Recognizing tht. Imperative need of
preserving the 6almon of the Yukon
and tributaries, for the use of the na
tive and white population of Alaska.
Delegate Cha*.. A. Sulzer has entered a
protest against the establishment of
a cannery tat Andreafsky on the lower
Yukon.
Correspondence has been exchanged
between the delegate and W. H. Smith,
the commissioner of fisheries, regard
ing this matter, and the result lias
be^n the notification of the Carlisle
Packing Company, which operates a
big cannery at Cordova, by the com
missioner in the following communica
tion :
"It has just been reported officially
to this office that your company con
templates the operation next season
of a salmon cannery at Andreafsky on
the lower part of the Yukon river.
Please advise the bureau at once as to
the correctness of this report.
"In this connection you are advised
that for a number of years the bureau
has felt that any extensive commercial
exploitation of the salmon supply of
the Yukon must be looked upon as un
desirable for the reason that it might
easily become the means of imposing
great privations and hardship upon a
large number of persons, both Indians
and whites, who live on the Yukon
and its tributaries, and who are either
almost wholly or in considerable de
gree dependent upon salmon for food.
Another point for consideration is the
urgent need of dri«d salmon for dog
feed in the interior of Alaska, wnere
winter travel is chiefly done by dog
team.
"Thus it may he seen that the es
tablishment of a cannery upon the
Yukon must be viewed with grave con
cern, as it may cause a serious situa
tion in the interior of Alaska. As a
matter of fact, Mr. Sulzer, delegate to
congress from Alaska, has recently no
tified the bureau that he is in receipt
of several complaints from the inter
ior of Alaska suggesting the possibility j
cf a serious depletion of the salmon 1
supply along the Yukon by reason of
the undertaking of canning operations
near the mouth of the river.
“The general attitude of the bureau
in respect to this matter was made pub
lic several years ago through an item
in the report of Alaska Fisheries and
Fur Industries in 1914, pages 47-49. The
article in question was concluded as
follows: i
“ ‘Although there are quite good
runs of chinook, coho, and chum sal
mon up the Yukon, it. does not appear)
that the establishment of canneries
would be profitable or advisable. The
lack of transportation facilities and the
high c6st of putting up a pack would
not justify the undertaking. Moreover,
the wisdom of such an enterprise, at
least along any extensive line, is very
doubtful, as the Yukon plays a pe
culiar role in maintaining and supply
ing a very necessary article of food
for natives and whites, as well as for
i
dogs. The latter are indispensable to,
winter travel except as reindeer may
be used occasionally. A fish diet forms;
not only the cheapest food for dogs. I
but is the best food for keeping them i
in good condition for winter service i
There is a strong prejudice against the j
establishment of canneries on the low-;
er Yukon, if such an undertaking
should ever be considered feasible, as
it would mean cutting off or greatly
reducing the supply of salmon up the
river, the result of which would be)
great privation and hardship to the
people of that district. Therefore, un
der present conditions, the Yukon
should remain undisturbed commer
cially in its production of salmon save
for local needs.’
“It seems only proper under the cir
cumstances to inform you that the bu
reau will keep close watch of the Yu
kon river and at the first sign of any:
depletion in the supply of salmon,
steps will be taken to place the neces
sary restrictions upon any operations
that may be undertaken. It is con
sidered only fair to sound this note of
warning for your guidance in consider
ing what the future may have in store.
"H. M. SMITH,
“Commissioner.”
DISSECTS LIES
(By Porter Emerson Browne.)
When the Germans let loose upon
the world their poison gas and their
liquid fire, the world, aghast, thought
that the end had been reached.
It had not. For since that time
have these same Germans found, and
brought to use, even a still more lethal
weapon—a weapon alke as veiled as
it is deadly, as noxious as it is effec-;
tive, and quite in keeping with the
absolute negation of ethics, or morals,
of decency, of humanity that has
marked Germany’s warfare from the
Belgian atrocities down to the present
date. I
And this new weapon is lies.
Throughout this country, as well as
throughout the countries of the allies.
Germany has flung her serried lines of j
German liars. All kinds of lies they
tell, and in all kinds of ways, frbm
the 42-centimeter lie that no one be- i
lieves down to the dumdum lie that j
makes a little hole going in and a big
one coming out, and the chlorine lie j
That you don't even know is a lie until,
you find that you are overcome to a
point where some friend has to give
you the restorative of truth.
