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WHO COT THE DOLLAR?
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During the past year came one
Stanley Oaksmith of Ketchikan to
Petersburg and Scow Bay to organize
forts of the United Sons of Alas
ka. He organized forts at Peters
lurg and Scow Bay. He got a dollar
per from some fifty men who joined
that organization. He promised to
send a charter to the forts immedi
ately upon hie return to Ketchikan.
He has not done so. Evidently
he has not yet returned to Ketchi
kan.
In the meantime, who got those
dollars and what for?
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS
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That was the cry of the Republic
cans democratic national committee
man called by Governor Bone “that
unspeakable Frame.” |That was the
try of the United Sons of Alaska.
Justin W. Harding, United States
District Attorney, is nominated for
tne office of judge for the district
court of the First Division.
Justin W. Harding is an Illinoisan.
Justin W. Harding is an official of
the United States who for his legal
ized blackmailing of fishermen is re
warded by receiving the nomination.
Justin W. Harding is the district
attorney who refused to present a
certain violations of the law by
Charles Valiant Brown, U. S. Deputy
Marshal of Petersburg, to the grand
jury. For protecting this common
snooping, snitching, violator of the
laws of the United States, Justin W.
Harding is named for the office of
judge of the First Division.
It wrill be so after awhile that de
iency will have to get out of Alaska
a?d only those who use their posi
tions and influence to violate laws
and to be parties thereto, can secure
the favor of the powers that be.
PAGE THE DEMOCRATS
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A loud roaT of protest, some winn
ings and considerable wailings are
being heard abou t town, on the
st-eets and in the pool rooms these
days. The reason?
The "closed port of Hubert" and
the "three cent per pound tariff on
halibut."
N. R. Walker, democratic senator
ial candidate in the last election is
out 100 per cent for this tari.
Grigsby is for it. It will be remem
bered that he refused to reply to
Dan Sutherland’s challenge to state
1 is (Grigsby’s) position on this sub
ject. He promised at Ketchikan he
would reply in his speech there but
didn’t. The Democratic leaders are
for the closed port of Prince Rupert.
COLD STORAGE CAPACITY
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During the month of October,
Ketchikan handled and shipped 290,
000 pounds of halibut; Juneau in the
same given time handled 230,000
pounds.
Prince Rubert handled about 400,
000 a day during the same given
time.
Twenty carloads of halibut a day
wijl have to be handled to take care
of the closed port of Rubert. The
cold storages cannot handle such an
amount; the "ferries" can’t begin to
handle it.
The proper way to get the fish for
American market is to pay for it.
The interests supporting the tariff
want to secuie by law what should
he gotten by the laws of economics—
to the highest bidder shall go the
fsh. Instead they say, "We will get
a tariff on the fish. Mr. Petersburg
Halibut Fisherman, under the law
you must sell me your fish at MY
price. If not, go to hell."
THE HALIBUT MAN
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The Halibut Fisherman, and their
wives also of Petersburg, voted for
Grigsby for Delegate to Congress.
They defeated William L. Paul and
A. L. Olts, labor candidate for the
legislature. They defeated these
men under misrepresentations. In
place of the labor candidates they
elected Allen Shattuek, cannery in
suranee man and A. H. Ziegler, who
has been in the pay of the Alaska
Consolidated Canneries.
These men are actively associated
with those interests which are work
ing for the closing of the port of
Prince Rubert.
ri heir “hocus pocus political pro
gram” is now shown to the Halibut
fisherman and his wife who voted
for the democratic ticket as against
she labor candidates.
INI) THE HERRING FISHERMAN
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Went up a wail last week after
we went to press and published the
regulations r.nent the herring fish
e ries.
The halibut fishermen yelled; the
troller yelled; the gillnetter and the
seiner have been yelling, but alone.
Now they seem to have brothers in
misery who want the comforting as
surance that their will be a united
front in fighting the regulations in
force for 1929.
When we appealed to the herring
'sherman he told us he was sorry
tor us but that the fight we were
waging was of no interest to him.
We are interested in the conserva
ion of herring. We want assurance
that we will have plenty of feed and
1 ait for the trolling game and for
ti.e food of the Natives of Alaska.
\?ide from that, why should we have
any interest in herring?
Our views and position in the
matter of the fisheries of Alaska are
no different *oday from twenty years
ago. We have fought for the inter
est of the fishermen at all times and
have had to fight fishermen to help
Oiem. Now, when this adversity
presents itself, it will be interesting
to watch the serviel press of the
Territory bow itself to the whims of
ihe corporate interests.
IN WHICH AYE COMMEND HEMIIY
O’MALLEY
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We do-not have much faith in the
sincerity or honesty of purpose in
Konry O’Malley’s administration of
!he fisheries of Alaska, nor do we
we lose any opportunity to show
Him to be but thet pliant tool of the
corporate interests of the Territory;
and that anv fishery regulation pro
mulgated is done only after a star
chamber conference with the Packers
cf Seattle and San Francisco.
But when he does pass a regula
tion that will be of benefit to the
Territory, regardless of our own
opinion of Henry, we are more than
giad to give him due credit. We are
willing to praise even the Devil him
. elf if given the right opportunity.
Refuses Trapmen’s Petition
The United Sons of Alaska, Fort
No. 2. of Ketchikan, a society of
hokum democrats wrote up a little
netition in which they asked O’Mal
ley to leave the east side of Beilin
( anal open to trap operations.
O’Malley believed it “inimical to
t' e proper conservation of the sal
mon fisheries of southeaster Alas
ka’«
The United Sons of Alaska is a
gathering of Democratic politicians,
N. R. W'alker, Grigsby and others
|and trap owners. They think only of
Hmir own benefit and to hell with
the rest.
