
mately make the institution self-supporting. For
this work he was ridiculed by his enemies at the
time.
“Never did Wickersham’s ability shine more
brilliantly than during the maneuvers to secure
the government authorization and appropriation
for building the Alaska Railroad. His last speech
in Congress on that occasion is one of the great
masterpieces heard in the Capital. It w'ould be
a monument to any man. The fruit of his labor
is the railroad, which is the greatest gift ever be
stowed upon any territory by the nation. It is a
monument to Wickersham’s force.
“Officials of our inverted democracy would
blot his name from the map of Alaska, but what
they have done to vent their spleen will serve
to cause Judge W’ickersham’s name to slow with
so much greater lustre from the pages of Alaska s
history when future generations shall look back
upon what has been done and what obstacles had
to be overcome by the doers.”
Wickersham Killed Notorious
Bill
When Judge James Wickersham was in Con
gress, he had many big accomplishments to hi?
credit. He proved himself as a worthy represent
ative of the Territory. The fishermen particular
ly should always hold him in grateful remembrr
ance. For he it v/iu; who prevented the passage
of the notorious Alexander Fish Bill, that would
have given title to all the salmon areas to the
cannery men, to the exclusion of all free fish
ing. When he returns to Washington as Delegate
from Alaska, ho will always be on the lookout to
safeguard the interests of his constituents.
IMPORTANT DUTY FOR COLE AND KNIGHT
The present Home Rule Bill that creates the
elective offices of Treasurer and Auditor gives
these officials additional duties. They are both
members of the Territorial Board of Road Com
missioners. As majority members, the third be
ing the Governor, they will have considerabls to
say in the future as to the disposition .of .the
$300,000 or $400,000 that the Legislature usually
appropriates for roads and trails. In Treasurer
Knight and Auditor Cole, the interests of all sec
tions of the Territory will be properly safeguard
ed and judicious expenditures made for road and
{trail building.
Now We Have a Real
Auditor
For the first time since the people of the Ter
ritory have been presumably attending to their
own affairs we have an Auditor. Heretofore ap
j propriations were made by the Legislature and
I were expended without much reference to wheth
! er all was within the law or according to the ap
propriations for specific purposes. But since
j Auditor Cole has held office for over ten months
! past there has been real system and correct pro -
j cedure in the systematic running of of the finan
j cial affairs of the Territory. Auditor Cole is un
der $25,000 bond to “audit and allow all claims or
demands which are just and true and a legal
charge against the Territory and for the payment
of which appropriation has been made by the
Legislature.” And he complies with the law and
will continue to do so after the Republicans
nominate him for the office on April 29, and the
electors choose him on November 4th next. All
Republican voters should be careful to see that an
“X” is placed before the name of Cash Cole when
they cast their ballots next month.
Fear multiplies the enemies
that beset us; faith helps us to
upset them; hope urges the ac
complishment of things worth
while. !<
The Change Will Be
Good
During his short tour of
Southeastern Alaska, candidate
Frank L. Knight, of Anchorage,
made a splendid impression on
the electorate, and demonstrat- j
ed that the next Treasurer of
ihe Territory will be a human
and kindly man. Treasurer
Smith has been dictated to and
commandeered for so many
years that he has grown to be
lieve that he only has one man
as boss. He never would be able
to understand that as an elect
ed official he would be subject
to the approval of the general
oublic, and that he would be ex
pected to render efficient service
instead of being snappy and
self-opinionated in his dealings
with the public.
|Reasonable Territory
Appropriations
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The Alaska Pioneers Home at
Sitka takes care of over 100 in
mates thruout the year. They
are housed, fed and given medi
cal treatment—all for less than
$50,000 per fear. But without
maintenance and to provide for
the ordinary expenses of giving
collegiate instruction to 60 or
70 pupils during part of the year
it costs the Territory over $50,
IP00 and the Federal government
another $50,000, per year to run
| the Agricultural College at Fair
I hanks.
S And yet, because Dr. Bunnell,
who lobbied thruout the last
Legislative session, was not able
to receive a Territorial appro
priation of more than $105,000
for the biennium, he felt that
the College was being discrimin
ated against. He came to Ju
! neau with a demand for $235,000.
; This was cut by the House to
$135,000 and thanks to the alert
ness and sense of justice of Sen
ator Will A. Steel, of the First
Division, this bill was further re
; duced in the Senate to $105,000,
which was later accepted by the
House. There is such a thing
as a reasonable consideration of
Territorial needs, but if all de
mands were on a line with the
persistent requests of President
Bunnell the taxation of Alaska
would have to be almost doubled,
if they were complied with.
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THE WRANGELL CAMP OF
THE A. N. B.
Visitors to the Wrangell Camp
0 fthe Alaska Native Brother
hood are much impressed with
tne business-like way in which
they handle their affairs. Their
1 amp finances are in a flourish
ing condition and they have re
cently finished paying for their
nail, which was purchased from
the late William Lewis.
There is a little story in con
nection with the final payment
on the Hall that illustrates the
spirit of the Wrangell Camp. Lit
tle Jerry Desmond, eight-year
old grandson of Frank Desmond,
came to the meeting the night
the camp was selling bonds to
raise the final payment of $600
that was due. Livingstone Des
mond bought the first bonds,
$25 worth; then little Jerry
stood up and made a speech
msomething like this:
“Mr. Chairman, I don’t want
my big brother to beat me, so I
am buying $25 worth of bonds
too. Here is my money in a sack.
Only it is in nickels and dimes
and quarters. I have been sav
ing it for a long time. Some
money I made selling papers
and some by selling old dog sal
mon that I’d get from the boats.
One time my Daddy tried to
make me throw these fish fish
away and go home, but I said,
‘No, Daddy, I’m selling these
fish to help pay for the Hall.’
So Daddy just shook his head,
and said, “Alright.”
That is the kind of spirit that
has built the Alaska Native Bro
therhood.
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