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A PETITION
DELIVER me from evil
doers that talk nothing
but sickness and failure.
Grant me the companionship
of men who think success
and work for it. Loan me
associates who cheerfully
face the problems of day
and try hard to overcome them.
Relieve me of cynics and
critics.
Give me good health and the
strength to be of real service
to the world, and I’ll get all
that’s good for me, and will
what’s left to those who want
it.
ANOTHER VARIETY
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“The Heinz variety of Bureaus
in Alaska, with their Heinz laws
are a crime against the devel
opment of the Territory. Some
of the methods of enactment
should be investigated.”—Sew
ard Gateway.
Why kick about the “57” va
rieties yet vote to perpetuate
that machine, eating, and sleep
ing with them and fighting
their battles for them when
they are hard pressed.
Quit kicking about the “57”
varieties so long as you live by
their bounty.
HOOVER SHOULD DO BETTER
About this time, eight years
ago, Warren G. Harding was en
gaged in the same task which
now occupies President-elect
Hoover—the selection of a Cab
inet. On March 4, 1921, Hard-'
ing submitted his list and it was
confirmed by the Senate. It in
cluded the following names:
Harry M. Daugherty,
Attorney General.
Will H. Hays,
Postmaster General
Edwin Denby,
Secretary of the Navy.
Albert B. FFall,
Secretary of the Interior
John W. Weeks,
Secretary of War
Andrew W. Mellon,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Daugherty made the Depart
ment of Justice a rendevous for
criminals, was exposed by Sen
ator Wheeler, and retired in dis
grace. Fall and Denby signed
the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills
leases to the naval oil reserves
before they had scarcely warm
ed their Cabinet chairs. Hays
paid off the Republican cam
paign deficit of 1920 with Lib->
erty Bonds accumulated as a
corruption fund in the leasing
of Teapot Dome, with Weeks
and Mellon assisting him in
concealing this fraud upon the
party and the country. Senator
Couzens has been waging a bat-.
tie against Mellon for alleged I
illegal refunding of taxes to:
various corporations, some of
he himself is interested in.
PLUNDERBUND POLITICS
During the election campaign
of last November Jack Schoet
tler made the statement before
a responsible citizen of Peters
burg that he (Jacky) favored
a tariff on halibut. His silence
on that subject of much import
to the fishermen of Petersburg
has been most noticeable. He
would cover up by yelling for
herring for bait before the ink
is dry on the order written. And
which would not contradict the
political policies of his Ketchi- :
kan mentors. ]
HE Got Your Vote i
On election day he was busy {
with a car getting halibut fish- 1
ermen and their wives to vote
the Democratic ticket. (And
him a proud Republican). Dan
(Sutherland tied with Grigsby
in a town which has received
most benefit through the effort
of Sutherland.
Declared Tariff an Issue
Delegate Sutherland when he
made his speech here, declared
the open port of Rupert and a
tariff on halibut an issue. He
declared Grigsby favored the
closing of Rupert and then he
challenged Grigsby to declare
himself here on this important
subject. George was going to
do so but—“FORGOT.’' Quite
a convenient ass-et he had.
Prediction Came True
.. Dan’s prediction that the tar
iff question would come up this
year was realized only after
the Ketchikan Commercial Club
sent Jack Talbot to Washington,
D. C., to present their urgent
appeal that a three cent tariff
be put on halibut from Rupert
and that free-bonding of hali
but be discontinued. Then the
fishermen awakened and let a
roar of protest go up to re-echo
clear across the continent. Did
many of them vote to put in the
man who favored the tariff?
They did. What fools some of
those voters can be and how
ignorant. Another time, may
hap, other vital questions will
arise and the press of the plun
derbund will get the same votes
to do Alaska’s laboring classes
more dirt. Watch ’em. They
are plotting right now. The
Tariff question is not settled
yet—not until^Congress is thru
with it. There are various ways
of acomplishing their nefarious
purpose.
JACKY’S VOICE
We hope that the halibut fish
ermen are pleased with the
silence of their publication on
the tariff question. (Some of
them, not all were fooled by
hocus fool’em platform of the
irrepresentative R e p u b 1 i cans
who always vote and support
Demcratic tickets.
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT
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You Halibut Fishermen and
your wives who voted for George
Grigsby, knowing that the tar
iff question was coming up. How
did you like the sound of the
phrase“closing of the port of
Prince Rupert,” and “Ketchikan
will pay more for the fish.”
Did you believe it? Didn’t you
believe the same crowd when
they peddled their political bull
last fall? Lightning does hit
in the same place more than
once.
EVERY FISHERMAN IS A LAW
BREAKER
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Of all the salmon fishermen
we have interviewed since the
close of the fishing operations
of last year, not one but admit
ted that they violated the laws
of the land. They could not do
otherwise. The only waters in
which they could fish are closed
for the preservation—of the
fish traps.
THE ALASKA SALMON AND
THEIR PRACTICAL
PROPOGATION
By A. J. Sprague.
Now what about the Pond re
taining rearing system for the
salmon which of late we have
heard and read sc much? Take
t from me, you can’t do it and
jet results. I paid the price and
t came high. Let me tell you
that experience is the best and
the only teacher. I built and
operated the Trask and Kla
math Falls Hatcheries for the
State of Oregon in 1909 and
1913, and as Superintendent
launched the pond rearing sys
tem March llth of that year.
