authorities of British Columbia
recognize this menace for they
send out official boats to destroy
these sealions which Mr. O’Mal
ley protects. And when we com
plained of this fact and of the
dangers these great animals are
to our boats as they often sur
round us, the Bureau advises us
that we may kill them when we
discover them taking fish from
our gear.
Then the Bureau of Fisheries
reduces our trolls from six lines
to four lines—a reduction of one
third, and except for a small
space around Cape Ommancy
ihe troller must stop fishing in
August.
It seems to ns that we are
made the special objects of the
Bureau’s discrimination. Proof of
this is in the Janaury number
of the Pacific Fisherman where
in it is shown that the percent
ages of the salmon catch by the
several types of pear in south
eastern Alaska are as follows:
traps 71 per cent: seines, 25 per
cent; gill nets 1 per cent, troll
ing lines 3 per cent, although 7,
806 trolling lines are engaged in
the business.
Why does the Bureau talk
about the seven thousand eight
hundred and six trolling lines?
Their catch shows how ineffect
ive they are. The only inference
is that they are already under
such heavy handicaps that fur
ther restrictions 1: ■ Mr. O’Malley
are in the directi n of persecu
tion. But the fact? are still worse
because this three per cent in
cludes the four hundred and six
ty thousand pounds of salmon
caught in Hecate Strait by Cape
Flattery trollers and Alaska
trollers and sold in Alaska.
It is to be hoped that the busi
ness men of Alaska will consider
the plight of the troller and add
their protests to ours.
“Play fair; be on the level.
“JUve cleanly; never quit.”
The Unnamed Spirit
By C. O. Parks in The Alaskan
There is an unnamed and un
nameable quality in every hu
man heart which neither disas
ter nor ridicule can discourage,
Rnd which, in truth, thrives
most amazingly under oppres
sion and abuse.
It is not patriotic zeal, it is not
pride of race—it partakes of
both but is higher in the emo
tional scale than either. It is a
principle in the motivation of
human conduct so well establish
ed that it cannot be ignored It
is characteristic of all peoples of
every race and clime, even to
some extent in the lowiiest sav
age but becoming more pro
nounced in those peoples who
have become conscious of num
bers and the need of co-ordina
tion in government. It has been
the fundamental cause of every
revolution in history, yet it is
not greed of power nor jealosy of
the efforts cf others. It may be
described as that universal de
sire on the part of the governed
to be a member of the sovereign;
to have the right to acquiesce in
the proposals of those whom he
may delegate to legislate for him
or dissent from the mandates in
matters which concern him in
his enjoyment of those other
rghts wl lich statesmen have pro
nounced inalienable—the right
to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, the light to express
his preference or choice among
these who would exercise au
thority over him, even to the
point of withdrawing or trans
ferring his fealty whenever in
his judgment his own individual
interest (which includes the wel
fare of the state) would be serv
ed by so doing. No man who is
worthy of the name would delib
erately choose to be or become
an abject slave even if such a
bondage meant freedom from
economic worry. No man would
wil.ingly relinquish his right to
think for himself.
Yet we have in our own coun
try in this year of 1930 a despot
whose authority is absolute; a
men whose word is law and who
can make regulations as fast as
he can think; whose rulings af
fect the lives of freeborn Ameri
can citizens, and against whose
mandates we have neither ap
peal nor redress Neither were
we allowed to exercise any pre
f : :t "ce as to what manner of
man should exercise such an ab
solute dictatorship over us.
History is replete with instanc
es of such despots having lost
their heads, lost their thrones
or at least lost the respect and
fidelity of their subjects In fact,
in all recorded history, only two
such usurpers have survived,
Mussolini of Italy and King
O’Malley of Alaska, and they, too
should ponder well the fate of
their kind.
We submit that such a dictat
orship as Henry O’Malley’s, is
un-American and unworthy of a
free-born race of thinking men.
If it be true that the world’s
tyrants have been unwittingly
the world’s greatest benefactors,
then even that Russia which fin
np'm'ivjf he” Czar,
should honor King O’Malley—he
has made and is making more
Bolshiviks in Alaska than any
other man can be given the
credit (or blame) for.
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