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DISCUSSES TARIFF PROBLEM
Mr. Talbot, who is vice presi
dent oi' the Ketchikan Commer- ‘
cial Club, discussed very briefly l
the question of tariff on fresh (
fish as it effects the halibut in- <
uustry of Alaska.
He restated the well known
position of the Ketchikan or- i
ganization that American caught ]
fish sold on the Prince Rupert ;
market, handled there by Cana
dian labor, boxed in containers :
manufactured in Canada, held ^ i
in cold storages in Canada, i
sometimes for months and then :
shipped into the United States,
rightfully should be subject to a
regular import duty upon re-en-j
try. He declared that the Treas- i
ury Department ruling to the j.
contrary is unj ust and not in j
keeping with the letter and spir- j,
it of the law. J;
That policy, he asserted, is not;
benefiting Alaska fishermen j
and is working to the detriment >
of the cold storage industry of'
Alaska and harmful to business J
generally. An imposition of the ;
duty contemplated in the tariff
act, two cents per pound, would
require local plants to double
their present capacity and give
all business a substantial boost.
He intimated that Ketchikan
would renew its efforts to have
such a duty applied in the near
future.—Juneau Empire.
WANT THE PROFIT
The trouble with the Ketchi-!
kan Commercial Club is, that IT
wants the additional profit now
accruing halibut fishermen by
virtue of the “open competitive t
market” whereby the fishermen
may sell their fares to the high
est bidders.
There is nothing under the j
sun to hinder the Ketchikan or
any other buyers paying as much
as does the Rupert market. It is
a know fact that when the Am
erican buyers wanted the fares
offered and could not get them
any other way, they paid for
them and got them. The dif
erential v/hich they are asking
through a tariff act is addition
al profit which they hope to ob
tain by law rather than econom
ics and at the expense of the
fishermen. In other words, the
halibut fishermen are making
too much profit from their haz
ardous labors to suit the Ketchi
kan Commercial Club. That
Club wants to horn in on that
profit, therefore the desire for a
tax of two cents o nthe pound.
We do not believe it good busi
ness to build a high tariff wall
around our halibut fisheries. It
is within our own knowledge and
e xperience that without the open
competitive market the fisher
men worked for glory and the
workers got the profits.
The following editorial from
LABOR, Washington, D. C., is
pertinent to the subject and has,
to our way of thinking, consider
able more weight and prestige
than Mr. Talbot of the Ketchi
kan Commercial Club, or the
Club itself:
Why Offend Canada, Our Best
Customer, by Needlessly Rais
ing the Tariff on Her Ex
ports to This Country
American statesmen should
not make the mistake of under
estimating the pulling power of
the appeal Mr. Thomas is mak
ing to Canadians to buy more
from Great Britain and less from
the United States
True, there is nothing new
about the doctrine of “British
Preference,” but it was never
presented at a more opportune
ime or by a more persuasive ad
vocate.
The dynamic and eloquent
‘Jimmie” is appealing to the
hearts as well as to the heads of
Canadians. If he cannot get re
mits, no one can.
Then, the Canadians are in a
'eceptive mood. In addition to
heir natural sympathy for the
Mother Country they have a
•pecial grievance against us.
While our sales to Canada are
ncreasing at an amazing rate,
)ur tariff makers are planning
m still further restricting the
market for Canadian goods in
;his country.
The latest figures reveal the
.mfairness of such a policy.
For the twelve months ending
July 31, Canada bought from the
United States goods valued at
5902.000. 000, an increase in one
/ear of $139,000,000.
During the same period our
Lmports from Canada totaled
5516.000. 000, an increase of $33,
500.000, To this should be added
the expenditures of American
tourists in the Dominion, an
enormous sum.
Canadian imports from the
British Empire were only $260,
000,000. an increase of $7,000,000,
while her sales to the Empire
totaled $490,000,000, a decrease
of $30,000,000.
Those figures do not indicate
that this country is in any dan
of being flooded with “cheap
goods” from Canada. Rather
they show that the Dominion is
a customer worth cultivating.
Instead of raising the tariff on
Canadian ..products, .wisdom
would suggest that we lower it.
