WHY I LIKE SUTHERLAND—HE HELPS
METLAKATLANS REGARDLESS
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There are a number of reasons why I like Dan
Sutherland, the chief reason is this—that he does
what he thinks is right regardless.
The overwhelming vote of the people of Met
lakatla was in favor of George Grigsby as against
Dan. George told them (as did the full Demo
cratic ticket) what he would do for them( that he
would get them the Industrial School, work for a
continuation of their reservation, etc).
All that Dan could say was that he would con
tinue to work for their interests as he saw it.
On this subject his intercession for the Metla
katlans, (the people who deal in Eulachon (ooli
gan) Oil, is very interesting and commendatory
We however wonder if these strange people will
appreciate what he does.
“Mr. Sutherland—(in the tariff hearing page
9006) I am going to ask that eulachon oil be plac
ed on the free list. It is a product of northern
British Columbia. It is the “Candle” Fish that
naturalists write so much about. The native peo
ple press the pith of a rush or piece of bark thru
it and use it a s a candle for illumination. By
reason of its oiliness this oil is easily extracted,
and the natives use it as a sort of primitive food.
The southern Alaska natives go over to British
Columbia, trade with the British Columbia na
tives, and bring back this eulachon oil as a part of
their food supply. The importation amounts to
only about 1,000 gallons a year. The hardship on
these natives, every time they have a little eula
chon oil, and have to pay the 20 per cent ad val
orem duty on it, is considerable, so I am asking to
have it placed on the free list.”
WHAT IS A JUDGE?
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The Honorable Newton D. Baker has asked a
question (in defense of two writers adjudged in
contempt of court) that should be asked daily by
the citizens in order that the high standing of our
courts shall be maintained.. Even persons un
fitted for the judgeship will be helped “to do jus
tice” if liberty and justice loving people have a
true understanding of what a judge really is.
We will let Mr. Baker speak for under present
circumstances, more weight will be given to his
words than to ours, nor will his motive be ques
tioned.
“What Is the Judge”?
“A part of his equipment is that he realizes the
frailty of others—human beings—and realizes
realize the exactions of it. That Is the Judge as
literature pictures him to us. It isn’t Jefferies.
Let us take the other end of the line.
What did Jefferies do? Primm made some
kind of contemptuous remark about Judge Jeffer
ies. I said this morning that everybody in Eng
land was afraid to speak ill of him. Primm spoke
ill of him. Jefferies dragged him into the court
house and directed the sheriff, or whatever they
called the executive officers of the courts in those
days, to pare off his ears, and the poor devil went
off with his ears all slit and bleeding, and in his
agony he uttered some sort of protest against
what the judge did, and the judge ordered him
back and directed the marshal of the court to
take another toll from his poor wounded ears.
Three times that happened.
“And does anybody suppose that Jefferies
preserved the dignity of a court or made anybody
respect him by being cruel about a personal thing
—a personal feeling that he had? Everybody ex
ervates the memory of Jefferies. They bow their
heads in shame over the ignoblest man their
profession has produced, they mention with de
testation a man who venged his personal spleen
upon a defenseless perspn and thought that arbi
trary power could make up for the defects of in
justice exhibited upon the bench.”
“Mr. Cline (the attorney for the prosecution)
is going to rise and tell your honor that he feels it
is his duty under your appointment to tell you
to be very stern and very severe with these de
fendants. He is going to tell you that the dignity
of the court of common pleas is involved, and that
you must do something to vindicate the dignity of
the court forgetting—unless you forget, I warn
you—that the dignities of courts are not preserv
ed by severity upon their critics, but are preserv
ed by the rightousness of their decisions.”
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LINCOLN’S WARNING
“Labor Is superior to capital
and deserves much the higher
consideration. Let them beware
of . surrendering the political
power which they already pos
sess and which if surrendered
will surely be used to close the
door of advancement against
such as they and to fix new dis
abilities and burdens upon,
them, till all of liberty shall be
lost.”—Abraham Lincoln.