NOTHING TO SAY
Last winter the cannery-trap ma
chine wished to send their attorney
to Washington, D. C. to send propa
ganda against Dan Sutherland back
to Alaska, so they started an agita
tion for the division of this Terri
tory. J. C. Barber went to Juneau
to represent Ketchikan. A certain
bunch met and adjourned after ap
pointing H. L. Faulkner to draw up
a new proposed Organic Act.
Then the “powers-that-be” tried to
raise money to send R. E. Robertson
back to Washington, and found it
so difficult that they got discour
aged. They put their heads togeth
er and reasoned, “Why should we
work so hard when we can put our
hand in our own treasury, and give
it to Mr. Robertson. It is for the
benefit of Juneau anyhow.” And
so they did.
Burglars have much the same sort
of reasoning. “Why work so hard
for money when we can get it by
simply taking it. We will give some
of it to the poor and that will be
helping the city anyway.”
In the end, however, the courts
determine what is right. While the
burglars have to go to jail, all our
Juneau friends will have to do is to
return the money.
When Mr. Robertson and Mayor
Izzie Goldstein were asked what they
would do in view of the decision of
the Circuit Court of Appeals saying
that the grant of this money, $2,000,
to Robertson was illegal, these men
are reported to have said “We have
nothing to say.” No, not a word;
not a word.
And still the sheep-minds of Ju
neau will continue to follow their
Shepard; they will return these same
men to office; intrust them with city
funds; and put up with the Demo
cratic machine.
R. E. Robertson will be given more
honors; pehaps he will get the city’s
backing for the job of Judge pro
viding the clique can push Judge
Reed out; Goldstein will be re-elect
ed Mayor and the people will resent
letters from Dan Sutherland which
tell plainly that the action of the
city council is so palpably dishonest
that the rascals should be turned
out of office.
The Juneau Empire made a big
point of the fact that our Dan pro
tested this brand of small politics
and yet the people of Juneau prompt
ly re-elected the same city council
that sought to permit Robertson to
dip his hands into the public treas
ury.
So long as Juneau is dominated
by the federal official crowd, and so
long as the working people and bona
fide residents keep their hands off
of politics, just so long will Juneau
be at odds with the rest of Alaska.
These people will stand for a city
council that doesn’t think anything
of taking the taxpayers money and
handing it over to somebody who
wants to take a trip for political
purposes.
I maintain that proceedings like
this is downright dishonest, and the
only difference between the act of
the city council’s and plain highway
robbery is that the city council ob
served the forms of law.
These men in control of Juneau
politics have branded themselves.
“By their fruits ye shall know
them.” Reports come in that one of
the Wrangell canneries is having
difficulty in getting fishermen this
summer.
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