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What would we do in this world
of our own,
Were it not for the dreams
ahead?
For thorns are mixed with bloom
ing flowers,
No matter which way we tread.
And each of us has his golden
goal,
Stretching far into the years;
And ever he climbs with a hope
ful soul,
With alternate smiles and tears.
That dream ahead is what holds
him up
When his lips are pressed to the
worm woods cup,
Through the storms of ceaseless
fight;
And the clouds shut out the
light.
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tate;
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with fate
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We are blessed down here,
Portland, Oregon, with speak
easies, hooch on the hip, bub
ling vats and steaming stills in
the kitchen of the land and
bumper crops of drinking drys.”
The Hon. Wesley L. Jones,
Senator from Washington, is the
author of a law which provides
that a man or woman, who is
caught and convicted of selling
a bottle of beer to a fellow citi
zen, may be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $10,000
and not less than five years in
the pen. Jones wants the poor
jailed and the weak whose sins
are like some congressmen’s
punished,
Consider the sin of drinking,
and gambling!
The judge and the preacher
denounce it; the Bar Associa
tions protest it; the law forbids
it; society as a whole frowns on
it; and yet the rich and power
ful drink and gamble openly
and Senator Jones knows none
but the poor are punished. The
“high brow” ladies who are
bored by easy living, drink cock
tails, play bridge for money or
prizes, and their critics are call
ed “religious cranks.”
Whether drinking or gam
bling are sins, I do not know. All
life is a gamble. But I do know
that dishonesty is vile; that
calling a theft “misappropria
tion” does not make it less a
theft; that no law is a good law
if it does not apply to the great
and small alike; and that the
people will continue to scorn and
hate the law and its machinery
so long as our scheme of ethics
condemns the poor and excuses
punishment 6n,
the rich. We have capital pun
ishment, but only for the poor
man; we have prohibition; but
only for the poor man; we have
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punishment for the gambler, but
only for the poor man.
We are a nation of hypocrites
—pretending to a superior right
eousness because we punish the
poor and the weak for immoral- j
ities that are not at all immor- j
al when practiced by the rich'
and the social elite.
—JAMES R. LITTLE
PLANS TO RESTORE SOCKETE
RUN BY NEW METHOD
A. S. Miller States Four-Year
Cycle is False Theory
Sockeye runs equal to the re
cord figures of the past may
again be seen in the Fraser Riv
er, according to Alexander S.
Miller, of Smithers, who has been
associated with the fishing in
dustry for nearly thirty years in
Alaska, and during that time
has brought about the replen
ishing of a number of streams
that were threatened with deple
tion. Mr. Miller is not only con
vinced that the runs on the Fra
ser can be brought back to their
old volume, but also that these
great runs can be repeated and
maintain in perpetuity. In a re
cent newspaper interview he
stated he had come to Vancouv
er, B. C., for the purpose of lay
ing before those interested in
the future of this great Indus-1
try, and before members of the
government, his ideas and sug
gestions, in the hope that they
will be of value to the country.
Salmon Studies in Alaska
As a result of his studies of
salmon, extending over more
than a quarter of a century in
Alaska waters, Mr. Miller claims
that the sockeye salmon, con
trary to accepted theory, oper
ates on a 7 and 8 year cycle and
not on a four year cycle. He al
so discovered that the cycle of
tfte humpback is six years, and
not as popularly supposed, on a
cycle of two years, although the
large runs come on the cycles
which are credited with being
the return of the fish to its na
tive waters, contrary to actual
fact,
“My discoveries resulted from j
my damming of the little stream ]
operating into Nakat Inlet, Alas- i
ka, in 1883,“ he explained. “This !
stream had a normal sockeye j
run of about 10,000 salmon. I g
built a fence across and no fish
could get up. The next year I "
once more prevented the fish
coming up, and then on the third
year the Indians began to com
plain and the chief told me that
I must let some salmon up. In
order to placate him I employed
him with a scoop net to lift
some sockeye over the fence so
they could make their way into
the little lake where they spawn
ed. He counted the fish and
they numbered 1600. The next
year I once more employed to
lift an equal number of sockeyes
over the fence. All other fish
were stopped.
Results
' “Now, the results of this sys
tem were most surprising. I ex
pected that the fourth year af
ter my having first stopped the
fish would see the end of the
runs. This was not so, for they
came in as large numbers as be
fore. It was not until the sev
enth and eighth years that there
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was a falling off, corresponding
to the blocking of the stream.
That there was not a total ces
sation of the fish first suggest
ed to me that nature in order
to provide for the restocking of
a stream blocked by an obstruc
tion sees to it that a certain
number of fish, a small percent
age, come back on a cycle of sev
en years, but the bulk come on
the eighth year cycle.
“In any event, the eighth and
ninth years, corresponding to
the cycle where I had stopped
the fish without letting any
through to the lake, were very
poor ones, but there were enough
to employ the Indian to lift the
usual number over. Then came
the eighth year from the season
when the chief had lifted the
1600 over the fence. Instead of
the normal number of 10,000
that had been a good year in the
past, there were 35,000. The
humbacks continued to come for
six years, but at the end of that
time they fell off entirely and
did not come back, for none had
been lifted over the fence. The
surprising thing and the con
vincing argument was, however,
in the fact that the stream con
tinued to produce '5,000 sock
eyes, corresponding to the work
of the chief in his annual task
of lifting the fish over the
fence.”
Other Streams
.. Mr. Miller tried the experiment
with other streams in Southeast
Alaska in succeeding years with
similar results, until finally the
fisheries commission stopped
him fencing the small streams.
But in every instance where he
was permitted to carry out his
ideas the results were similar to
those at Nakat Inlet; the num
ber of sockeyes in the stream,
from the eighth year, multiplied
UU per cent.
He explains that any spawn
ing lake can only accommodate
so many hsh, that the grounds
where the fish lay their eggs is
limited, and that the sockeyes
are the tirst to deposit their
spawn. The other species of
salmon follow, and they in
spawning, destroy millions of
sockeye eggs. Then, too, salmon
trout and other species oi fresn
water fish prey on the eggs and
fry, destroying countless num
bers oi them. In the streams
that he fenced all fish were pre
vented from getting up to the
lakes, and sockeye salmon alone
were lifted over the obstructions
by the Indians.
He is confident that if the sug
gestion that he is prepared to
offer, not only for the stocking
of the streams with sockeyes, but
with other species of salmon, are
followed, that British Columiba
need never fear the extinction of
its salmon fisheries. He main
tains that his whole scheme is
but one of assisting nature to
re-stock the streams with the
fish peculiar to that particular
river, and to each little lake
feeding that river.
If his plan is followed, he pre
dicts, the Fraser River can in
future years become re-stocked
with sockeye salmon in greater
numbers than in the halcyon
days that pioneers recall.
The Admiral Line is starting
its summer excursions early this
year and will operate the Admir
al Rogers, Queen and Dorothy
Alexander for a total of 30 voy
ages. The first trip of the Alex
; ander will be from Los Angeles
via San Francisco and Seattle
early in June.
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