position. He secured tor his transportation com
pany a subsidy in the sum of $7,200 which is
twelve times the amount askod for the Auditor’s
clerk. And the Loman Transportation Compony
soaks transportation and freight all and more than
the traffic can bear and the trade which it serves
can only bear it and grin. The honest, efficient
sci vice of the Clerk is saved to the Territory in
the interest of economy. It is strict economy, in
the light of the Senatorial representative of the
Lomen Reindeer Corporation to have the Territory
subsidize his own ships.
Questionable Subsidy
Two years ago effort was made to subsidize a
line to operate fiom Juneau to Prince Rupert. A
line which would serve approximately one half of
the population of the Territory. It was objected
to on the grounds that it was not legal. We ask
then, If subsidizing a transportation company in
the First Division is illegal, what makes it right
or legal for the Second Division?
Did the Indian electors of the First Division
elect a senator to the Legislature who thus barter
ed his vote to secure raids on the Treasury for his
own company, they would be condemned from one
end of the Territory to the other. The fact that
Lomen was not elected by or with Indian vote does
not make right the bartering of vote for securing
<7 200 or $17,000 for or $170,000 for any transport
ation company in the Territory.
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FOOLING THE LOGGERS
Representative Frank Foster, of Cordova,
presented the memorial to Congress portraying
the discriminatory regulations in operation in the
administration of the forests of Alaska and pray
ing that relief be granted. The loggers have de
monstrated the truthfulness of their statements
and they have never been refuted. While not as
plain or outspoken as the needs demanded, the
memorial would serve the purpose. Further, De
legate Wickersham had indicated that a resolu
tion from the Legislature supporting the facts set
forth by the loggers would give strength to the
effort to secure relief thru official Washington.
Nothing was done with the memorial after
its introduction. It was never reported out of
committee. Mr. Foster forgot his child after he
gave it birth. In the closing hours of the sessions
he withdrew it, with the consent of the House, so
that now there is nothing of record showing what
the loggers wish—removal of the discriminatory
and restrictory regulations which make logging
unprofitable.
It was a nice gesture, a clever political move,
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to present such a memorial. It satisfied the log
gers but net many of them will know or under
stand that the father of this bill also killed his
brain child and that his act thereby left the log
gers to the tender mercies of the Forest Depart
ment.
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“I AM THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATS’’
At a meeting of Democratic leaders in Ju
neau, recently, Representative Frank A. Boyle,
(pronounced “boil”) strutted back and forth a ver
itable banty rooster. He stated: “I am the leader
of the Democratic party.” One of the men older
in the counsels of that party replied, “But Senat
or Shattuck is your senior and he should be the
logical leader.” “No,” declared the new Moses of
the Democrats, “I am the Leader.” And so there
it rests. Frank is leader of the Democrats for HE
say he is, and that’s that.
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THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC MOSES
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Representative Frank A. Boyle, Leader of the
Democratic Party of Alaska, was very busy intro
ducing and carrying through the Legislature, po
litical bills which would clip the voting power of
Indian citizens of Alaska. He further affixed to
the Community Law, certain amendments which
aided in its defeat. He is perfectly willing that
the Indians vote for him—but for no opposing
candidate; he is perfectly willing that the women
of Juneau and elsewhere vote for him but he does
not believe they are entitled to an equitable com
munity property law. In fact, as the Great Lead
er of the Great Democratic Party of Alaska, the
Indians and the women should vote to elect him
to office but when it comes to receiving favors
from him, they can all go to the hot place.
This Great Democratic Moses, who proposes
to lead the Democrats out of the sloughs of defeat,
and Senator Dimond were father and midwife of
the rotative ballot system, the sole purpose of
which is to throw out every Indian vote. The pur
pose of the bill is unconstitutional, but what is a
little matter of principle to politicians? The joke
of the whole thing is that The Moses of Alaska’s
Democratic Party will hurt his own party more
than he will hurt those at whom the bill was aim
ed.
.Y.
RUSTGARD FAVORED THE TRAPS
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Representative J. E. Johnson of Ketchikan,
prepared a resolution which would authorize the
Attorney General to take a case into court to test