TIIK ALASKA FISHHUMAN
'ublishcd the loth of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
UBSCJIPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ER1UTOR1AL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
let informally one night and some one suggested that
proposed Republican Platform be adopted for the
ntire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other
iscussions for the consideration of the Republican
arty in Alaska, to-wit:
Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices;
Separation of Territorial offices from federal offices;
Equitable taxation;
Trap-tax based on catch;
Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen;
Repeal by Congress of Section 27 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
E\V SENATOR APPOINTED AT REQUEST OF
AL WIII'l E OF JUNEAU
The Juneau Empire lias cleared up the mystery of how
>hn Thomas of Good*ns, Idaho, came to he appointed
lited States Senator to succeed Senator Gooding, (le
ased. Albert White, the genial and highly efficient
fact, the most efficient United States Marshal who
er sat in, the halls of justice, wired Governor H. C
ildridge to appoint John Thomas.
John and Al, so the Umpire tells us, were boyhood
iends and naturally Al enjoyed doing this good turn.
Mr. White has secured a leave of absence next fall
d will campaign for Hoover and Curtis, not that Mr.
lute thinks that will make any difference for lie has
ready predicted the success-of the Republican ticket,
t this will give Mr. White another opportunity to as
5s his deputies for “contributions” to the personal
cation of Mr. White. In the last campaign, the “con
bution” was only .$25., perhaps due to the fact that
my of the deputies were honest and the “pickings '
or.
Reorganization
Since that time, there has been a complete reorgan
ization, the honest ami capable men like Messrs. Kuclc
enbacher and Pickett have been discharged, and more
“capable” men appointed.
We think A1 White will enjoy his vacation better.
THK MINORITY STILL IU LKS—THU ALASKA
KAMI! COMMISSION
We have thought for a long time that the Bureau
of Biological Survey was one Bureau that was really
trying to allow the people of Alaska to rule. That is
the bait with which they hooked the people of Alaska
and put over the ALASKA GAME COMMISSION.
Just as soon as the law became such, the “friends"
at Washington began appointing mostly enemies to this
great commission. Tom Jenson of Nome got the ap
pointment and with it he campaigned successfully for
the Senatorship of the Second Division. Tom Gardner
of the famous Sawyer-Reynolds Logging outfit, whose
close alliance with the Forestry Bureau seemed to in
dicate a subordinate position for the Bureau, was the
next. Reed of Fairbanks, son of the late Judge Thomas
M. Reed, was another.
And now comes William E. Selfridge, secretary of
the Sawyer-Reynolds Logging Company at Ketchikan.
There is absolutely no use trying to co-operate
with any federal Bureau. They are all one kind.
From now on, The ALASKA FISHERMAN will op
pose any and all cooperation with the ALASKA GAM 11
COMMISSION, with the BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL
SURVEY, with the FISHERIES BUREAU and with ev
ery other BUREAU, for all seem to have but one idea,
the EXPLOITATION OF ALASKA AND ALASKANS
for the benefit of outsiders, either fish trusts, pulp mills
or BIG GAME HUNTERS.
FISH TRAPS versus ALASKANS
The Excursion Inlet cannery bought $95,000 worth
of salmon in the year 192G, the last normal year for
Alaska.
Discrimination
This corporation, (like other cannery corporations)
paid “run money” to each foreign crew. The St. Paul,
gasboat, the Tiger, the Joseph, and the New York each
got $2,220. just simply for coming from Seattle to Alas
ka. Each of these fine boats caught salmon as follows:
$2,987.90, $2,768.19, fi2,SS8.90, andl $1,937.46 respec
tively—total $10,582.45.
This corporation paid the resident fishermen noth
ing except the market price, supposedly the same price
that the foreigners got. Five local boats sold $3,677.93
worth of salmon; the average earnings of the crew be
ing $183.89.
The total value of seine caught fish (including