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Entered in the Post Office in Petersburg as Second Class matter.
On another column is printed a
protest and petition asking certain
officials to remedy conditions in the
herring industry that will eventually
ruin that industry unless rectified
sooner. Every citizen calling him
self Alaskan should sign that pe
tition, whether he be fisherman or
lusinessman. The facts are irre
fulable as to wanton waste and de
struction and the value of this re
source has not yet been properly
utilized.
Herring reduction plants are
springing up everywhere. Only a
small proportion of the herring is
used for food purposes. Most of it
teing turned into fertilizer and fish
meal, and oil.
Under their methods of produc
tion,- millions of herring are de
stroyed. Bays have been seen li
terally covered with dead herring.
Such wanton waste and prostitu
tion of a natural resource cannot
continue indefinitely without event
„ ually depleting the supply. Cali
fornia recognized this fact when she
faced identically the same problem
in her sardine fisheries. The deci
sion of the Circuit Court of Cali
fornia was absolutely along the line
of the petition here printed. The
Court recognizing the right of the
majority in a natural resource.
It is admitted that a few invest
ors in reduction plants will suffer,
hut the benefits acrcuing will more
than make up for said losses.
The duty of every citizen is to
take the facts into consideration and
then to act positively in this matter
that already has hurt both halibut
men and trollers.
AN OLD ATHENIAN OATH
We will never bring disgrace to
this, our city, by any act of dis
honesty or cowardice, nor ever de
ceit our suffering comrades in the
ranks we will fight for the ideals
and sacred things of the city, both
alone and with many; we will re
vere and obey the city’s law, and do
our best to incite a like respect and
leverence in those above us who are
prone to annul and set them at
naught; we will strive to quicken
the public sense of civic duty; that
thus, in all these ways, wre will
transmit this city not only not less,
but greater and more beautiful than
it was transmitted to us.
--From the Greek.
OBSERVATIONS
By WILL A. STEEL
' MOOSE AND ITS ORPHANS
Secretary of Labor James J. Da
vis, he of the sunny disposition and
beaming with friendliness, captured
an immense audience in Seattle on
the night of August 18. He spoke
not as a cabinet official, but as the
supreme head of the Loyal Order of
Moose, with its membership of
780,000, and as having an abiding
interest in child welfare and edu
cation. He told in detail of the
work for humanity that his order is
doing at Moosehart, Illinois, with
its 2,000 orphans and at a cost of
$1.0,000,000, and at Moosehaven,
Florida, where its first home for the
aged has been established.
Secretary Davis clearly demon
strated that the care of orphans and
the aged can be kindly and efficient
without becoming burdensome.
V* hile at present the order is look
ing after its own family, Mr. Davis
declared that it was the hope and
intention to eventually care and pro
vide not only for children of Moose,
but for all others who need assist
ance. A second home for the aged
i? now being planned on the Pacific
Coast, at the cost of construction of
$250,000.
In personally meeting and having
a few words with Secretary Davis
he inquired particularly of Moose in
Alaska, to which he sent greetings.
He expressed the hope that Organi
zer S. Walstedt would continue in
the splendid work it is reported he
is doing throughout the Territory,
in building up the membership and
making known the worthy objects of
the order.
ALASKA’S ALERT LAWYERS
The American Bar Association
has a member of the General Coun
cil from each state and 'territory.
R. E. Robertson, of Juneau, has re
presented Juneau for several years.
\s Vice President and Chairman
ex-officio of the Local Council; Ar
thur G. Shoup, of Juneau, has with
him on that board H. L. Faulkner
and Mr. Robertson, of Juneau, and
Thos. J. Donohoe, of Cordova. We
failed to locate any Alaska dele
gates present at the Denver meeting
of the Association, held the middle
of July, but an inquiry from the
Secretary brought forth the infor
mation that the list of officers given
above had been “sent in” and rati
ried by the convention. We must
thus accord proper credit to the
leaders of the “Independent” party
for continuing their names in high
p’acees. That is one way they retain
their importance and local influence.
It may be a little tough, however, on
more prominent and worthy at
torneys in the Territory, who are
not good schemers.
CRIME, LAWYERS, POLITICS
While attending several sessions
of the American Bar Association
at Denver, about the middle of July,
the writer was greatly surprised to
hear so many noted delegates criti
cize the judiciary, law procedure
and lawer criminal. The experi
ence reconciled him to the recent
sermon of a Juneau divine, who
caustically and verbally chastised
the “shyster lawer” as a menace
to the local community. Of course
the preacher was right, but in
telling the plain truth he lost his
dock, who followed the lawers into
greener pastures.
