see from this the dwindling interest of the feder
al government wlV.ch jealously controls territori
cost to the Territory is over $3,000.
Alaska could give each student $2,000 a year,
send the student out, save $1,000 of its own mon
ey and save the student another $1,000. On tills
plan the First and Second Divisions would receive
a benefit.
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TORIES
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One of the evils that brought on the War of
Independence was government of the colonies by
men subservient to the British Crown. Such gov
ernment had been a so-called “resident” or im
ported. The Colonies protested against a gov
ernment that is now known as “carpet-bag.”
The same difficulties of government were met
then as now in the Alaska Legislature. In the war
of the Revolution this influence became known
as “Tory.”
The Marks
“The Alaska Legislature has passed a bill ap
proved May 2, 1929, appropriating $30,000 and
authorizing a program of predatory animal con
trol work directed by the Governor for the bien
nium ending March 31, 1931,” so says R. K. Stew
art, an employee of the Department of Agricul
ture, appointed by Washington.
In the same letter, Mr. Stewart says (you can
see from this dwindling interest of the federal
government which jealously controls territori
al affairs), “The U. S. Department of Agriculture,
BUREAU of Biological Survey, has secured thru
its regular budget, for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1929, the sum of $5,000 for this project.”
Verily, the tail wags the dog.
Tories
The recent legislature has given $40,000 to
the Bureau of Fisheries for cleaning fish streams
and to be spent under t'Vi watchful eye of the
federal governor.
The Camel
This is the beginning.
Two years hence, this appropriation will tv
repeated or may even be increased. It is not
inconceivable that the Legislature might in the
future appropriate $100,000 to be spent by "he Bu
reau of Fisheries.
Verily independence is departing.
Mr. Tarwater of Anchorage claims credit for
this act of subservience. It is doubtful if Mr. Tar
water was in full possession of his thinking fac
ulties when he sponsored th's additional link of
slavery.
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OUR COUNTRY
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Once I happened to be in one of our large city
in the eastern states I had a check I wanted to
cash. Being told to go to the bank, I went into
a large bank to cash my check. As I entered the
door, I saw soldiers with rifles on their shoulders
marching up and down in front of the office eye
ing every man as he entered the bank to do his
business. Then when I started to go out, I saw
a big Negro porter with a belt of cartridges
around his waist sitting close to the door.
I heard the people in Canada naming U. S. A.
God’s country. It was God’s country once, but
when I saw this bank, I could not believe this was
God’s country.
A white man must be a very funny man, he
kick up lot of fuss about doing good to dumb ani
mals, sometimes I think man try to make this
Gcd’s country for animals only, and guard its !Ti
nian beings with guns.
A man said to me “money must be protect
ed.” Then another white-man told me, money
was the devil’s dung, belong to men like Ceasar
and Judas. Money is the only thing that will make
a man say “I AM.” Money is the only thing that
will make a man kill h's brother; money is that
which cause pain; that makes pus and ulcers in
the body of man, worse than any sewer that runs
thru city; money the root of all evils—yes soldiers
guarding the same money in banks.
Once more I had come home to Alaska, the
home of my birth, where my poor mother and her
father and great grandfather were born. Once
we looked to the great Senshineaway (meaning
gods) for our existence. We knew nothing of Rus
sia. Yet Russia sold Alaska, to U. S. A. We know
now, who is the owner of Alaska. If we never
know before, we know now; for U. S. A. has our
streams and creeks closed and guarded; men with
guns are watching every stream where our bread
did swim. I was given to understand that this
was God’s country. Yet white men use guns. I
said to myself this is not a bank. Only a salmon
stream.
When I see these things I feel like singing, My
country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee
I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the
Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountain side let
Freedom ring.—S. G. Davis.
If you want knowledge, you £
must toil for it; if food, you
must toil for it; and if pleasure, X
you must toil for it; toil is the *!*
law.—Ruskin.