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A*>SVNUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS
In a special article to the press
is outlined the new manual of in
•tructious to prohibition officers,
detectives and others connected with
the dry law enforcement. The rules,
as laid down, come from Prohibition
Commissioner Doran and there is a
veiled command to live up to them
to the letter.
We are strongly antl-saioon, and
to a certain degree, anti-liquor. We
are also strongly against the Vol
stead law. True enough, there has
been a certain amount of good come
from it, but as a whole we look on
it as one of the sad failures in le
gislation. We think there is a bet
ter method, in taking care of the
drink question, than anything out
lined in any of our present day dry
Jaws, Volsteadian or otherwise. It
was too sweeping and unreasonable
in the first place. There were too
many things not taken into account,
nor considered. The law has bred
criminals galore—a new brand oi
’em—, it ha3 built up an army, an
expensive army, of ill bred, arro
gant, iron-heeled officials, some of
whom are as crooked as a ram's
horn; it has grown suspicions,
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has nursed secret and underhand
methods to full grown crime and
open law breaking. About all that
can be said of the antiliquor legis
lation Is that it closed the public
saloon, sidetracked the bum, made
the average drink ao rotten that the
man of the street and the worker
and producer would rather not drink
at all than risk health and life in
taking a swig of the stuff.
The new rules offer more home
protection against the ever increas
ing army of snoopers, pussyfooters
and such ilk prowling around with
badges over their manly hearts. The
manual issues a clear warning to
agents and officers concerning use of
search warrats. It forbids entrance
to private dwellings without them
and it must be reasonably certain
that there is illegal intent before
a search warrant may be drawn.
Your own beverages, in your house,
are safe enough if you are not sell
ing or creating disturbances thro’
having it. “Homes” are construed
as: “A room,—or rooms—not oc
cupied transiently, but solely a3 -a
residence in any house, hotel or
boarding house.”
There are warnings against what
is known as “entrapments.” This
as we understand it in plain words,
is the scheming of officers and
»gent3 in methods tending to trap
or snare the suspected person, or
persons, thereby forcing liquor vio
lations. There is this on “entrap
ments”: “Successful prosecution hay
sometimes failed because there was
*iome evidence that the accused was
entrapped. It is contrary to public
policy and to the views of leading
courts to punish a man for the com
mission of an offence which he would
not have committed If officers of the
law had not Inspired, persuaded and
lured him to do so."
“The promiscuous flourishing and
display of firearms is prohibited.”
“An officer should remember that
he will be held strictly accountable
and personally ^responsible for the
fatal result of any use of firearms
by him."
The manual takes up automobile
searching thusly: “The agents are
told of Supreme Court decisions
respecting automobile searching in
*hich it was declared that it would
be intolerable and unreasonable if
any agent were authorized to stop
every automobile on the chance of
finding liquor."
There is much more in detail to
the instructions of Commissioner
Doran, but we haven’t the space to
give more thau an outline of what
i he manual contains.
DOGS AND DOG POISON
Lately some dogs died of poteen
here in town. If poison was delib
erately set out to kill the animals
we are remarking that not only is
this a dirty proceeding, but it is a
liendish method to lessen the canine
population. However, we are of the
opinion that the poisoning wa3 more
by accident than design. The tim
ber wolves have been plentiful dur
ing the winter right around the
back fringe of town. VVe have an
idea that seme one has made an ef
fort to get one or more by the pois
on route, and thgt dogs wandering,
as dogs will wander, picked up the
stuff and suffered accordingly. Wo
don't know whether or not any of
fhe Biological Survey officials have
been in this vicinity, but we do
know that they are keen after do'i3
that stray beyond village limits.
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nice pellets to kill dogs. The ex
perience that Kake went thru three
or four yars ago proves that they
keep pretty close tabs on loose dogs
For a few days dogs were dropping
in the streets of Kake pretty fre
quently. Thirteen in one day, for
instance. It was some little time
before it was really kowu what was
the trouble. Biological Survey of
ticials h id made pills out of tallow,
bacon end strychnine an 1 bad
sprinkled the back hills iiberally
with the drug. Good dogs suffered
with the lesser liked dogs. The
pills played no favorites. The act
\ created a fuss that still smould
eis. On the face of things, it
wasn’t fair, but the Survey took
the stand that a dog is a worse enemy
emy to deer than is a wolf, and
went right after the animals rough
shod—a: d got ’em. We don’t think
anyone in town has been guilty of
deliberately putting out poison baits
here in the city limits to kill dogs.
HOW FAR AHEAD ARE WE?
A Korean recently got a lengthy
jail sentence here for scrapping
with his bride. For a long time
he lived with the woman—an elder
ly native—more or less peaceably
as just her man.” Under a fine
splurge of the moral squad the
couple were made to marry, then
the fighting began. We can’t see
where society gets any benefit, or
is made any better, by this goody
goody measure. Anyway, if clean
ups of this sort are in order why
not go after the others who have
neglected to get an official Okey to
their unions?
