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UNITED WE STAND
DIVIDED WE FALL
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The local elections are over
Control of the business affairs is
completely and entirely in the
hfttfds of one clique. That the
New Council will look upos their
duties as affecting equally the ex
trenie ends' of town is to be hop
ed. That,' in view of financial pro
Diems now confronting Petersburg,
they measure the value of each
dollar and* the worth of the pro
posed project is to be hoped.
The present council has greater
problems before it than has had
previous councils. An adequate
water system is as necessity for the
protection' against fire hazard as
well' as foi*^ use. Present supply
being far from sufficient to care
for the needs of the town.
Streets here and there are in
unsafe condition being worn and de
lapedated and in some places a ■
menace to the safety of those use
ing them.
The south end of town is with
out water protection of any sort
and this is spite of the fact that
they brought in more than $5000
in taxes.
An additional unit to the hydro
electric plant is needed. The town
will awaken some day to the value
of revenue lost by constant shut
downs each week for repairs, and
that to a plant not three years old.
The present coDjested condition
of school house is one to be met
very soon. What will it be—$15,
000 added to a present leavy in
debtness on the expenditure of a
few hundred dollars for condition
ing available quarters and then
meeting the school housing condi
tion later.
These are a few of the problems
that are pending along with the
ever present $150,000 bond that
must be met out of the revenues
accruing. Such problems must be
given with serious throught and
solved to the best advantage of all
the citnzens of Petersburg.
The solution of the problem to
the speical advantage of any one
faction will be a hurt to the en
tire town. Differences of national
ity, rcaial integrity and political
befiefs will have to be buried. The
town divided will not surmount
the problems. United, on issues
affecting the town, they can be
met, the will be met, the question
being up to the Council. How?
DISGUSTED WITH POETICS
. "I am disgusted with politics in
Petersburg. It doesn’t make any
difference how you vote, the same
ring gets controll” was an expres
sion heard a number of times this
week.
Yet there were many who were
too busy to walk a few blocks to
register their vote and many others
who do not take an active part in
the electon of men to look after
he business interests of the whole
town.
If conditions in municipal affairs,
and territorial are not satisfactory
make them better. If the “bosses”
are not worthy, change them. If
the candidates do not represent the
best of citizenship and ability change
them. There is not one business
man but would change conditions in
his house were they not satisfactory
yet they remain perfectly indif!
ference to the need of proper at
tention to the political affairs of
their town and Territory.
The kind of government we have
—good, bad or indifferent, is the
product of politics and in the end,
the - kind of government we get is
the kind we the kind we deserve, i
Inability to handle vital affairs, in- j
efficiency and also corruptions are
wtie reflections of indifference of
voters. We do not show half the
zeal colonial men and women de
monstrated in their battle for the
betterment of their conditions so
lhat there is small complaint on
' ,
• he part of any man.
FRIENDS OF ALASKA
The measure of men, represent
ing the People in the Legislature,
is being taken according to their at
titude toward the Controller Bi’l
As indicated in another column,
this Bill would place in the hands
of Alaskans, control of their own
affairs and purely local appointive
or elective offices. It is a step in
tne right direction of lome Buie
allowed Alaska by Congress; but
wThich, through influence Of the fel
eral brigade, has never been use".
Except to the advant tge of that po
1 tical machine itself.
There are three classs of legisla
I tors and lobbyists at Juneau. Those
! who have soft appointive jobs, those
who are making an easy cleanup un
der favorable machine and those
who are doing their utmost to re
turn to the Territory that birthright
self-government sold for political
feed troughs and parasytic growths.
The defeat of the Controller Bill
simply carrying the measure to the
people at the next election. Senator
Dunn has made the assertion that
attempts have been made to “black
mail” those in opposition to the bill.
These legislators should not kid
themselves into believing that the1
attitude of the Juneau press is the
wish of the people of the Territory.
Their “blandishments” do not reach
beyond their front door with the av
erage Alaskan with both feet on the
ground. To the people it will go
and those who insure defeat of the
bill are laying up votes in the fu
ture which will insure their own
defeat.
