CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLATURE
ARGUMENT AG AIN SI
WM. L. PAUL
The Alaska Fisherman,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
You will naturally do a lot of
boosting for William L. Paul who
has filed for nomination by the Re
publicans for the Alaska Territorial
Legislature. I don’t think you know
just how many of the people feel
about him and why I think he should
be defeated.
This man has stirred up a lot of
trouble from the time he came back
here from school. Before he came,
the Natives were satisfied and were
trying to get along. But he came
here and began teaching them that
they are just as good as the whites.
You know well enough that this is
not true. We don’t want the In
dians to try and govern us. This
is a white man’s country.
He has gotten the Indians so that
they all vote according to his in
structions. That gives him a block
of at least 500 up to 1,000 votes.
The Ketchikan Chronicle had the
right idea because they showed us
that when Paul votes once, it is
just the same as 1,000 times because
he has got the Indians trained, and
they cannot think for themselves.
That is why we want the Literacy
Test for voters.
Another thing, Paul wants to put
the canneries out of business, so that
the Indians can make a fine living
by catching all the fish. You know
we got to have the canneries. If
the canneries quit where are we go
ing to get money to run this Terri
tory? We don’t want a mere theor
ist to go to the legislature. We
cannot run our country on air. We
want capital in here. We don’t want
the capital to be driven out. I will
write to you again if you will kindlv
publish this letter which is only fair
for you to publish both sides.
Yours truly,
“A Citizen”
THE ANSWER
To Mr. Citizen:
The best argument that I can
make in answer to the above letter
is a plain statement of the facts of
my life. If there is any merit in
what I have done, fair-minded citi
zens will give me the consideration
which I deserve.
My mother was born in Victoria,
the daughter of a man employed by
the Hudson Bay Company named
Kinnon. My father was drowned in
December, 1886 with Mr. Saxman
while they were trying to locate the
village of Port Chester, which Fa
ther Duncan later selected as the
site for Metlakatla.
The mother then took her boys to
Sitka where she was employed by
the Presbyterian Mission. In 1894
Kendall was sent east to Carlisle,
Pennsylvania to school; I went in
1899; Louis went in 1903. All three
of us graduated from Carlisle and
learned the fundamentals of our cit
izenship from that great educator,
General R. H. Pratt. The great
principle advocated by General Pratt
was that Indians should be treated
exactly as any other citizen, without
special favor beyond a good start in
schooling.
Kendall graduated from the New
York University of Law about 1908,
while I came home and became a
fisherman and a logger. Under the
urgings of my mother I went to col
lege at Tacoma, Washington in 1905
and graduated in 1909 and then went
to the Presbyterian Theological Sem
inary at San Anselmo, California,
for one year. In 1911, I married
Miss Frances Lackey, daughter of
Alexander Lackey, D. D. We have
three boys.
The first job I had was manager
of a large commissary store. There
I dealt with the rough European
class of workers, and got my first
insight to the heartlessness of big
corporations who grind out their pro
fits from the blood of men and wo
men. I saw combinations of various
officers of that corporation who had
a system by which they could get
rid of men. But I was young and
felt that while it was cruel, nothing
could be done. That was the way of
big business.
My second job was with a bank.
Here I stayed almost two years, but
left the day I was placed in charge
of the fire insurance department
which had a premium income of
$150,000 yearly. From this place, I
went to San Francisco and worked
as assistant cashier of a big bonding
company. There I learned some more
about corporations and how thev
treat their injured employees. I
learned that the real cause of tricks
in adjusting injuries was the em
ployer himself. It did not make any
big difference whether the employer
was a big business man, a big cor
poration, or a little fellow, they all,
or nearly all, gave the unfortunate
the same shabby treatment “to
make money out of it.”
I then became manager of the cas
ualty department at San Francisco
when we went into the workmen’s
compensation business where we
wrote over $500,000 in premiums.
From there I went to Portland. Ore
gon and became field agent. There
our business was altogether surety
and fidelity bonds. Here I was
taught thoroughly the principles of
big business management and cred
its.
During the above experience, I
have remained an idealist; not a
dreamer, but one who has felt for
many years that the trouble with
the world is not money, big corpor
ations, or even the system of in
dividualism; but rather that it is
“the love of money.” Selfishness
brings sin and sorrow into the world.
The answer to these ailments is
Unselfishness, and the Golden Rule.
The application of practical Christ
ianity is the system of redeeming
the world.
I have learned that the world is
full of people who call themselves
“Christians,” but whose conduct is
not affected by the sweet principles
of the Man of Galilee. The test of
life is not words, but deeds. “Not
all who call me Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
but he who doeth the will of my
Father.”
When I determined to stay in Al
aska, certain facts were forced upon
me. First, I saw that the curse of
the Indians was ignorance of the
new civilization. There were few
schools among them. They were ex
cluded by the city authorities. I
became interested in them by the
mere extension of the things taught
me by the church. I thought the
church would support me. But I
found that even missionaries have
yet to learn what Christianity means.
Many teach the Brotherhood of Man,
the universal Fatherhood of God,
but by acts and deeds and even
words, they tell the unfortunate In
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