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“THE LOAVES AND PISHES.”
After doing everything within their power to
further the La Follette program in this state during
the presidential campaign, some of the democrats
who erased their own party lines now are trying to
prevent the complete absorption of their party by
the radical following of La Follette, one branch of
which now terms the “non-partisan league of Wash
ington.”
The self-styled Non-partisan league is planning
to hold a convention at Olympia during the session
of the legislature early in 1925. It intends to in
dorse a program which was sponsored by the demo
crats who backed the LaFollette candidates in this
state in early November. Among the features of
the league’s program are a “protest against the re
peal or weakening of the present primary, initiative
and referendum laws”; the strengthening of the pri
mary, initiative and referendum acts; a blanket bal
lot for both the primary and general election, in
cluding presidential electors; and an act which will
prohibit of names of signers of initiative petitions.
Most of the democratic leaders were in sympa
thy with this program during the campaign—a cam
paign which essentially aimed at the destruction of
party government in the state, particularly through
the proposel adoption of the blanket ballot.
It is interesting in the light of recent political
history to observe that George F. Ryan, a candidate
at Seattle for the state legislature and president of
the King county democratic club, now is opposing
the Non-partisal league’s program. lie was one of
the party leaders who traded democratic support to
LaFollette, but now he is trying to wean the demo
crats away from the third party, or no-party move
ment, by saying the “so-called progressive party is
destined to go the way of all sporadic movements of
the past, such as the know-nothing party; free soil
party, greenback party, populist party and Roose
velt progressive party.” He adds that “we shall
shun any attempt to fuse or amalgamate our forces
with any of the so-called third party or other groups,
the ultimate purpose of which would be to sacri
fice tried and true principles for loaves and fishes of
political opportunism.”
It is strange that Ryan and other democratic
leaders have just awakened to the truth of the situa
tion—that when hey made a trade with the LaFol
lette lieutenants, they knifed their own national
pary ticket, weakened and all but destroyed their
state party organization, and gave aid and comfort
to a radical group which now is unwilling to surren
der any advantage gained by the democratic sacri
fice.
The “loaves and fishes of political opporunism”
are the natural result of a double cross for which
the democratic opportunists can blame themselves
alone.
PROBLEMS FACED IN FUNDING
OF WAR DEBT.
Reaffirmation of the Balfour note regarding
settlement of war debts was contained in a speech
by Winston Churchill, new chancellor of the Brit
ish exchequer, in the house of commons. In sub
stance, the Balfour note was to the effect that Brit
ain would cancel its war debts if the other nations
would do so; otherwise, all debtors owring Brit
ain would be required to pay. The first half of the
plan fell flat because, had it been accepted, the
United States would have been the only loser. Brit
ain funded its debt with this country and is making
payments regularly. Now the funding of the
French debt is on the program, and Churchill serves
notice that France will be expected to pay Britain if
it pays the United States and hints that if the Unit
ed States grants easier terms to Paris than is grant
ed to London there will be a vigorous protest. The
United States naturally will not permit a third par
ty to dictate the terms of its settlement. That is
an affair between this counry and France only. Yet
it undoubtedly will take into consideration the fact
that England is paying its debt in good faith and on
reasonable terms, and will not attempt to give the
French an easy bargain. Nor is it likely to regard
the British plea that France should pay its debt
also as being unreasonable. But that is a problem
in which our government has no official concern.
IS BRYAN LOW BROWED CAVE MAN
UNDER THE SKIN
Luther Burbank, scientist and plant wizard, has
had his say. He has taken as his subject William
Jennings Bryan, whom, he terms “an honored friend
of mine.” Mr. Bryan, ardent “fundamentalist,”
has repeatedly denounced the doctrine 6f evolution
and disclaimed simian origin for himself. Para
phrasing Patrick Henry he has said in effect, “I
know not what others may be, but as for me, no
monkeys in mine.” Mr. Burbank has placed the
commoner under a microscope and reached this in
teresting conclusion: “The skull with which nature
endowed him visibly approaches the Neanderthal
type. Feelings and the use of gesticulations and
words are more according to the nature of this type
than investigation and reflection.” Which char
acterization is filled with punch, from which nothing
is detracted when we reflect that the Neanderthal
man was a skeleton of supposedly pre-historic man.
The skull had a low forehead, was large and thick,
with large protuberances of the occipital region.
It is believed to have belonged to a troglodyte cave
dweller, and representative of the earliest dolicho
cephalic or long-headed race in Europe. Mr. Bur
bank might well have described Mr. Bryan, there
fore, as a low-brow. What Mr. Bryan will have to
say about it would be worthy of even a Bryan ad
mission ticket.
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INDIAN WELFARE DEMANDS THAT
WHITE MEN COME TO ALASKA.
If the Indians of Alaska are ever going to de
velop into civilized American citizens it will be thru
white people coming here and developing the re
sources of the Territory and thus multiplying the
opportunities of the Indians. The progress of the
Indians that has thus far been made is due to the
white people who have developed the fisheries, min
ing; lumbering, etc., and thus provided a market
for the labor of the Indians. If white people had
not come here the Indians would today, as in the
long ago, have to live off the country. They would
have to eat fish and game and wear skins. Fur
ther progress depends largely upon further develop
ment.
Now those who are interested in Indian devel
opment had as well accept this first as last: White
people will not come to Alaska and develop the
country if the country is going to be run through
the mass voting of the Indians. We must have a
white man’s government or white men will not invest
money in the North. White men do not have to
come to Alaska. There are other places beckoning
them. • They will not come and be governed by the
Indians who are organized to protect the “ancient
rights of the Indians” and who are educated by
designing politicians and sentimentalists to believe
mat the fish in the sea and the lands on which some
remote ancester at some time or another had lived
for a time belong to them and that those white peo
ple who build traps or take up fox islands are tres
passers. We shall have no fisheries in Alaska if
the fishing is made an Indian monopoly so that In
dians may charge what they will for their catches.
If the Indians are to develop and become an in
tegral part of the citizenry of the United States it
will not be through organizing and voting as Indian
tribes but they must come as individual citizens who
have adjusted themselves to an American civiliza
tion.
The white people of Alaska who stand together
and smash the selfish Indian political machine, a
machine concocted by Indian politicians and white
men who seek to profit by the mass voting of In
dians, are not only serving the best interests of Al
aska but they are doing a kindly service to the% In
dians themselves.
Those people who have encountered the Indians
to unite for political action in Alaska have already
done the Indians serious injury. They have sown
the seeds of racial antagonism, and the quicker they
see the error of their course and urge the Indians
to quit trying to run the Territory the earlier will
the injury be remedied.—Juneau Empire.
THE American people consume an average of sev
enty-two dishes of ice cream yearly, but the center
of gravity in the consumption report will be found
somewhat between the ages of 6 and 12 years.
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