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LEST WE FORGET
Across the channel is a little spot
sometimes called a cemetery—for
that is where are buried our dead
Are planted their until eternity our
friends who have gone before; are
planted there men who served their
country’s call to arms.
It is fitting that good Americans
bear in mind that those who offered
their all in their country's need are
resting in that neglected spot with
no loved ones to put the loving touch
ot memory upou their deserted
graves. In memory—in their honor
it ’s hoped that effort will be mad 3
to clean and clear up the cemetry
before Memorial Day.
ALL FROM SAME ROOT
We listened to a conversation the
other day on one of the floats. It
was between a group of trollers and
the gist of which was as follows:
“I came in from Dali Island with
about $100. tvorth of salmon and
sold my catch in Ketchikan, last
we^k. At the float were more than
a hundred Puget Sound trollers and
whe nthey learned where we got ou.’
fish, there was a rush to their boats
$and a scurrying to the fishing
grounds. When we got back there
we did not have a chance to make
expenses for competition from those
Seattle birds.”
A second speaker said: “Those
fellows ought to be taxed at least
$300. for fishing in Alaska. We can
not fish in Oregon or Washington
unless we are residets of those states
for at least 12 months. Why should
they come here and fish in com
petition with us and not be required
to pay tax or be bona fide resi
dents?”
And why shouldn’t they be tax
ed or compelled to be residents as in
the Coast States. The Progressive
Republican ticket, up for election
next November, are pledged to put
a prohibitive tax on these migra
tory birds and to work for a ‘‘resi
dent law. Remember the ticket next
fall. A vote against them is a vote
for the perpetuation of the present
unfair system.
ALL IN SAME BOAT
The fishing industry of Alaska
may be likened to the hand and
fingers. The fingers are all differ
ent but they come from the same
stalk. The interests of the halibut
fishermen, the herring fishermen, the
seiners, the trollers, may all be dif
ferent. When the trollers fight the
prostitution of herring fisheries, the
halibutmen indifferently shrug their
shoulders and say it is no fight of
theirs when the seiner tries to in
terestt the allied fisheries in their
fight against the traps, they get the
cold shoulder, and so on with the
story.
Last year the earnings of trollers
were curtailed by lack of feed in the
waters for king salmon; the hali
butmen, lost thousands of dollars
because they were unable to secure
bait and to operate.
When trolling is real slack in
the summer months, the trcller goes
seining; when prices are poor the
halibutmen go trolling or they go
reining. The herring fisher, for bail
has to lay up his gear o rgo on small
production and the seiner makes
room for all.
It behooves all the fishermen to
look the issues sqarely and bend
their effort toward making conditions
better throughout the tntire indus
try.
"United we stand, divided, we
fall.” proper conservation of the
fisheries will mean money in the
pockets of all—concerned.
The catch, per unit of halibut
gear has dropped from 430 pounds
to 43 pounds in less than 15 years
At the rate of present day intens
ive fishing, how long will it be be
fore profitable operations are his
tory of the past?
With the 1,000 or more trollers
from Seattle competing with the
i rollers, halibutmen and seiners
turning to the trolling end of the
game, how long will it be before
that industry will have no more sai
man to fish for?
With intensive production of ‘fish
meal” commonly called manure in
trade parlance, how longs will it be
before the herring industry is on
oar with gold diggings which have
been cleaned out?
With the present production <jl
salmon by the canners, how many
more years will it be, before a sai
mon will be as much of a curiosit.v in
Alaska as it is in New York City?
WThen the herring are gone as is
now evident to all it will go, what
will the troller do?
Let the Chronicle, the Empire and
their cohorts shout what bigotry,
laeial animosities they will, it wi i
not remedy matters. Petersburg,
unless other industries develop and
which at this writing are not even
vague nopes, will not be worth a hill
of beans. Property values will
tumble. Clique, clans and tribes will
vanisn to other labor markets and
like Dou.las we will live in the hope
of some big strike that will rebuild
the town.
NOMINEE A CONTRACTOR AND
AND BUILDER
mil in me juuniai iii
which was appearing sketches of
“Candidates and Platforms’’ o t
'those who were to be voted upon
at the recent Oregon Primary elec
tion, on May 17, was the following:
Contractor and Builder
“E. J. Adams of Eugene, cam!
date for delegate to the Republican
National Convention, was born in
Michigan and educated in the pubPc
schools of that state. He is a con
tractor and builder.” A whole ha
rroie is said of his record political
ly but nothing as to his ability as
a jurist—eminently qualified or oth
erwise. We have a lot of contract
ors in Alaska with less political I
pull than has Adams, probably is
the reasons they did not get the fat
plum. However, much wonder is
expressed as to whether due recog
mtion will ever be given to the sev
eral qualified attorneys in the Terri
riroiy for the position.
