to join them and “Kick the rascals
out.” It can be done because “Our
cause is just.” There are more of
us than of them.
The plan of the enemy is to di
vide our forces by raising false is
sues, for example, the race question,
and the school question. Many good
people will be deceived by their clev
er propaganda and will vote for the
candidates of the paid attorneys of
the big canneries and mines.
“An opportunity to keep the In
dian in h.s piace until he is better
qualified to exercise all the privi
leges and assume all the duties of
the whites*” they say.
In this land of freedom and equali
ty, there is no such thing as “duties
of the whites.” There is such a
thing as the “duty of citizens.” Do
not let that crowd fool you with
the redherring.
“And to keep him here for his
own good.”
Do you really believe the cannery -
men, the trapmen, and the big mines
have ever considered such a thing?
The paid lobbyist who is directing
the “Three in oil” candidates is a
high ofticer of a church where In
dians are not welcome no matter
how “sanitary.” I could tell you a
number of stories of how these
“well-wishers” have settled the
claims tor injuries received by In
dians in the mines and canneries of
tneir ciientr.
I or those of my readers who con
sider themselves cultured and edu
cated, 1 would refer them to the
speecn of Henry Ward .Beecher be
loie the Liverpool audience in 1803
where for three hours he pleaded
the cause of the Lnion against a
hostile audience. In that speech you
will get the principles of sound eco
nomics and good government. It is
the Golden Kule applied to affairs
of State, and proves that the pros
perity of our country increases di
rectly as we improve the mind and
the body of each citizen. Govern
ments are built not by pushing down
a gioup of citizens, but in building
up.
I would also ask the “Three in oil
candidates” to study the Declaration
of Independence adopted when over
50 per cent of our citizens were il
literate. 1 will close with it to save
you the job of hunting it up.
“We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created
equal. That to secure these ends,
governments were established among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed.”
W'ho are the governed ? Whose
consent is required?
Placing the Blame—Keen, but ner
vous Amateur—“I say, old chap,
what shall I do if they ask me to
sing?'7
Candid Friend—“Do? Why sing,
of course—it’ll be their own fault!”
—The Humorist (London).
OPEN LETTER TO
DR. W. H. CHASE
Dr. W. H. Chase, candidate for the
Republican nomination for Sena
tor Third Division, Alaska,
Cordova, Alaska.
Dear Sir:
The election of a worthy, inde
pendent Senator from the Third
Division is of great importance to
every citizen in Alaska. If the Pro
gressives do not get control of the
Senate this year, important legisla
tion for the benefit of Alaskans will
be postponed at least FOUR years.
We will lose this control if former
Senator A1 Chamberlain is re-elected
from the Third Division.
Is it not possible to waken the
progressive citizens up there to the
dangers involved by his re-election ?
I attended upon the sessions of the
1921 legislature and also the 1923
session, and I have personal knowl
edge of this man’s record.
In 1921, he was Jim Fozard’s man.
When the tax on mines was raised
to 1 1-2 percent on NET profit, or
at the rate of $15,000 on each $1,
000.000 of net profits, Senator Cham
berlain sold out to Jim Fozard and
succeeded in reducing this “unjust
tax” as he called it to a mere 10
percent or $10,000, on the million.
I have some reports from your
district indicating that Chamberlain
is in the lead for the Republican
nomination for Senator. It is evi
dent to me that the Steamship Com
panies and the Canneries have a
number of clackers boosting for him.
Their argument is every where the
same, namely, that Al. may be an
awful drinker, but still he “made a
wonderful record.”
When he came to Juneau a year
ago to attend the legislature he talk
ed very loudly against fish reserves
and high freight rates and pro
nounced himself enthusiastic in lavor
of Home Rule.
He was walking about figuratively
speaking, with his coat off and his
sleeves rolled up ready to battle for
those ideas. But before he had been
there ten days he was on the other
side of all these questions. He be
came the champion ot the canneries
and the Steamship Companies and
Federal control of the Territo: ial
offices.
He was against Fish Reserves and
altho he voted for the Grant Me
morial of protest; he voted against
allowing our Attorney General to
test the legality of Hoover’s fish ve
serves. When Governor Bone vetoed
this resolution to test the fish re
serves, Chamberlain voted to sustain
the veto and thus prevented the
Senate from passing it over the
governor’s veto. This veto and that
vote has cost the Territory, and each
individual fisherman a great deai.
The federal government now ad
mits the Hoover reserves are illegal,
but the Bureau of Fisheries +akes
the position that nobody can afford
to fight the case. That was the pur
pose of tne resolution directing this
Territory to test the reserve—as no
individual could stand the expense.
Chamberlain was a consistent sup
porter of our governor from New
York, of the Transportation Com
panies, and of the Canneries. He
supported carpet-baggers and op
posed the elected officials of this
Territory.
He fought the Home Rule Bill
with such vigor that our Governor
from New York saw to it that
Chamberlain was properly rewarded.
He successfully fought against the
adoption of a fair workmen’s com
pensation law and thus allied him
self again with the big canneries,
and big mines. At every turn of the
road, Chamberlain voted against the
interests of the laboring man and
small business man, and he sup
ported those interests which Alas
kans know as “special interests.”
The progressive citizens of the
1 bird owe it to us in the First to
see to it that they return a Senator
who will work for the people.
There is no part of the Territory
suffering more from high freight
rates on general merchandise than
is the Third Division. Your freight
rates are MORE THAN TWICE AS
HIGH as the rates on freight for
the canneries NOTWITHSTANDING
ihe fact that it costs the Steamships
more to handle freight at the out-of
the-way canneries than at regular
ports of call.
^ et, at the last session of the
legislature ,the entire delegation
from the Third fought the battles of
the steamships. In that fight none
was more boisterous or more defiant
in defense of the high rates than
Chamberlain. Had he been on the
regular payroll of the Steamships he
could not have done more persistent
work for them.
No wonder these “special inter
ests” now say that “Chamberlain
made a wonderful record.” It is
wonderful—how you people continue
to send a man down to Juneau to
work against vour interests. Won
derful ! !
The town of Angoon installed
their own electric lighting plant on
March 15th and celebrated by hav
ing a meeting of the council with
Charles W. Hawkesworth about
health conditions in the village; then
with William L. Paul, who spoke on
the BROTHERHOOD and Politics;
then a basket ball game between
Killisnoo and a team from the
Boxer; then moving pictures; then
to bed.