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In this incessant putrid drizzle in
Washington, an outrage must be ex
traordinary to gain public attention
—and this Alaska salmon outrage is
most extraordinary.
Were it put upon the stage^ its
perpetrators would make their exit
in a gale ol' hisses lor it is more
than wrong from every angle and
when Secretary Hoover tries to de
fend the indefensible he invites the
conclusion that he is either utterly
ignorant of or utterly indifferent to,
the deplorable consequnces of his
grant of this salmon fishing monopo
ly. Against the testimony of the peo
ple of Alaska who have been robbed
of their right to make a living;
against the findings ot two Grand
Juries, which exposed a state of mor
al leprosy; against the resolution of
the Alaska legislature, speaking in
the name of that far-off empire;
against the appeals of the Alaska
Delegate to Congress; against the
unanimous finding of the House Com
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fish
eries; against all these this compla
cent Cabinet officer stubbornly lodges
his own, solitary, majestic will.
He granted a fishing monopoly
which has brought ruin, rottenness
and devastation, yet he defends his
blunder as if it were some fair-hai
ed darling around whom circled vo
racious wolves.
The exploitation of this vast sal
mon fishery which the American peo
ple intrusted to Herbert Hoover’s
care, is the repelling tale of brutal
monopoly bludgeoning, corrupting,
slaughtering its way over every hu
man and national right and every
sense of decency to its own sordid
goal.
Yet Secretary Hoover has for
these despoilers that tender solicitude
which on emight visit upon an or
phan in a storm. The right to fish
is Nature’s right; it is one of the
oldest lights of man, and up yonder
in primitive Alaska, the Indians, the
Aleutians and the Eskimos, the wards
of this nation, fished in their crude
way, as their fathers before them.
The number of salmon they took
out of the waters was negligible, and
when the Big Four canning trust look
led over this vast salmon field of the
1 American people and decicded to
! seize it for themselves they had to
offer some pretext, and so they sent
| a lobby to Washington and told Sec
jretary Hoover, that they wanted a
! monopoly of the fishing rights in
; Alaska in order to conserve the sal
| mon.
There is something sublime in the
passion which the pillager has for
j the conservation of natural resources.
S This lobby must have been persua
Jsive; its lips must have blossomed
with eloquence like unto that of Pat
rick Henry; its consecrated purpose
must have bloomed from sky-blue
eyes, for Secretary Hoover straight
way gave the lobby all it asked.
Secretary Hoover seems to have
signed the Big Four’s document as
eagerly as farmers once signed the
notes of lightning rod agents, but
there is this difference between the
two transactions; the farmer paid
for his own folly and the American
people pay for Mr. Hoover’s folly.
He signed a paper which drove the
native away from the waters where
he and his fathers had fished and he
let the Big Four Trust go after sal
; mon with traps and evey other known
device to take and destroy salmon
wholesale. All this in the name of
Conservation!
And he did something else. He
| said that in the Cook Inlet the Trust
could pack 208,000 cases of salmon,
j when all they were able to pack with
I the utmost effort was 88,937 cases.
' In the interests of conservation, Mr.
l
Hoover set the conservation limit
at about three times as many salmon
as the Trust with all its fish traps
and wholesale methods of slaughter
was able to take!
The Secretary of Commerce has
“conserved” the salmon of Alaska as
the late General Weyler "conserved”
the population of Cuba; as a forest
fire “conserves” timber.
And this Canning Trust was as vile
as it was ruthless; it imported crews
of Chinese to handle the salmon and
under such conditions that Alaska
suffered a reign of lawlessness and
immorality, the like of which she
had never known and the food oi
the American people was handled b>
men whose loathsome affliction with
contagious disease made them unfit
to be at large. All of this is told in
the reports of the grand juries on
which sixteen women sat.
The Big Four is not only a can
ning industry; it wholesales and re
tails, and therefore fixes the price
which the American citizen shall pay
the Canning Trust for the salmon
which belong to the American nation.