There is the direct lie, and the
richoehet. There is the nitroglycerine
lie that explodes itself when it hits;
and the time-fuse lie that doesn’t go \
off for a week or so. There are lies
on the land, in the air, on the sea, and :
under the sea.
And all these lies, effective and in
effective, big and little, are directed
against each of the allied nations to
confuse, to distract, to puzzle, to delay,
them in the successful prosecution of
the war.
"The life of an aviator is only 30
hours in the air!”
And there are aviators' who have
been flying for three years!
"The navy is rotten with disease!”
Maybe so? But you must admit
that, when it comes to sinking sub
marines they do pretty well for a
bunch of invalids.
"The camps are hotbeds of immor
ality!”
A lie on the face of it. If there
were the inclination, there is neither
the place nor the opportunity.
“This is not America's war.”
Whose war is it to defend the rights
of America and Americans against sub
marines at sea and plots on land to
present Texas, New Mexico, and Ari-1
zona to Mexico? To say nothing of
blowing up American ships tn Amer
ican harbors, and American factories'
•in American cities?
“All Germany wants is a just peace!” j
That's all! A just peace that will
give her Poland, Belgium, Alsace-Lor
raine, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bul
garia, Servia, Roumania, control of the
Baltic and the Black seas anc ports
on the Mediterranean. A just peace'
in which she can coordinate her new
possessions preparatory to taking an
other wallop at the rest of,the world!
As her own people have already an
nounced that it is her intention to do!
“England is making her colonies do
all the fighting.”
England lost 120,000 men—her en
tire standing army—in the first fewj
months of the war. And she is now
holding the biggest part of the west
ern front and sending troops to Italy
besides!
"The Germans wrould never try to
conquer America."
Take the English navy away for a
few weeks and see! Germany has an
nounced her dream of world power.
If America isn't in the world, where
is it?
These are a few of the Type A lies
Of the other types are the following:
Germany is unbeatable; so why go
against her? We will never get troops
to Europe in time. We can’t equip our
soldiers. We can’t feed our soldiers.
Germany never intends to attack us
here; so let’s keep our troops at home
to defend us -when she does. If we
must choose a machine gun for our
army, let us pick one that isn’t invent
ed yet We must have free speech; it
is better to have people talking than
doing things.
Germany undermined Russia with
lies. Germany undermined Italy with j
lies. She is trying to undermine
America with lies.
Don’t be fooled. America has, and
is, mobilizing, equipping, and drilling
troops. She has sent and is sending
them to Europe. She will give ’em
plenty to wear, -plenty to eat, plenty to
shoot, and plenty of guns to shoot it
in. She is building a gigantic fleet of'
airplanes. She is building a great fleet
of destroyers and adding to her bat
tleships and cruisers.
America is going to make the world (
safe for democracy. The. President
has said so. and the country has said
so, and they mean what they say.
Tag the German lies for Just what
they are—German lies.
Use your head! Don’t be fooled! ,
K
9ERMIIN KULTUR
CQMPfiREO Will
(By V . K. Lindsey, Governor of New
Mexico.)
War. government, and religion are
indices to the self definition of na
tions and peoples.
For contrast of the self definition of
the imperial German government with
the government of the United States
of America index and define, in paral
lel, the wars, government, and religion
of the two nations.
Under the guidance of Otto Von Bis
marck, “the man of blood and iron,’’
Prussia and part of the German states
have fought three wars:
That with Denmark in 1864, a war
of conquest, ravishing that nation
of Schleswig-Holstein.
That with Austria in 1866, a war of
subjugation, effectively removing
a rival.
That with France in 1870, a war of
conquest, despoiling that nation of
Alsace-Lorraine and a billion dol
lars.
Under the guidance of the people of
the United States our nation has
fought live wars:
1 hat with England in li76, estab
lishing a new government, deriv
ing its just powers from the con
sent of the governed.
That with England in 1812, for the
freedom of the seas.
That with Mexico in 1840. extending
the blessings of a free'government
to a bleeding people.
That with secession in 1 SGI, preserv
ing the Union and abolishing in
voluntary servitude.
That with Spain in 1898, gratuitous
ly extending the blessings of lib
erty to enslaved peoples.
This present, fourth war for Ger
many and the sixth for the United
States, is in line with their previous
yvars. For Germany, conquest and the
enthroning of the power of might. For
the United States, freedom and the
orification of the power of right.
