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LOUIS F. PAUL,.
MANAGER and EDITOR
Our Great Industry
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There is only one industry
talked of in Alaska throughout
the entire year. During the sum
mer months on the grounds and
during the winter months a
round the poolrooms and stores.
Fish— fresh— frozen— canned
—mildcure and fertilizer.
You may talk of your mines
and mining; of your pulpmills
and lumber mills; of your agri
culture—you can’t get very far
i:> your conversation before it
swings into fishery matters.
Alaska’s greatest resources is
fish—it is Alaska’s greatest as
set and natural resource—has
been in the past and may re
main such in tne future.
New rrw.v.ure up what Alaska
gets out of it—what do you get
out of it. Are you of that class
which is now beachcombing a •
long the beaches killing deer out
of season, digging clams to keep
body and soul together? Are
>ou of that class which depends
for the sale upon the earnings
or that class which are becom
ing nomads without hope of any
future as permanent citizens of
any community?
The catch of salmon by traps
has increased to 51 per cent—by
seines less than 20 per cent. The
ratio of catches has increased
with efficiency of the trap sys
tem and. th$ allied political
machinations of the bureau of
fisheries and the political rack
eteers of Alaska.
With the increase of the trap
catch there has also been an in
crease in imported labor. Fewer
residents are employed annual
ly. They are employed only dur
ing the rush of the peak season
and at each employment the
laborers are counted so that it
would appear that thousands of
Alaskans are being employed in
this great industry. When resi
dents are hired they are fired
first. Those who benefit from
this industry invariably are out
siders. This condition is beyond
denial to need repetition. To
make matters worse those im
ported from Oregon, Washing
ton and California are bound by
contracts which compel payoff
of wages' at point of contract.
Afraid even to leave the few
laborers’ dollars in Alaska.
How long is it going to last?
When will Alaskans develop the
spirit of 1776? Not so long as
they are lulled to sleep by those
who betray them in and out of
Alaska.
Ressurrecting An Old Skeleton
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Just about the time elections
begin to warm up, the funny
crowd of federalists and others
in Juneau talk of introducing
pulp mills to Alaska. So far these
promisers of labor have been
strangely silent. Perhaps it is
because official Washington is
beginning to really understand
the gigantic timber steal deal
consumation of which was at
tempted by the Forest Bureau;
perhaps it is because one of
their representatives who went
to Washington comes back with
disquieting news. That the deal
is off—but does not tell why.
Who knows?
Ten billion of feet of timber
“sold” to two companies. For a
song—the people of Alaska un
able to get even fair considera
tion from this department must'
even pay for the rotten sticks
they take out of the woods for
wood.
A fine how-de-do. Noble, pat
riotic citizens! Guardians of the
resources of the country! All
honorable men. We take our
hats off to them—every one of
them—because they are more
licked now than they ever have
been and it is becoming appar
ent that they have reached al
most the end of their rope.
Good-bye!
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WHY DID HE COME BACK?
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In November 1930 B. F. Heinc
zelmann, assistant regional for
ester of the Forest Service in
Alaska went to Washington, D.
C. “to assist in every way pos
sible in bringing about the es
tablishment of paper and puip
mills in Alaska. He reports that
he is going to stay there until
he has succeeded in securing
this new industry for the terri
tory—with the certainty of op
erations being commenced in
the near future.” Some one has
asked why Mr. Heintzelmann
returned to Alaska and inci
dentally points out that the puip
and paper mills seem as vague
a proposition as they ever were.
We Remind Others
The following was printed on
the editorial columns of Alas
ka’s ardent supporter of “home
rule.” In view of the fact that
Delegate Wickersham has before
Congress a bill which would
turn over to the Territory full
control of its fisheries, we now
apply the ideas set forth last
winter as follows:
“Alaska, declared Acting Sec
retary Morgan, United States De
partment of Commerce, has no
“sound reasons” for sharing in
any profits that may accrue
from the administration of the
seal herds at the Pribilof Is
lands. But another executive
department, the Department oi
Agriculture, holds exactly the
opposite. Alaska, it holds, not
only has an equity in the timber
resources, but is entitled to have
them developed even if the;
compete with both privately
owned and public forests ir
other sections of the Unitec
States.
Perhaps if Mr. Morgan woulc
study a statement issued recent
ly by the latter departmen
through Acting United State:
Forester L. F. Kneip, he woult
discover a few reasons that wen
not discernable to him when hi
wrote the Juneau Chamber c
Commerce curtly dismissing it
petition asking for a division of
revenues from the sealing in
dustry.
Two short paragraphs from
Mr. Kneip’s statement illustrate
the wide divergence of views
entertained by the two branches
of the Government. They follow:
Alaska is a Territory of the
United States. Its people are
American citizens. Its econ
omic and social advancement
is a matter of national inter
est and concern. Its lack of
complete self-government es
tablishes an additional obliga
tion upon the nation to avoid
creation of conditions inimical
j to its welfare.
The development of Alaska
has been in the face of many
I handicaps. Its early wealth of
i placer gold largely has been
exploited and a number of
circumstances have militated
against the development oT~
■ lode mining to a compensatory
degree. Proper conservation of
[ its seal and fisheries resources
compels limitation upon their
; exploitation. Fur production
5 by trapping or farming, does
L not seem to afford much larg
; er possibilities for expansion
; Agriculture has its limitations
C j due partly to climatic and soil
»J factors, partly to the competi
tion of the products of the
continental United States and
partly to world conditions. The
people of Alaska therefore are
confronted with many serious
problems in their efforts to
hold the gains already made
and to properly build up their
social and industrial institu
tions.
