Herring
Of all the economic crimes ev
er perpetrated by rapacious hu
man greed, the revolting butch
ery of our herring by a horde of
alien freebooters in the face of
the protests of all decency and
inevitable consequences, caps
the climax of all we have had to
endure. About 80 large alien
seine boats were observed to
load both hold and deck loads of
herring on the Aguilla trolling
grounds one day and start for
the fertilizer dumps. Before they
got there, their deck loads were
all washed overboard. It is like
ly as many more were smothered
in their seines and sank to the
bottom. Probably as many her
ring are wasted in this v/ay an
nually as are accounted for.
We have listened to much Bu
reaucratic bunk in the past few
years about pulp mills, and what
they were going to do for us. Did
you ever consider what they are
going to do TO us if we allow
their schemes to go through?
Just this. Rivet the final links
in the chain that will bind us
to perpetual Bureaucratic con
trol and economic slavery.
When conservative business
men who have always had ev
erything their own way in
plundering our richest assets to
alarming depletion, and through
it not only held up all advance
ment, but actually impoverished
r. large part of our people, vol
unteer such information, it is
an open confession that it is a
monstrous, devastating system
that defeats its own ends. It is
useless to expect the packers to
initiate any improvements in the
system, under which neither
ourselves or the the salmon have
a Chinaman’s chance. All they
ask is to be let alone. As Irving
Cobb has pointed out, that was
all Captain Kidd wanted.
When the Act establishing
Forest Reserves was created, it
was planned to apply it only to
remote mountain sections, and
neither by Act nor implication
was it intended to apply to a
whole Commonwealth eligibly
situated for universal develop
ment, or for a few bureaucrats
to assume bureaucratic powers
ever the resources of such an
area or the destinies of its peo
ple. In this glorious realm, you
can’t step ashore without being
liable for trespass. You have
every right to demand that all
lands within five miles of tide
water be eliminated from the
Reserve and subject to location.
After generations of struggles,
Ireland is comparatively free
from the bane of absentee land
lordism. The lowly Mexican af
ter centuries of submissive
plundering is shaking off the
shackles of economic servitude.
The mild mannered Chink has
been goaded to fight, through
the exploitation of his Country
by greedy alien interests. We
are told even the worm will turn,
but except for the so-called “In
dian Vote,” which in the last
analysis is nothing but an inef
fective protest against intoler
able prevailing conditions, what
has the rest of our spirited Am
erican citizens done towards
making an effort to clean uo
this Bureau-blighted, Seattle
skinned, Stick-ridden “Land of
opportunity?”
We are roped and hog tied,
and plucked as clean as a picked
chicken by as merciless a crew
of banded pirates as ever cut a
throat or pillaged ship, and
haven’t the spunk of a Mexican
peon or a Chinese coolie to rise
up and make an effort to remedy
or resent it.
Lured by the siren songs of
their subsidized propoganda
pushers, you were trapped into
“getting” Paul, the only man in
the entire Territory who has had
the guts and energy to make an
organized effort to resist their
depradations. He made mistakes,
but his greatest mistake was in
trying to get any relief by go
ing to Juneau. His defeat will
only point the way, and hasten
the effort for real constructive
action.
What is the use of keeping up
the farce any longer? God gave
you brains to distinguish you
from a Jelly-fish Why not use
those brains? He gave you back
bone to stand up and not crawl
like a worm. Get together and
get busy, or get out. Unless
there is a militant mass demand
for a complete re-organization
of our entire, impossible eco
nomic system, there is nothing
for us to look forward to but a
miserable, degraded, servile ex
istence. Think it outer!
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OUTWITTED
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The policeman was walking
down the street with a batch of
summonses for nonpayment of
rent. One victim saw him corn
ing', locked himself in the house,
and snatched up a pair of bel
lows. The officer knocked sev
eral times without response and
then proceeded to put the sum
mons under the door, but it
promptly blew out again.
This was repeated many times
and finally the officer, getting
tired, picked up the summons
with the remark: “Well, I don’t
blame that guy for not paying
rent in a draughty hole like
that!”
Father: “I thought that a
night club was the very last
place a daughter of mine would
go to.”
“Daughter: It usually is, fath
er.
“Did you ever realize anything
on that investment?
“Oh, yes.”
“What did you realize?”
“What a fool I had been.”