WILLIAM HOLLYWOOD
The death of William Hollywood
occurred on April 23rd, and reminds
us that death is a mighty leveler
and is no respector of persons. This
young man was only 35 years old
and had every prospect for a long
life. But he was taken from us. His
loved ones were at his side, his bro
ther John, his sister, Mrs. Harry
Benolkin, his five children, and his
mother. His brother, Pat, could not
get to Sitka in time.
During these days when frantic ap
peals are being made to arouse race
prejudice against persons with In
dian blood in them, we can ill spare
men like William Hollywood; for he
was a gentleman of better than av
erage intelligence among any class
of people.
His mother has lost a son; his
brothers and sister have lost a fine
brother; his children have lost a
father; and Alaska has lost a good
citizen. May we all perpetuate his
memory and live, striving to put
into practice the words of the im
mortal Lincoln, “With charity for all
and malice toward none.”
PAINTED GODS
The publication of the letter of
Hon. H. T. Tripp to Mr. J. T. Bar
ron, the fish magnate, seems to have
struck the public mind with greater
force than was anticipated by the
editor of this Journal.
The letter is only the exposure
of another Teapot Dome incident on
a small scale. It was thought the
public had become so callous to pol
itical corruption of the Harding ap
pointees at the Capital that it could
not be stirred by exposure of simi
lar proclivities among the local di
vinities.
The Tripp epistle demonstrates ir
refutably that there is, and has been,
in Alaska a class of bipartisan poli
tiicans ready and willing to barter
away the public offices of the Ter
ritory for coin—to turn over the
political institutions of the country
to those who can pay the most.
This is no surprise to those who
have, these many years, battled for
the rights of the people.
There has never been an election
contest in Alaska when the preda
tory interests seeking special privi
leges did not liberally finance the
bipartisan campaign.
There never was a campaign in
Alaska when the bipartisan candi
date failed to mortgage himself in
advance to the “Interests.”
And, yet, by the average voter the
seriousness of the battle of the bal
lots has been only vaguely realized.
The Tripp letter has aroused the
confiding dupes of the painted gods
in the community. They see now
how nearly they came to being sold
into bondage, and they are commenc
ing to appreciate what they owe
to those men and women who have
in the past fought for clean, decent
government.
Tripp is not one bit worse than
the crowd he has been travelling
with. C andor compels the admission
that he is probably the best of his
companions.
It is rot without significance that
leading bipartisans at this time, with
folded faces and saintly postures,
hasten to caution the public against
suspecting political corruption in
anybody else except those individuals
clearly proven in the Teapot Dome
int;uiij- to be guilty.
WRANGELL PETITION
We, the undersigned, are bona fide
residents of the town of Wrangell,
Alaska, have been informed that the
WFite Fish Bill has passed the
House of Representatives, and that
this bill gives full control of Alaska
Fisheries to the Secretary of Com
merce, and prohibits the use of traps
or purse seines in any narrow bay,
channel or estuary. By attaching
hereto our signatures, we ask Con
gress in the strongest terms pos
sible to strike out of the bill the
prohibition against the use of purse
seines, for the following reasons:
1. The depletion of our fisheries
has not been due to purse seines,
but has been due to traps.
2. That there is no comparison
between the two methods of fishing,
as depletion has invariably followed
the introduction of the trap around
our fish streams, whereas this was
not true during the years when all
fish were caught with purse seines.
3. That the restriction on the
traps would allow an escapement of
millions of fish to perpetuate the
future runs, and the burden would
fall on a very few peopie; whereas
4. The restriction on purse seines
would virtually destroy this town
of Wrangell, a town of nearly one
thousand people; and would also de
stroy by reducing to starvation the
Native Indians in southeastern Al
aska who now live in fourteen vill
ages and number over 5,000, and
would drive out of Alaska several
thousand white seiners.
5. The testimony of I. N. Hylen
and Andrew Furuseth, both of San
Francisco, California, to the 'effect
that the purse seine and trap are
equally destructive and wasteful, is
false and was offered by gill net
ters of Bristol Bay, two thousand
miles from this District where we
live almost entirely by seining; and
we call the attention of Congress to
the fact that their charges against
the trap is true because based on
their own experience, whereas the
falseness of their charges against
purse seines is, as they so state,
outside Oi their experience.
Signed by over 400 residents.
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