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X>UIS F. PAUL,.MANAGER and EDITOR
S WHO IS THE WORLD’S DEVIL
£ BY James R. Little
£ He’s the power that lurks in counting rooms and lives
'' on 10 per cent—
\ He’s the lord who lets you starve on earth paying him
>' rent,— . • •.
£ He’s the cuss that makes you sweat your brow while he
'v rakes in the swag.
£ He’s the patriotic plunderbund that “loves the dear
old flag.”
;; He’s the boss that owns the rulers, the courts, and the
£ police, • • ..
;; He’s the gander the people follow like a squaking squad
of geese,— .
£ He’s the pest that builds the crowded slums where white
£ plague germs are bred.—
£ He’s the guy that makes all the poisoned food that
$ fattens on its dead. •.. •
£ He’s the “Liar in the Pulpit” that says its God’s
'' Command.— -• •.
^ That servants be obedient to the Masters and robbers
of our land. .
£ He’s the hunger hound of poverty that fills the world
\ with crime,
'v The damned abomination that is working overtime.
He’s the beast that breathes lurid fumes that drive men
'' on to war. .. .. • • .
£ The heartless beast whose lust for loot swells more and
more and more. .
Tackass Rabbits
Going back over old editorial
natters, we ran across a state
ment by President Grant in
v hich he asserted that “The
Democrats always took care to
elect Republicans by the mis
takes they made.” It would ap
pear at this writing that the
Democrats are doing all within
their power to defeat their own
candidate by party division and
quarrels.
Listen to this, written by Mr.
Henrst himself:
“The jackass rabbit, as the
emblem of the insurrectionary
Democrats, is a fitting combina
tion of the jackass, which is the
appropriate emblem of the re
gular Democratic Party, and the
white rabbit, which is the ac
cepted symbol of timidity—not
L mention stupidity.
“The jackass rabbit, there
fore, emblem of the Democrats
revolutionists, expresses admir
ably this new Bolshevist party
possesses the brains of the ass
and the heart of the white rab
bit, and is, therefore, devoid of
the wisdom to see its obliga
tions to the nation, and devoid
of the courage to perform its
obligation even if it could see it.”
The trouble with William Ran
dolph Hearst is that not many
of the congressmen who accept
ed his free junket to Canada
supported his sales tax measure
in the House. Representative La
Guardia threw the bill for six
loops and while it recovered in
a way the Hearst idea was pretty
much like a jaw with all the
teeth pulled out.
What Congress needs—a n d
state and territorial legislatures
also—are a bunch of jackass
labbits. They may not have
much of a bite—but they have
a kick all their own nor are they
usually very particular where
their heels fly. And from such
jackass rabbits usually comes
legislation that is of a progress
ive nature.
The Governor’s Admonition
Governor George A. Parks has
been much concerned about the
influx of job seekers to Alaska.
He fears that it would create a
serious relief problem to all
communities and the Territorial
government so he warned the
job seekers who contemplated
coming North to stay at home
and to “use their money to live
on.”
The big problem has been to
bring labor to Alaska. Despite
all the pounding that has been
given the problem, labor has re
fused to come to the country
where there is nc labor market.
During the summer months,
9G per cent of the labor in can
neries is imported. Residents
are not desired and they must
even go to Seattle to be employ
ed in Alaska. The Chambers of
Commerce have been openin
their eyes urging the fishin
industry to employ local labor.
Governor Parks has approached
various canners with the plea
that there be greater considera
tion given local labor.
The only answer that is given
Alaskans brings forth the warn
ing by Governor Parks to the
laborers of the States—Stay
away, Alaska does not want you.
It has no labor markets for you.
Its fishing industry is over-'
loaded with foreigners to the,
discrimination of resident labor.
‘ Spend your money in your own
state.
OQ Ciq
* 'Squeaky' Petes'
“Squeaky Pete,, Gregory has,
gone to jail for three months
because he gave and sold in
toxicating liquor to the Indians.!
Gregory is one of the kind we!
are getting too many of in this
Alaska nowadays. He has never
saved a cent, and he whines that j
he cannot make a living unless
he sells whiskey to the Indians.
