He comes from fair Cordova,
In the land of Guggenheim.
If you ask what brought him over,
We’ll say, in roundelay,
He came to serve the fish trust,
On Territorial pay.
The recent splurge of the homiciding, ballot
stuffing, bootlegging Cordova gang for political
reform by legislated “Literacy Test” of voters
received considerable attention from many good
people of the Territory who were not aware of
the origin. It appeals to any good citizen that
the ignoranlt and illiterate should not exercise
the elective franchise but it was not the purpose
of the worthy and Honorable Frank Foster of
the “Solid Third” to so use it.
The primal purpose of a literacy law was to
place power with election judges, selected by the
gang, to prevent unlettered men from exercising
the franchise in opposition to the gang. The
gang is never opposed to illiterates except when
the gang cannot control. The methods of the
gang reminds us of Soapy Smith.
Oldtimers will remember that when Soapy
held sway at Skagway and with his gang robbed
all travellers, some good citizen suggested the
organization of vigilantes for the suppression of
crime.
Soapy leaped to the occasion and started out
to organize his outlaw bunch into a law and
order squad. Will the solid Third “Foster, Mur
ray, Price and Staser” fool the decent citizens of
the Third again? Will they stand for a (Sena
tor) Chamberlain who by his open and notorious
drunkenness, disgraced them during the last two
terms at Juneau?
Let the independent and upright citizens of
Cordova and the Third assert their patriotism
and pu', an end to the curious situation when a
sir .ill, unprincipled gang of men who know what
they want can control the free electorate.
Yes, A good thing can come out of Cordova.
*‘Philosophy, languages, medicine, law,
Are peacock feathers to deck the daw,
If the boys who come from your splendid schools.
Are well trained sharpers or flippant fools.”
Indians Capture Lady on President’s
Party.
While the President's party was at Wrangell, a
Miss Wynne visited with her brother there and
when the party went back to the transport Hen
derson, she got left. Chester Worthington, a
Wrangell native, was on hand, however, with a
boat and took her to the transport. On the way,
Miss Wynne showed how nervous and scared she
was, but Chester assured her and said not to
fear, that he was a real Alaskan, a regular duck,
and that he would row her to Juneau if need be.
When they got to the transport, the lady was
escorted on board and Chester made a speech
saying that the Indians of Alaska did not want
to be too hard on the President as this was his
first trip, and that although they had captured
this lady, they were now returning her.
Leave it to Chester to make the right speech.
The Interior Department at Washington has
figured out that the native population of Alaska
at present is 27,253, a gain of 1,322 during the
past ten years. Wish we might say as much
for the white race. Abolish all fish traps.
Why a Territorial
Tax Collector?
HON. E. M. POLLEY VISITS
The answer is “to help those that
are ‘in’ to stay ‘in’.” This tax col
lector while here approached many
persons in the interest of Scott C.
Bone. He did not say exactly that
Mr. Bone would file for governor,
but he did say that “the Governor is
well liked all over Alaska, and he
would make a fine governor.” Didn’t
he, when he was in your town, pull
hard for Mr. Bone? Polley was ap
pointed to his job by Mr. Smith,
Territorial Treasurer, but Mr. Smith
cannot hold his job without Mr.
Bone’s support, and Mr. Bone is be
ing well and loyally served by Mr.
Polley who was originally elected by
“the peepul.”
As long as we in Alaska continue
to hand over all our rights and
privileges to the federal governor,
just so long will we have to pay the
taxes that keep men like Polley on
the field, for the direct cost of this
man is Six Thousand Dollars per
year, out of which he should save
one half as he gets free board. He
goes into all the towns of the Terri
tory, collects just enough money to
seem to “pay for his office,” but
he always sees and trys to influence
the “right men” in each town to pul)
for “Governor Bone who has shown
himself a good man ’■—yes, to Polley.
to the big canneries, to the big mines,
and the two transportation compan
ies. This governor who talks about
“co-ordination”; “bureaucratic gov
ernment” etc., so that we will quit
talking about the real issues, to-wit:
lower transportation rates; fish
trusts who monopolize under Mr.
Hoover’s reservation system, and
other ills that we have which grow
directly and indirectly out of the
carpet-bagging system of importing
federal governors.