violate the law to get what they want, why should not
I pay the cracksman to get what I want.”
The Attorney General criticized as “one of the most
mischievous form of propoganda” the attitude of some
newspapers toward some laws. He said that the “flip
pant, jeerng attitude naturally breeds a feeling that if
law officers were ‘snoopers, gum-slioe artists, etc.,” in
enforcing one law, they would be the same when at
tempting to enforce other law3. Was he referring to
Johnny Walker Troy?
“CORRESPONDENT DOES NOT LIKE ATTITUDE
OF THE EMPIRE
“One wlio has long been a subscriber for The Em
pire and for whom we have profound admiration and
respect, in a note renewing his subscription, writes:
You make a first-class newspaper, but I don’t
like your efforts to nullify the Constitution. You
publish all the filth you can rake up against Pro
hibition, but not a word in its favor. This is one
sided work.
The Empire likes to hear from people who disagree
with it, and the only suggestion in the note to which
ic takes exception is that it publishes “filth.” We sus
pect that the writer wa3 angry or he would not have
used that word.”
The Empire believes deeply in temperance and law
enforcement. It would be immensely pleased if every
individual in the country could be led to eschew “hard”
liquors as a beverage. It has never failed to support:
the Government or any of its agencies to enforce the
law.”
WHY ONLY RESIDENT MERCHANTS
Why protect only the resident merchant?
Why not protect the resident fisherman against the
thousands of contract non-residents that swarm imo
Alaska every season?
Ben Grier and Sumner Smith deserted the Progres
sive Republicans in the last legislature to protect the
protect the Seattle merchants and Astoria fishermen
nun-resident.
Is the Third Division going to send other men to
Is the Third Division going to send other men to
protect the Seattle merchants and Astoria fishermen
in 1929?
We reprint from the Anchorage Times:
LICENSED PEDDLERS
The United States Supreme Court has gone the full
distance in defining the rights of a city to regulate the
operations of house-to-house salesmen. The court has
taken the stand that a city can not restrict the right
of salesmen to solicit business for a firm out3ide the
state because it is unreasonable restraint on inter
state commerce.
Practically every city in the country has an ordi
nance requiring peddlers and others soliciting business
at homes to have a license. These license ordinances
were passed largely as protective measures intended
to discourage itinerant merchants, many of whom
made a business of sharp practices. Established mer
chants have long held that the peddler who pays no
taxes and assumes none of the responsibilities of a
continuing business with a reputation to uphold
should be penalized.”
THE CLEANEST PAPER IN ALASKA
That is what a certain F. J. Conroy calls the Juneau
Empire. Perhaps!
But that paper still advertises such fakers as the fol
lowing:
“PALMIST—Come and have your fortune told from
your hand. Work, business, marriage and the future
foretold.”
It is a disgrace to our civilization that the Juneau
City Council has not made such pretenses a crime.
The various Indian villages have long ago outlawed
fortune tellers and fake medicine men.
FOR TROLLERS ONLY
“Another load of k^ags and sockeyes was brought in
Saturday from the John Keller trap at Foggy Bay,
which is a reminder that it is reported the first fish
taken this season was in the Keller trap”—news tern
of June 26, 1927.
Perhaps in time, the trollers will realize that the
fight against traps includes them.
NORTHWESTERN FISHERIES STILL HIRING RIFF
RAFF OF THE EARTH
With most of the canneries around Ketchikan doing
their best to hire healthy cannery workers, it is too
bad that the Northwestern Fisheries Company of Ka
saan, with Mr. Taylor as superintendent, does not co
operate. The Newsprint tells us that already one Fili
pino worker, Servillano Guzman, of the Kasaan plant
has been adjudged insane and will be taken to Morn
ingside, Oregon. Thus will the list of “Alaska” insane
bo increased. i
Considering what most people are willing to do for
money, it’s a wonder there are not more millionaires.
Qualities that make a man feel superior are usually
one3 that cause his acquaintances to rate him as in*
ferior.
Many a man who isn't a liar doesn't tell all the truth
that he knows.