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CONSERVING ALASKA FOOD;
WHY RUSSIA QUIT THE WAR
(Special to the Dully Times)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—II. W. El
liott of Washington, for years con
nected In a government capacity with
the fisheries of Alaska, was Inter
viewed today on Secretary Itedfield's
letter to the governor of the terri
tory setting forth his ideas of whnt
might at first glance seem an original
movement to conserve certain foods.
Mr. Elliott not only disposed effec
tively of the originality of the scheme
but also threw much more doubt over
(he anticipations of success appar
ently enjoyed by the secretary. Mr.
Elliott said to your correspondent:
“Secretary Itedfield has written a
long letter to the governor of Alaska
In which he fells hint he is going to
save certain resources for food in the
territory 'which have been wasted
heretofore.' Then he renews the old
chestnuts of his department of com
merce which have been thrown out to
Alaska year after year since 1881,
anent the 'Atka mackerel,’ and (he
'kippered herring'; but. queerly
enough, he does not say a word about
that 'wonderful discovery' which he
himself had advertised so well at pub
lie cost in 11)16—the vast supply of
delicious grayfish—enough to feed the
whole country better than it was be
ing fed with salmon, halibut or cod
These Alaskan dog fishes, which he
had scientifically camouflaged an
'gray fishes,' wore to do that eco
nomic stunt for America under lied
field’s 'acute business sense ’
"Well," continued Mr Elliott, "the
dogfish-grayfish job had a good and
costly trial at Seattle during the sea
son of 1916-1917, and the result was
a complete failure for Redfield.
"Further than this, the secretary
tells the governor of Alaska in his
letter that he is going to save that
seal oil on the I'ribilov Islands, 'which
has been hitherto wasted.' Will he do
it? Does he know (hat the most keen
and energetic of men. with whale oil
and seal oil records, tackled that fur
seal oil problem years and years ago
(1876 and 1881) only to acknowledge
complete failure? Does he know that
fur seal oil is so peculiarly thick and
odiferous that no refining of it can be
done at a profit in competition with
other seal oils and the coal oils?
"Large refinery vats and boilers
were put upon the Seal island killing
grounds during the seasons of 1876-81,
and every resource of past experience
by old oil and 'blubber hunters’ was
invoked to make a success of the ven
ture, all to no result except loss.
"The same is true of the fur seal
bones These are curiously unlike
the hair-seal and walrus bones. They
are very porous and more like chicken
or turkey bones than anything else
of a bony structure. When they were
put into the grinding mill nothing
cume out of enough worth to pay for
the work So that Job was abandoned
in 1876-81 because it was found that
the bones of 100,000 seals, killed In
1876, altogether did not weigh more
than 14,000 pounds, or about six and
a half tons! The average weight of
the two- three and four-year-old seal
skeletons was only seven pounds Now
Secretary Redfield says he will save
this 'waste' by using the government
vessels and government men to grind
and sack these bones. This is 'gov
ernment business,' sure enough; it
goes far enough to make it a paying
job, however, for the Job holders at
the public cost."
A report of the bureau of fisheries
says that the steamer Roosevelt ren
dered very valuable service in res
cuing several cannery vessels in Bris
tol bay, and. after a long search, took
twenty-one persons from a camp on
nn Ice floe, where they had taken
refuge after the cannery ship Tacoma
had sunk. The cannery ships St.
Nicholas, Centennial and Star of Chile
were also brought to safety. It Is said
the St Nicholas, with moro than 300
persons on board, including 115 of
the Tacoma's compliment, would
probably have been a total loss In
side of twelve hours, and the Centen
nial, with 151 persons on buurd, would
not have lasted another week. ' The
Star of Chile, which had 220 persona
aboard, was In no Immediate danger.
The Hoosevelt was actively engaged
on this work for about sixteen days
from the time of departure from llna
laskn. on May 2T, and at times broke
:hrpugh sixteen feet of Ice.
The Hoosevelt sailed from the Prlb
loffs for Seattle on Jane 22 with a
cargo of 3.104 sealskins In 139 bar
irels; lot foxskins. 25 barrels of blub
l
ber and X4 assorted domestic hides
from Port Levaslief, and 43k sealskins
in 31 barrels: 007 foxskins and 353
sacks of ground bone taken aboard at
St. George island.
