the wisdom manifested under
federal control, and is the in
dorsement of the pending
treaty.”
He I aises Himself
Any egt nstieal, red-headed
self-opinion ited man can write
up praise ox himself and damn
opposition ' nth the same pen.
Th Cam ers’ Association op
posed the ' /hite Act and it has
been conde med in their politic
al mouthpk ze at Juneau on sev
eral occasions. O’Malley and his
departmeni opposed that law
which he now delights in claim
ing as his own.
When Jeimano’malley declares
that the King’s regulations were
for “conservation” of salmon,
they place upon themselves the
brand of Annanias. The official
records published by O’Malley
show that during the War period
(1914 to 1918) inclusive) the av
erage pac1' was 5,215,332 cases;
during the period of 1924-1928,
inclusive, under the White Law,
he (O’Malley) demonstrated
“that the only way to save the
salmon was to stop killing them
during the spawning season, the
average pack was 5,209,177 cas
es or within 6,0Cj of the “war
years ” Drastic curtailment was
not of destruction of salmon bid
drastic discrimination against
resident fishermen in favor of
foreign owned traps.
Facing the Issue Honestly
Since 1908 the Canadians have
faced depletion of their fisher
ies and honestly made effort,
without discrimination toward
their resident fishermen, to con
serve the resource. All their ef
forts have been negated by the
O’Malley policy till the danger
to the Canadian fisheries has
reached the point where their
officials declare that “We are all
fed up on raising fish for your
benefit. Either we will have a
treaty to regulate the taking of
the fish in a manner that will
guarantee a sufficient escape
ment to the spawning grounds
or the hatcheries will not be op
eratcd.” In other words, the so
called conservation methods set
forth by O'Mailey have fallen so
far short of honest conservation
that unless they are improved
by actual curtailment 01 produc
tion, the Canadians will clean up
their hatcheries and can all the
seed fish, blithely hoping for the
test for the future.
-x
TOO BUSY KOWTOWING
x
Recently Forest Service offi
cials wti c in Wrangell and the
millmen and businessmen were
busy showing them the proposed
extension of the Shoemaker Bay
Road. A logger from the West
Coast happened along and asked
“Have you people stated your ob
jections to the regulations which
are slowly choking you to
death”? “No,” was the reply.
The logger came to Petersburg
and expressed contempt for tire
kowtowing to the Forest officials
for small favors that do not
mean much to the real develop
ment of business in that town
Said he, “The forest regulations
have driven me out of business
In order to get a permit to log, I
must cut hemlock for which l
have no market; I am compelled
I TCsaards ~
to cut hemlock piling for which
I have no sale. Yet I am com
piled to cut such limb r and to
pay for the stumpage. I am
forced to quit logging operations
which I have followed for twen
ty-five year.”
Pro )eriy presented by the va
rious business interests, the pro
hibitions might be taken off and
that logger and a number of
others allowed to enter the busi
ness. Their earnings would be
spent in Wrangell and Peters
burg and would mean more to
the merchants than the small
road appropriations which would
be spent there anyway.
-x
MAKE IT THE SAME ALL OVER
ALASKA
X
Herring fishing in the Alaska
Penin mla and Aleutian Island
areas this year is limited to gill
nets ( r 3Y2 inch mesh, stretched
measure.
This prohibition is an indirect
curtailment of reduction opera
tions in those areas. It is a de
monstrated fact that reduction
plants cannot operate on herring
caught in gillnets.
This prohibition further indi
cates that Henry O’Malley has
gotten cold feet and is uneasy
over the conditions which during
the past two years nave endan
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