between prostitution and usurpation of the
rights of the citizens as laid down by the
framers of the constitution, we hold that the
former is the lesser of the two and certainly
the older of the evils. * * * We rise up to
to denounce officials who would by the injunc
tion route remove the vested rights of the
people, the right to a trial by jury.”
Here are some “red herring” in the form of
“constitutional rights of the owners of houses
used by prostitutes.” Mr. Morrissey, former
president of the Ketchikan Rotary Club and
the Ketchikan Commercial Club, knows and
the owners of the houses used by prostitutes
know to what use those houses are put. If
property owners are not decent enough to stop
renting tneir Duuaings tor uniawtul purposes,
the law must lay its heavy hand on them.
“Constitutional rights” are for those who obey
the law. The injunction is only for those who
“fail to abide by the orders of the court.” Who
is there to complain when property owners
knowingly rent their buildings to prostitutes
for high rent? Can they plead ignorance?
Are they ignorant of the unlawful use when
houses that are worth only $20 to $30 a month
command $100 and more per month?
Ed. Morrissey Once Carried An I. W. W. Card
is there a sinister and concealed threat in the
following paragraphs of the editorial? Is Ed.
Morrissey, owner of the Ketchikan Chronicle,
still a secret member of the I: W. W.?
The Business Men of Ketchikan, the Rotary
Club, and the Ketchikan Commercial Club, must
look to themselves if incendiarism is to be
countenanced by the paper which exists by
their favor. (Parts in parenthesis are ours.)
“Let them close their bawdy houses if they
will. Let them combat crime as they will,
But Let All Officials, High or Low, Beware
of invading the rights of the people. As the
lowly of old rose up and gave their lifeblood
for the Magna Charter, so in the days to come
will the people rise to bring back (the pros
titutes) to themselves those conditions of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness which the
forefathers of America handed down.
“It was predicted, during the constitutional
convention that such a government could not
live more than 150 years. That designated
period is drawing close, It will be but a dozen
years until it is reached. There is not much
chance of the American democracy breaking in
that time, but the drift is becoming so steady
in that direction that the prediction may not
be so fat off.**>i \'y2\ V »>vJ.
And all this rot from the pen of an Edward
G. Morrissey, former .President of ;the Rotary
Club and the Commercial - Club of Ketchikan
because some fifty prostitutes have been driven
out of town by the officers,pf „the .Vnijbejd States
in line of duty, under,.order? .Jrprp ^Washington,
D. C., and under .the PregideptL. of the United
States by virtue ; of the \ver<y Constitution of
the United States. ,
Look to the East! /. 1'
HUXLEY WAS RIGHT
Henry O’Malley the gentlemen who-functions
as United States Commissioner* of Fisheries and
who annually signs on the dotted-line the re
gulations prepared by the fish trust for the Al
aska fisheries held a conference in Washington
early in January which was attended by all his
subordinates including those who tun errands
for the Alaska packer^ and • call themselves
scientists. Here’s an extract* from -a report of
this gathering carried in the Washington Star
of January 9th. “
“There were tales dL harrowing> hard
ships; of investigators risking i>*heir Hives
in icy waters off the cbast of Alaska* in at
tempts to measure the depths of the sea and
to take temperatures and collect other data
which will some day, it was predicted,
make it possible to predict" with, accuracy
the movement of fishes and to ‘tell; other
circumstances of vital ^interests to the fish
industry.” * --- • w \
It’s a sad tale, shipmates; of thd dangers and
the hardships on the sea. It should-bring tears
to the eyes of an Alaska fish trap owner to
think of the sacrifice - these boys make for him.
Chilled to the marrow in theV icy.'waters of the
Alaska coast, undergoing ‘‘harrowing hardships”
such as cause ones pulse to flutter when the
tale is told in 'a steam heated rooifirtn Wash
ington. All that Professor Huxley, said was
that “Liars are of three varieties.-- There are
liars, dam liars and * scientific .-^experts” and
Huxley certainly knew-his subject.*;
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