and took him to the U. S. Commis
sioner.
Marshal Harry Pryde heard about
the high-handed action of these il
literate Indians and told them that
they had no right to arrest this lit
erate white drunk, and prideful Har
ry laid down the law to these illit
erates.
The trouble was these illiterates
could not read and foolishly thought
that it was wrong for a white man
to get drunk on account of some
amendment to the Constitution they
had heard about.
Alaska is coming to a terrible pass
when illiterate Indians try to pass
laws for the rest of us. In Hoonah,
not long ago, the Indian council pass
ed an ordinance compelling the par
ents or guardians of children to keep
the kids in school or pay a penalty.
Deputy Marshal Pryde, who is also
a kind of a deep-sea lawyer, heard
about this outrageous attempt of
these illiterates to keep their chil
dren in school, and he told them in
no uncertain tone that he could
read, in fact that he had done a lot
of just that, and he was there to
inform them they had no right to
pass any such law as that, and that
if they did, (he filled his prideful
Pryde chest at this point and in
dicated his star of authority), he was
there to protect the innocent vic
tims of their illiteracy. Gurr-rr-r-r!
He would not stand for that; no,
sir!
It is not much more than a year
ago, that Deputy Marshal Pride and
U. S. Commissioner Dalameter al
lowed a man to drink himself to
death right there at Hoonah merely
because it was not the duty of Mr.
Pryde or Dr. Dalameter to swear
out a warrant for the arrest of this
man who was breaking the laws of
Alaska. In fact, said Mr. Deputy
Marshal Pryde, he, the said Pryde,
being a deputy marshal, was not
supposed to do anything but to serve
warrants when handed to him by the
U. S. Commissioner. And while
the two officers of the law were ar
guing about the matter, the man—I
should confess right here that he
was a highly literate white man—
died of drink.
And then—ah, then Mr. Deputy
Marshal and U. S. Com. acted at
once because it was very plain in
the very books that when a man died,
yes indeed, when he died, that im
posed a duty on these officers of
the law.
The missionary there, Rev. George
Beck, had done his utmost to get the
prydeful marshal to do something be
fore the man died, with no result.
But after death, the prideful mar
shal at once asked the missionary to
take charge of the funeral.
We have all kinds of marshals in
this division, and this Pryde of Mar
shal George D. Beaumont, is one of
the worst.
A letter comes to us from the Kluk
wan Camp saying “and as far as
‘Cultuss Jake’ and his kind are con
cerned, they do not exist at all; be
cause we are 100 per cent members
of the Alaska Native Brotherhood,
and when I say 100 per cent, I mean
100 per cent, and not anything un
der.” The writer, James tt. Gib
son, is of the type of progressive
Natives who makes it possible to
fully inform all the natives in his
district about the real issues of the
day. Stroller White would find that
the average Native is better in
formed than the average resident of
“Snob Hill” on the real issues of
this campaign.
ELECTION JUDGES
What questions are they entitled
to ask voters?
In the last primaries, certain elec
tion judges took it on themselves to
cross-examine would-be voters. Here
are some sample questions:
How long have you lived in Jake
ville ?
Have you a residence in Junktown?
Have you ever passed through Ju
neau ?
Where did you eat your Easter
dinner ?
Were you at church Easter?
At what church did you attend ?
Were you at Sunday School East
er?
For the information of our friends
who are watchers at the polls, and
for the information of the voter, I
wish to say that an election judge
has no right whatever to cross-ex
amine those seeking to vote. Fur
thermore, voters do not need to an
swer any questions put to them by
over-officious election judges. Every
bit of this excess of zeal on the part
of election judges can be construed
as intimidation of voters and also a
hindrance of voting. This act is a
crime under our statutes for which
the over-zealous judge can be pros
ecuted criminally.
The only authority an election
judge has is to challenge a voter if
that judge thinks he has grounds for
so doing. Whereupon the voter must
swear in his vote. To swear false
ly is purjury. But the election judge
may not challenge on mere suspicion
for that becomes a crime under our
laws.
R. E. Robertson returned with a
proud air from Washington, D. C.,
from which place he sent out false
impressions about our Dan, and was
promptly defeated in his own town
a* candidate for delegate to the Re
publican Convention.
* * * *
Juneau against th° rest of Alaska.
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