be censured for his act, what
about the protest of the Wo
men’s Council, women who
protested these conditions in
stronger language than used by
Sutherland, this under date of
November 17, 1. y.
Will Morrissey dare to write
an editorial attacking the wo
men who signed the protest,
such women as Florence D.
Stackpole, Christine S. Malmin,
Margery Y. Hall, Lulu V.
Taylor, Emma M. Falconer?
Will the Ketchikan Chronicle
call these women liars and out
laws because they protested in
the following language?
“The members of the Ket
chikan Women’s Council pro
test against conditions which
are giving Ketchikan the reputa
tion of being the MOST WICK
ED CITY IN THE WEST.
Bootlegging, dope peddling,
and women engaging in illicit
and illegal business, with their
agents and solicitors, are the
COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF
EVERY CITIZEN OF KET
CHIKAN.
“We protest against this at
mosphere of tolerance and in
difference that permits these
cr nditions.
“We women are the MOTH
ERS OF KETCHIKAN of
TOMORROW, and we are of
fering to you our heartiest co
operation. We feel the res
ponsibility not only of our own
children but of all the chil
dren of Ketchikan.”
ANSWER THESE WO
MEN, Mr. Morrissey.
If Sutherland is wrong. ;f
the Hearst article is wrong,
then these women, who protest
ed LONG BEFORE EITHER
are also wrong.
ANSWER THESE WO
MEN, Mr. Morrissey.
OUR CHARGE
The facts are that Ketchikan
today is even worse than the
Hearst article portrayed, and
the reason is that the political
and business machine of which
Edward G. Morrissey, quontime
United States Commissioner
and editor of the Ketchikan
Chronicle, WANT THESE
ROTTEN AND IMMORAL
CONDITIONS T 0 CON
TINUE because THEY MAKE
MONEY OUT OF IT.
Why not write an editorial
on that wonderful sermon de
livered by an inspired preacher,
the same one whose departure
you are still mourning, Mr
Morrissey, under date of March
11th, 1923, that sermon which
was printed in your own paper
on March 12, 1923?
The title of that sermon was
“SHALL THE LAW BE EN
FORCED OR SHALL THE
UNITED STATES ATTOR
NEY BE FIRED.”
THE SERMON
He said in part (taken from
the Ketchikan Chronicle of
March 12, 1923), “The con
temptible feature of this evil
is that one cannot turn the
searchlight of public investiga
tion upon the men who uphold,
support, patronize and make
the existence of such places
possible. Men live and prev
off the products of this sin and
evil life—pimps so low and
vile as to live on the money of
fallen women and then beat
them up as happened here re
cently.
“A man once pointed out to
me our restricted district and
said, “This is Ketchikan’s Wall
Street.” I thought it was a
ioke but since the assistant
United States Attorney drop
ped a wet blanket over Ket
chikan’s Wall Street, causing a
panic in some circles. I am re
minded of that Wall Street
where fluctuations in the stock
market so often c.mise p panic
in the financial world.”
Is it possible that the finan
cial basis of this town rests
upon such a flimsy foundation
that whenever the Grand Tury
meets the underworld denizens
are thrown into a panic or get
out of town?
“As to segregating them so
that they will not be all over
town—what reputation has the
place known as the Bath House?
The Rex Rooming House? Pig
Tail Alley? Rooms over certain
stores in the heart of the city?
Places in Newtown? At Char
coal Point? What about the
bootlegging joints? The open
gambling all night?”
DELEGATE WORKS FOR ALL
While some of the leading cit
izens of Ketchikan and Juneau,
who have thrown party ties to the
winds and banded themselves und
er the cognomen of* ‘Independents,”
are spending corporation money in
the futile effort to defeat Delegate
Dan Sutherland for reelection, he
seeks to secure legislation that will
tend to benefit those communities.
He is largely responsible for se
curing an enlarged appropriation
for the Federal building at Juneau
and is also seeking to restore to
Southeastern Alaska a land dis
trict, with Juneau the headquart
ers. The land office was (removed
from there to Anchorage three
years ago, on the recommendation
of Mr. Parks, who was then at
the head of land affairs in Alaska.
And while Ketchikan protests that
the discarded Judge and District
Attorney are the two greatest
men in Alaska the Delegate is try
ing to have a bill passed in Con
gress for the erection of a new
court house and jail at Ketchikan,
a subject that does not seem to
much concern the aforesaid “lead
ing” citizens.
WHO IS WHO?
Who took the Marquam child in
hand and to his henchman g’ave
command,
To broadcast it thruout the land.
“Defeat the malicious liar Suther
land?”
—Donohoe.
Who raped the compensation law,
Made it a joke with loud ha-ha,
And worked with Free on Uncle
Sam
To junk the railroad got by Wick
ersham?
—Dimond.
Who trails with the Democratic
Pope
And is now Marquam’s big’ White
Hope,
Refusing- to support for senator,
Him whom the people voted for?
—Murray.
Who is that puny little di-dy,
Who serves as Donohoe’s man
Friday,
And tends the boss’s Augean stables
For ads which fall from Corpor
ate tables?
—Wilcox.
—From the “Truth of Wacker City,”