ALASKA BUSINESS FOR 1927
We have before us a digest of the
commercial statistics of the Customs
District covering 1927. In the words
of the digest 1927 shows a "regret
table decrease." Compared to 1926
we are short $23,873,032. That’s
some amount, isn’t it? Shipments
to Alaska increased $4,215,336 otf
er 1926. Even tho we didn’t ship
so much, we purchased heavier. The
report says, "Despite the unfavor
able year, there still remained a bal
ance of trade in Alaska’s favor of
$21,185,249."
Thi3 balance looks nice in print,
but of the $21,185,249 mighty lit
tle ever reaches Alaska. It goes ir
to the pockets of those who tour
Alaska in the summer days, who
vote outside of the territory, who
are scarcely more than visitors at.
any time. Alaska i3n’t good enough
to live in, but it is fair enough to
have outside workingmen live ' in,
toil in and to create dividends in—
for non-resident bosses. Alaska is
n’t good enpugh to pay these work
ers in. The final analysis is that
Alaska supplies the riches, pays for
the exploiting of itself and seem.3
pleased to get in return a rathei
measly living content.
All this is not so good. No coun
try can last any great length or
time on any such schedule. Alaska
has stood up to this decidedly lop
sided “bill of conidtion3“ for years
only because she was rich in raw
I things. Each year she gets thinner,
| more peeked, hollow eyed and rag
ged. Population decreases, towns
are abandoned, roads grow to bruan
and the great Northland silence
coni63 back to its own.
With the great lust of loot there
has grown an arrogant desire to
rule. Much of our legislation ia
framed by those who live in palatial
homes IN THE STATES. And an
astonishing feature of this alien rule
is that there are those who live In
the Territory aiding in every pos
sible w'ay the midnight schemes of
the outsiders. Right here in town
there are those who »quite openly
declare that conditions as they are
must not be changed. They say that
just so soon as carpet-bag govern
ment ceases, and we fence out the
law breakers of the States, we are
doomed to poverty, empty bellies
and shirtless backs. Are we so ig
norant, so simple, so weak, so to
tally unfit as all this?
No, folk, it isn’t 30. We have
been busy digging, moiling, drag
ging the seas, shoveling the hills I
and swinging the ax, and we haven’t
paid attention. We knew that things
weren’t right, but we haven’t stop
ped to think. Well, it is high time
right now to put our thinking bon- j
nets on and cogitate.
Alaska is in the same position as
a country over-run with the victor
ious troops of an enemy. We have
little to say and no one to say it to.
What we produce is taken awav
and what we need in food, in clothes
and home life we are made to pav
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double and three tims more than it
is all worth.
Those who pull the financial
strings of the Territory are, nearly
to a man, traitors to the Territory
even tho residing for the time be
ing in the Territory. They want
the governing power to remain as it
is. It is to their advantage. They ;
are as bad to the Territory as were i
the Tories in the War of the Revo-1
lution to the Continentals.
Can Alaska get any place in a !
murky mess of this kind? De
cidedly she can’t. We must
govern ourselves. Those who are
against this movement must bt
fleeced of power, and the way to be
gin this fleecing is to vote a back-1
bone to everything for Alaska and j
Alaskans. Out with the tourist triby j
ot Officialdom. Nullify the acts o'
the money changers. Stamp out the
vicious summer camps of alien worlr
|ers. Shove out of harm’s way the
destroyers of those things vital to
the country. It has to be done
some time. Eventually, why not
now?
FAVOR TIMBER BARONS
Timber barons are offered tim
ber as it stand3 for 35 cents per
thousand, stumpage. If you or I
want to put in logs we are taxed
from $1.50 to $2.00 per M, stump
age. Let’s shoot this ruling full of
holes and allow the settler a chance
to file whether the land carries tim
ber or not. Let’3 offer some in
ducement to the builders and the
constructive element of society in
stead of the fish pirates, the pulp
trust and the destroyers of the Ter
riory”s resources.
Bureaucracy was an infant in
swaddling clothes until the big-wigs
and the money-bags of the nation
saw what fertile field Alaska was.
The big-wigs and the money-bags
huilt up and had charge of nearly i
three dozen bureaus, the bureaus <
took charge of the Territory and !
for every bureau official who has !
moved in, a thousand Alaskans have !
moved out. If there is a region on »j
the face of the globe showing any |j
such records^ as this, let’s have it
and see what it looks like.
