Alaska Native Brotherhood, taking
practically all the Indians of South
eastern Alaska.
Today at Sitka we see complete
Indian domination and if any one
wants to ascertain the humiliation
and unsatisfactory conditions under
which the whites are living there
all he has to do is ask the white
residents of Alaska’s first capital.
That condition of Sitka will spread
to the whole territory, with the
natives controlling and dictating
to our congressmen and to our
legislature to such a degree that
every white man and woman will
be paying the price of the folly of
permitting such domination is evi
dent.
There are plenty ot white people
in Alaska to permit intelligent
white management of affairs. The
natives, through the leadership of
Mr. Paul, have so securely banded
themselves together that the only
alternative is for the whites to do
likewise.
There can be no question but
the 'battle of the fall election
hinges entirely on the white con
structive upbuilding versus illiterate
and tribal conditions, the masses
bowing totally to the will of the
chief.
PENNSYLVANIA LABELED
“Corrupt and contented.”
This is the label the press is
pasting on Pennsylvania with the
exposure of the huge sums spent
for candidates in the Republican
primary. A good many n wspapers
also take Secretary Mellon and
Senator Reed, Pennsylvania’s junior
senator, to task for their attempt
to put a pretty face on the scandal.
Extracts from the comment of
leading American newspapers
follows:
NEW YORK WORLD (Dem.)—If
the American people tolerate this
sort of thing it will mean that
they have temporarily lost interest
in self-government. If they are
willing to have the secretary of the
treasury establish his political pow
er at home by conniving at the
purchase of the electorate: if they
are willing to go on bowing down
to him as the paragon of all virtues;
if that is the political morality
they are willing to hold up as an
px&pnple to young men entering
public life, then let us frankly
admit that provided we make money
we care little how we are governed.
SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) REPUB
LICAN (Ind.)—The senate cannot
accept him (Vare) into its member
ship, even on a record of lower
expenditure compared with Pepper’s,
without stultifying itself in the
light of the senate resolution de
claring that “such excessive sums”
cannot be spent in behalf of a
candidate consistently with “sound
public policy,” the “honor and dig
nity of the senate, and “the perpe
tuity of a free government.”
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.
(Ind.)—When the Pennsylvania
Reed patronizingly remarked that
“We are no petty western state”
he condoned the political prostitu
tion of Pennsylvania. To be sure,
he did deplore the primary as a
system which compelled candidates
to pour out their fortunes and the
friends of the candidates to do
likewise. Granting all that, we still
insist that the Pennsylvania orgy,
sponsored and sinewed by the so
cial, industrial and professional elite
of that state, is essentially trea
sonable and morally terrifying.
BALTIMORE SUN. (Ind Dem.) —
On the main question—that is,
whether direct primaries cost more
than conventions—it may be said
there are men no older than the
young Senator Reed whose heads
are sufficiently informed and suffi
ciently cool to have in mind the
fact that sometimes colossal sums
of money were spent under the con
vention system when hot contests
were maae tor nominations. And
there was less chance of the public
learning the facts and rebuking
the guilty. As to Senator Reed’s
plaint that a man of moderate means
has not a chinaman’s chance under
the direct primary, this may be
said: Every governor of Maryland
since we have had the direct primary
has been a poor man; before the
direct primary but one poor man,
Crothers, had been elected to the
office in nearly two generations.
It may be also noted that a very
poor man overwhelmed a rich
machine the other day in Iowa.
Finally it may be said, very em
phatically that when spokesmen for
the Mellon machine start weeping
over the plight of the poor man in
politics the time has come to cross
one’s fingers,
DETROIT NEWS (Bnd.)—Ask
yourself which type of conduct leads
most swiftly to revolution—the
ignorant Russian worker educating
himself into a new world, or soph
isticated American citizens, astute,
well-informed, making a farce and
a scandal of the very bulwark of
American national life by the ex
penditure of more than a million
dollars to debauch the electorate
of a sovereign state. This country
can afford to welcome all the ideas
the world has to offer, providing
those ideas are frankly and honestly
expressed; it can afford to invite
into the open for hearing every
Mansevick whose troubled soul
ever bred strange dreams of the
equality of mankind and his op
pression. It can not afford to see
stealth operating among its hypo
crital citizens who, hoping to escape
the condemning eyes of the nation,
try to pave with gold the pathway
to high office.
KANSAS CITY STAR (Ind.) —
No senator who goes to Washington
with credentials obtained at such
a price, no matter how high his
personal honesty, worth or ability
may be should be seated. It should
not even be necessary to show the
money expended in his behalf was
improperly or corruptly expended
It is enough that the use of money
in such amounts in the operation
of our political institutions is con
trary to their spirit and destructive
to their purposes.
REGULATION PROTECTS
STEELHEAD TROUT
On June 7th the Acting Sec
retary of Commerce promulgated
a regulation giving the Alaska
steelhead the same protection ac
corded the salmon.
This new regulation reads as
follows: “commercial fishing for
steelhead trout shall be subject to
provisions of law and regulations
applicable to commercial fishing
for salmon.”
Hereafter anyone engaged in
commercial trout fishing in the
streams of Alaska, and who takes
steelheads for the market, will be
subject to prosecution the same
though he were taking salmon for
commercial purposes from areas
closed throughout the year to
commercial fishing.
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