THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
Ted Grosh of Arizona was killed by William
B. Ward, a negro. The negro was sentenced to
death, and now H. Grosh, aged father of the
murdered man, wishes to spring the trap with
his own hands, hang the negro that killed his
son. “There is no objection,” says Mr. Simms,
head of the Arizona prison. If the father is
made happy by killing the murderer that’s all
right, probably.
But if you should read that an Apache Indian
had requested the right to IIANG ANOTHER
Apache, you would say, “Just like a savage.”—
Brisbane.
Primary Returns
The Progressive or Labor candidates seem to
have won a complete victory in the Republican
primaries. In the general election, a great many
voters who registered this time as Republicans,
will vote the Democratic ticket.
Fishermen, miners, working men, the small
business man must remember that our victory is
not complete until after the November election.
November 4th is the date.
The following men are your candidates, pledged
to protect your interests. There is great danger
in scratching:
Dan Sutherland, for Delegate to Congress;
John Rustgard, for Attorney General;
F. J. Hunt, for Territorial Senator;
William D. Grant, for Representative;
C. B. Ferguson, for Representative;
Perry M. Hern, for Representative;
William L. Paul, for Representative.
We stand for Alaska for Alaskans in a real
sense; abolishment of the fish trap; a tax on
non-resident fishermen; the Controller Bill; Elec
tion of all principal Territorial officers; a decent
workmen’s compensation law; a fair and equal
tax on all industry without favoritism; abolish
ment of the J. R. Heckman scheme of closing
the fishing season on August 20th, this last as
being unfair to cannerymen and fishermen, being
in the interests of traps, and not a correct con
servation measure for “If you breed late fish,
you will get late fish.”
Mrs. Samuel G. Johnson
All members of the BROTHERHOOD will be
sorry to learn that Mrs. Samuel G. Johnson, of
Angoon, died on March 23rd last, just one week
after her six-year-old boy died.
There are a few leaders here and there who
inspire the Natives to a more noble effort, who
by their example show them that there is peace
and happiness in living for others.
Samuel G. Johnson and his wife are two Native
Americans who have blazed the way in the town
of Angoon. Both of these were students of the
Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka. They saw it
was good for them to be together, so they mar
ried, and moved to the home of Samuel in An
goon. There they have labored in the church
and in, the village encouraging our people to
reach onward and upward.
In these days, when the papers are full of the
so-called dangers of the solid Indian bloc, it
would be well for the most hysterical to journey
mound and see with their own eyes how large
communities of people live. The town of Angoon
is almost unheard of, and yet about 200 people
live there. The floors are clean:, the food clean,
the children are clean and generally healthy.
The parents are struggling to keep their children
in school. The council have even gone to the
extent of imposing a fine on; any parent who
takes a child out of school without the permis
sion of the council.
Here is a town in which every single person
is a producer of wealth. This term is used to
distinguish between the middle men or the non
producer. All of these people are ultimate con
•suniers.
These people have no Territorial or federal
peace officers of any kind. They cost the Ferri
tory nothing. They are not even allowed a post
office because it happens that the cannery two
miles away has a postoffice in the summer time.
Producers of wealth, ultimate consumers; these
are the real benefactors of Alaska, these are the
real payers of taxes. These are entitled to repre
sentation in government.
In a large measure, the progress of this town
of Angoon is due to Mrs. Samuel G. Johnson.
She is gone. Her book is closed. But she wall
live on in the lives of those who knew her.
Fooling Congressmen
ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
Did you ever hear of Mr. Herbert Hoover’s
asking Congress to make an honest investigation
of Alaska’s fisheries? He talks loudly about
trying to save the fisheries of Alaska and of
making certain personal investigations “on the
ground.” But does anybody know what informa
tion he did get, with whom he talked, what the
testimony was? Is there any public record that
can be produced in, evidence?
Congress is spending millions of dollars in
trying to find out how many millions of dollars
were stolen last year and the year before. Here
in Alaska we have a condition in which the
most gigantic steal is going on right under the
nose of public officials; furthermore, the public
officials directly responsible, being the tools and
creatures of the robbers, dare not tell the pub
lic the truth.
Hearings are had in Washington which are