LETTERS
June 29, 1925.
Editor Alaska Fisherman.
Dear Sir:
The inference gained from read
ing your May number is that about
half of the members of the Alaska
Legislature were in control of the
packing and other interests. You
should realize that the people of
the Territory should perhaps be sat
isfied with the other half. I think
credit should be given the half that
prevented the passage of the boot
leggers’ bill, the repeal of the pri
mary law, the memorial of insult to
former Attorney General Stone and
Delegate Sutherland. It is quite evi
dent that when we secure one-half
of the Legislature to stand for the
interests of the Territory there is
improvement over other years.
The first Alaska Legislature had
seven out of eight Senators who
betrayed the people, while the last
session had only four Senators who
were in the power of the cannery
lobby. When the people get an even
break there can be but little harm
done. The last Legislature did no
particular harm even if the cannery,
copper and booze combination ex
erted its power to do harm. You
will do well to show up this com
bination in every issue. When fel
lows like Marquam’s trained seals
appeal to pioneers of the placer
fields to elect them to serve the
people, and then allow the cannery,
copper and booze interests to herd
them as they would a bunch of An
gora goats, their constituents should
know it. It is well known to ob
servers that as the session neared
its close, Marquam’s seals were or
dered around by the lobbyists as
though they were really animals. It
is said that one of the seals showed
signs of resentment but he was not
in position to assert his manhood.
Whenever people pass into the con
trol of the lobbyists they abandon
all independence. This is always the
case with men who sell out to the
interests. There is no half way policy
possible. Serving the predatory in
terests and the people at the same
time is just as impossible as serv
ice to God and Mammon.
AN ALASKAN.
Editor Alaska Fisherman.
Dear Sir:
The article in your May issue,
“Why Leave Alaska’s Capital at Ju
neau?” in which the place is de
scribed as a malicious, back-biting
town, sitting in its own lair, growl
ing and licking its own wounds,
prompts me to call you attention to
the fact that this phase of social
disease is common to all capital
cities, although it blossomed into
noticeable malignancy in Juneau.
A capital city always attracts a
class of people who are seeking po
litical favors or social advancement.
They would gain those favors and
advancement by obsequiousness and
servility to the appointive powers.
They are the class described by
Shakespeare as those “who bend the
pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift may following fawning.” They
are of the class that throughout his
tory have impeded the progress of
liberty and democracy because their
selfish hopes of individual prosper
ity lay only in servile support of
autocratic power. The opposition to
liberty for the people of England
during the centuries of fighting for
human rights came from the cour
tiers and the large class of follow
ers who depended on the crumbs
that might be thrown to them. The
curse of Ireland during its struggle
for freedom has been the class of
Irishmen who fawned on the crown’s
officers to obtain favors. They were
the traitors who surreptitiously aid
ed the British in the suppression
of Irish freedom. America was
cursed with this class of people in
its struggle for freedom. The lackeys
and lickspittles who called them
selves royalists and took ship to
Nova Scotia when the war for In
dependence began in Massachusetts
Colony were of this class and many
of their descendants have returned
to the United States, bringing the
spirit of the sycophancy and lack
eyism of their forebears. You ma>
find those descendants of lackeys
in Juneau.
The hatred shown toward Judge
Wickersham by this class is their
inherent hatred of popular govern
ment expressed in hatred of repre
sentatives of the people who are
beyond their control. When Judge
Wickersham was making his coura
geous fight against President Taft’s
commission form of government for
Alaska, it was quite natural for the
lackeys of Juneau to oppose him,
as their ideal of government is an
autocracy. When Mr. Sutherland
was conducting his campaign against
the iniquitous reservation system
that destroyed human rights in
fishery, the Juneau lackeys, true to
the spirit of their ancestors, suped
to Herbert Hoover and left their
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