private practice during the past
twenty-two years has only covered
a period of ten months. He has a
notion that a living is best pro
cured by being on the pay roll of
Uncle Sam or the state. One of
these days he will be defeated for
office, and possibly as a reward some
large corporation like the California
Canners, who are allied with the
Alaska Packers’ Association, who are
benefiting so largely by his speeches
before Chambers of Commerce, will
come to his assistance. Otherwise
California will have both a cheap
lawyer and a free one.
MR. FREE’S REMARKS
The following; editorial from the
Petersburg Herald sums up precise
ly the way Alaskans feel about Con
gressman Arthur Marion Free, and
also measures the amount of influ
ence the propaganda which he start
ed will have in downing Delegate
Dan Sutherland and his friends in
Alaska.
A well known person was asked
by Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Lawrence Ritchie about Delegate
Sutherland’s chance for re-election;
this just for information. The per
son replied as follows: “If there
was any doubt about his re-election
you people have removed the doubt
completely. After what Mr. Free
has said about him he cannot be
beaten.”
Let the good work go on.
“The Herald holds no brief for
Dan Sutherland. He has proven
well able to take care of himself
without the aid of the Alaska press.
We have no personal differences with
Dan, and in the coming campaign
will reserve the right to support
whatever candidate, regardless of
political affiliations, this paper
deems most capable of representing
the whole of Alaska.
“But as between a political mounte
bank like Congressman Free of Cal
ifornia, representing the big fishing
interests, and our local delegate, we
are all for Sutherland.
“Free has a right to visit Alaska,
even at ‘his own expense,’ as he is
fond of repeating. He has a right
to study the fishing industry.
“He may ’know’ more in a few
days’ junketing trip than Alaskans
have learned in a life time. He has
a right to give advice, if he so de
sires. And he even has a right to
‘butt’ into our local politics.
“But when he calls all those ‘rad
icals’ who disagree or question his
fishing program for Alaska and
Toasts’ our delegate in congress be
cause the latter also disagreed with
him there, he puts himself in the
class of a cheap politician. He may
be trying to serve his masters, but
he is making a dismal failure of it,
and certainly he does not fool any
one in Alaska.
“Unfortunately, there will be
more agitation than ever against the
big cannery interests because of the
resentment Free has aroused by try
ing to thrust his cut-and-dried pro
gram down our throats. We say
unfortunately, for there is much that
is good about some of the big can
nery interests though it may be
difficult for some Alaskans to be
lieve it. A few of them are becom
ing real Alaskan developers. But
in the selection of such agents as
Free, as well as the character of
their professional lobbyists at Wash
ington, D. C., they only keep alive
for the benefit of political /oppor
tunists the very things which they
seek to avoid.
“In short, it would get the can
nery interests much further to ap
peal directly to the people of Alaska
and to dispense with ‘expressive hire
lings.’
“It must not be forgotten that
the people of the Territory have
very definite ideas about the fishing
industry, and what is good for them
and best for the industry as a whole,
and as time goes on that voice is
going to become more insistent both
in the Territorial Legislature and at
Washington, D. C. And the Frees
and his ilk and bureaucratic orders
cannot smother that voice or pre
vent us from sending Sutherland to
Congress. We repeat, this man
Free, in his zeal to serve his mas
ters, only ‘corked’ himself.”
WASTE OF HERRING
(Petersburg Herald)
The Alaska Fisherman in its Aug
ust number makes some very serious
charges about the waste of herring
that should be investigated. It men
tions the names of several persons
and alleges that these dumped large
quantities of herring into the bay
Herring as a food fish is as val-'
uable, or more so, than salmon. Its
fine qualities are becoming known.
It is being put up for the market
in increasing quantities each year.
Over $12,000 was this season ex
pended in Petersburg by one firm
alone for herring for the middle
western 'market.
The Fisherman claims that “Dago”
fishermen from the outside, fishing
for the fertilizer plants, have been
dumping herring overboard. These
charges should not be allowed to
pass unnoticed by the authorities.
Now is the time to begin to conserve
the herring—not after it has gone
the way most of the salmon have
gone.
Subscribe for The Fisherman.
“BY NAME AND NATURE”
Stroller White, of Juneau, is an
authority on pioneer conditions in
Alaska, and his reaction to -Con
gressman Free’s criticism of the
Alaska railroad depicts the truth,
and leads us to conclude that Con
gressman Free came to Alaska, saw
everything, but understood nothing.
However, he likes to talk, so will
destroy himself.
The following is Stroller White’s
summary:
“That Congressman Free is free
of speech as well as name was dem
onstrated in his remarks at Anchor
age when he stated that the Alaska
railroad started nowhere, ran no
where and served nobody and that
the interior was better off and paid
less for delivery of its goods be
fore the railroad was constructed.
“The statement of the Congress
man evidenced the fact that he did
not know what he was talking about.
He never paid $10 per sack for flour
in the interior, $2 per pound for
sugar, $5 for a dozen eggs whose
taste indicated that they were laid
by sick hens, $0 a dozen for bananas,
$2 for a shave, or $2 for a drink
of whiskey—poured by the barten
der.
“The Alaska railroad may not have
populated the interior as it was
hoped it would, but it certainly has
been a boon to the population of the
interior that was and is still there
and it will eventually justify what
it cost.”
DR. L. P. DAWES
Physician and Surgeon
First National Bank
Building
Phone 2602 Juneau
Star Cigar Store
THOMAS DALGITY, Proprietor
FURNISHED ROOMS
WRANGELL - - ALASKA
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Petersburg Meat Co.
Fresh and Salted Meat
Game and Fish-Canned Goods
Cheese, Butter, Eggs
Petersburg - Alaska
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Dr. A. Kearsley
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Sitka, Alaska