Therefore Mr. Kneip contends,
and he was supported by Secre
tary Hyde of his own Depart
ment, the Territory has a right
to ask that the Government lend
every legitimate aid in the early J
development of its forests that;
the revenues it receives from
that source may be augumented.;
The seal herds are just as
much a resource of the Territory
as the forests are. The industry
that the Government has built
and operates at the Pribilofs is
as Alaskan as are the contem
plated pulp and paper mills.
And the Territory has just as
much right to share in the rev
enues from the one as the
other.”
The seal herds are not as
great a resource as the fish
eries, notwithstanding the St.
Louis concerns only benefit from
the seal rookeries. If the gentle
men from Juneau would apply
the same logic as quoted above
to the fisheries, they would be in
perfect order. However, they are
never honestly sincere in their
advocation of homerule—that is
only a lot of hokum for the cori
crmption of the gullible public.
Where Are Those Champions?
Where are those brave de
fenders of the fishermen of
Alaska who damned Delegate
Wickersham and William L. Paul i
for writing a bill which politi- I
cally was used as dynamite to 1
destroy Paul—a “trap leasehold
bill.” Do the voters remember
when Paul sold out for six thou
sand dollars to the canners and
how the betrayal of the fisher
men was the sole topic of an
entire campaign?
Senator Jones introduced
this same bill in Congress th;s
year. Have you heard that great
protector of the fishermen’s in
terests John Walker Troy or his
shadowy editor Pegues rise up in
wrath at the handing over of
water rights to trap interests0
Do you remember other little
editors who yelled murder and
what not during the elections to
defeat Paul and Wickersham?
What are those self same pro
tectors doing to stop passage of
the Jones bill which will give
trap operators a five-year pre
ferential right to sites for a
nominal license? Why are those
self-same protectors of the good
interests of the fishermen not
raising their voices in angry
protest?
Can you believe the sincerity
of men who damn certain lead
ers and yet who turn right a
round and do not even protest
the same bill when presented
by the Senator from Washing
ton? It is wrong for Wickersham
and Paul to work for such a bill
and right for Senator Jones to
introduce and work for its pas
sage in Congress?—Why?
Let us get a fair and honest
answer from the Juneau Em
pire! From the Ketchikan
Chronicle. From the Petersburg
Press—this betrayal of the in
terests of Alaska is going on
right now and with their sup
port for the silence acknow
ledges their consent. During the
next few weeks the editor of this
publication will be glad to ac
knowledge and reprint any
statement by contemporary
editors who explain their pain
ful silence. The voters are en
titled to an explaination—we
will give it if none others will.
They Do Forget So Quickly
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The memory of the American
public is short lived. The me
mory of the literate American
citizenry is more apt to forget
the past than any other ele
ment.
Had the general elections for
national officers been held last
November, it is a foregone con
clusion that the chances of re
electing President Hoover were
mighty slim. That was the gen
eral disinterested judgement of
every responsible republican.
Some of the President’s own
political family publicly declared
the hope as being forlorn. The
principal reason for the defeat
being the state of the times.
Since last November we have
had passage of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Bill: That bill
which has been pictured by
cartoonists as handing cake to
the rich corporate interests who
go to the swill barrel in Prince
Alberts, Tuxedos and silk tops
to get whole chunkuns of cake
while the laboring class stands
| on the side of the rich lane,
[raggedly clothed, pinched-faced
and hungrily wishing for even
an opportunity to work for a
j few crumbs.
History of American politics
shows that only one election in
forty years has been won "by
the party gathering up and
spending the least amount of
money. Wall street is interested
in the next election and already
is bending its influences to de
termine the success of that
election.
A recent issue of the Pathe
finder indicates a nation wide
poll of 115,000 votes for Hoover
as against 49,000 for Roosevelt.
The memory of the American
public is short lived. The low
state of republicanism due to
the state of the times is passing.
It is only incident to the mood
of depression. In some quarters
the mood of the voters has been
bitter—but we predict, that bit
terness will disappear with the
passage of those empty feelings
around the stomach. That emp
ty feeling will be taken care of
i before another election rolls
along. The Republican party will
remain in power and whether
Alaskans like it or not, Herbert
Clark Hoover will be re-elected
President of the United States.
Those Funny Ballots
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In various precincts in Alaska
voters call our attention to the
fact that ballot numbers are
duplicated on each ballot and
that the judges remove only one
number—placing the ballot with
number still on it into the bal
lot box. This is not a legal pro
cedure.
The purpose of the Australian
’allot is to preserve secrecy as
o the action of the voter—to
prevent it being known how
Tom, Dick or Harry might have
ast their ballots. Under the
\ustralian system as practised
!n the states, there is but one
number on the ballot which
number is removed when the
ballot is cast in the box. No one
is ever able thereafter to pick
out “No. 231” and designate
from the registration role who
cast the ballot and how it was
^ marked Under the system as
practiced in Alaska, one number
remains on the ballot and the
entire procedure is without the
law. It is time that the voters
awaken to the illegal actions of
the political racketeers who have
dominated the affairs of the
territory.
Word from several precincts
indicate that^tf this procedure is
permitted in the coming primary
elections that a contest will be
demanded on the grounds that
such an election is without the
law invalidating the entire,
election.
Interest in the primary elec
tions so far seem to be most in
tense among the candidates.
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Condemning the poor govern
ment, city, state and national
end then forgetting to register
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