WALTER FISHER
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FOR THE HOU8K
Fourth Division
Walter Fisher’s record was iden
tical with Robert Sheldon’s.
Fisher was and is always against
LABOR. He voted with Tom Gaff
ney, Aylmer Rydeen, Joseph Mur
ray, and others against the BILL
TO PROTECT LABOR which sought
to provide a monthly pay day and to
protect the laboring man when court
action was forced by the employer.
He opposed the bill INCREASING
the workmen’s compensation bene
fits whereby injured working men
would receive greater benefits.
He favored reducing the benefit’.',
to foreign mothers where their sons
were killed working in the mines of
Alaska—presumably Fisher had »n
mind his own employer, the Fair
banks Exploration Company.
Fisher, with Sheldon, Joseph Mur
ray, Tom Gaffney, Rydeen and oth
ers, voted against increasing the tax
n the immense profits of certain
.nines—again Walter’s mind antici
pated the profits of his employer
He favored the present rate which
places a tax of $68,000. on a NET
INCOME of $4,500,000.
Many observers thought Walter
stupid, but thi-3 did not prevent him
from being a perfect tool of the
F. E. Co., and the great companie*
that are reaping enormous profits
WITHOUT PAYING a tax on the
same.
At the request of many, and be
cause it describes him so aptly, we
are now reprinting a “descriptive
poem” of Walter.
Walter J. Fisher
“WALTER IN WONDERLAND”
“There’s a place where the ocean is rolling,
Where the mountains all 3tand up on end.
Where ihe voices of statesmen are calling,
But what for T cannot understand.
There Is talk of a controller bill.
There is shouting of higher taxation,.
But it seems to me a vexation,
And I want to get back to the drill.”
“There are orders and quorums and motions,
There are precedents, digests and bills,
But I cannot keep track of such motions,
And I want to hike home to the hills.”
“There are banquets with linen in splendor,
With much cutlery, china and glas3,
But what it’s used for I wonder,
So when I’M invited I pass.”
‘There’s one dump where the white mule is flowing.
Where the members find pleasure and peace,
Where the lobbyist's greet you all glowing,
And that’s where I parked my valise.”
“They are jovial, warm hearted fellows,
There are trap men and eanners galore,
And they’re perfectly willing to tell us
Just what we should sav on the floor.”
“They said that more men of my stature,
Were needed for making the laws, 1
That seiners were rough necks by nature,
And no statesmen would champion their cause.”
“Yet I wonder sometimes why they helped me,
And called me a statesman of class,
And said there was something about me,
»
That distinguished me right from the mass.” i
“Oh it’s wonderful being a statesmav, j
Fjr two months you feel like a king, , .i
But it’s tough going back to the hard pan, "T?| -v j
The old pick and shovel and swing.” ’
IRISH FISHERIES
Is This Radicalism
The Irish Free State has appoint
ed a Minister of Fisheries accord
ing to the “Canadian Fisherman.”
This ministry recommends State
the Government establish three tech
nical schools to provide instruction
in he newest methods for the fish
ermen in those districts.
State Loans
This ministry recommends that
lcp,ns to enable the fishermen to ac
quh© boats and gear, that pubiu
w
improvements be made in variu»rs
harbors, and that a system of in
specting cured mackerel, with a
compulsory Government brand show
ing the grade be instituted.
Appropriations For Work
The Irish ministry asks for mor
funds and points out that the little,
country of Denmark is spending
nearly ONE MILLION dollars a
yeaj to assist in the solution of tin
technical and commercial problems
of the industry, and, IN ADDITION,
is making LOANS to parties engag
ed ip the fisheries, loans on which
no interest payment is required for
the first five years.
State Aid To Purchase Craft
''•"lie Irish minister recommended
that the State loan money on easy
interest, terms to enable the fish
er/ren to acquire craft, following
the idea of the Danish ministry.
THEY THINK ALIKE—THE
’i HE DISEASE IS “JUNEAUIT1S,V
Oeorge F. Weisel, Assistant Man
ager of the Juneau Lumber Mills
gpoke iq defense of Bureaucrats^