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WHO TO VOTE FOB
On November 2nd, 1926 Vote for
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES. For
Delegate to Congress, DAN A.
SUTHERLAND, of Juneau.
For SENATOR, WILL A. STEEL,
of Juneau.
For REPRESENTATIVES:
CHAS. A. BENJAMIN, of Wrangell
C11AS. B. FERGUSON, of Craig
W1ELIAM L. PAUL, of Ketchikan
WILLIAM A. WORTH, Petersburg
WHOSE A DICTATOR
The Chronicle of recent issue had
a lengthy editorial declaring that
William L. Paul was a dictator and
that he set a platform without con
sidering other candidates onthetick
et. That, he having a thousand il
literate votes to cast, is setting him
self up a dictatorship. The falsity
of the statement is nothing to one
used to prevarication. To show the
position Mr. Paul takes in this mat
ter we publish the following letter
dated February 2nd, 1926 at Kethi
kan.
Chas. Benjamin,
■Wrangell, Alaska
Dear Mr. Benjamin:
1 am glad to receive your recent
letter and have no doubt that we
agree in principle. Such being the
case, we will have no difficulty over
details, for in those matters, people
n ust proceed on the principle of
give and take. No one man is the
custodian of all wisdom. I realize
very well that respect and consider
ation is the foundation of success
ful work in legislation. Grant will
tell you that while- we agreed in the
main, we also differed on details,
and that on occasion we voted dif
ferently. But still we remaind
good friends, able to talk over mat
ters pending. He gave me good ad
vie and I followed some of it, as he
will tell you; others I disagreed
with, at which time we parted ways
oa the DETAILS.”
The. dictatorship of the conduct
of "William Paul is the principle of
ri;,ht and the matter of benefit to
the greatest number of people. Not
one candidate on the Republican
ticket is under any obligation to
Faul if elected. They are under ob
ligation to their consciences and to
the principles of right and justice.
A DEMOCRAT SAYS
"We have' fallen into shifty op
portunism, seizing every fad of the
moment, yielding to every pressure
from lobbies and galleries, veering
to every wind that seemed to pro
mise popularity, regardless of the
direction from which it blew. We
have permitted the great Democrat
ic party to be degraded and used
by a small alien faction merely as
an instrument of annoyance and
hindrance to the administration.”
This from thespeech of one of the
Senators seems to have been said
with an idea of the conduct of the
Democratic party in Alaska which
engineered the filing of Frank Boyle
for Delegate to Congress at the pri
maries in order to defeat Adams of
Nome. There was no intention on
the part of Boyle to run in the final
November election. It was the plan
from the beginning to sell out the
party in favor of the independent
candidate.
"Shifty opportunism, seizing ev
ery fad of the moment” they smoke
screen the issues with literacy test;
with denunciation and discrediting
of Delegate Sutherland. They have
“degraded” the Democratic party by
accepting "slush” funds depending
on the run of red salmon. They
would even disintegrate their party
and party principles for the chance
of success at the polls. If they
would sell out party honor and prin
ciple for success before election,
what wouldn’t they do when elected.
Vote that Republican ticket and
vote it straight.
nWHAT dan stoppel
The charge is made that the inde
pendent ticket is a ticket represent
ing the corporate interests of Seat
tel, San Francisco and Chicago. It
is being generally denied. In a re
cent speech at Fairbanks Thomas
Marquam declared that he was in
favor of the work and efforts of
Secretary Hoover and he would sup
port the Bureau of Fisheries. That
gives the whole scheme of selling
out to the interests.
We quote the plan as set forth by
Mr. Hoover and call further atten
tion to the fact that this planwas
made by the Fish Barons and with
the United States Fish Commisioner
sitting in the seat of the almighty.
Mr. Henry Fortman, of the Alaska
Packers’ Association: Our com
pany operating in the entire district,
Mr. Commissioner, I have included
the entire district in our letter, and
if there be no objection, I will read
liie whole letter.
San Francisco, November 25,1922
To the United States
Bureau of Fisheries.
Gentlemen: The Alaska Packers’
Association offers you the following
suggestions and data for the regu
lation, etc., of the new Alaska sal
mon reservation.”
