THIS ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th oL each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second • class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
iiUBSCRPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATEORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
. HOOYKR S WISH RUMAltlC
It wa3 a wise thing that Herbert Hoover told re
presentatives of the Republic of Salvadore on his recent
visit to La Union.
“Our economic relations can have but one real
foundation/’ he said. “They can grow only out of tile
prosperity of each of us. They cannot flourish in the
poverty or degeneration of any of us. Our economic
progress is mutual. It is not competitive."
Mr. Hoover has stated the situation correctly. We
now ask that he adopt the principle in his dealings with
Alaska. To date, Alaska has e xisted for the prosperity
of foreigners only. We have enriched Seattle, Portland,
and other places WITHOUT tlie equal benefit to our
selves.
The first step iu that direction is SIOLI** GOVliltN
MKNT. •
CONSERVATION' OK KINKS”
The end of conservation is Hit; savins of Pinks, so
says the Bureau of Fisheries. |
In carrying out this policy, m arly all the grounds
of resident fishermen have been closed. As a result,
the white population is steadily leaving Alaska.
“My congregation is only half wliai it used to he.
My Sunday school is greatly reduced.” said one preach
er. All because these people am leaving Alaska.
The Native people nre not allowed to earn their liv
ing in Kasaan Bay zo “conserve fish." But noth nig is
being done to the big trap at Island Point from which
one man and his wife are getting rich from the 750,
000 salmon caught there.
The two trap owners are getting inordinately rich;
the Natives robbed of their ancient rights, are under
nourished; the pinks are being saved—(for the two
trap owners).
TOM <i.\FFXKV
Tom GaTney rooreseutn in Alaska the ‘•blarney
kissing'' Irish, the sum it breed v. ho enjoyed the bounty
of the English carpet-baggers in Ireland.
They were loud in their support of home rule and
voted against home rule.
In the l ist legislature, Gaffney fought against the
home rule bill called the Confer' 'er BUI. He said it
was a bail bill and should no' >ade law. But he
either showed his ignorance oi : / nd faith when he
voted for the Emergency Clause. The emergency clause
is this—"An emergency is hereby declared to exist, and
this «ict shall take effect immediately upon the passage
of this act.”
When Gaffney voted for the Emergency Clause, he
declared that AN EMERGENCY EXISTED.
THE SONS OF ALASKA
The loading lights of tlio United Sons of Alaska (a
John Frame organization) aro John Wesley Frame, Pat
Gilmore. Stanley Oaksmith, Rill Mahoney, “Doc” Walk
er. George Grigsby. H. T. Hansen and others—all stand
ing for "Alaska for Alaskans" and all with one excep
tion life long Democrats.
They recently protested the closing of south Belim
Canal on the ground that many trapmen would be in
jured.
When Justin W. Harding was appointed Federal
Judge, they failed to protest the appointment of this
carpetbagger.
We will expect soon lo sen these United Sons en
dorsing the closiug of Prince Rupert.
When their list of crimes have been completed, the
fishermen who .voted the John Frame-Grigsby-Zlegler
ticket last fall will realize that they have been betrayed.
Till-; JOXI5S Af'T AM) PI ’CK RUPERT HALIBUT
T.
Of all the commercial In.*.., In Southeastern Alas
ka. only Ketchikan is supporting the discriminatory
Section 27 of the Jones Marine. Act.
The real reason is this—Ketchikan wants to im
pose a tax of 3 cents per pound on fish at Trince Rupert
and they are fishing for tlio powerful support of the
steamship and transcontinental railroads.
Ketchikan will get her wish too.
Then perhaps the halibut men will join the Indians
of Alaska in fighting tlio fish trust. PERHAPS.
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THE MA1CQUAM PKKSS
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"We have no quarrel with the above individuals. Wa
merely use these names to remind the people. These