Russian language, as well as to cata
logue and explain the various Indian
antiquities in the Museum. There
were several applicants for the po
sition, including Mrs. McKern a, Mrs.
Kashevaroff, wife or the Curatoi,
and Mrs. E. J. White, wife of tin
editor of Stroller’s Weekly and also
a member of the Commission. The
other members are Governor Bone,
Secretary of the Territory Thiele, At
torney General Itustgrad, Treasurer
Smith and Commissioner of Educa
tion Henderson.
The Commission discussed the eli
gibility of the various candidates and
it was the consensus of opinion that
Mrs. Kashevaroff was the better
qualified for the work. The Attor
ney Geneial took the position that
the Curator ought to be permitted
to name his own assisant, which
privilege is accorded the head of
every other department. But this
motion did not prevail and when
Commissioner Henderson nominated
Mrs. White, seconded by Secretary
Thiele, she was elected.
And thus another sum from the
Territorial treasury, although it be
only $2,400, has been diverted from
its true purpose to subsidize an
other Democratic organ, to boost
certain discredited politicians.
Mrs. White is undoubtedly a most
estimable woman, but she has noth
:ng to recommend her for the posi
tion in question, except that her hus
band edits and owns a Democratic
newspaper. The logical person for
the place was Mrs. Kashevaroff, who
's familiar with the work, as she
has frequently helped her husband
in the Museum and Library ana
served Without pay. She was born
a; d brought up in the Territory, has
raised a large family here; speaks
reads and writes Russian. She has
also had two years’ experience as
Assistant Librarian of the Juneau
City library, besides having been a
member of the Juneau Library,
for ten years. But competency had
to give way to political expediency.
This is only another instance of
how the official clique in the Ter
ritory sacrifice principle and effi
ciency to further their 'own ends and
to reward the faithful who publicly
applaud the every questionable act
of a lot of highbinders, who would
long since have been covered with
the ignomy of their own desperate
and contemptible methods, if the pub
lic only realized the half of what
has been going on.
But in Juneau the public funds
are lavishly being dissipated to pre
vent readers from knowing facts, the
Daily Empire being the sink hole
into which thousands of dollars are
poured, in order to keep the public
blinded. Stroller’s Weekly only gets
an occasional sop, but then it is small
fry.
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BUNGSTARTERS’ UNION
Tn almost every State Legislature
the liquor interests have been able
to get hold of a small number of
representatives of the people who
were willing to start agitation
against the laws for enforcement of
the 18th Amendment. They usually
pose as patriots, devoted to the cause
of liberty. Their actual purpose is
to help out in the agitation against
the present governmental program
of law enforcement. These pseudo
patriots in the several State Leg
islatures have been dubbed “Bung
starters’ Unions.” Their slogan is
usually “light wines and beer but
no saloons,” with strong emphasis
on the “no saloons.” Their paradox
ical slogan is the best evidence of
their hypocrisy. The Alaska Bung
starters’ Union organized at the leg
islative session took for its slogan
“The Volstead law is enough.” They
did not seem to know or care that
the Volstead law is not enough in
other sections of the United States
where States and municipalities have
the'r local laws for enforcement of
the 18th Amendment in addition to
the Volstead Act. Even with State
and Municipal courts handling liquor
cases the caledais of Federal Courts
are crowded with Volstead cases.
Our local Bungstarters’ Union would
have the Act whereby liquor cases
may be tried in U. S. Commissioner’s
Courts repealed and all cases tried
in the District Courts. Nothing
good could come of crowding the
District Court calendar with petty
liquor cases to the detriment of other
litigation. Agitation against the pro
hibition laws in Alaska generally
emanates from the office of the
JUNEAU EMPIRE, and as most of
the vicious legislative movements of
tKc last session originated in that
office it is safe to assume that the
Bungstarters’ Union was organized
there. There is no list of ex-officio
members obtainable, but the con
tributing members are recorded in
the House Journal as:
Joseph Murray
Geo. Moody
Robert Sheldon
N. O. Hardy.
Ben Grier
C. Id. Wilcox
M’CARTHY
The press statement of former
Attorney General Stone that there is
(|uite a supply of liquor coming into
Alaska aroused the ire of Mr. Joseph
Murray, of McCarthy, to white heat.
Dan Sutherlard’s speech on condi
tions in Ketchikan and Juneau calm
ed lvm down a little, but he cannot
yet believe that there is any law
lessness in Alaska.
The trouble with Joe is that his
life is spent within the confines of
McCarthy, except for biennial trips
to the Legislature at Juneau.
McCarthy, Joe’s own burg, is sin
gularly free from some of the un
desirable conditions that are found
in other sections of Alaska.
During the periods when Joe is
away from the Legislature he de
votes all his time to the cause of
civic righteousness, and as a result
of his crusading McCarthy is a
town where virtue and morality are
permanently enthroned. Woe betide
the bootleggers or those of any other
vicious calling who would attempt
to play their trade at McCarthy
while Joe is at home on the job.
Joe believed that the former Attor
ney General of the United States
was taking an unwarranted fling at
McCarthy when he said that liquor
was coming into Alaska; hence his
intense rage. He could r.ot restrain
himself and was determined to brand
some one as a liar. How strange
that a tenderly nurtured youth like
Joe should lose his composure over
a little criticism of law enforcement
conditions; but that is apt to be the
way with zealous reformers. Ardent
prohibitionists will insist that there
is a minimum of drurkenness, and
Joe insists that it is almost negligi
ble. This champion of law and order
is now back in McCarthy and he
surely must have given a sigh of
relief at his escape from the snares
and pitfalls of the First Division.
Long may he live at McCarthy, a
true champion of virtue and sobriety.
May the youth of McCarthy long
behold him as an exemplar of those
qualities of manhood that make na
tions strong and virile.
When in Wrangell go to the
Wrangell Restaurant.
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