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“I WAS A STRANGER”
Republican Senate nominee,
Mr Morrow recently invited
Senator La Follette to a con
ference of Old and Young
Guard in order that a more
perfect harmony within the
lanks of the Republican party,
might be brought about.
Senator La Follette had noth
ing to gain save possibly some
minor political favor—Mr. Mor
row and his Old Guard had ev
erything to gain with possible
a presidential nomination in the
balance. Senator La Follette
refused to accept the invitation
and was not present at the con
ference.
”1 was a stranger and ye
took me in; hungry and ye fed
me bull; naked and ye clothed
me in the garb of the tame
jackass. That was not said of
the young ‘‘Bob” of Wisconsin.
WIIAT THE GAIN
The Young Guard in the Sen
ate are standing without com
promise on matters of principle
lor which they have fought. Tht
are not less respected for their
stand—they command a unique
position in Congress—they are
the balance of power.
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“SANCTITY OF THE BALLOT”
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During the past several elec
tions the p'u’vurbund of Ju
neau has made much political
ammunition of the “ignorant”
vote of the First Division and
they have declared on numerous
occasions for the “sanctity of the
ballot” whatever they might
mean by that.
A recount of votes in Phila
delphia County. Pennsylvania,
has revealed 21,241 ballot errors
in the Pennsylvania senatorial
primary.
“Let him without sin cast the
first stone.”
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CIVILIZING THE HEATHEN
CHINEE
A rule generally followed by
the machine politicians1 of Port
land, Oregon, is to make raids
on the Chinese gamblers during
off-election periods and to
make spectacular drives on slot
machines at election times there
by pleasing the moral forces and
it also suprs up campaign con -
tributions. The Chinaman is
without a vote and he is made a
“good Christian Chinee” and
the slot machine has no vote—
so what’s the difference.
A FOOL RECORD
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A couple of dancers went over
two thousand hours in a dance
marathon held recently in Chi
cago. Now just what benefit does
the world get from this fool
stunt?
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BREIIR ON “TOUR”
Leo Breuer, “lame duck” Ter
ritorial Commissioner of Educa
tion, with the blare of the press
left for a swing thru the Terri
tory to make a survey of the
schools and their problems.
Certainly an easy way to ap
pear to be busy at the job of be
ing Commissioner of Education.
BE AUTIFUL DOl LARS
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Miss Madge Mitchell, motion
I xCture actress down I os Angeles
v.a\ has filed suit against Wi
liam N. Fleischmann, director of
Fie ^chmann "orporation, for
bieach of promise. In her com
plaint Miss Mitchell alleges that
the 57-year-old do igh raiser
“ vent native when he found
itlier women (from Honolulu)
*- ltirinar” Wonder if
t was his personal charm rat1 e<
tl an the charm of n s dollars
i ct brings on the suit to make
“pappa” gooa?
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WE ARE FAIR
We have been criticised and
twitted lor printing “60,000
Eagles,” by Will A. Barrows and
his following article.
Now, that's just too bad. We
are at least fair to our readers
who are on both sides of this
question which bothers the fox
men more than any others.
Because the law is in exist
ence does not make it right and
if there is any reason for such
a law, the fox men should get
dcwn to brass tacks and deal in
the concrete rather than in
generalities.
We will print both sides of
any question—that is our busi
ness. Be it eagles, prohibition,
politics or religion, or anything
else. We aim to please—our
selves, after that we hope to
please many others by beingl
fair and honest. And we ex
pect as much in return.
POLITICAL PANACEA
There has been considerable
alk this summer about an in
crnational highway hooking up
\laska„ Canada and the United
States. It is indeed a glorious
'tream—it suggests such im
nense political possibilities.
Its promoters promise enor
uous benefits which are to ac-;
■'rue to Alaska, to Canada and
o the United States. We readi
’v concede its advantages to
Canada—the American tourist
would pay and pay and pay. As
*o the United States, it would
give the pleasure-seeker one
more place to go and after all it
would be better to sow our tour
ist dollars in Canada than in
Europe since Canada is our best
customer.