EDUCATIONAL PROPOGANDA
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During the week were shown
two pictures at the local thea
tres that carried moral lessons
well worthy the serious thought
of every citizen.
The “Four Sons” a story of. a
German mother and her four
sons with the Great War as the
setting. A cry against war and
a cry against legalized murder
on national scale; the penalties
and sacrifices of war ail was a
protest against the wanton de
struction of human life in order
that greed for power and accu
mulation for wealth might be
satisfied.
More such pictures should be
shown and more of the horrors
of war should be depicted. Along
with which should come drafting
of capital equally with manpow
er. If human life must be sacri
ficed upon the altars of hate and
selfishness then industry and
capital should be made to serve
without profit. Then will war
be outlawed. For when it nc
longer profits individuals and
| nations to wage war, they will
cease.
The other picture was the
Road to Ruin depicting the so
cial problem generating through
innocent school youth; mixing of
the ultimate etaoin shrdlu cmfcc
of gasoline, booze and dope tc
ultimate dishonor of clean wo
manhood. Counterparts of this
story are so common these days
of the cost of high living that be
fore conclusion of the film its
denouement was known. Not a
pleasant picture to watch
for those who by force of their
training were shielded from
contact with the rough edges
of life Nevertheless carring out
the idea that Mother Nature or
God, demands recompense and
that ‘‘the wages of sin is death”
“No thing has mighty power
until it stands clearly revealed”
WORK IS WORSHIP
When in our hour of trial and
communing with the “laws oi
nature and of nature’s god” we
agreed that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain in
alienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, we entered j
into a covenant with “nature and
nature’s god” by which as a peo
ple we are to live and be judged
and should realize that, if there
be a sin against the Holy Ghost,
chen the failure to keep this cov
enant sacred is such sin.
The last place out of which de
secration might be expected to
come ought to be a college or a
church, the cultural and the
spiritual center of our people.
Work is worship—to labor is to
pray, because that is to exercise
the highest, the divine faculties
implanted in us as sons of God.
It matters not if the labor be
the writing of a thesis or the
digging of a ditch; it is the use
of the same divine faculty to
labor—to create—and upon its
proper and free use depends the
living individuals, nations, rac
es.
Those who have been untrue
nave shared the fate of the tree
without fruit; they have passed
away because they encumbered
the earth. Those who have been
| true have lived and, according
i to history and to religious be
lief, they are to live. Let us
! try to profit by this lessor, and
| so live that labor shall be free
jthat it shall come into its own
j—Andrew Furuseth, President 01
the International Seamen’s
Union of America, in “Labor
Speaks for Itself in Religion.”
SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM
“Obviously the future of sucl:
'Indians (educated) is not fount
on the reservation but awaj
from it.”—H. B. Peairs, Genera
Superintendent of Indian Edu- J
cation.
(Note.—Twenty-five years ago, j
Di. Pears was superintendent of
the Haskell Institute, Lawrence,
Kansas at that time second only
to the famous Carlisle School. He
left that position when promot
ed to position as agency super
visor and since stepped up to his
present position in the Educa
tional department of Indian Af
fairs. His observation is from
knowledge, contact and study of
the Indian problem for over a
quarter of a century. It is not
strange that he accepts the doc
trine of the late General Richard
Henry Pratt, founder of the
Carlisle School, that “To civilize
the Indian, get him into civiliza
tion; to keep him civilized, let
him stay.” Which is the doc
trine and theory advanced by
the Alaska Native Brotherhood
in its educational program for
the Alaskan Indian youth.
The slogan of this fight is
‘Co-equal educational oppor
tunity.”
THE FISHERMAN’S GOODBYE
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Hoping against hope that they |
would earn sufficient to keep;
Old Man Want and Hardship!
away during the winter months, i
the fishermen started the fall j
season on the first of October, j
But their hopes are going j
glimmering mighty fast with the j
heavy rains of this week. With 1
flooded creeks and streams the i
salmon will have no difficulty j
getting up to the tall timber be- j
yond the reach of even the gaff i
hooks.
ALASKA, DID YOU SAY
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An Associated Press dispatch
dated last Friday says: George:
A. Parks of COLORADO was j
nominated as governor of Alas- 1
ka.—And we have been told all
along that he was AN Alaskan.1
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