ageous manhood and a knavish
eunich, with Senator Steel battling
against Senator Jenson, the subserv
ient tool of special privilege.
To those of us who supported
Steel, his manly fight was no sur
prise. We only wish the fishermen
and other laborers could see how
this man refused to spare himself to
advance his own interest but that
he strove honestly to keep his elec
tion pledges.
REPRESENTATIVE WILIAM E.
WORTH
“I am for the working man; they
sent me here to fight for their
rights. That is why I am support
ing the Controller Bill.” So spoke
the courageous William E. Worth
of Petersburg.
He has the honor of introducing
the bill that abolished the taxes on
furs. In this he was supported by
the famous seven—Benjamin, Fer
guson, Paul, Sundquist, Johnston
and Ross. To these should be add
ed two names, Ben Grier and Sum
ner Smith,
Worth also fathered the bill to es
tablish steamship service between
Juneau and Prince Rupert, which
was defeated by the effort of cer
tain steamship representatives such
as Ralph Lomen and Tom Gaffney.
Worth never faltered in his fight
for the fishermen of Alaska voting
for a high tax on non-resident fish
ermen and on fish traps.
REP. CHARLES BENJAMIN
“I come here a conservative busi
nessman and by your unreasonable
subserviency to capital, you send
me away a raving radical. Why
these large interests at whose feet
you worship^ just laugh at you, you
are so cheap. They expect to pay
taxes but you are afraid to tax them
One and three fourths percent on
a net income of over $500,000. What
is that? It is no tax. You make me
disgusted.” Thus spoke that big
hearted Wrangell merchant, Charles
Benjamin to the fawning, cringing
seirant of the steamship companies,
Tom Gaffney, right after the vote
on the tax measure was taken.
Benjamin kept his word given by
him to the people before election.
SENATOR JOHN W. DUNN
Senator John W. Dunn was elect
ed by Progressives. By a studied
deceit covering several years, he
gained our confidence. Like Bene
dict Arnold, he became the com
mander of a great fort. Like Ben
edict Arnold, he betrayed the People
of Alaska for a price, that has not
yet been revealed.
We have heard many explana
tions accounting for his change of
heart but the kindest is this “The
man is really insane.” And when
you remember that John W. Dunn
is an outcast from his former
friends and now embraced by the
Juneau Empire, could you be kind
er than to say “He is really insane.”
The reward is even worse. Elect
ed as an “anti-Marquam” Senator,
John W. Dunn voted with Howard
to put two Marquamites on the
Board of Regents of the Agricultural
College.
Senator Dunn, the Dr. Hyde of
pre-election days is now a Mr.
Hyde betrayer of the People of Alas
ka.
When he came to Juneau in
March he told Senator Steel “I wii!
vote for the Controller Bill. When
he talked with Delegate Sutherland
he said, “I will vote for the Con
troller Bill” When he talked with
the clerk of he Court he said, “I
will vote for the Controller Bill."
When he talked with William L.
Paul he said, “Yes, I remember now
I did say I would vote for that Con
troller Bill.”
When he voted, he voted
AGAINST the bill. What would
you call such a man?
This “servant of the People” re
sented the telegram from the Peo
ple of Fairbanks asking him “to
vote for the Controller Bill.” He
said he “resented pressure.”
He said he was taken up on to a
high mountain and shown the riches
of the earth “but refused to name
the canneryman.” This man de
mented by too much lonliness m
the far north, compares himself
with the Christ, but refused to name
his tempter.
The brand is on this man, he is
being praised by the Juneau Empire.
THOMAS S. SOOTT
of Cordova
Everybody knew that Tom Scott
was a reactionary and would vote
exactly as Joe Murray dictated. Still
they elected him from the Third
Division He did as he was expect
ed.
SUMNER S. SMITH
of Anchorage
The Sumner Smith who entered
the legislature was not the same
Sumner Smith who departed it.
Some of his bad habits still persist.
But he learned a lot, altho not
enough.
He came to the legislature, de
clined to be a candidate for Speak
er promised to support Ross of
Fairbanks for Speaker and Cash
Cole for Clerk and then became a
candidate for Speaker himself and
agreed to support Harry Morton for
Clerk, all in one afternoon.
He is a well educated man, too
well educated, too refined in his
thinking and rather inexperienced
in his politics.. His failings are prin
cipaly two—he wonders if he is
right, and he thinks small matters
are not important
lie was a very raw and Impartial
speaker. He rather favored his po
litical enemies to avoid the charge
of unfairness but the Murray-Gaff
ney crowd never forgave him for
returning to the ranks of the regu
lar Republicans.
Smith voted with Grier and Mur
ray on the tax measures and thus
disappointed the resident fisher
v:ho had been counting on his
vote. He it was who proposed that
the Kennecott People should pay a
tax of three percent on their net in