ALASKA-JUNEAU WILL
BE DESTROYED
At the recent hearing of the In
dustrial Insurance Act pending be
fore the House, Mr. Hellenthal, at
torney for the Alaska-Juneau Gold
Mining Company declared that
“within two years after passage of
this act, the mine would be closed
down, because of the heavy bur
dens imposed upon it—he did not
say for the proper protection of its
labor.
The Canadian lawyer, Bert Faulk
ner, who practices law before the
courts of Alaska by virtue of special
dispensation of the late United
States Attorney George Arthur
Shoup, with his special grand jury
whitewash, and the federal brigade, !
also appeared in opposition to the j
bill. It is 9. known fact that the !
■
Big Juneau mine is a regular death
trap and that they have a system of
paying bonus to their men who are
wiling to go into some of their hell
holes; it is a known fact that cables
are used that are not fit to lift hu
man cargo. It is a known fact by
I
miners, who are afraid of being
blackballed, that these conditions
which cost so much in human- life
would have to be change at consid
erable expense or else the insurance
would be so prohibitive as to com
pel them to remove their profit
making death traps.
Mr. Hellenthal declared the bill to
be “impraciticable and unconstitu
tional.” He did not declare that it
has the endorsement of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. That this
organization has made more study
of the insurance conditions in the
labor world to a greater extent than
he ever will with its many Unions
to draw from and its many more in- i
iustries where compulsory insurance <
is upon the statutes of the States, i
When will these Juneau politi- 1
Jifgs weigh the value of human life
instead of the cost of interest on in-;
irestnteht aa(| dividends on stock? i
When the gold is gone from these!
mines, oth^B and. better mines will
be found and paying dividends but
tvhen toll is taken of human life in
:he production of this gold, there is
40 niipe worth the life that is snuff
3d out in its prodoction and there is
no compensation offered by the com
pany or the State that can assuage
rhe sorrow of the widdowed mother
and the orphaned child.
Let us be human.
.£{. Continued from Page One)
Sidelights on |Legislator.
■rij;l erne;; -- —1 •
could vote all of their 600 votes
ivgainst Sutherland, nobody would
he the wiser.
Senatorial Puzzle
The case of Senator John W.
Dunn is very peculiar. He is such
a fine man, and so often right on
general principles that his course
on the Controller Bill has puzzled
everybody, even John Fegues wno
nearly kissed him when Dunn spoke
against the idea of leaving the at
torney general on the Board.
Dunn is for the Bill, with the
governor as the head of the Board
and the attorney general off. Can
anybody feature that? The best ex
planation that can be made is that
somebody or something has gotten
him off his balance. He even re
sents getting petitions from groups
of citizens asking him to support
the bill.
School Bill Gets Hard Sledding
House Bill No. 10 introduced by
Representative Paul, is not having
such clear sledding in the Senate.
There some wish to limit the Ter
ritorial aid for schools to $30,000
instead of taking off the limit as
proposed in the first place. The
people who favor that limitation ar
gue in affect that it is alright to
give the little owns all the help they
want, but not so with the big towns.
But why should a citizen have to be
penalized when he moves from the
country to the city? Nobody knows.
The Controller Bill
Teh Controller Bill, designed to
give the people of Alaska the means
of running th6ir own Territorial af
fairs, was defeated in the Senate by
a tie vote, Brown, of Nome, Steel,
of Juneau, Frame, of Anchorage,
and Hunt of Ketchikan, voting for
the Bill; Jensen, of Nome, Howard,
of Anchorage, Dunn and Pratt of
the Fourth Division voting against
It.
The arguments of the opponents
are famous principally for what they
did not say about the bill. Jensen
told how rapidly the Natives of
Alaska are advancing, progressing
“more in forty years than the
whites had in four centuries.” Dunn
resented the fact that the bill had
been drawn before the legislature
had convened, and also resented the
petitions and telegrams coming from
interested bodies of citizens in his
Division, and he declared the bill
was a scheme whereby the “politi
cians of the First* Division” were to
run the Territory. Pratt said that
since the federal official who would
lose duties was the governor, there
fore the supporters of the bill must
have it in for the governor. (It is
now clear why Pratt refused to sup
port Dunn’s amendment to put the
governor in the bill in place of the
Attorney General—he merely trick
ed the single-minded John Dunn by
keeping in the bill the one thing
that Dunn detested.) Howard ram
bled as usual, so much so that the
Representatives left when he began
chewing his cud the third term. His
objection seemd to be against the
attorney general in the bill and the
fact that people in the Third Divi
sion were sending him telegrams
urging support for the bill, and a
personal resentment because Dele
gate Sutherland had gone to An
chorage “presumably to work up in
terest in the Controller Bill.”
