THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan,
Alaska, by
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
TERRITORIAL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
met informally one night and someone suggested
that a proposed Republican Platform be adopted for
the entire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other dis
cussions for the consideration of the Republican
Party in Alaska, to-wit:
1. Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices;
2. Separation of Territorial offices from federal of
fices:
3. Equitable taxation.
4 Trap-tax based on catch:
5. Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen:
G. Repeal by Congress of Section 27 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
NOME REPUBLICAN CLUB
This club says that the statement in the July FISH
ERMAN charging former Senator Tom Jensen with
having led the club to oppose the Controller or Home
Rule Bill is not true and that our informer is the
one who is the “plain liar” rather than the former
Senator.
We would publish the denial except for the fact
that it is much longer than our space will permit.
What the Nome Republican Club says might be
true, but our personal acquaintance with the former
Senator was so in line with the so-called “misin
formation” that we were led to believe it.
In his speech against the bill in the last legisla
ture, he virtually said, and he was so understood to
say that the passage of the Controller Bill would
cut off the appropriations for the education of na
tives, the road fund and numerous other appropria
tions which he mentioned—ALL OF WHICH HE
KNEW WAS UNTRUE.
The Nome Republican Club did not say whether
it favored or supported the Home Rule Bill in their
protest to us. We hope to learn that they do and
that the men elected by them to the legislature will
support the bill instead of opposing it as the majority
of them have done during the past four years.
THE INQUISITION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU
OF FISHERIES
The “Satrapy” of Alaska.
The treatment accorded Alaska by the Washing
ton government compares with the government of
ancient Persia—not one bit better.
Jack Branwick is a real Alaskan and lives in Pet
ersburg. He is a pioneer of | the best type. He pro
duces wealth by fishing. And thus begins the story.
He was driven out of Red Bay < North Prince of
Wales Island) by the closing orders of the Bureau
of Fisheries which closed the bay but did not close
the traps just outside.
The next year, Branwick went to Shipley Bay to
catch his one or two thousand red salmon, and then
that bay was closed by the Bureau of Fisheries.
The next year (Branwick was sick and could do
nothing else but fish with his small gill-net) he went
to Gut Bay on Baranoff Island. The Bureau of Fish
eries must have found out where the poor sick man
had taken refuge for this bay was then closed.
Branwick, oh how well he knew the country, the
next year fled to Red Fish Bay, about one hundred
miles distant—that bay was closed at the end of
that year.
Was there no way to escape the “fish conserving
Bureau” that closes the little local fisherman who
catches two thousand but permits the big traps to
catch their one hundred thousand? Branwick trav
elled and travelled in his small boat, pressed by his
sickness. He stopped at Tagahana Bay outside of
Yucobi Island, and then that bay was closed.
Branwick is sick and tired. The Bureau of Fish
eries has won. Branwick is too tired to look farther.
Bureauocracy has won and also won-ders why our
population is DECREASING.
Ask Branwick.
A CURIOUS ARGUMENT
We read a curious argument on behalf of Herbert
Hoover by Roy Howard in Collier’s of October 13tli.
Mr. Howard is the chairman of the Board of Di
rectors of the Scripps-Howard newspapers (26 in
number with 2,500,000 readers).
Howard is wet and says he differs with Mr. Hoover
who has said that he was opposed to the repeal of