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JUSTICE
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee, Sweet
Land of Liberty, Of Thee We Sing.”
On another column is the story,
the closing chapter of which is be
ing written. The next term of the
L'jstrict Court will deprive several
men of their liberty because they
dared go along side of a trap to
get a few salmon to sell in order
that they might be able to pay a
few bills and insure a few more
meals. But they got caught and
one already is serving time for an
alleged violation of the law.
Several years after a conspiracy
to defraud the United States gov
ernment out of several hundred
million dollars in oil properties,
Fall and Doheny are able to bat
a high average and still keep the
.Miorney General from putting
them behind penal bars. Oh, Liber
ty, what crimes are committed m
thy name.
A “fish-pirate” is one who se
cures salmon in contravention to
legitimate practice and in contra
vention to law. The law requires
that traps shall not be put in opera
tion within 500 yards of any sal
mon stream. At Staney Creek, on
the West Coast of Prince of Wales
the Northwestern Fisheries put a
trap RIGHT AT THE MOUTH OF
A STREAM and not 500 yards from
it. Complaint was filed with Th;
Honorable “Heinie” O’Malley. He
PROMISED an early investigation
In the fall after some $25,000 in
fish was taken from the traps, a
fish warden came along and arrest
ed the trap for fishing in violation
of law. The District Attorney,
George Arthur Slump, the same who
prosecuted the “fish pirates” last
fall had the case against the N.W.
Fisheries. The Canadian lawyer,
Herbert L. Faulkner of Juneau was
oonusel for the trap. The trap was
convicted per se N. W. Fisheries
and fined $400. and costs. They
kept all the fish and profit from
same. The seed fish not permitted
to enter the stream that year on
account of “O’Malle-vaticn” some
times misunderstood as conserva
tion.
II is not a crime to enter into
conspiracy to defraud the United
States Government of a hundred
Million or so in oil lands; not if
nc has the money to stave off ac
tion. It is not “fish piracy” to de
liberately set a trap in contraven
tion to lawful practice and defraud
the governmentout of $25,000 in
salmon. No, when the crime gets
to the point when money expresses
its silent power, it is no longer a
crime. But when the poor fool,
putting his every last dollar into a
seine boat and net, having family to
support, goes into a trap in order
that he might stave off privation
and hardship from those he loves,
then if caught, it is a crime against
society and the criminal must ne
punished even if the government is
put to considerable expense so that
the fear of the slave driver might
be put into the hearts of the resi
dent fishermen.
LIBERTY greets the immiyrant
as he comes to our shores but it is
beginning to look as if she were
counterfeit.
“Lord God of Hosts. Be with us
yet, Lest we forget, Lest we for
get.
ILLITERACY
The last census showed that in
the United States there are 5,000, ,
000 Illiterates, men and women un- ;
able to read or write. As there are
are only 375,000 Indian's, a large
portion of whom are educated, we
are prone to discount a little of j i
‘ Johnny Walker” and others of 1
the “Clallam tribe.”
The Bureau of Education prom
ises to do everything within its
power to awaken interets of organi-;
zations and individuals to the end
that all illiterates who are discover
ed will be taught how to read be
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fure the 1930 census is taken. j
W hat active steps are the educa
tional leaders and other political
E.nd quasi-political organizations
taking to eradicate this much talk
ed of fault in Alaska? The Alas
ka Native Brotherhood through its
diject effort and campaign in ev
ery community where it functions, j
bettered school attendance by 30
percent. That is, where three years
ago the daily average attendance
was 67 percent, direct effort of the
organization has brought it to over i
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90 percent.
The Empire with all of its mouth
ings and spleen cannot point to as
good nor as great a record in Am
ericanization of any race of people
O’MALLEY HAS NO EARS
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It is very doubtful, acording to
Attorney F. H. Foster, if the recent
Petition of the Cordova business
men asking Secretary of Commerce
Hoover to amend the fishing regula
tions next year, will be heeded at
■Washington. While in Seattle three
v eeks ago. Mr. Foster had occasion
to discuss the issue with Commis
sioner of Fisheries Henry O’Malley.
Mr. O’Malley told the Cordova at
torney at the time he qpuld see
no possible chance for the regula
tions to be changed next season.
In the face of this proposed closing
up of the fishing on the Copper Riv
er delta, a modification providing
for more liberal laws was consider
ed highly improbable, the fish com
missioner told Mr. Foster.-Anchor
;„go Daily Times.
In our last week’s issue we print
ed a copy of the Cordova business
men’s petition, not that we expect
ed Doctor O’Malley would give the
matter serious consideration, but
in order that business interests and
fishermen might know the opinion
of Alaskans in Westward divisions.
We have stated and we reiterate,
the only interest O’Malley has at
heart is the conservation of vested
interests. What matters it to the
mouth piece of the Fish Barons that
the Territory is being depleted of
population and industry so long as
interest on investment may be made
possible today. When the salmon
is depleted and the migratory dis-,
pensers of political smooth-on have
moved to other climes then we will
see proper measures taken for the
preservation of the industry and
the conservation of the salmon.
‘EXPERTS” ON FISHERIES
\ meeting >of fisheries experts
from all over the country, for the
purpose of discussing the general
ard specifiic situations of some of
th most important food fishes off
*he coasts and in the rivers and
lakes of the United States, was held
in Washington early this month.
Conservation of RAPIDLY DI
MINISHING SUPPLY of the Na
tions most important food fishes
vas discussed by Commissioner
MaHey and 38 EXPERTS and sci
entists from 15 states.
According to Mr. O’Malley, the
prime purpose of the meeting was
to exchange ideas and to permit
those charegd with fish conserva
tion work in different parts of the
country to report on the progress
md success of their efforts for the
'benefit of all.
Oysters, cod, mackerel, salmon,
lernng and other highly prized
•ood fishes of the United States
vero discussed. '
Henry O’Malley, Commssioner op-j ♦;
ened ;he conference with a discus- j
si-mi of “Our Opportunities” and I
“Our Responsibilities.” " *
“Our Opportunity” to serve our
masters faithfully and our respon
sibiltiy for present depletion was
not discussed.
FISHERIES PROBLEMS
NOW INTERNATIONAL
Fisheries problems are now no
longer regional or national, but in
ternal ional, Deputy Fish Commis
sioner Lewis Radcliffe said before
the Fishery Conservation Confer
ence at Washington recently. The
NORTH SEA FISHERIES ARE
BEING DEPLETED and European
fishermen are now working anout
Iceland and Greenland, and should
t! ty come to the American fishing
banks, the result would be a de
fined depletion of stock here.”
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