eating sea gulls and fish-eating bears—birds and
beasts that were zealously protected by our ances
tors.—Edit Note: We might include: By Indian
fishermen who went up salmon streams and filled
gunny sacks with salmon; by seal, which destroy
ed thousands of salmon; and have only praises
for the god of some Alaskans, from whom all their
blessings flow for “conserving” the fisheries cf
Alaska by regulating the small operator and fish
ermen out of business in order to swell the profits
of the favored corporations and by conserving the
fish trap from Alaskans.
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FREE MEN—NOT FREEDMEN
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By Hill Billy, in Seattle Star
Altho I regard, and have frequently given
public witness, the American Civil Liberties Union
as one of the few organizations in this nation
worthy the support of a liberal, yet I know that
the Civil Liberties Union can never give free
speech to the majority of men, because the ma -
jority of men have no desire for free speech, nor
anything to say if they had free speech.
More and more I am coming to see single
minded with prophets like Emerson, Thoreau.
Stirner—the fatherhood of this Holy Trinity.
Coming to see that liberty, like true religion,
comes from the heart out and can never be be
stowed. You can’t free a slave. You can merely
make a freedman out of him. You can remove
his chains and you can free his white master from
the disgrace of being a slave-driver, but you have
not made a free man of the slave. Only the slave
can do that for himself.
Many idealists hope for an Utopia wherein
everyone will attain economic independence. We
may be able to abolish certain hoggish, grafting
aggregations of great wealth and political power,
but we will never donate economic independence
to the many until the many, individual by individ
ual attains economic independence for himself.
Men did not grant equal suffrage to women.
The women took the suffrage when enough of
them escaped from the chains of the church and
masculine state to get rid of the slave complex.
“All freedom is essentially self-liberation. I
can only have so much freedom as I procure it
for myself by my ownness. OF WHAT USE IS II
FOR SHEEP THAT NO ONE BRIDGES THEIR
FREEDOM OF SPEECH? THEY STILL STICK TO
PLEATING.” Read Max Stirner some time when
you especially feel like you are just a poor durn
worm. That fellow would put a backbone in a
Fismo clam.
WHAT’S A GGOSE OR TWO?
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President Hoover has issued a proclamation
limiting the killing of migratory birds to one
month throughout the United States—during
September in Alaska. Ketchikan, Juneau and
Anchorage Commercial Clubs have registered pro
tests through Delegate Wickersham. President
Hoover has made it plain that he will not make
any change, despite the protests.
After all, what’s a few ducks and geese to the
Alaskans? Those who must have them will take
them just as they violate the fishery laws to make
a living. Those who shoot for sport—well that’s
another matter, a waste of ammunition, birds and
indulgence of the killer spirit.
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WAS IT A WHALE OR FISH
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Jonah was the prototype of the modern pan
ic-builder; facile princeps of chronic kickers; the
high priest of professional calamity howlers. And
the whale got him.—Seward Gateway.
Methinks ’twas “a big fish” and we’re told
that the whale is no fish.
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CONSERVATION?
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The Bristol Bay area was closed a bit early
this year because of the failure of the Nushigak
district, so was press-agented the action of Com
missioner of Fisheries, Henry O’Malley's action.
A canner passing through Petersburg laugh
ingly mentioned this conservation order and said:
“Henry O’Malley closed down the Bristol Bay dis
trict because Bailey was going out of his district
into another to get up his pack. This outfit is
an eyesore to the Bureau of Fisheries ana their
bosses, the Alaska Packers’ and other big corpor
ations. Conservation my eye!”
Bailey has a small floating cannery and under
the law must designate where he will operate—.
a discriminatory law for the stationary cannery
may transport and does transport salmon in some
instances several hundred miles. But Bailey, like
the seiner, must help conserve and preserve the
vested interests.
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Alaska, like the land of the Pharaohs, is over
run with pests—disgusting parasites. We have
references to those who have been in the Federal
and Territorial employ these many years and who
have not invested a penny in Alaska.—Seward
Gateway.