(See Tillamook Headlight).
Now ,listen, I built some dandy
little ponds good enough to
swim in. They now have the
same kind, at dear old Bonne
ville Hatchery on the Columbia,
Oregon, where they raise mil
lions of young salmon, taken
from eggs shipped from Alaska.
They are kept in these small
gravelike ponds for a period of
two years, and then distributed
at the cost of about one dollar
per fish, four inches long. If
they ever should return, are
they coming back to those same
ponds when matured for spawn
ing? Now I don’t believe this,
neither does the poor fish.
In retaining ponds for young
salmon it is always customary
to put a screen in the lower end
of the pond to keep the young
salmon in and trout and other
enemies out. Now when the in
stinct of the salmon asserts it
self, he wants and must have
his freedom to go to his future
home, the sea. AND IF YOU
YOU COMPEL HIM TO RE
MAIN IN THIS POND HE BE
COMES STUNTED IN GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT, AND OF
COURSE, DIES.
Take for example, one hun
dred .thousand salmon .to be
held in a pond for a period of
two years in order to protect
them until they were good siz
ed fish before being liberated.
The following results will take
place: (1) Because of the lack
of natural microscopic food,
found in all tundra water, and
that cannot be artificially re
produced, all artificial pond fish
go bad sooner or later, usually
about the third month. 2. All
salmon pass from fresh to salt
water by an instinct of nature.
They never have consulted any
human being as to that time, for
they have their own fixed sched
ule, rain or shine, high or law
water. (3). And if they cannot
go at their own specified time
of the year, they either die, be
cause you have them penned
up against their better instinct,
or you have stunted their
development and growth for all
time to come; and worse still, by
continuous confinement and un
natural food, freedom and en
vironment, YOU HAVE INTER
FERRED ALSO WITH THE RE
PRODUCTIVE ORGANS AND
LIBERATED BARREN FISH.
THE RESULT IS THAT THOU
SANDS OF IMMATURED SAL
MON ALL ALONG THE PACI
FIC AND INLAND WATERS
ARE WANDERERS IN THEIR
NATIVE ELEMENT, WITH NO
INSTINCT FOR RETURN TO
PARENT STREAM TO FULFILL
THEIR MISSION IN LIFE, TO
SPAWN AND DIE. (4). Be
sides having domesticated them,
you have robbed them of the vi
tal instinct of self-preservation.
(5). With one hundred thou
sand young salmon liberated in
any pond the loss before the end
of the second year will be eighty
per cent caused by fungas and
parasitic gill disease, and cana
balism, the feeding off of their
weaker brothers by the thou
sands. Meanwhile ducks and
other water fowl will take toll, j
We must not overlook the factj
that it is impossible to furnish j
microscopic insect food found in
the tundra swamps and waters
that are the natural breeding
places of the Humpy, Coho and
Chum salmon. The best artifi
cial food that we can obtain is
raw liver, almost prohibitive in
cost, limited in quantity and at
best a poor substitute. At the
present lowest market price, it
will cost a dollar and eight and
a half cents each to hold and
feed what salmon are left out of
this hundred thousand lot, for
a period of two years, including
of course, the cost of maintain
ing, building and general up
keep of these ponds. We ca
certainly pity these fish, whei.
turned loose into the watery
elements in which there is nc
mercy, having been hand-fed, j
petted and domesticated, know
ing no fear. The yeat out of
your hand and follow you
around the pond, when the din
ner bell rings. Now, the ques
tion we may well ask ourselves
is, “What becomes of this wreck
we have turned loose ” They
are less than four inches in
length, derelicts with everything
their enemies from the two
legged man on down the line.
They never come back again to
spawn, they will never come
back into this pond where they
were reared. And it can make
no difference in what manner
you mark, tag or mutilate their
fins, we expect no returns. All
marks are dangerous for young
fish.
. (To Be Continued) .
WILL TEST LAW
Attorneys for William Koroff,
of Fairbanks, will test the right
of the courts to punish aliens
for the possession of firearms.
Thomas B. Drayton and Morton
E. Stevens will conduct the case
for the defense. Koroff was re
cently arrested for possession of
firearms, to-wit: one automatic
revolver. He plead guilty to the
charge of owning and possessing
said pistol and was sentenced to
six months in jail.
Attorneys for defense made
the following statement relative
to the case:
“Neither Mr. Koroff’s person
ality, citizenship nor status in j
any particular figures largely in
the matter. He just happens to
be the individual who directly
suffers from a misconstruction
of a statutory enactment. And
while the consequences are seri
ous to him, that phase is of a
trivial consequence in itself com
pared to the menace to society
involved in the judicial perver
sion of the law. If even the low
liest human creature living un
der our flag can be arrested up
on a doubtful charge admittedly
involving no moral guilt, and
then be imprisoned upon mere
suspicion of other offenses with
which he is not judicially charg
ed, it is a matter of vast concern
to every citizen who values his
own reputation, liberty and pro
perty rights.
The circumstances that Mr.
Koroff pleaded guilty, that he
frankly admitted he owned a
pistol which he kept in a drawer
in his cabin, cannot be accept
ed as an act destructive of the
game birds and animals the law
is solely designed to protect. The
plea of guilty will present some
technical difficulties, but I think
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