principal witness up to White’s office and togeth
er they browbeat the man into signing a statement
exonerating C. V. Brown.
Take the worst view of it. Suppose the wo
man were what Brown says she was. She was
conducting a lawful and decent business at the
time of Brown”s insulting visit. What right has
a federal officer, or for that matter, what right
has any man to insult a woman for any cause
whatever? Brown says “it was reported to him”
that she attempted to browbeat a witness in a
booze case in the lobby of the Gastineau Hotel by
calling the witness a “stool pidgeon.” His ex
cuse is a lie to begin with. “It was reported to
him,” a dirty, base and useless lie. But take the
worst view of it, does that give Brown the right
to call a woman a “whore,”, a prostitute, a booze
peddler, a bitch” and many other vile names
in the presence of a crowd of people.
Every man meets what are called “sporting
girls.” But no gentleman has ever insulted one
of them. No real man would help push one of
these unfortunates down. No real man but would
respect womankind if for nothing else, than for
the sake of his own mother.
But A1 White, the leader of the successful
Democratic ticket, and the Republican United
States Marshal, says that BROWN DID ABSO
LUTELY RIGHT and those who criticize him are
opposed to the enforcement of the laws.
Our own conclusion is this—Brown must have
something on A1 White by reason of which A1
White does not dare even resent the gross filth
that pours out of Brown’s mouth, and despicable
associations Brown exacts from the unfortunate
women of Petersburg. There is plenty enough to
warrant Brown’s - dismissal, but A1 White dares
not. Efficient officers have been “transferred”
by White, especially at Ketchikan until prostitu
tion and bootlegging prevails there as never be
fore. But Brown lives on forever.
We denounce A1 White and C. V. Brown for
their encouragement of lawlessness, and we ask
that the United States Attorney General send
them back “to the place from whence they came.”
THE VANISHING PEOPLE
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Collector McBride reporting last year’s business
says that 33,345 people left Alaska and 32,506 ar
rived in Alaska, showing that Alaska’s population
has decreased by 739.
Henry O’Malley believes that all the fish of
Alaska should be caught with fishtraps. In effi
ciency, the average trap can do the work of 20
fishermen. So that when one trap goes into ac
tion, about 100 people must leave Alaska.
In California it is a crime to construct a fish
trap.
Oregon abolished fish traps two years ago.
Washington still has traps but since her fish
are about gone, in effect the traps (and all other
fishing gear) are abolished.
You cannot have fish traps and fish. Hence
you cannot have fish traps and people.
739 is our net loss in population for 1928.
SYCHOPHANT SHORT WEIGHT
By Louis F. Paul, in The Petersburg Alaskan
Scant 11-Ounce Troy expresses his philosophy
in a few short words—“Don’t’ deal harshly with
the big fellow, but give the little fellow HELL.”
Not any Alaskan wants the herring industry
destroyed. Regardless of any amount of money
invested at this time—the whim of legislators or
resident Alaskan is not destruction of the indus
try, but its salvation.
Today the trend of the “stink industry”
is to the Westward, a virgin country where her
ring yet remain plentiful. The Chatham section
is virtually ruined while the watchful waiting
policy of the Democratic party and their federal
henchmen seem to be to await “thorough inves
tigation” by the Bureau of Fisheries, the federal
arm of the canning industry.
We would like to see Shortweight Troy go
down on the city docks at Juneau and rake up a
dozen barrels of herring, as was done a few years
back, in one day. (Investigate! Bologney!)
The herring industry is hellbent for destroy
ing itself. That $3,500,000 industry won’t be worth
ten cents on the dollar before fifteen years have
passed.
Any action by the Legislature which will cur
tail destruction of the industry will be timely and
have the support of everyone in Alaska save the
sychophants and satelites of the canning industry
and their federal henchmen.
THE POWER OF MONEY
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By Louis F. Paul, in The Petersburg Alaskan
The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce endors
ing the United States from Prince Rupert. The
fishermen of Ketchikan and other vicinities put
ed a three-cent a poupd tariff on halibut shipped
up such strenuous objections that the Ketchikan
Chamber reversed its position and stopped all
outward propoganda. Their representative, Jack
Talbot of Ketchikan, who was sent to Washing
ton, was instructed to stop his active partlcipa^