called Fish Trust Case were the
victims of the Press. The ‘Crime’
for which they are now serving’ sen
tence did not cause on iota of harm
to any person in the state of Massa
chusetts or elsewhere; they threat
ened nobody, robbed nobody, and de
prived nobody of a living. The
Press of the state and political fana
tics metamorphosed these men into
monsters, created a spirit of vir
tuous indignation among the people,
and hounded the victims into court
amidst the howls of ‘Profiteers’ and
‘Gougers.’
“The men who are jailed in Bos
ton were too ambitious. They com
mitted a crime when they endeav
ored to apply economic business prin
ciples to a loose industry.
“The Boston fish dealers should
have remained content with running
their individual businesses, working
early and late in damp fish-rooms
and odoriferous offices, racking their
brains to unravel the gamble of sup
ply and demand and figuring how
to make a dollar with eyes and ears
on competitors engaged in the same
effort.”
GOVERNOR JOHN G. BRADY
John G. Brady was one of the few
governors who understood the Alas
kan problem, and as citizens are get
ting to understand him better their
respect for him is increasing. We
have in mind the action of the last
Legislature, which instructed their
special committee en route to Sitka
to visit the grave of former Gov
ernor Brady and see if it was being
cared for in a manner befitting our
former chief executive. The com
mittee found that the Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood at Sitka had taken
upon themselves as a labor of love
the duty of keeping the grave as
befits the former governor of the
Territory and also their best friend.
The public should know that while
the Territory of Alaska was delin
quent in its duty of respect to for
mer Governor Brady, the heretofore
despised Indians of Sitka had already
acted and were performing a duty
which properly devolved upon the
Government of Alaska. We now
print one of the last letters written
by John G. Brady:
“To the Alaskan Native Brother
hood, Meeting at Juneau, Novem
ber, 1917.
Greeting:
It is pleasant for me to be asked
to send you a word of greeting. It
is now almost forty years since I
had my first talk with Alaskans in
the Old Castle here at Sitka. What
I said was interpreted into Russian
by George Kostrometinoff, and the
Russian was changed into Thlinget
by Skukoff, a native educated in
Russian. The people squatted on
the floor with their backs to the
wall. All of them wore blankets
and most of them had blackened
faces. The men were barefooted,
wore pants and shirts made of
Cabot W, and had a leather belt
with a sheath knife, beneath a blan
ket.
In reply to my talk Sitka Jack
made a speech. He told how Mr.
Mallowry, General O. O. Howard
and others had been here, told them
what was going to be done, but so
far nothing was done. I talked the
same way but they proposed to wait
and sec what I was going to do.
He spoke well and in part acted
out his meaning. The White man
had plenty of tongues, and then plac- ^
ing the back of his hand to his J
chin with the fingers straight out,
then bending down one after another
he showed how many tongues a
White Man could use; but for Na
tives he stuck out just one finger
to prove that he had but one tongue
and could tell but one story. Jack’s
speech was so effective that I have
never forgotten it.
Now, since that day the Natives
have made advances, and today they
are far beyond where they stood.
I need not mention the communal
house, the canoe, witchcraft, articles
of food, etc. If I had my way I
would make you all citizens and hold
you responsible to the duties of a
citizen and share all the good things
which a citizen of the United States
enjoys. May your Society be richly
prospered. Respectfully yours,
(Signed) JOHN G. BRADY.
WE WONDER WHY
The expatiations of Congressman
Free of California while on a recent
junketing, barnstorming political tour
of Alaska in company with Henry
O’Malley, Commissioner of Fisheries,
and Laurence Richey, Private Secre
tary to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of
Commerce, furnish a lot of food for
thought and present many interest
ing questions.
Mr. Free’s encomiums upon the
“intelligent and delightful people of
Alaska,” by whom he undoubtedly
meant the Big Canners such as the
Alaska Packers, the Pacific Amer
ican Fisheries together with his
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