t\ deral statutes as required by CON
<! It IOSS. I?ut I lie duties assigned
him by tlie LE01SLATURE will m
give n to ail ELECTED OFFICIAL
Treasurer
The Territorial Treasurer is now
A i’POINTED by the FED El id L
governor. Under the HOME IIULl
M ailed Cont roller Bill) the Treas
urer will be ELECTED by the l'eo
pie of Alaska to whom lie will l> •
' - sponsible.
Tom Jenson and Tom («;i!no
(loth Toms) opposed and voted
against a government by the l’eopb*
of \laska. They both supported the
irineii'le of BUREAUCRATIC guv
t l ament, officials responsible not to
lee people of Alaska, but to outsid
ers.
kike Irish Struggle
perfect analogy is the struggle
of Ireland-- the Britishers there cor
respond to 1 lie Bureaucrat lie;,
ifederal governor and secretary?.
The TOMS -both of them—volen
(a keep the Britishers.
( WDIl'NICATIOX
Chiekamin Uiver, Alas -: t
Juno IS, 192S
Fditor Alaska Fisherman,
Ketchikan, Alaska
Bear Sir:
'n your May issue I notice you
mention that the Forestry Service
should build a road between Crap
k la work and Kasaan Bay.
Permit me to make this sTatemetr
that very few people in Alaska rea,
izo that in Prince of Wales Islam;
between Kasaan Bay and Kin won.
i. located a mineralized belt o!
greet possibilities.
\l)ont 2 5 years ago quite a fe .*•
quartz claims were staked on Gran
ite Mountain and some prospector;
oven penetrated the country between
Pelmon Lake and Klawock where
high grade galena ore was found
A’so (dose to Klawock Lake promis
ing prospects have been locate
but because roads are entirely lack
ing this district has never receiz
el attention from prospectors it d n
sei v es
From Karla Hay I he road should
go on the sou 111 side of llie lakes
\\ li'ch would help open up prospects
on Granite Mountain. Some otliev
at inaction than prospecting is also
lo ise found at the head of Kart a
liny as the lakes are simply alive
wi.h trout.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN lJUFVHKS.
w: iiTM.WKS TO rilAKMM I ISK
V, <■ are much obliged to Charlie
t'■:■ i.e for the following from Strol
ler’s Weekly, (dse we would have
ir: ed it. Charlie meant it. to hurt
nr people, hut rather it helps us
I ke< ps' the vote solid principally
hi cause it is so untrue. And yet wo
(i i.<t hold this matter against Char
in' personally hocause we realize
'Sat in Anchorage, as in Ketchikan,
he is merely the hired tool of others.
Ah cast1 is like the monkey and the
■ ,t Some people cannot help he
cats and hence monkeys will ev
cse them to pull their chestnuts
out of the fire.
We don’t agree with the last para
graph of the editorial. We cannot
cr ]■• eive of any Indian so degrade 1
cither morally or otherwise who
corul have sonic lower than Stroller
Y hite. Morally? Well. White has
been a habitual drunkard for many
years. As this habit relates to the
Constitution of the United State?,
v, e fail to see how he can talk
a to 11t anyinmg.
The right to vote is a legal right.
’:< I a social one. The laws that re
gulate the right are the laws of ttu
failed States to which White is
subject when he imbibes. When
vp compare the candidates “selected
l>v Indians" so Stroller claims, they
compare we think favorably with
Tom Marquam, selected hv Stroller
V- 1 ite and Johnny Walker Troy. .
Vt e want our people to read the
< tutorial so we print it—it makes
ri: solid because it is wrong.
# * * $
DHl’I.Oi: \m>K COMMTIOX
(i j'uiit St roller’s \V<M*kly).
The candidates oil the republican
ticket for the territorial legislature
vho were selected as the result of
Li o late primaries, with possibly ore.*
or two exceptions, would not have
been nominated except for the 1
d'■ tii vote, the Indians having the
b.iiunce of power in the First Divi
s:on and a mighty balance it is.
' lurries Sumner’s civil rights bit!
giving the franchise to four million
m gvoes in the south following the
I'J-.na ucipat ion Proclamation was oc •
of the most iniquitous logislativ •
acts that ever defiled the pages of
v-uerican history hut it was not one
wait worse than was the recent
act of Congress extending the frau
c'dao to Indians who, in four cascj
in every five, vote as their unscru
prions leaders instruct and without
kncwTedge or conception of the rnv
t’ v of the position of 1 lie office at
stake.
7 etiirns from other Indian pre
cincts throughout tin' Territory give
substantial majorities for Capt. La
thvop for national committeeman
Im. the Indians were told to vote
am.hist him and they did. And yet
it is forty to one bet that not ter
nor cent of the Indians who voted
for national committeeman h a • ’
any more idea of the nature of tm*
position, the duties of its encum
bei t, what he is for and what lie is
ewueted to do, than a child and an
Indian child at that.
The Indian has a constitution::1
right to vote, but socially, morally,
economically or in no other way is
he i ndowed with that right, and the
exorcise by him of the right bestow
ed on him by congress constitutes
t’m greatest menace confronting
Mnska at the present time. As u
is the rank and file of the republic
an party in Alaska and especially
ir ho First Division of Alaska, are
having their candidates selected for
them hv Indians.