count the nuts stored away in the caches by the
squirrels and chipmunks for the winter use.—
In another metropolitan daily we noted the
assertion that the Biological Survey in its war on
predatory animals has adopted the policy of kill
ing predatory animals down to a few seed and
leaving those in order to perpetuate their jobs.
Sure, if they killed off all the predatory game,
there would not be much use for plenty of nuts.
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ROTARY BALLOT
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A prominent candidate before the next pri
maries asserts that the Brotherhood vote is not
going to amount to much because of passage of
the Rotary Ballot. May be so! It was stated in
Juneau recently from reliable sources that the
Rotary Ballot is not going to be used!
The lily white politicians who have been
damning Indian vote in the First Division fear
that they will lose some 1,500 Indian votes in the
ether three Divisions. Sweat on, politicians,
sweat on!
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JUST A PLAIN ECONOMIC PROBLEM
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The political issues in Alaska are not political
issues in that sense of the word. They are econo
mic issues. Party lines mean nothing to ninety
per cent of the voters for party lines bring noth
ing to the general public of Alaska. Though party
lines has foisted upon Alaska many and various
diseases to its body politic—assisted by the type of
political prostitutes who would rape their own
political sisters.
There is only one thing of interest in Alaska
—Do we get a chance to work and earn sufficient
to eat or do we not? The men who stand out and
will declare emphatically without equivocation
that they will work for the elimination of the
salmon trap system; for the abolishment of the
czaristic power of Commissioner O’Malley; will
have as big a following as Dan Sutherland ever
had. For the prime interest of every voter in Alas -
ka—outside of the imported federal fly-by-nights,
is to get enough to eat and to clothe the loved
ones.
Alaska dees not have a bread line because of
the credit system which the business men have
extended. But the wholesalers in the states are
lightening up on their credits and in order to re
tain their standing, Alaska business men „ niust
curtail on local credits. Times have been getting
tighter and more have been digging clams, killing
deer and birds out of season to stop the battle
between the belly button and the spinal column.
So far the Democrats have a plank for home
rule of fisheries but Delegate Wickersham has
introduced such a bill. There is not much hope
that this bill will be enacted into law. But, with
the active support of the next legislature, such a
bill would have a greater chance to pass than
this year. And when candidates for office refuse
to get back of such a program or any kind of a
program they cannot get away from the many
slurs which will be cast upon them.
It is the beginning of the finish. The candi
dates will invite the sentence.
A Bill To Kill Independent Salmon Operators
To provide for the protection
of fish by requiring reports on
the location of canneries in
Alaska, and prohibiting certain
salmon unlawfully caught from
being brought into the United
States, and for other purposes.
(Omit the part struck through)
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Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the
Ant entitled ‘‘An Act for the
protection of the fisheries of
Alaska, and for other purposes,”
approved June 6, 1924 (U. S. C,
title 48, secs. 221-228), is amend
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ed by adding at the end thereof
the following new section:
Sec.9. It shall be unlawful to
operate any cannery within tue
jurisdiction of the United States
in Alaska unless a report shall
have been filed with the Secre
tary of Commerce not later than
December 1 of the preceding
calendar year, stating the pro
posed place or location of op
eration, and “C cannery shall
shall have been hied nor shall
a cannery be operated in more
than one location in any cal
endar year: Provided, That in
respect to operations in 1931 the
required information regarding
place or location of operations
may be filed within thirty days
after approval of this Act.”
Sec. 2. The second paragraph
of section 1 of such Act is a '
mended to read as follows:
“It shall be unlawful to im
port or bring into any place
subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States, for purpose?;
other than personal use and
not for sale or barter, salmon
from waters outside the juris
diction of the United States
taken during any closed period
provided for by this Act or re
gulations made thereunder.”