from the Territory.
It will be observed that the
faint cry of Alaska against her
impositions is gradually growing
into a stentorian roar back in
the States (Ed. note: Thanks to
Dan Sutherland.). It appears
the psychological moment for
Alaska to take up the old fight
for home rule and carry it to a
finish with the guarantee that
she will have many minds, like
that of Richard Washburn Child
to assist her.—Seward Gateway.
PAPER INDUSTRY FOR
ALASKA
A large paper-making concern
is said to be holding .tentative
awards for a big tract of spruce
and.hemlock in Alaska, suffi
cient to .supply raw material for
lifty years to a mill of 500 tons
Gaily capacity.
Whether or not this particular
deal results in construction of
a paper mill in Alaska, it is cer
tain that vast pulp wood re
sources of the Northern Terri
tory will be drawn upon event
ually for much of the paper
used in the Western States.
Migration of the pulp and pa
per industry to the Pacific
Northwest has been one of the
most important developments
of the last decade in this area.
It has brought an investment of
more than $20,000,000 in this
State in the last few years. Our
supplies of suitable woods may
be said to be inexhaustible, for
they will be taken largely from
forest reserves on a sustained
basis. But uses of paper and
pulp are multiplying, and it will
not be long drawn before Alas
ka’s timber resources can be
profitably drawn upon. Estab
lishment of the paper-making
industry will greatly accelerate
the development of the Northern
Territory.—Seattle Times.
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PETTING THE BUREAUS
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Editor’s note: The following
i> an editorial reprinted from
The ALASKAN and is in reply
to “Subscriber” who decries the
lack of “tact and diplomacy” in
criticising the Bureau of Fisher
ies and the Forest Bureau.
This position is one every Alas
kan should take.
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On another column we publish
a letter criticising the policy of
the ALASKAN for not using
‘ tact and diplomacy” in its ef
fort to secure changes of policy
of the Forest and Fisheries Bu
reaus.
The ALASKAN and its owners
have done everything but kiss
the tees of the Fisheries Bureau
in efforts to secure a change of
policy that would be of general
benefit to every one in the Ter
litory. Failing in that the only
alternative is to fight back.
Nothing has ever been accomp
iished for the territory by tact
end diplomacy—nothing of gen
eral benefit. We admit that the
bureau heads parcel out favors
to those- who have financial pow
er back of them—but to the
working stiff, the fisherman, be
he white or Native, nothing has
been secured from the Fisheries
Bureau but what it was obtained
by carrying the fight to Wash
ington.
How is “tact and diplomacy”
going to stop the giving of spe
lb
cial privileges—open navigable
waters to certain interests where
they may fish with big traps and
at the same time prohibit a poor
seiner, with a rag of a seine,
from fishing closer than 300 feet
from that trap Where is the
‘“act and diplomacy” that se
cured the revocation of the now
infamous “hook-off” regulation?
Where is the “tact and diploma
cy that is making effort to better
trolling conditions?
The omy protest has been
made by the Alaska Native Broth
erhood. Instead of sitting in the
pool halls and bemoaning the
conditions, they established their
own organs to publish the facts
which are perverted and distort
ed by the press of the territory;
they sent suggestions in the form
of resolutions to congress and to
congressmen, to organizations
whose interest they held; they
exposed the machinations of the
Bureau. They gave blow for
blow until they have the bu
reau of fisheries on the defens
ive.
Blows, not tact and diplomacy
earned for this country its free
dom from the yoke of King
George the Third. And condi
tions in Alaska are not one whit
different from those stirring
times.
And the people of the Terri
tory are awakening to the fact
that they have been lulled to
sleep by “tact and diplomacy”
too long. They are awakening!
Ml!
KARL HANSEN
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