But when we contemplate the
oromised benefits to Alaska, es
neciallv Southeastern Alaska,
that is a different story. Let
us not deceive ourselves. Let us
take the plain facts and consid
er them. The promoters of the
highway tacitly admit that
Alaska’s lands have not Ibeen
settled—that Alaska’s resources
excepting only the exploitation
of our fisheries, have not been
developed, and they strive to
assure us that a vast influx of
settlers will come flocking to
Alaska once that highway is
built. They Dairt us a picture of
a contented family on each
quarter section. They dangle
before us the tempting prospect
of statehood, an especially al
luring bait, probably our only
hope of gaining control of our
own resources and utilizing
them for the benefit of our own
settlers and home builders.'
Now, just what is the real
reason why that influx has not
taken place already? Can we
convince ourselves that it is be
cause prospective settlers have
been unable to reach *our
shores? Can we forget that the
very same hope, the very same
picture presented itself ten
years ago when the Alaska
Railway became assured? Far
be it from the “ALASKAN” to
disparage or discourage any ef
fort to provide means of trans
portation to any part of this
Territory. Bu't we must insist
that no amount of highways,
trails, railways or steamships
can bring statehood to the Ter
ritory until we permit those
would-be settlers to earn an|
honest living. It is not because,
of the inconvenience or lack of
transportation that our lands
have not been settled. Home
seekers traversed the plains of|
our western states under far
greater difficulties but with this
vital difference: They had the
assurance that the resources of
the new land would be theirs to
develop, theirs to have and to
hold. We ask in all seriousness,
where would the great states of
Oregon and Washington be to
day if their timber lands had
been held in great tracts and
administered for the benefit of
one or two great corporations?
If the individual settler, the
small logger and the small mill
owner had not been permitted
to pave the way for the greater
things which followed in due
course? Just what inducements
are being offered the prospect
ive Alaskan settler to go upon
the land, carve out a home and
wring from the wilderness a
jivelihood? Inducements? We
•ould name a number of would
be homesteaders who have faced
md are still facing heart- ;
breaking delays and discour
agements. It is a shame to sayj
it but our sawmills are bank-!
rupt with one of the greatest1
stands of timber at their veryi
doors; and our loggers are plac
ed under impossible restrictions,
deanwhile markets go begging
or look elsewhere for satisfac-1
ion while we wait and wait and
wait for the long-promised pulp
nills—and our over-ripe timber
• oes back to mother earth. And
all because of the shortsighted j
:dconceived policy of withhold-!
ing the resources of our Terri
ory from our own people and
administering them for the ben-j
efit of outside corporations in
Seattle and San Francisco and,
Chicago, whose stockholders
know nothing and care less,
about Alaska and its future, but
demand the last farthing in di-|
vidends.
There are resources enough in
Alaska to provide comfort and
security to all her people and
thousands more—if—and only
when, the opportunity to devel
op them is made available to the
j homebuilder; when the resident
| citizen can secure at least a few
j days employment during the
season free from the ruinous
! competition of Oriental and
'Filipino labor; when the seiner
land gillnetter and the man with
jless expensive gear is given an
equal opportunity with the trap
owner to participate in our fish
eries; when the small logger
and millowner is given the same
kind of encouragement and con
sideration as the pulp combine
[with all its millions to tie up
'our best lands for the future
benefit of stockholders beyond
our borders; when the family
man can provide for his babes
without being forced to steal
jfish out of the creeks or beat his
grocery bill—in short whenever
it is possible for settlers to live
here in self-respecting, law-abid
ing decency, the settlers will
come, for the instinct to settle
down to multiply and replenish
the earth is as old as Adam.
