Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION PROMISED
At the hearing accorded the trappers of upper Cook
Inlet at Anchorage by Paul G. Reddington, chief of the
Biological Survey, copious evidence was presented in sup
port of the appeal of the trappers for an extension of the
season on fur from 60 days to 105 days, the period of tak
ing muskrat to June 15 and the privilege of taking a limit
ed number of beaver and marten. Mr. Reddington indi
cated that the matter would receive sympathetic consid
eration at the meeting of the Alaska Game Commission in
Fairbanks, September 6. To date nothing has appeared
to indicate what the verdict will be.
To avail themselves of the change it is necessary that
trappers know immediately if it wall be made. It requires
90 days promulgation of an executive order to alter the
published regulations. This would defer the matter to
January, if acted upon at once.
The result of the restricted period has been to cause
many trappers to hesitate about taking an outfit into the
hills, maintaining that it is impossible to make an even
break if the law is observed.
BI-METALISM STALKS AS IN 1896
While the announcement that EJngland had aban
doned the gold standard has been received in financial
circles of the United States with ominous silence, the ac
tion is received by many observers as the procursor of
like action on the part of other nations. A similar step
by the United States would force France to fall in line,
these two nations now holding the lion’s share of the gold
supply of the world.
Thus we may find the question of bi-metalism stalk
ing c.pon the stage and becoming a national issue as it was
in 1896.
Dropping the ratio as proposed by the Bryanites—
16 to one—and taking up the great Commoner’s funda
mental contention of free coinage, the present financial
conditions in the States seemed to support his premise
that the amount of money in circulation has been decreas
ing since the demonetization of silver, and that this de
crease caused a general fall in prices.
In reply, the gold advocates offered: “The per cap
ita circulation in 1860 was $14.06, in 1896 it was $21.15.”
Bryan might have replied: “Yes, that is true, but who
has the $21.15?”
Like 1896, we face the alternative of creating more
money or devising some scheme for taking some away
from those who have it in sums reading into billions.
It was sought to do this by the income tax, but there
has not, as yet, been created a Congress immune from
the temptation of extravagance when confronted with a
swollen treasury, and the same supplies to /the State,
county and city. Every President from Washington has
' inveighed against extravagance, yet it goes on and at a
greater scale. Out of which has emerged the burden
some taxes and consequent cost of living.
The man who counsels revolution may as logically
ask someone to kick him, for he shares the full responsi
bility for this concentration of wealth either by misjudg
ment or lack of interest in the actions of those whom he
selects to govern him.
Present conditions show that there is such a thing as
too sound money, especially When it is out of reach of the
masses. This was proven in the case of Great Britain,
Maybe she is pointing the way for hastening our own re
covery and with it the recovery of the many nations who
are barred from trade with us because they cannot pro
cure the gold to meet international obligations.
If a million bags of coffee can be traded for its equiv
alent in wheat, as was the case with Brazil, the token pass
ing in the transaction may be nothing more than a scraj
of paper. If a silver dollar secures a given article or sat
isfaction and both parties are satisfied it should suffice
Now that the United States has completed the ex
change of wheat for coffee with Brazil, it is being ad
vocated by some that the United States ought to trade
cotton with beer from Germany.
LONDON. Sept , 29, (£>)—Prime
• Minister MacDonald returned
suddenly to London to consider
the rapidly changing political sit
uation which is expected to bring
about a national election soon.
He held a cabinet meeting and
I then went to the Chequers to j
consider the policy which he is
expected to announce.
Conservatives in the govern
ment, desire him . to go before the
country with an appeal to reelect
the National Cabinet on a protec
tive tariff policy.
CAT DIES
Frank B. Story, engineer of the
Arcade Apartments, this morning
said that there is ‘‘going to be a
funeral.” One of his pet cats, the
three-legged one, died during the
night, and Mr. Story was around
making funeral arrangements —
looking for a hearse, etc. Mr. Story
says that death was caused by com
plications which set in owing to
old age.
ENJOYED ALASKA TRIP J
Coiman Jonas, of Jonas Bros., j
Denver, Colo., taxidermists, in i
writing to The Gateway, in refer- J
J ence to his Alaska visit in 1927, says J
that "never before have I enjoyed i
a trip as much as I did this Alaskan |
visit- The trip of trips. I planned J
to return this year, but could not j
feet away, but hope that next year i
nothing will interfere." He also \
says he made many friends in Al- *
aska during the few months spent i
in the Territory. j
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Deegan will J
be outgoing passengers with Capt. !
Pete Sather when he leaves on his J
next trip for Nuka Bay. Mr. Dee- j
gan, a prominent railroader, has a i
mine in the Nuka Bay region. j
MURDER OF 015 WIFE
CHICAGO. Sept. 28. (/P)—A con
fession that he slew his wife be
cause she irritated him by remind
ers of her superior education, and
that he placed the body, wrapped
in a blanket, in a manhole, was
made to the police here.
The husband, John Chomak, was
arrested Saturday at Beaver Dam,
his former home. Mrs. Chomak’s
body was found July 4 in the man
hole of a sewer on the South side
near the Chomak home.
An autopsy indicated that she
had died of suffocation. "She used
to be a school teacher. I never had
much learning. She was all the
time rubbing it in how much
smarter she was,” Chomak said.
Boats in port today included the
Roy, Joan, Marian, Bill, Bavaria,
Flattery, T-3048 and the Helldiver.
LADIES AID MEET
The Ladies Aid, of the Seward
Community Church, will meet to
morrow (Wednesday) afternoon at
the home of Mrs. R. D. Sullivan.
DRY FORCES FIGHT WETS
WASHINGTON, Sept., 29, (vP)—
Aroused by the wide scope of ag
itation for modification of the
prohibition laws, dry forces made
preparations to carry the fight on
wets in every state. The anti
saloon League issued a statement
asserting the American Legion
vote for modification does not
represent the people’s view.
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