Then follows the parcelling out
of the different reserves as wa3 later
outlined in the fisheries regulations.
And which Hoover attempted to in
corporate as a law.”
Note the following which is a
virtual command to the Bureau and
later it was shown that Hoover ana
the Bureau of Fisheries did hear
their masters' voice.
‘‘No licenses or permits are to be
issued for additional canneries, salt
eries, or other salmon-preserving es
tablishments in this reservation un
til after existing canneries and salt
eries have been permitted to operate
without restriction for a sufficient
length of time to convince the Bu
reau of Fisheries that further re
strictions are unnecessary.
‘ No purse seines, small-meshed
g ill-nets, or power gill net boats tc
be permitted to be operated or used
in salmon fishing in this reserva
tion.”
“No roving operating licenses oi
permits to be issued to boating can
neries or salteries.”
The scheme was to divide up the
allotment to a certain number ol
boats per cannery and to operate ir
zones. Under this system the fish
ern an became a tenant of the can
nery man and could not fish any
where but in that cannery man’s
zone. All competition under this
scheme which had Hoover’s en
dorsement ceased. Is it any wondei
that Delegate Sutherland, represent
ing the people of Alaska should ex
poso the nefarious plan even if sub
mitted by Hoover.
DAN SECURES GUARANTEE .
Opposed to this we find that h(
incorporated in the. present fish law
in spite of Hoover and the Fisl
Trust, a guarantee providing thai
every fisherman shall have the righi
to operate ip Alaska waters.
Yet the “independent” press anc
candidates would have us believ*
Sutherland has done nothing and ii
without influence.
(Continued from page one)
TOM MARQUAM FAILS TO
CONVINCE PETERSBURG
character.
“They vote as he tells them.” T<
the Westward Tom told the voters
that Paul furnished cardboard am
with these boards to fit the balloi
the Indians voted en masse. Poos
Tom. He doesn’t give the Indiai
credit for average intelligence. Ye
Indians who went to hear him saic
“he talks like an ignorant man. N01
one Indian votes as Paul tells them.
They stand for the election of men
who will best represent all the in
terests of the Territor. Their earn
ings effect the business interests of
the Territor. There interests are
the interests of the white laboring
n an. They understand that by th -»
proper application of their votes
they have all to gain and that the
voting for men sponsored by Troy,
originator of the racia propoganda
they are voting to elect men who
will carry the racial question into
legislative halls.
‘ Paul threatens to tie up the Pio
neers’ Home and Mothers’ Pensions.
When the pension laws were before
the last legislature the “steering”
c:\mittee knew that the law was un
constitutional in that it was speci
fically “class legislation.” They did
not think that Paul had the nerve to
stand before them and defy them
and compel the to make the act a
lcga one. They believed Paul an
opportunist but they did not figure
Paul indifferent to political futre
and ambitions. When he threw his
def> at the “independents” they
rent the law back to committee and
there amended it to read that no
benofflciary of Bureau of Education
funds for indigent,etc., could bene
fit under the law. Paul inserted the
i amendment which makes certain
| t he payment of these pensions by
| warrant in event there is shortage
in the treasury as when Shepard
raised the pensions but did not pro
vide for the raise.
r,'he Indians ar£ satisfied with the
Pension law as it stands even'if
th-j application is not entirely fair.
That can be remedied. Political
bunkum that needs not the atten
tion of Americans.
“Paul fools them into subsribing
for his keep.” The first time any
n oney was raised for any work done
by Paul was this year. The Bro
therhood authorized the payment of
his salary for editing and managing
of the Alaska Fishermen. Only a
small part of the authorized salary
was paid and that he immediately
threw back into the fight for the
economic liberty of both white and
Indian labor. Did Paul drop his
fght for justice for fellow men he
would be financially better off for
his legal record in his court work
since he started practicing law has
been mighty close to 100 per cent.
BACKS BUREAU OF FISHERIES.