Senator Hitchcock of the senate
committee on foreign relations has re
quested Henry W. Klllott. for many
years connected with Alaska fisheries
and a student of Russian affairs, tc
furnish the committee a brief of his
opinion on the present situation in
Russia Mr. Klllott has done this and,
among other things, furnishes the fol
lowing information:
"On the 24th of May, 1317, lad
dressed a letter to Hon. Newton I)
Raker, secretary of war, in which I
gave him my well-considered reasons
for telling him that the Russians were
out of the war. and that any attempt
on our part to get them to renew it
on Germany would only make a bad
matter worse for ourselves. Chief
among the reasons which I briefed in
this letter was the dread the Rus
slans had for any tax-gatherer who
might come iitmn them seeking the
payment of the $17,000,000,000 war
debt incurred by Nicholas and his
ministers, which was charged against
them January 1. 1317.
"All classes In Russia fairly gasped
at the size of that burden They saw
no possibility of the war ending ut
any time in the immediate future, and
they gasped again at the prospect ol
that seventeen blllion-dollar Indebt
edness geometrically increasing to as
many more in another year or two of
fruitless struggle. Constantinople,
which was the sole ideal of Russia
when fighting, had ceased to be worth
such an enormous expenditure of
treasure, let alone the millions of
lives lost in the fighting.
A great, overwhelming impulse—a
telepathic agreement—sprang Into
Russian minds soon afret that enor
mous war debt became understood hy
them This feeling was emphasized
and strengthened by the fact that this
people knew too well what the Impe
rial tax gatherers had heretofore done
to them in this direction, when their
state debt had not reached one-tenth
of this amount.
" We will slop the war as far as
Russia is concerned and we will re
pudiate the debt that goes with it,’
said tile Russian mind early in Janu
ary, 1917.
" ‘How can you do that w hen your
emperor has signed the bond w ith the
entente which keeps you in war until
France and England agree to quit?’
was asked
" ‘We can do It very well by depos
ing Nicholas and his whole ministry,’
was the psychological argument. He
put us Into this war without our
knowledge or consent. Then, when
we plunged In, he flattered us with
the hope that we should gain the Dar
danelles in short order He knows
now as well as do we that we wilt
never get the Dardanelles Now, self
preservation is the first law of na
ture and of nations. We will be sim
ply bled and taxed to death unless we
depose Nicholas and repudiate the
debt he has forwed upon us.’
"It was with this communion of
thought that the Russians easily
wrought the deposition of Nicholas.
They did It solely among themselves
and by themselves, not a hint of It
being dropped to anyone but them
selves until the czar was put aside
forever, with the complete agreement
among 95 per cent of the Russians
that he be so removed.
lake Russia out of the war, that mo
ment the diplomatic chicanery and se
duction of Great llrltaln, France and
Italy was begun, to be soon after sup
plemented by everything the United
States could do. That attempt re
sulted in a costly and dismal failure.
Russia triumphed and withdrew from
the war. Having the peace pact of
lirest-Ultovsk openly, regularly and
unanimously approved by 1,672 dele
gates of the All-Russian Congress of
Soviets at Moscow, they at once
turned to the repudiation of the state
debt, and saw to It that every legal
step was taken which seemed neces
sary In the premises. The approval
of the decree repudiating the Russian
war debt was tlrst made at Moscow,
February 1, 1918, by 900 delegates to
the All-Russian Congress of Soviets,
and was afterwnrd reaffirmed.
"The decree repudiating this war
debt of Russia wus first drawn by
Nlcolnl l.entne, soon after he was
elected premier He submitted the
draft December 8, 1917, to the eco
nomic council of the people’s commis
saries This body dually approved It
and so approved, it was submitted.
January 18. 1918, to the All Russian
Congress of Soviets, which unani
mously indorsed it
"Observe today the workings of this
new government of Russian Soviets
in each and every one of the seventy
states or provinces- a system of
township meetings or village 'mirs;'
of county meetings or 'zemstovs.' and
state meetings of all the Soviets as
sembled in the capitals of these states
All this gathering is done publicly;
and by elections, just as it is done ini
the United States today.
“But no taxes have been levied
since January 1. 1917. for what we
term our ‘federal expenses’ and Inter
est on national war loans and bonds.
Not a penny of tax is laid in all Rus
sia today on anything that a Russian
owns or does for meeting the obliga
tions imposed by that war debt of
seventeen billion dollars, and it is safe
to say that that tax will never he
laid again -by Russians
"One hundred and eighty million
Russians have gotten rid of the war
by deposing Nicholas, and they have
rid themselves of the tax gatherers,
who were and would have been the
scourge of their lives if allowed to
remain.
“Wo is insane enough to think that
these Russians are going to reverse
themselves?”
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