THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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MEASURING CONGRESSMEN.
A local post wants the American
Legion Weekly to go into the sub
ject of how to get the measure of
a congressman, writes the editor of
the soldier publication in a recent
issue. It wants to know all about
congressmen, good, bad, and indif
ferent congressmen, and how they
function in their official work. It
wants to know just how to measure
congressmen so as to determine
whether individual specimens are big
enough for their jobs. This par
ticular post says it does not ask
this for itself alone, but believes
the information would be useful to
service men generally.
The intimation is carried in the
letter that there is a feeling of
some concern over some of the con
gressional personnel. Are some of
our congressmen too small for their
jobs? Were they selected in the
rather careless period in our politi
cal life that is said to have preceded
the war and persisted in a measure
during the war? Are many of them
practical office-holders who are car
ried hither and thither on the!
changing: winds o* expediency, 1
counting the votes involved before
they make up their minds on an
issue? Do any of them assay less
than 100 percent pure Americanism
in their ideals of citizenship? Are
many or any of them out of step
with the new and faster cadence of
American political life?
The request for this information
is a reasonable one and will be com
plied with at a very early date, it
is an appropriate time to look over
not only our congressmen, but our
officials everywhere, and see just
how they measure up against the
yardstick of newly awakened ideas
and ideals.
BUM OFFICIALS
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given even by implication. There
was a shortage in the salmon run in
the Yukon last season, as there was
in nearly every other Alaskan river,
but there is no evidence available
that connects the shortage of the
run with the operations of the can
nery. As a matter of fact, short
runs of salmon have occurred in
the Yukon from time immemorial,
and such short runs are recorded
for 1879, 1911, 1917, and various
years when there was neither can
nery nor commercial fishing. To
dogmatically assert that the can
nery caused the shortage and to
hold this bureau responsible for the
assumed consequences to the natives
is to do what no fair-minded per
son would approve. In a letter on
this subject to the Right Reverend
Peter T. Rowe, Bishop of Alaska,
the Hon. Edwin F. Sweet, assistant
secretary of commerce and a' mem
ber of the Episcopal church, wrote
as follows under date of Decem
ber 15, 1919:
“I wish to take this opportunity
to express my regret at the charac
ter of the campaign being conduct
ed by Archdeacon Hudson Stuck. I
8m indeed astounded that a clergy
man should deliberately indulge in
! certain statements that are at vari
ance with the well-known and easi
' ly ascertained facts. From the very
! beginning' of the Yukon river sal
mon discussion, I have been per
sonally familiar with the situation,
and I am officially responsible for
the action that has been taken by
the Department of Commerce up to
this time. While in my office on
December 1 you expressed yourse’f
as entirely satisfied with what the
department has done up to the
present time, and it is my feeling
that you are convinced of the genu
ine desire of the department to do
everything within its power to help
the native people among whom you
have labored so long and so well.
“In view of the foregoing, I em
phatically resent the propaganda, os
tensibly in behalf of the Yukon In
dians, that is being carried on by
Archdeacon Stuck in church papers
and by correspondence in wilier,
there is a studied effort to misrep
resent the relations of this depart
ment with the short run of salmon
into the Yukon river in 1919. Such
propaganda can have no real value
in alleviating the sufferings of the
Yukon natives, but rather has the
effect of bringing into disrepute the
cause for which you are naturally
and properly so much concerned and
in which you have my sincerest sym
pathy and support.” ‘
in his reply, dated December 27,
1919, Bishop Rowe said:
“I am perfectly satisfied that Dr.
Smith and yourself are as fully in
sympathy and interest on this whole
matter as I am. Also having- a
genuine desire to do everything!
within your power to help the native ]
people. I am still satisfied, as I
have all along been, that the de
partment of the Government, and of j
which you are the acting secretary,
has done all that seemed right and
was right.”
It may be stated for your fur
ther information that as soon as
the department learned of the es
tablishment of the cannerv in ques
tion, it took steps to place regula
tions on the fishery and promulgated
certain regulations which were
thought to be adequate to insure
the passage of salmon to their
spawning grounds and to safeguard
the interests of the Yukon Indians
to the extent that they are depend
ent on salmon for themselves and
their dogs. Very careful considera
tion has been given to the whole
problem and it is thought that the
plans now in contemplation will take
care of the situation adequately.
As requested, the copy of Mr.
Diven’s letter is returned to you.
Very truly yours,
J. M. SMITH,
Commissioner.
Nenana, Alaska, April 2, 1920.
Mr. H. M. Hall, 502 Lloyd Street,
Pittsburgh. Pa.
Dear Sir: Your letter of March
14, with inclosure from Dr. Smith,
; of the Fisheries Bureau, is just at
i hand. I feel very sorry to hear of
your misfortune. Is is no small
matter for a man of your years
and customary activity to break a
perfectly good leg, and I can name
[no good reason why a man should
do such a thing. It is generally
[admitted that good legs are never
improved a bit by being broken:
[but here is hoping that yours will
soon be just as good as ever.
The revelations of the inclosure
from the Fisheries Bureau touched
me even more deeply than the an
nouncement of your broken leg.
