This paper is supporting the
entire Republican ticket in the
first Division. They are as fol
lows:
For Delegate to Congress—
Dan Sutherland.
For the Alaska Senate—
Will A. Steel.
For the Alaska House—
Charles Benjamin;
Charles B. Furguson;
William L. Paul;
William A. Worth.
We hear much about the so
called “Independents” in the
First Division and elsewhere,
but no one of them has as yet
advanced a single constructive
plank or principle for which
they will work. Their states
manship seems to be summed
up in these words, “Down the
Indians.”
.Let the Independents an
swer the platform of the reg
ular Republicans plank by
plank, and let the intelligent
citizens judge for themselves
and vote accordingly.
Statement of Principles
The Regular Republican can
didates will support the direct
primary laws;
They will oppose the repeal
of the prohibition laws;
They would abolish fish traps;
They would tax non-resident
fishermen and thus build up a
great resident fishing popula
tion in Alaska;
They would improve the
Workmen’s Compensation Act;
They favor a community pro
perty law to protect wives;
They favor economy in all
departmenut of government
and so are opposed to fish
hatcheries. The charge of
failure made by Charles Gar
field in 1922 in which he said
that fish hatcheries in Alaska
are an absolute failure has not
been disproved although over
$300,000 of the tax payers’
money has been spent in ex
periment. The last stand of
fish hatchery advocates is the
Ketchikan Hatchery, begun in
1923. After three complete
years of effort, with all the
money they needed, Ketchikan
Creek is today BARREN of
fish.
The regular Republicans fa
vor a reorganization of the
Territorial Fish Commission so
that the membership shall be
representative. Th mmbership
of this commission represents
but one idea because dominat
ed by only one man who un
derstands anything about fish,
and this one man has stated
many times that the Loring
Hatchery, where he was for
so long a superintendent, is a
complete failure.
INDEPENDENTS SHO ULD
ANNOUNCE THEIR
PLATFORM
The Independents (?) are
afraid to announce their real
platform, but it is well under
stood.
They will favor the repeal
of the direct Primary Election
laws and throw politics once
more into the convention sys
tem.
They would repeal the Alas
ka Bone Dry Act, altho they
know full well that this law,
passed by Congress, cannot be
repealed by our Legislature.
The repeal is merely intended
to confuse the court and to aid
guilty clients of influential
Juneau lawyers.
They favor catching all the
fish with traps and care noth
ing about our resident fisher
men.
1 hey will support the pres
ent workmen’s compensation
act which protects only the
employer and contains no guar
antee whatever that the injur
ed employee or his family will
get the money which the law
provides.
They would reduce the tax
on cannery products and thus
throw the load on the already
overburdened resident.
Take your choice. Use your
intelligence and don’t be fool
ed by any red-herring about
Indians. The merchants who
have the most money in Alas
ka, got it by trading with
Indians. The more money In
dians make, the more you will
have.
NEW FOX LEASES AID
On the third of July the
United States Senate passed the
House bill authorizing the
leasing of Alaska islands for
fox farming. The limit of
time an island is leased was
raised to ten years and an area
of 30 square miles will be al
lowed under the lease. Many
large islands heretofore un
available under the existing
laws are or will soon be open
to entry.
I he lox ranchers may bene
fit by this new law but it ap
pears to us that the repealing
of some of the several taxes
will be of more immediate
benefit to an over-tax burden
ed infant industry. It is to
be hoped that between the
Federal Game Commission and
the Territorial legislature reme
dial measure will be secured
whereby considerable of the
burdens now imposed on men
of little capital will be per
mitted to get a good foothold
for their business in the Ter
ritory.
That it is to the benefit of
the Chambers of Commerce to
aid this industry is self-evid
ent.—The Alaskan.
LETTER FROM YUKON
PASSENGER
Ketchikan Woman Answers
“Slanderers'* of Ketchikan
Extract from a letter receiv
ed recently by the editor. We
publish it in view of the many
complaints of Alaska and her
moral conditions that certain
daily papers are inserting con
tinually,
“ * * * I wonder if you
observed the exhibition that
was given by a drunken woman
on the dock at Ketchikan when
the Yukon was pulling out.
Some of the leading business
men of the town as well as the
Chief of Police were on-look
ers. It was an edifying spec
tacle for the tourists on the
Yukon. Some of the business
men who stood on the dock
are strong defenders of the
fair name of the Territory. * *”