And yet reference was made
several times by leading attorneys
at the Denver meeting, in criticizing
the methods of “shyster” lawers,
which was afterwards made the
subject of a long and vitriolic
editorial in the Denver Post. The
editor said among other things:
“Let the Bar generally consider the
activities of criminal lawers. We
do not refer to those who specialize
in criminal law-we mean those
lawers who pervert and prostitute
their noble profession, and who be
come accessories aiders and abettors
of crime and criminals. They are
betraying the law with a Judas kiss
for forty pieces of silver. They
are a menace to society.”
Roscoe Pond, dean of Harvard
Law School said: “The administra
tion of justice continues to be the
one outstanding political failure in
American popular government.”
Edson R. Sunderland, of Ann
Arbor. Mich., declared: “No people
should be expected to tamely endur
an inadequate judiciary.”
President Chester A. Long, of
Kansas, thus expressed himself:
“The violations of law have become
so flagrant that the demand for law
enforcement is now heard every
where."
William E. Dever, of Chicago, in
answer to the inquiry, “Why is
Chicago the most crime-rndden city
in the world?” said: Largely be
cause lawer legislators and the
general public fail to insist upon
revising the antiquated legal ma
chinery of. Illinois.”
The Herbert Hadley subcommit
tee of the National Crime Com
mission scores the crimal lawer
and the courts. This prompts a
prominent editor to write: “The
courts must be cleared of partisan
politics; and the caliber of the ju
diciary must be improved if real re
form is to come to the courts.
Thus it would appear that the
two Alaskaa courts are not the on
ly ones that are under criticism.
But the tendency is for a general
clean-up and to put stronger men
on the bench who are possessed of
the judicial temperament.
FAVOR OLD AGE PENSIONS
It was a great pleasure to look
on at the exercises of the 28th an
nual convention of the Grand Aerie,
F raternal Order of Eagles, at Seat
tle last month. One of the points
stressed was the wonderful work
o ’ing accomplished by the Aerie in
securing old age pension legislation
in the various States. The order
aims to put the “Poor House’’ out
of business, as they have proven to
be places where misery is more fre
quent than happiness. A superior
plan of administering to the needs
of the aged and poor, without
increased expense, is the object of
the Eagles, and they have enlisted
the Elks, Moose and other fraternal
organizations to bring about this
humane reform.
After listening to eloquent re
marks on this subject by President
Guenther, of Pittsburg, Editor F.
E. Herring, of South Bend, Ind., Or
ganizer Conrad Mann, of Philadel
phia, the assemblage was strongly
impressed with the humanitarian
purposes of the present big drive.
Commendable reference was made
to Alaska’s old age p«?nsion provi
sion and the writer was inspired
with the desire, if possible, to
strengthen the law so that elderly
couples stranded near the end of
life might be kept together in an
abode containing the spirit of a pri
vate home. The Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka, under its present manage
ment, is serving a most useful pur
pose, and ample provision should
be extended to add to the comfort
and content of. scores of worthy
pioneers who prefer to spend their
declining years among old com
rades.
g DELEGATE WORKS FOR ALL*
While some of the leading citi
zens of Ketchikan and Jueau, have
thrown party ties to the winds and
banded themselves under the cogno
men of “Independents,” are spend
ing corporation money in the futile
effort to defeat Delegate Dan Suth
erland for reelection, he seeks to
secure legislation that will tend to
those communities. He is largely
responsible for securing an enlarged ■
appropriation for the Federal build- '
ing at Juneau and is also seeking
to restore Southeastern Alaska a i
land district, with Juneau the head
ouarters. The land office was re- f
moved from there to Anchorage j
three years ago on the recommend- ;
ation of Mr, Parks, who was then |
at the head of the land affairs in r
Alaska. And while Ketchikan pro- j
tests that the discarded Judge and !
District Attorney are the two great- ■
est men. in Alaska, the Delegate is |
trying to have a bill passed in Con- jj
gross for the erection of a new
court house and jail in Ketchikan, [
a sub ject that- does not seem to j
much, concern the aforesaid “lead- ]
lag” citizens. 1
-- FREE AND FEARLESS_
A short time ago my attention
was, attracted to a principle set
forth by the Washington Republican
League. It would seem as the or
ganization was taking a fling at the
Marquam “Independent” candidates
for the Territorial Legislature. The
few hundred men and women of Ju
neau and Ketchikan, who allow
themselves to be blinded by the In
dian racial question by corporation
attorneys and a few henchmen,
might with profit consider this slo
gan of the League:' “We urge and
will support the election to the le
gislature, df Republicans who will
discharge their duties fearlessly,
fro:m any corporate domination or
the hope of executive reward.
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