He is the kind that the Territory
is spending most of its money to
support.—Chitina Herald.
As a combination news-edi
torial the above paragraph takes
front rank with anything any
contemporary editor in Alaska
has written. It touches the prin-1
copies of violated truth, violated
honor, violated statutes; it
reaches into the future for a
solution that must come.
The editor of the Heraid
is a lad of eleven years—he I
publishes his little paper weekly'
on a mimeograph .machine. He I
has accomplished what few j
editors in the United States have.
accomplished—made nationally j
known by being the subject of a
write-up in “Time” published
weekly.
To Much Lip
Anna Korshaven of Seattle was!
bit on the lip by a dog she tried
to pet recently. She was taken to
the hospital where she was in-!
formed that the lip will be dis
figured permanently.
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He is not yet bom who can
please every body. —Danish pro
verb. '
Advertising Alaska
Three major transportation
companies—The Alaska Steam
ship Company, the Alaska Rail
road and the Northern Pacific
Railway Company have joined
together in a vigorous campaign
to stimulate travel to Alaska
this year by advertising during
the months of April and May in
13 of the leading national ma
gazines with a total circulation
of 2,802,299.
; The advertisement covers one
page in four colors illustrating
“Alaskans off to the Potlatch” a
famed painting by Sidney Law
rence. The scene depicts Alaska
Indians sailing their canoes a
long the mountainous coast tr
festivities of neighboring tribes-1
men.
This cooperation of the three
companies will bring beneficial
results to the territory by mak
ing friends of those who come to
see and learn of this great
Northland.
Bring On Those
Pulp Mills
It is some ten years or more
since the Forest Service and
ethers have promised Alaskans
that “in the near future the
pulp industry will be operat
ing in Alaska.” The patience of
Alaskans is becoming samewhat
worn out.
Early in the year the press dis
patches indicated that the pulp
industry was in a sad state due
to overproduction. The execut
ive board of the International
Brotherhood of Paper Makers
called upon the paper manu
facturers to “co-operate among
themselves in working out some
plan to control production.”
This Brotherhood embraces
organized paper makers and mill
workers in the United States,
Canada and Newfoundland.
The Union asked for produc
tion control. Its resolution read,
“so that the selling price of
paper will not fall below the
cost of production, bringing
more chaos to the industry and
i more misery to the workers.”
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Rights of Minorities
“It is indispensable to free
government that the minority,
j the weaker party have a veto
'either upon the making or en
jforcement of laws, they have no
j power whatever in the govern
I ment and can of course have no
(liberties except such as the
stronger party, in their arbitrary
j discretion, sees fit to permit
them to enjoy.—Judge Lysand
er Spooner.
Very frequently we have poli
ticians and students of civil
government quote to us that this
i nation is a “Government of a
j free people and that it has no
J authority beyond that willingly
1 given by the people.”
J The American government is
, created by individuals and the
government owes it to each in
dividual that no law or majority
rule can destroy. A man born in
i this country is a free entity and
! there is no right, individual crf
j collective, which has the right;
! to enslave nor to deal that in -
dividual any injustice.
However, this doctrine is be-i
coming a lost fundamental of
the American government. If a
citizen has money, power, influ
ence he is immune to punish-j
| ment for violation of law but if j
j he is without money, without j
power and without influence, if
| he steals but a loaf of bread he
'is more liable to receive a jail
! sentence of ten years than the
man who steals millions—espe
cially from the government.
The Majority Rule
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secre
tary of the Interior is quoted as
declaring that “It is quite evi
dent that the principle of rule
by the majority has not given
good government to many of our
large cities.”
The good secretary should ad
vocate a dictatorship.
The trouble with the rule,
especially of large cities, states
and territories is that the poli- ,
ticians elected to office by ma
jorities too often forget those j
jv/ho elected them and go right I
to work for minorities, bureau- I
crats and the likes right down :
to racketeers.
The real trouble is that there
is not a sufficiently large major- j
ily rule. The remedy lies in
positive majority expressions or
rule by Mussolinis.'
