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Ketchikan and the govern
ment over to a city council con
trolled by J. C. Barber and Carl
Strong who govern for themselves
first, and then for any others.
In the Convention, the Juneau
crowd, who are by the way the
smartest of the lot, allowed the Ket
chikan bunch and others to work and
sweat over the memorial to Congress
to such an extent that when the
boat came to take them back to
their homes, the Organic Ac^ was
still “unrevealed” to our astute J. C.
Barber.
Accordingly the outsiders appoint
ed a committee to “draft” an Or
ganic Act. The Juneau bunch did
and made Juneau the Port of Entry.
It would seem to anybody but a
real hog that the Port of Entry
should be the Port of Entry, which
would mean Ketchikan. Imagine a
Port of Entry 300 miles inside of
the real port of entry.
You will find that* there are other
reasons why the crowd that now con
trols the larger cities want to send
a special representative to Wash
ington to present the matter “most
effectively to Congress.” We are
opposed to the appointment of any
person by the city councils, because
first, they are controlled, secondly,
fe that system leaves out large
iters of population.
We ask that the matter of send
ing a special representative be given
a special place on the next primary
ballots and let all the citizens of
this division vote.
It is also time for Ketchikan to
run her own government. It can be
done! It must be done! It shall be
done!
Forecasts On The Next
Primaries
We are told that H. R. Shepard
who played the “Pioneer” racket dur
ing the last election, is going to run
again. We wonder if that fine or
der will allow “poor old Shep” to
work the sympathy gag again.
We have been trying to get Perry
Hern, of Skagway, to file for the
lower House, but Perry doesn’t like
to. We suppose if he does file the
Hon. Ashley will tell the world that
Perry is a “bolshevik ’ and a social
ist, and some people are just enough
afraid of names so that they will
declare Perry an undesirable citizen.
“Bolshevik”; “Rule by the Ma
jority”—what is the difference? Wc
for one, refuse to be scared by mere
names, nor do we admit that a good
word in Russian that means “rule
by the majority” in United States,
must be an epithet of disgrace mere
ly because some people do not like
Russians.
Some people think we are opposed
to Shepard because he sponsored the
literacy bill. Far from it. We op
pose him because we are opposed to
having our laws made by common
drunks. We cannot overlook his last
drunken spree when he went into the
✓
Hotel Gastineau and cursed and
frothed out filthy words to the dis-.
gust of the ladies and gentlemen
who were unfortunate enough to be
at that public place.
Will the veteran H. H. Ross be
returned from Fairbanks? As time
goes on, we have learned to esteem
this worthy member. We thought
he had the interests of his own di
vision so much at heart during the
last session that he missed a chance
or two to help Alaska generally;
but that, we now think, could be
easily remedied. And if the good
citizens of the first division fail to
give him the support for his good
measures, we deserve to get kicked.
When we talked to John Wilson
of Nome last, he said he did not
think he would run for the legisla
ture again “Because it was no use.”
It is a pity that good men get dis
couraged or that good men refuse to
vote merely because of that spirit
of “what*s the use. ’ We need men
like Wilson in the legislature.
It is too bad that the Territory
might be deprived of the services of
E. M. Polley. He is too busy “col
lecting taxes” at $250.00- per month
and expenses to bother about filing,
so we are told. That has been our
principle objection against giving lu
crative jobs to members of the legis
lature, they get so satisfied to serve
the public on pay that they thereaf
ter refuse to sacrifice themselves by
allowing the people to place them in
the legislature at $15 per day. That
job is too short and election costs
too much.
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