by the Senator from Washing
ton? It is wrong for Wickersham
and Paul to work for such a bill
and right for Senator Jones to
introduce and work for its pas
sage in Congress?—Why?
Let us get a fair and honest
answer from the Juneau Em
pire! From the Ketchikan
Chronicle. From the Petersburg
Press—this betrayal of the in
terests of Alaska is going on
right now and with their sup
port for the silence acknow
ledges their consent. During the
next few weeks the editor of this
publication will be glad to ac
knowledge and reprint any
statement by contemporary
editors who explain their pain
ful silence. The voters are en
titled to an explanation—we
will give it if none others will,
■x
Advocating Home Rule
-x——. i
The following was printed: ora
the editorial columns of Alas
ka’s ardent supporter of “home
rule.” In view of the fact that
Delegate Wickersham has before
Congress a bill which would
turn over to the Territory full
control of its fisheries, we now
apply the ideas set forth last
winter as follows:
“Alaska, declared Acting Sec
retary Morgan, United States De
partment of Commerce, has no
“sound reasons” for sharing in
any profits that may accrue
from the administration of the
seal herds at the Pribilof Is
lands. But another executive'
department, the Department of
Agriculture, holds exactly the1
opposite. Alaska, it holdfc;. not,
only has an equity in the timber
resources, but is entitled to have'
them developed even if they’
compete with both privately
owned and public forests Sin
other sections of the United'
States.
Perhaps if Mr. Morgan would!
study a statement issued recent
ly by the Eafeter department
through Acting United States
Forester L. F. Kneip, he^ would
discover a few reasons that were
not discernabte to him when he
wrote the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce curtly dismissing its
petition asking for a division of
revenues from the sealing in
dustry.
Two short paragraphs from
Mr. Kneip’s statement illustrate
the wide divergence of views
entertained by the two branches
of the Government. They follow:
Alaska is a Territory of the
United States. Its people are
American citizens. Its econ
omic and social advancement
is a matter of national inter
est and concern. Its lack of
; complete self-government es
tablishes an additional obliga
tion upon the nation to avoid
creation of conditions inimical
to its welfare.
The development of Alaska
has been in the face of many
handicapsL Its early wealth of
placer gold largely has been
exploited and a number of
circumstances have militated
against the development of
lode mining to a compensatory
degree. Proper conservation of
its seal and fisheries resources
compels limitation upon their
exploitation. Pur production,
by trapping or farming, does
not seem to afford much larg
er possibilities for expansion.
Agriculture has its limitations
due partly to climatic and soil
factors, partly to the competi
tion of the products of the
continental United States and
partly to world conditions. The
people of Alaska therefore are
confronted with many serious
problems in thdjlr efforts to
hold:/ th%jg|^|j|Llready made •
and to their
social
ticms
iitu
Mr.. Kneip cont^ndS^
ALASKA NATIVE
SISTERHOOD
President Mrs. L. Roundtree
Meets Every Monday
Petersburg
Alaska
A. JENNINGS
General Boat Work **♦
Repairing and Overhauling .*♦
Marine Paints for Sale
Sitka - Alaska |
THWAIT’S PHOTO SHOP
KODAK FINISHING
COP YING—ENL ARGIN G
Ketchikan
SITKA CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Meets 8 P. M. Monday I
Ed Marshall • D. Marshall j
President Secretary
DR. L. P. DAWES
Physician and Surgeon
First National Bank
Building
Phone 2602 Juneau
I KETCHIKAN FOUNDRY
H. P. HANSEN, Prop.
Manufacturer of
\ STAR TROLLING GURDIES
Phone Black 121 Box 843
ELECTRIC LAUNDRY
Phone 156
GENERAL LAUNDRY
WORK
F. Ho Bold, Prop.
tary Hyde of his own Depart
ment, the Territory has a right
to ask that the Government lend
■every legitimate aid in the early
development of its forests that
the revenues it receives from
that source may be augumented..
The seal herds are just as
much a resource of the Territory
Sis the forests are. The industry
&iftiat the Government has built