A LITERACY TEST
For H. R. Shepard and Others
$5.00 Prize for Correct,
Unaided Answer
“If a purchaser should buy the
interest of the vendor in a remainder
in fee, expectant upon an estate tail
and the tenant in tail had at the
time, unknown to both parties, actu
ally suffered a recovery, and thus
barred the estate in remainder, a
Court of Equity would relieve the
purchaser in regard to the contract
purely upon the ground of mistake.”
Would your inability to read the
above “understandingly” prove that
you do not know that our fisheries
should be saved? Or that the Ju
neau Empire is the spokesman of
Seattle, Portland and Chicago resi
dents? Or that it is utterly wrong
for Governor Scott C. Bone to ap
point drunkards to high public of
fice? Or for this same governor to
buy legislators by promising or giv
ing them lucrative offices as soon
as the legislature adjourns?
The danger to our government is
not so-called illiteracy. No person
can point to a single instance of
hurt, to our country thru illiteracy.
The danger to our country is thru
the educated rascals who know how
to raid the public treasury “under
standingly” and legally.
For example, John W. Troy, ap
proved the shipping board bill of
Governor Riggs wherein the ltgisla
ture directed him to establish a
steamship line to Seattle. However,
Gov. Riggs framed a bill “prohibit
ing” the operation of steamships by
the Territory to Seattle. The Ju
neau sheep of John Troy seem well
satisfied with this rank, dishonesty.
Again John W. Troy and Stroller
White habitually violate the 18th
amendment and yet these men are
the cronies of church members, gov
ernors and district attorneys.
The steal of the public’s money
has always been engineered by the
“literates” many of whom are now
clamoring for a literacy test.
TRAP SHOTS
By Louis F. Paul
Mr. O’Malley recognizes the fact
that the traps are destructive in the
Icy Straits section, therefore he
recommends that the traps be not
permitted to operate less than two
miles apart. When O’Malley begins
to admit that, we would say that he
was getting educated as to the real
destructiveness of the trap gear.
* * * * *
If the traps in the Icy Straits sec
tion are too numerous at less than
two miles apart, how about the Ket
chikan-Wrangell district?
*****
Katz Harbor was closed to com
mercial fishing this summer but the
Alaska Packers put in a couple of
traps a short distance below Katz
Harbor getting more than the
amount of fish that would have been
caught by seiners in the bay. That
is conservation backwards with a
vengeance.
*****
The regulations protect the traps
at Eagle Creek. The seiner is now
able to get within seining distance
of that stream but the fish are all
caught first in the traps at the north
and then on the south.
* * * * *
There was a time when Charley
Jones with his crew could get a haul
of 7,000 or more sockeye salmon
from Eagle Creek. A few years of
traps and all the combined crews of
the Lake Bay cannery did not get
half that amount this summer from
that section. Yet the “swivel chair
experts” of the Empire would have
us believe that the abolishment of
the trap system would be the death
of the industry.
The fishermen operating for the
Petersburg Packing Company with
their total catch did not deliver 200,
000 salmon. The balance of the
pack of 90,000 or more cases was put
up from trap caught fish. If the
seine fishermen of Petersburg were
destructive what class would the
Petersburg traps be in ?
* * * ijc
More fish reached the spawning
grounds between Cape Bendle and
Summit Island in Frederick Sound
this year after the closed season than
has appeared the previous ten years.
The myriad of traps in lower Chat
ham Straits did not take their toll
of salmon which were thereby en
abled to reach the parent streams.
If the trap system were abolished the
perpetuation of the salmon industry
would be a certainty.
* * % * * *
“You cannot eat your cake and
keep it,” would be a good axiom for
the “expert” fisherman, Jawn Troy
to remember. You cannot can every
last fish in the water and expect
salmon to return to the spawning
grounds in later cycles. The only
way to save the industry is to cut
down contracted packs and do away
with the traps in order that the
resident fishermen can make a de
cent living wage.”
# •!* 'S
The Alaska Consolidated Cannery
at Chomley up to the closed season
had only one native working at the
cannery. Several who had gone
there to work as in the past had to
leave for other labor fields.
The Pure Food Company of Ket
chikan uses resident help. Any com
pany or corporation employing local
help is worth more to the Territory
than one importing a bunch of the
riff-raff and scum of the water fronts
of Seattle, Portland and San Fran
cisco.
Totem
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