The contact which the Canning
Lobby procured from Secretary Hoov
er is not its first victory over our
Government. Only a little while ago
this same cluster of privilege-seeking
stars induced a Government official
to give them more for fish supplied
to the Government than the Federal
Trade Commission said they were en
titled to, but perhaps this trust de
rives its geatest joy from the reflec
tion that during the World War it
sold Tn the United States several
hundred thousand cases of decom
posed salmon for the use of oui
soldiers.
This is the public benefactor whom
Mr. Hoover now defends so gallantly
against the combined assaults of
citizens, grand juries, legislators and
the House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries.
President Coolidge, after hearing
the evidence, very properly announc
ed that the salmon slaughter must
cease.
The plain truth about the entire
situation in Washington is that this
whole Cabinet belongs to a regime
that has passed.
President Coolidge should not be
hampered by a Cabinet that is out
of touch with his ideas and with the
sentiments and interests of the pub
lic.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska, May 12,1924
Notice is hereby given that Henry
Couillard, of Moose Pass, Alaska, has
submitted Final Proof on his home
stead entry, Serial 03772, H .E. Survey
140 New Series No. 1365, covering
lands situated in the Chugach National
Forest, together with his witnesses,
William Fairman and Louis Simpson,
of Seward, Alaska.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the above described lands are
required to file their adverse claims
with the Register of the United States
Land Office, at Anchorage, Alaska,
within the period of publication, or
thirty days thereafter.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First Publication May 24th, 1924.
Last Publication July 26, 1924.
NOTICE OF HEARING
No. S-189
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of Dissolution of Arctic
Brotherhood Association, a domestic
corporation.
To All Whom These Presents Shall
Come, Greeting:
An application and petition having
been filed in the above-entitled Court
wherein and whereby an order of
said Court is prayed for decreeing
the dissolution of the Seward Arctic
Brotherhood Association, a corpora
tion; Now, therefore, in accordance
with an order of said Court made
on the 5tli day of May, 1924, notice
is hereby given to all parlies inter
ested to be and appear in the above
entitled Court on the second day of
August, 1924, at Seward in said Di
vision and Territory, and then and
there show cause, if any there be,
why the dissolution of said corpora
tion should not be decreed.
Dated at Valdez Alaska, May 5th,
1924.
W. N. CUDDY, *
Clerk of the above-entitled Court.
Publish May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 14.
21, 28, 1924.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey
No. 1420.
Serial No. 05418
United States Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska.
In the matter of the application of
Wilbur J. Erskine, for leave to en
ter as a Soldier's Additional Home
stead a tract of land situate on the
north-east shore of the north-east
arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
Territory of Alaska ,and containing
21.03 acres.
Notice is hereby given that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office adress is Ko
diak, Alaska, as assignee of James M.
Wyrick, a beneficiary under Section
2306 or 2307, United States Revised
Statutes ,has filed application, to en
ter the lands embraced in U. S. Non
Mineral Survey No. 1420, which are
situated on the N. E. shore of the N.
E. arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
in the Territory of Alaska, Lat 57°
46' 30" N., Long. 153° 23' 30" W.,
containing 21.03 acres, and more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wxt:
(Mag. Var. 23° 45' E.)
“Commencing at Comer 1, whence
U. S. L, M. No. 1420 bears S. 41°
20' 16" E. 9.96 chs., thence meander,
ing mean high tide line N. 75° 17' W.
1.29 chs., N. 87° 12' W. 4.74 chs., N.
53° 47' W., 1.39 chs. N. 36° 40' W. 3.27
chs., N. 84° 50' W. 4.98 chs., N. 52 58
W. 2.61 chs. N. 22° 43' W. 1.78 chs. to
Cor. 2; thence N. 7.57 chs. to Cor. 3,
thence E. 16.72 chs to Cor. 4; thence
S. 15.27 chs., to Cor. 1, the place of
beginning.
Any and all persons claiming any
portion of the above described tract
are required to file in the United
States Land Office, at Anchorage, Al
aska, their adverse claim or claims
during the period of publication, or
within thirty (30) days thereafter.
Dated this 1 day of May, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register U. S. Land Office.
First publication, daily May 8, 1924.
Last Publication July 17, 1924.
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