Writers and speakers are fond of
laying that the present war is a con
test between autocracy and democracy,
neglecting to define either in terms of
simple comprehension.
Autocracy is that form of govern
ment in which the strong, the rich,
and the wise ride upon the backs of
the weak, the poor, and the simple.
Democracy is that form of govern
ment in which the strong, the rich,
and the wise raise up and support the
weak, the poor, and simple.
In an autocracy, government pro
ceeds from above downward, in the
form of a “thou shalt” or “thou shalt
not.”
In a democracy, government pro
ceeds on a level and is "of the people,
by the people, and for the people.”
William Hohenzollern, the man
whose ally is God—not God's ally—
king of Prussia and emperor of Ger
many, wills for all the people of his
kingdom and empire, and can will no
wrong, even though that will be
■‘frightfulness.”
Abraham Lincoln, whose great con
cern was that he should be on God's
side, once President of the United
States, lowly, yet exalted unto heaven,
toiled, suffered, and died for the en
durance of a democracy "conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the proposi
tion that all men are created eaqual.”
Kultur Is the new religion of this
German people. The people of the
United States are Christian.
Kultur proclaims: “We (the Ger
man people) are of the-race of the
thunderen; we will possess the earth.”
Christianity proclaims: ‘(Blessed are
the meek for they shall inherit the
earth.”
Kultur commands and asserts: “Be
as terrible as Atilla's Huns. Provi
dence has willed that we shall be his
instruments.”
Christianity proclaims: "Blessed are
the merciful; for they shall obtain
mercy."
Kultur hisses: "O, Germany, hate!
Slaughter thy foes by the millions and
of their reeking corpses build a monu
ment that shall reach the clouds.”
“O, Germany, hate now! Arm thyself
in steel and pierce with thy bayonet
the heart of every foe; no prisoners!
-Beat in their skulls with rifle-butt3
and with axes. Strike and thrust, true
”r»d hard; turn our neighbors’ lands in
to deserts. Afterwards thou wilt stand
erect on the ruins of the world.”
Christianity proclaims: “Blessed are
the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God. Ye have
heard that it was said of them of old
time, ‘Thou shall not kill,’ and ‘who
soever shall kill shall be in danger of
the judgment;’ but 1 say unto you,
‘That whosoever is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be ir
danger of the judgment.’ ”
Thus may it be seen, in the world
war, that conquest, tyranny, and sav
■rgery battle against justice, liberty
and civilization.
| Thus may it be seen that Kultui
hinds back to that faithless age wher
mankind was savage and soulless and
void of the knowledge of truth.
s Thus, too, may it be seen that this is
the same war waged first in Heaver
and again in the garden of Gethse
mane.
As Michael overcame Satan, as
| rhrist overcame sin, so, too. now, ir
this world-war, must civilization over
come the beast, or, “Afterwards Ger
many will stand erect on the ruins ol
the world.”
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|toria, fresh cottage cheese at Blum
! O'Neill Co. 5-31
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Madame Lydia, the pairulst, will b<
| found in the Currier & Mickelsor
. ’'uilding on C. street. 16-t
THESE ARE THE THINGS THE SUBMARINE FEARS
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TO SOLDIERS IN CIMPS
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 5 —
More than 100,000 books of fiction,
poetry and essays have been collected
by the California branch of the Library
War Service, composed of liberty or
ganizations throughout the United
States. The books have been dis
tributed among the military and naval
establishments and used in equipping
. mall naval vessels with libraries for
the use of the men, according to Mil
ton J. Ferguson, stae librarian and di
rector of the work in the state. There
is need for more books, however, and
Mr. Fergusen has urged the public to
donate any books that can be spared |
in order to provide the men in the
army and navy with literature for re
p creational reading. Each library in
the state has been designated a re-!
iceiving station and will receive all
books persons may wish to donate.
In addition to collecting books for
recreational reading the Library War
Service also has a fund of $1,750,000
raised last November which is being
used for the purchase of books on tech
nical subjects of interest to men in
various branches of the service. A
part of this fund. $50,000 of w hich was
raised in California, according to Mr.
Ferguson, is being used in the pur
chase of books in Englano for the
men in France. The books are pur
chased there to conserve shipping
space.
A campaign was begun recently for
high school text books used in the edu.
rational department of the Young
Men's Christian Association, which has
established classes for the instruction
of men in camps who desire to de
vote a part of their idle time to study.
Mr. Ferguson said any modern text
book used in the high schools and even
in the grammar schools could be used.
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