Our jails are full of people who
can write not only their own names,
but have written the names of others.
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars
are spent on criminal prosecutions in
Alaska. But more than 90 per cent
of this money is spent on literates.
* * * *
An illiterate community has never
reeded a United States Commissioner
or a marshal until literates come in.
The only communities having over
300 population that do not have fed
eral officers are Kake, Bayview and
Hydaburg, all Indian villages. But
Juneau, highly literate, needs and has
a full corps of marshals, city police,
prohibition officers and what-not.
* * * *
Will somebody tell us whether or
not Bert Faulkner, cannery lawyer
and enemy of labor, has taken out
his second naturalization papers. He
took out his first papers at Ketchi
kan.
* * * *
The Juneau Empire, Democratic
sheet, never fails to advise Republi
cans just how to vote in all elec
tions. “Beware of Greeks bearing
gifts.” Can “sheep-minds” learn?
FISHERMEN ALL
When the fight to destroy the
halibut fisherman’s market was on
in Congress and Dan Sutherland
wired to the Territory for indorse
ments of his attitude in opposition
to the exploiting interests of Alaska,
the Washington delegation in Con
gress and the United States Depart
ment of Commerce, the salmon fish
ing portion of the population, joined
with the deep sea fishing portion in
extending him aid. The seiner, net
ter and troller recognized that they
had a common interest with his
brother of the deep sea branch of
the industry even though the con
tinuation of the open competitive
market was of paramount benefit to
the latter. Today a fight is on in
Congress to decide whether the
salmon fishing industry shall pass
into the hands of certain capitalists
in Chicago, Portland, San Francisco
and Seattle and the small canner and
fisherman be driven out, or those
rights guaranteed by the constitution
be retained.
This fight should be of interest to
every toiler of the sea regardless of
v. hat particular branch of the call
ing he follows and the halibut catch
er should be just as jealous of the
rights of seiner or netter as he was
of his own rights when the interests
attempted to abrogate them.
To say that the present struggle
Sutherland is making to protect the
rights of those who are engaged in
the salmon fishery is not the “fight
of the deep sea fishermen” is un
worthy of any member of the fishing
fraternity.
Tariff laws are usually enacted ev
ery four years and Dan Sutherland
stated last summer that he had no
doubt that the Prince Rupert mar
ket question would be re-opened in
1925 and the effort to compel the
landing of fresh fish at an Ameri
can port renewed. Should the sal
mon fisherman take the position that
this question of an open halibut
market is distinctively a fight of
the deep sea fishermen and refuse
to give their support in maintaining
such a market what would the hali
but fishermen say. They would prob
ably say that the interests of all
fishermen and the protection of the
entire industry are common and that
all branches should come to the aid
of the one involved.
The halibut fishermen must have
noted the fact that when they were
fighting to hold their market, the
ti ansportation interests, the cannery
interests, the business interests of
Seattle and Ketchikan as represented
by chambers of commerce were all
arrayed against them and the fight
of a few Ketchikan boomers be
came the fight of all interests of re
mote connections. In fact the only
supporters the halibut fishermen had
were their neighbors of the salmon
fishing fleet. It cannot be that at
this day the deep sea toilers are go
ing to hold aloof from the fight of
their fellows of another branch of a
common industry on the grounds
that it is not their fight.
If ever there has been a time in
the history of the country when the
exploited classes, should stand to
gether in common cause it is right
a* the present time.
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LOQUACIOUS NAG
They tell of a young married ar
tist in Washington square who has
a predilection for talking in his
sleep. Several times recently he
mentioned the name “Irene,” and his
spouse questioned him about it.
“Oh, that,” said he, thinking fast,
“is the name of a horse.”
Several days later when he came
home he asked his wife the news
of the day. “Nothing exciting hap
pened,” she said, “except your horse
called up twice.”—Shoe Works Jour
nal.
To the prohibition office of a
New Jersey city there went the Rev
erend Mr. Ellis, shepherd of a dark
flock.
“Well, Reverend, what can I do
for you?”
“Well, suh, I wants—ah—now—
some of that sacrilegious wine.”
“Oh, a permit for sacramental
wine! All right, Reverend, red or
white?”
Confidentially leaning forward, the
Reverend Mr. Ellis said: “Well,
suh, my congregation done tak’ a
vote, and we-all decided on gin!”
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