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Ethics or Honor
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The press of Alaska is strange
ly silent—making no mention ‘
whatsoever of the bill intro- ;
c’uced by Senator Jones of
Washington “for the further
protection and regulation of the
<,cheries of Alaska and backed
by the Bureau of Fisheries and
understood to have the support
ci the salmon industry.”
This bill provides that each
fish trap be severally licensed at
$25 annually for a term of five
years. Investigation is to be
made of each application at
licensee’s expense and present
operators will be allowed ninety
days to qualify, with preference
rights on new licenses if their
present traps are approved.
Speak Up, Gentlemen!
Attention of the Gentlemen of
the Press is called to the above
bill. They are reminded that
they alleged that William L. I
Paul and Delegate James Wick-}
ersham had betrayed their con
stituencies by supporting this
measure which was drawn up at
the request of the canners to
bring peace among the warring
trap men. Extravagant charges
were made that they had become
independently wealthy from the
fees they charged for their ser
vices in betraying the fisher
folk. The Gentlemen of the
Press were very vehement in
their defense of the fisherfolk
and condemned the two named
men for their part, as attorneys
in the drawing of the original
bill.
If that bill was wrong then
and a betrayal of the constitu
encies of those men, what makes
it right now? Why are the
Gentlemen of the Press so pain
fully silent? Who is selling out
the people now? Why don’t they
condemn Senator Jones for giv
ing his support to this bill?
Speak up gentlemen! Explain
your untruthful misrepresenta
tions and discreditable efforts
to destroy the character of these
two men. Your silence becomes
more shameful as those you
misled are beginning to under
stand your duplicity. We cannot
out blush for you and your ef
fort to hide behind your editor -
ini «ilpn/>pl
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Knight Errant
“I am not in the habit of tak
ing marching orders from Demo-1
cratic sources but I can line up :
with A1 Smith who says he will
take off his coat and fight any
candidate who persists in mak
ing demogogic appeals.” So'
states Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde in a radio address this
week when he answered the
charge that the national Ad
ministration has “forgotten the
little fellow.”
“Plain Talk,” a monthly ma- ,
gazine published in the East, \
asserts that A1 Smith’s candi- \
dacy was purchased by the na
tional administration when the
Reconstruction Finance Board )
loaned the Empire State Build-- i
ing Company, of which Smith is j
President, $20,000,000 to save the \
company from going into the )
hands of a receiver. Mortgages *
on the building are said to total j
$40,000,000. Smith’s activity as j
presidential candidate in op- *
position to Governor Roosevelt j
is said to have taken a positive j
aggression following the lean.
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Very, Very Safe
A certain bishop tells many j
amusing stories of his work j
among the Indians. On one oc- j
casion he was visiting a tribe, jj
and it was arranged that after jj
dinner he and one of the chiefs j
were to go for a long ride. >
“Will it be safer for me to j
leave my baggage here?” asked |
the bishop before'they started. j
“Yes,” was the reply of the
chief; “there is not a white man j
within forty miles." <
\ Haines Camp A. N. S.
President, Mrs. D. Kianot
Secretary, Mrs. D. Perrin
Meets every Saturday, 1 p. m.^
Visiting members welcome
Monte Bay Fool Hall
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Candy - Cigars - Soft Drinks
A place to meet your friends
Yakutat, Alaska
Ben Petersen - - Prop.
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f. Haines Camp A. N. B. *»*
£ President, Judson L Brown % j
£ Secretary, Joseph Jackson *|
|* Meets every Monday !|*
!* Visiting members welcome X
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WRANGELL CAMP
Alaska Native Sisterhood
'I* Pres., Mrs. Paddy Thomas
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£ Sec., Mrs. William Tamaree
Meets Every Monday
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Visiting members welcome.
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General Merchandise
and
Fur Buyer
Kake.Alaska
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Dealers in
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Kake.Alaska
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General Merchandise
Kake" - - Alaska
Highest Prices Paid for Furs
KAKE CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets Every Monday
8 p. m.
President, Peter Hanson
Secretary, Thomas Skeek
l>Iv. K. JL. UaitLaUA
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Eyes Examined. Glasses Fitted.
Frames repaired; broken lens
es replaced promptly from your
pieces.
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