“Dan has done nothing for the
people of Alaska in his fisheries
fight.” Read the Alaska Packers’
plan for reservating the entire Ter
ritory and remember that Dan de
feated the plan in Congress after
Hoover declared it only a tempor
ary device . Remember that Dan in
serted in the fisheries law the guar
antee that the waters shall remain
open to all fishermen. The securing
of that is enough to secure the vote
of any fisherman. But also remem
ber that he also fought and defeated
the effort to close the port of Prince
Riiuprt
‘Taul was after the office of dis
trict attorney.” A deliberate lie.
Paul was approached in thi smatter
blit refused to consider it. Over his
i own signature in the Alaska Fisher
man he denied that he had any po
litical ambition to hold appointive
. office. At that he could not do any
worse than George Arthur Shoup.
A very pertinent statement was
uttered by Marquam when he said
what a man was. he will be. If he
s was once a crook he will in later
, life be a crook. If a good man to
start with he in all probability re
; r ain a good man.
Fan and Tom as boys and as
nen, which will it be using Tom’s
l own statements.
i PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SAYS
As citizens we must act through
our primaries to secure the choice
of men loyal tothe constitution. On
[ election days we must vote; not af
t«r.r party lines but after principles,
We cannot blindly cast a party tick
» et w ith a partizan lyalty which gives
s our ballot to a crook. That is
l crooked politics. The higher poli
; or patriotism means a vote for the
■ light man with the right ideals, re
i gardless of party labl.e When the
: decent citizens of the Nation do
[ ♦hat, then civic rottenness will be a
; memory only.
Beach Combings^
By AHN-KUTTY
THE SALMON TRAP
I l.iiilt a home on the muskeg moss
In the shade of a hemlock grove,
I cast my nets In the silent depths
of near by bay and covt '
And time went on, and others came
and cast their nets as I;
And village grew on muskeg moss
where the ocean tides swept by.
Our work was hard, but life was
free and each one played a part
In reaching on for better things
with willing hand and heart.
Then came a day in early June. The
sun’s bright rays
Made clear a penciled line of smoke
across the bluish haze.
We watched the smudge. It nearer
came. We wondered what it
meant.
There seemed to be, in the dusky
streak, an omen—an ill portent.
At noon an ocean tug steamed in.
Before the week was done,
A floating trap stretched out across
the sokoi salmon run.
Then notices were posted ^up on
creek, lagoon and bay,
That fishing was illegal there, and
we should keep away.
The village is deserted now, the
yards have grown to weeds,
And rusty hinges creak away of fish
ev folk and deeds.
But the trap is in commission, and
annually its gold
Poes to feed an alien owner and
protect him from *he cold.
He never saw this country and he
has no knowledge where
The old fisher folk have wondered,
and I guess he doesn’t care.
AHN-KUTTY
Election day is nearly upon us. i
Have you given candidates and is
sues the consideration they deserve?
Voting is something more than a
mere cross and the depositing of a
ballot. If you have an idea, firmlyy
fixed, that the packing combine, as
it is operating, is an Alaska enter
prise and of material aid to Alaska,
vote for it through the Independent
(?) ticket. If you think that the
salmon traps are snaring devices by
which Alaska fishermen are bene
fitted and Alaska homes are built,
vote for traps through the Indepen
dent (?) ticket. If you want the
ejected officials to follow the dictate
of tourist capitalists and the bank
ing interests, by all means mark
your ballot for the Independent (?)
candidates. If you harbor a feel
ing that the fertilizer trust is help
ing the herring situation in the least
bit, vote for more of this kind of
help by making your cross before 1
the names of the Independent (?)*
candidates. If it suits you to have
two million dollar pay rolls in Seat
tle instead of Alaska, you’ll find sat
isfaction in voting for Marquam and
oilier Independents. (?) If it
it strikes you that it is all Okey to
be the bootstraps of the financiers
of Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago
and New York, then Okey the Inde
pendent (?) ticket. If you foster
the thought that the imported labor,
under contract ironbound and steel
fastened, is just about proper, say
it with marks on the Independent
(?) ticket. In fact, if you don’t
care for yourself nor for your coun
try '3 resources, vote up the Indepen
dent (?) line.
On the other side there are the
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