" Howard and Dunn both declared
hat they would vote for the Bill
f “the governor was on the Board.”
Ditizens who have heard these men
ind observed them do not place the
east credence in their statements.
It is to be hoped that they may be
put to the test.
Fish Commission—Nice Job
As for Dunn, he was formerly for
the bill “with a few amendments.’
Then he was for the bill “If the
governor was on the board instead
ot the attorney general,” and then
he said that “If that was defeated,
i will support the bill.” Just whar
turned him against the bill, nobody
knows, unless it be Pat Gildea, who
seems to eat, sleep and walk with
Mr. Dunn. It must be remembered
that Pat Gildea, the present Secre
tary of the Fish Commission, has
neld his job at the pleasure of J. R.
Heckman, and on last election day,
Pat was a Tom Marquam worker.
Perhaps we are all wrong about the
influence of this Marquam worker,
but the talk on the street is that
Dunn is getting ideas about fish and
other subjects from Gildea. May
be so . Still it is so easy to be
wrong.
Dunn’s Saving Quality
The liberals must not overlook
the fact that the quality in John W.
Dunn that has displeased them this
time is the same quality that saved
the liberals two years ago. Remem
ber him for the great service he has
rendered, a service that will event
ually pass the Controller Bill.
Political Machine
In striking contrast to the atti
tude of the federals, was the posi
tion of the liberals. Senator Cliai
les Brown pierced the false front of
Tom Jensen in a few sentences.
“The man who says that there is
no political machine in Alaska now
must be blind indeed. The only
question is Whether the machine
will be the creature of the people of
Alaska or of Washington. ”
Skids Under Hatchery. But
The House passed House Bill No.
14 which repeals the act authorizing
Territorial Fish Commission and
Hatcheries. It is said that there
are four Senators, who will defeat
the bill and perhaps there are.
More than enough have declared
their opposition to fish hatcheries
to pass the bill, but like the Con
troller Bill, they might change their
minds especially if Pat Gildea sticKs
around.
Junior College
Representative Benjamin, has in
troduced a bill to establish a Junioi
College at Wrangell. This will be
a trade school, a much needd insti
tution in southeastern Alaska.
While some of the legislators and
lobbyists seem to consider the mat
ter a joke, we might say that worse
jokes are being perpetrated in the
name ^of education.
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Fish aii<l Trap Tax
The dsh tax bill introduced by
Representative Paul is before the
Ways and Means Committe. Hear-i
ings will be held soon. Trapmen de- I
clare that it will put the traps out
of business. This isto be regretted
except for the fact that traps have
put hundreds of people out of busi
ness and are the chief reason for
‘-he depletion of the salmon fisher
ies of southeastern Alaska.
Seiners think the tax of 1 cent
per fish above 50,000 on the same
basis as the trap caught fish is too
much even though they grant that
they do not catch an average of 25,
000. It appears to the Alaskan that
it penalizes the seiner rather a lit
tle heavy. Put the tay at 1 cent per
fish after 75,000 have been caugbt
and it would be less burdensome.
However the benefits of this bill are
so great that most seiners are sup
porting this bill.
“Social” Invitations
It has always seemed to us that
the way to get invited out to
many dinners is by sitting on the |
political fence. You don’t find the j
Marquam machine inviting Ross or!
Johnston out every night; or Rich
ard Sundquist or Charles Benjamin,
Chas. Ferguson or Wm. Worth or
Win. Paul, or Ben Grier. It is
only men like cute Bobby Sheldon
and a slow-wit like Fisher that is
really appreciated by Juneau society.
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