Judge Elmer Ritchie, another cor
pet’.ag appointee just left for the
Sta' s where he expects to make his
home and practicelaw. Others come
and go And we assert tha 90 pe*
< •: Lt of the ills and ailrn mis of the
1 cnnory are oue to the lability of
a; ; ointees wno come to A a ka with
trunks and suitcases filled with sup
plies and groceries andwho take
': . s> io the States at federal expense
a. d i' hrn * ith more su^'.ases ana
tr liks filled with stuff In compe
ti'-m o*th oisiness con.-i-i.sin th^
'territory :-ct ri?j that u feder
al funds .'or U e feeding f prisoa
orsare used to purchase supplies at
S^a-tle ! ‘ irices .-.*•?* too high
in Al*uih.a.” in v/.i can -*
cited aid CBsrs '•» point vn;1 be cit
• d.
Contractors. import3 ■ flatfeot
Time Alaska had some its own se
iociions!
NUDER ADAMS ARTICLE
The Oregon Daily Journal refers
to Edgar J. Adams who has been
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nominated for Judge of the First
Division as a contractor and builder.
There is not a word in a sketch of
him to indicate that he is a lawyer.
Perhaps they want to send him up
here to build the capitol. Proh-'
ably wanted to kill two birds with
one stone—or salary.—Empire.
ANOTHER CARPET BAG APPOINT
MENT
The following taken from the
Alaska Weekly seem quite appro
priate in view of pledge of the pro
gresslve Republican ticket:
“Edgar Adams has been appoint
ed to the judgeship made vacant by
(he death of Judge Reed. W* have
nothing to say as to the judicial ah
ility of Mr. Adams, in fact know
nothing about it. As nearly as we
can check his record, his lifetime
since he reached the age of majority
has been spent in public office of one
sort or another, as a representative
n the legislatureof Michigan, as pri
vate secretary to Senator Stanfield
of Oregon—in some minor capacity
on the Shipping Board—always in
a public office. We understand that
his appointment wa sdue to the re
commendation of Mr. Clark, secre
tary to President Coolidge, and wa3
made without the endorsement or
consultation with the Delegate from
Alaska. He may be good judicial
fimber — a brilliant jurist who
dimply has not been given the op
portunity to let his geniusshine forth.
We hope so.
What we find hard to understand
is the attitude of treating the Terri
lory of Alaska as a dependent princi
paiity of a sovereign nation—a pro
per home for political remittance
men. If the Territory is ever to be
allowed to work out her own salva
tion it must be her own people who
do it. Among the attorneys of Alas
ka we can name a dozen offhand
who are fully as capaable from a
standpoint of legal training and ju
dicial temperament as any judge
now gracing a federal bench. The
statement that the reason for the
carpetbag appointment was due to
lack of material in the Territory is
as ridiculous as it is untrue.
We do not wish to be misunder
stood a slaunching a personal at
tack on the newly oppointed judge—
able opinion that the appointment
should have been made from among
we are simply voicing our unalter
the ranks of Alaska’s own legal frat
ernity and serving notice on the pow
ers that be that every real Alaskan
ii heartily sick of the high-handed
disregard of the interests and tha
v. ishes of Alaskans as evidenced in
the naming of federal appointees
for service in the Territory.”
At Windsor, Canada, the English
flaw and the Stars and Stripes float
side by side on Americon holidays.
An Englishman, wishing to kid a
Yankee, remarked: “My, what a
homely piece of bunting your flag
is; it reminds me of nothing so
much as that cheap, striped candy
they sell in your stores.
“Yes,” said the American, ‘‘the
kind that makes everyljbdy sick
that tries to lick it.”
CANADA AND ALASKA AGIAN
. A movement is on foot in Canada
to obtain from the United States
government some concessions in the
Alaska Panhandle. This is in par
ticular reference to Skagway
whose great use as a port is to give
aciession to the Yukon. Canada
asks that this may be made a free
port, together with a strip of ter
ritory across the Panhandle, connect
ing with Canadian Territory. The
Panhandle shuts out from the sea
t^e whole mineral district of north
ern British Columbia.—Railway and
Marine News.
Famous Sayings—I am not a Vir
ginian. but an American.—Patrick
Henry.
The Spartans do not inquire how
many the enemy are, but where
they are.—Agis II.
F ew die and none resign.—Thom
as Jefferson.
Men of merit lodge in garrets,
and fools inhabit palaces.—Abee
Mably.
I do not know the method of
di awing an indictment against a
remember this when the “rough
whole people.—Edmund Burke.
A brain is as weak as its weakest
think.
A cheerful liar must be a great
comfort to himself.
A silent man often has the repu
tation for knowing about ten times
as much as he really does know.
The noisy one only fools himself.
New Boat. Completed
Sing Lee’s new boat, the Nugget,
is completed and ready to run.
Capt.. Ole Larson will take it out
for its first trial spin. She’s a nifty
looking craft.
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