AYE STAND OPPOSED
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It is ever the policy of this publi
cation to oppose the exploitation of
Alaska labor or resources. In the
effort to exploit the halibut fisher
men we believe that the entire terri
tory will be effected to its hurt for
the special benefit of a small handful
of selfish and greedy men. Men who
think naught of the good interests
of the territory; men who think only
<■? getting rich just as quickly as
:hey can so that they may return to
me states and bask in the sunshine
of California or other stated while
spending their earnings from re
sources of Alaska without any bene
lti to the Territory.
ROB PET HR TO PAY PAUL
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The transportation companies, the
banks, the trans-continental rail
roads, the trans-Atlantic and trans
pacific steamship companies along
v/iih the Chambers of Commerce are
in favor of closing the port of Prince
Gilbert. j
Delegate Dan Sutherland, without
[a single vote in Congress, is being
asked now after one of the dirtest
political campaigns in which he de
feated the interests candidate, to de
feat the tariff law which will close
t ne port of Rubert and eliminate
their competition.
Senator Lodge is dead. His ob
iection several years ago was the
('aly thing that defeated the tariff
law which would have closed Ru
pert. By Senatorial courtesy only
did he save to x\laskans the compe
titive port# of Rupert.
Will there be another Senator
Lodge to save an objection?
WE HELP THE DISCRIMINATION
Notice to our customers in Alaska
Postage charges given in this
l ook are intended for shipments to
• he States. For shipments by par
((‘1 post to Alaska the RATE IS
HIGHER.
The following table will show how
to make allowance for this differ
ent e. If the postage quoted in the
catalog is not given in this table, al
low tin* next larger sum.
’f the Or postage . . Send
Weight is— Quoted is—
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2 ” JOc 20c
3 ” 1150 38c
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b 10c 6S3c
The differential in rates graduat
ing upward from a difference of 8 to
1 4 cents on one pound of mail mat
ter a difference of 26 cents to $1.22
cn a ten-poiu d package.
Even the postal department can’t
t over the idea that Alaskans are
net bloated plutocrats.
ALL TOGETHER NOW
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Another election othing* nil
;et for another period of hopeful
watching on the part of the people
of Alaska.
We listened to a couple of po
litical speeches just before election.
('an’t say that we were much im
pressed, periiaps except as to the
nonesty and ability of the candidates
cn the ticket headed by Mr. Suth
erland.
A whole lot of growling about
this and that The Fisheries Bureau
and the canneries came in for a lot
of criticism as usual. But honestly
we can’t see a great deal that our
Delegate to Congress or our Juneau
lawmakers can do about it. They
haven’t any teeth, about all they
can do is growl.
We will say this for them tho.
They are a pretty fair set of growl
ers and we don’t think that there
will be any dirty work at the cross
roads where they have the power to
prevent it .
This criticism of the Bureau of
Fisheries and the cannerymen is
deep seated The people of Alaska
have been compelled for years and
more particularly in recent years,
since the introduction of the fish
trap as a moans of catching salmon,
to look upon the exploitation of one
of our most prolific natural resources
bv non-residents, with little if any
material benefit to the country or
its people.
We see each spring an influx of
foreign labor, supplies and energy.
We see each fall these same people,
with their summer earnings, in most"
oases intact in their pockets or as is
most often the case, to their credit
on the books of the cannery com
|tanys in Seattle or San Francisco,
pave for the south; we see the mil
ions of cases of salmon loaded
iboard the steamers.
When we take stock in the fall, we
find that we are no better off, in
fact we are poorer by several million
cases of salmon, than we were in the
spring.
Naturally the cannery man and the
Bureau of Fisheries came in for
some lively roasting. Every line
end every word of which is most
thoroughly justified ^nd deserved.
For these outsiders, now residents
with no interest in the Territory or
its future, who would not come near
us if it were not for the fat salaries
ihey draw or to reap their profits,
have succeed by means of fishing re
gulations and gentlemens agree
ments in practically eliminating the
independent and local fisherman and
creating, what is practically a mo
nopoly of the salmon fisheries of
Alaska. '
Perhaps this is good business from
the cannerymans standpoint, but we
who live here know that it is hard
on the poor devil who likes the
country wel’ enough to want to live
here and raise his family here.
But enough of that . The matter
of fish and fishetries is well before
the eyes of the public, at least here
in Alaska, and rights of the people
of the Territory are being fought
lor by all the legal means at our
,disposal.
What we most urgently need is
more people, more population, that
tve may attain statehood. Then our
legislators could make laws with
teeth in them Then ouj represents- ,
tivs could go to Washington and de- '
mand our rights as American citi
?ens. i
With statehood, we could have
'nd maintain the machinery for en
forcing these rights. Then and then f
o.j’v could we hope to shake off at
least a part of the political parasites
who are feeding off the life blood of
the territory and have a little to
say as to the destinies of our coun
try.
How are we going to get those
people.
What inducements have we to of
fer any man or woman as a reward
lor coming here, and enduring the
hardships and vicissitudes of a pio
neer life, even though it be here in
Southeastern Alaska, one of the
most interesting and beautiful coun
tries on the face of the earth.
The fisheries are being exploited
nearly to their capacity at present.
Vo be sure with time and wise legis
lation, when we have power to make
such legislation, they can be made
to support a much greater lo
cal population than at present. Pro
vided of course that the fishing
grounds are not exhausted before
rhat time.
Population and revenue from our
•nines, alth i we have some wonder
fully rich and extxensWe deposits of
minerals, is uncertain and unless
some unknown new field of exception'
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rarily swells the number of our citi
zens can not be depended on for
much of an increase.
Fur, always listed among Alas
ka’s resource? is coming into its own
a id will eventually be one of our
most thriving industries but the in
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industry will of course be slow.
Why is it that this vast country
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