Let us be not deceived. The
International Highway is all
right. By all means, let it come
and come soon. But as a pana
cea for our present ills and
pains, it simply does not touch
the sore spot at all.
| $53,000 PAID CANNERY CREW
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A,- h o fruit's of their labors in
Alaska canneries and as fisher-!
anen on Northern waters, 110 j
jmen, comprising two fishing
J and cannery crews of the Lib
jby, McNeil and Libby interests,
were paid off yesterday before
United States Shipping Com
missioner Fred M. Lathe. They
received $53,000 in cash, which,
however, is not as much as in
seasons when the fish are more
plentiful. Commissioner Lathe
yesterday also paid off the crew
of the Gen. W. C. Gorgas of the
Libby McNeil and Libby fleet
which brought the cannery
hands down. The crew received
$22,000
T.Monday the crew of the Otse
go, cannery hands and fisher-1
men of three canneries also will
be paid through Commissioner
Lathe. s
A total of $97,000 was due, di
vided $22,000 to the crew of the
by ship, total disbursement by
fishermen. As this vessel is
another Libby, McNeil and Lib
by ship, tota ldisbursement by
the big company for the two
vessels and the five canneries
will total $172,000.—Seattle. P. I.
COUNTRY NOT RICHER
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Minus $172,000. minus, fish—
yet the local merchants strive
to get the red off their books.
The men draw their supplies
from the cannery commissary
and are paid off in Seattle. The
territory is not getting rich fast
eff of that kind of economics.
COST OF TRANSPORTATION
“It costs us $85,000 in round
figures to bring our cannery
help to Alaska and return them
in tlie fall to Seattle,” said the
general manager of a group of
canneries in Alaska.
Local help hired to operate
this same corporations canner
ies with a half of the transport
ation costs added to their pay as
a bonus would mean a contented
local population—money in their
jeans, bills paid and a bit more
for pleasure. No reason why the
canners should not consider em
ployment of local labor.
‘YOU CAN’T DO IT”
Speaking with a resident em
ployer of labor about this, he
said: “It is a foolish idea. I tell
you; if you want to get up your
pack you will have to import all
your labor. Resident labor will
not stay through on the job.”
This year, the Hydaburg can
nery imported just six men to
put up their pack. They use all
resident labor. The Demmert
Packing Co., and the Peratro
vitch Company of Klawock use
local labor and as the season de
mands, they import labor.
The proper system is to build
the nucleus of an organization
around a group of local resi
dents and fill in with whatever
I the season may demand when
the season is at hand.
Such a plan would permit vast
amounts of money to remain in
the territory; it will be spent in
building up local industries and
not any Puget Sound city.
FROM TIIE NECK OF THE
BOTTLE
The production of salmon in
Alaska up to the first of this
month has been at the cost of.
seed salmon of th first two runs,
of fish—June and July runs.
Up to the time the third or
August run had started, all the
salmon brought to the canner
ies has been from the Cross
Sound-Icy Straits section. All of
the salmon entering inland wa
ters concentrated at the narrow
entrances and were picked off
by the giant fish appliances that
fished twenty-four hours a day,
fair weather or foul.
The inland waters are just be
ing seeded by the spawners.
The only remedy offered to
bring back the June and July!
runs of salmon is to close all
all waters to commercial fish
ing up to the 1st of August.
Then permit a continuous sea
son until the 15th of September.
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RUN SPOTTY
The run of salmon in the Icy
Straits district has been the
nv st spectacular in the history
of most of the fishermen. It
has supplied salmon for virtual
ly all of the canneries of this
district. Again the canners can
say “There are as many fish to
day as ihere ever was. Look at
the size of our packs.”
Each year the pack shows a
heavy falling cff of salmon in
most districts. One or two dis
tricts over-supplied—a condi
tion that bespeaks a hard prob
lem for the future. Large or
normal runs becoming more in
frequent and poor runs coming
more often.
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INTERESTED IN EARNINGS
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The fishermen are interested
in what they car. earn during a
| season The merchant, the ma
| chinist, the professional man
jin fact every house doing busi
j in Alaska is interested in the
learnings of the fishermen—this
is the only payroll that Alaska
has. When foreign owned traps
take every opportunity away
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SANITARY MARKET
THE NEW FORD
Owing to the enormous production of new Ford Cars
I -9700 per day. - we are authorized to pass on a re
duction in price of from $5to$25percarf.o.b. factory.
51 per cent of all the cars registered in the State
of Washington during the month of May were Fords.
This is only slightly over the average for the en
tire United States. THERE IS A REASON FOR IT.
Let us give Ycu a demonstration.
Fryer Machine Works.
Local Ford Distributers
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