Department of “Justice”
We don’t even police our own
towns properly. The Department of
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“Justice” has it3 snoopers and pus
sy-footers and ferrets butting in to
the highways and byways of every
village. There is a regular hound
ing system carried on to build up
personal reputations and to make
big, healthy looking records of pro
secutions and convictions. Needless
to say, in this rapid fire system of
policing there are more perescu
tions than prosecutions. The mad
desire is to get somebody in jail. Ttus
Hawkshawing has permeated the
life of every Alaskan town, usurped
the powers of town government.
stamped out legitimate objection
and caused no end of expense t^
those who have happened to he
spotted by the watchful eye of
“Justice” from Washington, D. C.
We’ve had enough of it.
The Press and the Looters
Strange as it really is, a big por
tion of the press of the Territory
runs hand and glove with the ap
pointed officials of the big teepee
at Washington. This isn’t done for
nothing. There are indirect favors.
The traitor press wants things to
slide as they have been sliding. It
stands four square with the looters
and with alien dictators. The sluic
ing of money into the funnels of
this traitor press may be shut of!
when we get down to home govern -
ment. The publications, then will
have to get along on their merits,
and not as now, on the leakages
and seepags of big business and
officialdom.
No Prosperity In It
Never yet has a country prosper
ed through the government of out
side, or foreign, appointees. It is
not possible. Interests are too
greatly divided, there is no pulling
together and the aim is to look for
bouquets from Washington instead
of praise from the home folk. Mind,
you, there is as much difference in
the atmosphere between here and
Washington, D. C., as there is be
tween Sebastobol and Shantung. In
fact many of the big eastern depart
ment stores and business houses re
gard Alaska as a foreign country
with some sort of a national flag
of its own. To most easterners we
are a simple sort of outlander,—
a mixture of wild adventurer and
cave man. We must be looked af
ter by big, stalwart officials appoint
ed for the different jobs by a' be
nign government. This appointment
program runs into the ridiculous
often. Just now witness the spotters
from Idaho—nearly a couple of doz
en of ’em—spotting the towns of
Alaska. If we had a national guard
from New York, now, and a com
pany of Texas Rangers, a ffrace ot
Florida bailiffs and some under cov
er men from Alabam’, we’d be jake
—and our jails would have to be en
larged. Great system!
“Alaskans” at #5. Per Ton
Those “Alaskans” who live in the
States, vote in the States (occasion
ally voting in both places) and can
up this way occasianally get their
freight handled for around $5. per
ton. We are taxed from $8.50 to
all the traffic will bear, and then
some, per ton. The steamships, to
Mr. Money-Lags and to Mr. Big-Wig
are conveniences. To you and me
they are luxure3. If real Alaskans
had anything to say about this,
they’d either be a tilt upward for
Big-Wig and Money-Bag or there’d
be a slash made for just us com
mon folk. Let’s squeal real loud
about it and vote as we squeal.
VOTE FOR THE FOLLOWING
CANDIDATES
At The
PRIMARIES, APRIL 34th, 1938.
Daai Sutherland, for Delegate to
Congress; George Albrecht, for Re
publican National Committeeman;
vote for two—William H. Chase and
•Judge Janies Wickersham for dele
gates ti» the Republican National
Convention; vote for two—William
I). Grant and J. B. Gottstein for Al
ternates to Republican National Con
vention; V|i»te for John Rustgard
for Attorney General for Alaska;
and to till Divisional Offices, vote
for .Charles Benjamin, .Wrangell,
for Senator; Peter McCormack,
i Wrangell, Representative; A. L.
Continued on next page
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WASHINGTON, D. C., (Attention
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APPENDIX
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Chiropractic
releases
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Porter
Within
The discovery of Chiropractic,
more than thirty years ago, was auo
to the recovery of hearing by a deal
patient alter a spinal adjustment.
In the three decades intervening a
covery.
science has been built on this uis
Tnei;e are occasional cases oi deat
ness that bal'ue oceinceecnieacupile
ness that bailie scientinc knowledge
and human ingenuity, but they are
few compared with the vast major
ity that can be relieved. We arc
confident that Chiropractic spinal
adjustments will benefit three-fourts
of th cases that will not re3ponu to
any outer method.
Hearing Improves
"Tor eight years I suffered with
a catarrhal condition that began to
affect my hearing until I was totally
deaf in one ear and fast losing hear
ing in the other. During this time
1 was under care of a doctor, later
a specialist. The latter told me he
could do me no good. Some friends
suggested 1 go to a chiropractor. I
did, and after taking adjustments
my hearing has improved wonderful
ly.”
Mrs. Ida Blanton, Chiropractic
Research Bureau, Statement No.
1259-Li.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
Palmer Graduate 1914
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The ever growing Circulation of
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Inducement to Merchants to Adver
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Buy at Star Bakery and Save Money
Fresh Doughnuts, Cup Cakes, CooS ,r.
and Cinnamon Rolls
Always on Hand Fresh
STAR BAKERY
AMERICA FIRST arrives In Pe
tersburg Friday morning, leaving
for Juneau via Kake and way ports
about noon.
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COMPANY
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Optometriste and Opticians
218 -19 Commercial Building
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