Perhaps very few people suffer or
are in the least inconvenienced by
your broken leg; but this fish situ
ation is quite the opposite, and
more serious in every way. Hun
dreds of our Interior white popula
tion are very seriously inconven
What I Stand For
I am a candidate for National Committeeman of the Republi
can Party to be elected April 27th, and I stand for the following
principles:
I am not a politician and never ran for office before. I belong
to no political machine or combine and am under obligations to no
clique or faction.
I am opposed to machine domination in Alaska and if you elect
me I will take my orders from the people and nobody else.
While my home is in Anchorage, where I received the unani
mous indorsement of the Anchorage Republican Club, composed of
over one hundred fifty members, I will work for the entire Terri
tory of Alaska first, last and all the time.
If you elect me I will do my utmost to see that each locality
or division shall name the officers of that locality or division, and 1
will fight bitterly the appointment of anyone outside of Alaska
to an Alaska office.
Alaska has been my home for 23 years, winter and summer,
and I feel sure I know what Alaska needs.
The time has come to put an end to outside dictation in our
affairs and I believe what Alaska needs is more firesides and fewer
carpet-baggers.
The only way to rid Alaska of machine politicians is to vote
against them. People of Alaska, I am making this fight for you
and I want your help. You deliver the votes and I will deliver
the goods.
J. E. CHOVIN.
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ienccd by the shortage of last sea
son’s fish supply, and other hun
dreds of natives are now facing
physical suffering; by the same
; cause.
Dr. Smith seems to assume that
my protest is in some way connect
ed with Archdeacon Stuck’s so
called “propaganda.” That is not
the case. I have no knowledge of
the archdeacon’s sins of commission,
nor of the bishop’s sin of admis
sion, to which Dr. Smith and the
Honorable Edwin F. Sweet have re
ferred. Neither of the reverend
gentlemen has spoken to me about
the matter. I spoke as a private
citizen of this country; and the
Xenana Commercial club, of which
I am a member, has spoken a num
ber of times in the last eighteen
months, not only protesting against
the bureau’s seeming negligence,
but citing evidence in support of
their protests. The “evidence” which
Dr. Smith declares was unavailable,
which we believe does connect the
cannery’s operations with the fish
shortage, has been available all the
while, and is still available. But
what may Alaskans be led to ex
pect from a bureau, whose admin
istrators blandly state: “The cannery
was established without our knowl
edge; and governmental permission
was not sought, was not required,
and was not given even by implica
tion”? And remember, Mr. Hail,
that the fish industry' represents
Alaska’s present greatest commer
cial enterprise. Yet, notwithstand
ing its importance to the Territory
and to the nation, our Fisheries
Bureau calmly admits that a big
cannery was located in Alaskan wa
ters without that bureau’s knowl
edge; that no governmental permis
sion was sought, none was required,
and none was given even by im
plication. Are you surprised that
Alaskans are protesting against the
depletion of our fish supply, our
present greatest active commercial
asset, an asset which is of vital in
terest to the Territory and which
must be kept in good condition?
Did the Nenana Commercial club do
either an unpatriotic or discourte
ous thing, when it sent a telegram
to Senator Mew, last week, which
reads, in part: “With intense in
terest and appreciation we follow
the efforts of yourself and Repre
sentative Curry toward freeing Alas
ka from present absurd and shame
fully inefficient departmental con
trol”?
It is true, that there is record
of short runs, of salmon in the Yu
kon and tributary streams in former
years. The gentlemen failed to tell
you, that it is ALSO true that
there is neither record nor tradi
tion of a shortage that compares
with the shortage of last year. It
is true, that the cannery operated
in 1918 and that the shortage was
not nearly so bad as in 1919. But
you were NOT informed that the
cannery had changed its location
for the operations of 1919; and all
men who have any knowledge of
the habits of the salmon will readily
conclude that a more favorable sal
mon runway had been located.
Doubtless the second site was a
more convenient site, also. I am
not accusing the cannery company
of violating the law in either year’s
operations. I am simply crediting
then*- with good business judgment.
It is also true, that for a very
short period in the summer of 1919
the salmon DID run in fairly good
numbers. It is beyond reason, how
ever, to suppose that the fish supply
for this Interior region bordering
on the Yukon and Tanana rivers
and their tributaries, can be taken
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in a week’s time. A very significant i
and damaging fact is, that very few )
fish of size were taken anywhere ’
along the Tanana, and many of the j
fish taken which were not small J
enough to slip easily through nets j
and fishing gear, were net-marked, j
Where did they get those net-marks? j
Why did so few large fish come up I
the Tanana? Cannery operatives)
reported no shortage of good-sized'
fish at the cannery.
Dr. Smith concludes his letter by ,
saying: “As soon as the department '
learned of the establishment of the :
cannery in question, it took steps to j
place regulations on the fishery- and !
| promulgated certain regulations |
■which were thought to be adequate,’’;
) etc. The best I can say for this i
is, that however good the bureau’s
; intentions may have been, I know
of no evidence that its efforts were
effective in accomplishing, in more
than a pitfully small degree, what it
; thus ostensibly set out to do. The
cannery got a very satisfactory
| catch, according to all accounts.)
i The people got almost nothing, with
! heavy loss added.
I am not trying to annoy or em
barrass anybody; neither is the N'e
nana Commercial club. I am try
ing, and so is the club, to get jus
. tice for a very much troubled and
) embarrassed population, as patri-1
otic and long-suffering a population
as any part of America can boast
, as its own.
Very cordially,
ROBERT JOSEPH DIVEN.
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