Alaska merchants and produc
ers.
14. We favor continued appro
priations for the Alaska Rail
road, and will oppose all eiforts
to limit or destroy its usefulness
to our people, increased appro
priations for the Alaska Road
Commission for the construction
cvf roads, trails and bridges, and
for the construction of rivers
and harbor projects and other
aids to navigation in Alaska.
15. We believe in the party sys
tem obtaining in the United
States, and advocate the placing
of all matters of patronage in
the hands of the party organi
zation.
-x
AND PAUL WAS CALLED
“RADICAL”
During the past ten years I
have seen that the resident
Alaskan has been getting less
and less from the profits of fish
industry. I am a resident and
property owner of Ketchikan
where everyone knows that the
fishermen has been getting poor
er and poorer and consequently
where property owners and busi
ness men are likewise affected.
We, property owners and busi
ness men, know now if we didn’t
know it before that we and the
fishermen are all “in the same
boat.”
What can we do to get the
benefits due us from the fish
er:e? I believe in the Territorial
control of the fisheries. And, if
the Territory does not have the
power to abolish traps, I believe
the traps could be limited by a
graduated tax on the catch
until the tax would be prohi
bitive. I would like to see the
FISH TRAP ABOLISHED, and
will work to accomplish this if
the opportunity arises. This may
be a selfish view on my part as
I believe my business would be
better off if the traps were
abolished. And, furthermore, if
all traps cannot be abolished, I
would like to see the traps re
maining be operated by Alas
kans.
J. E. JOHNSON
Candidate for Senator
First Division
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5000 SEINE BOATS
VS.
CORPORATION TRAPS
-x
How many men would 5000
seine boats employ?
How many men do the fish
traps employ?
How many Native fishermen
own traps?
How many Native fishermen
own seines?
How many independent trap
owners were there in 1925-1926
1927?
How many independent trap
owners are there in 1932?
How many independent trap
owners made money in 1931?
How long will it be before no
independent can own a trap?
Is the first division canned
salmon any cleaner or better
than the red salmon pack of
Bristol Bay? (Bristol Bay uses
seiners and gill netters.)
Can’t conservation be enforc
ed with seines as well as traps \
Can’t human element be tak
en into consideration in the op
eration of the fisheries as it
should be in every industry?
Can’t the fisheries of Alaska
be Americanized?
Do the people of Alaska, the
fishermen, get an even, fair and
honest chance under the trap
rule to make a decent living?
I have answered all these
questions to my own satisfac
tion. Why not you answer them.
I have no grudge against the
corporations but I do have a de
cided preference for seines a
gainst traps. Think this over. If
I am elected to the legislature
T will do everything in my power
to bring about the abolition of
traps—I will work with that one
idea in mind.
I believe in the territorial con
trol of fur, fish and game.
The general public, the mer
chants, the man in the streets
and in seme cases the canners
themselves are outspoken a
gainst a condition which denies
the Alaska workmen the right
a.id opportunity of earning a
living from the natural re
sources that are so plentiful
and yet so restricted by unna
tural Bureaucratic Government.
I want a change—do you?
r S.—There is no other issue
before the people.
EDITOR’S NOTE—Believe it or
not we had nothing to do in the
writing of the above. Joe Kehoe,
Democrat, has gotten religion as
others must.
CANADA ATTRACTING
SETTLERS FROM U. S.
-X
Canada continues to attract
increasing numbers of settlers
from the United States. During
the spring of the present year
the value of settlers' effects
coming into Canada from the
United States was $743,000 while
only $219,000 worth went from
Canada to the United States. In
May 1923—May is the peak
month in each year for such
movements—settlers’ effects en
tering Canada from the United
States, according to the Agri
culture Department of the Ca
nadian National Railways, was
$967,000. In 1929, the movement
fell sharply but each year since
has seen a definitely upward
trend with an increase in each
succeeding year.
We might ask: Everything be
ing equal as to natural resources
in Alaska and Canada, why is
Canada attracting American,
settlers while Alaska does not?.