be pressed by hunger to vote for
their bellies. The natives are
voting for the right to make
their living in the land of their
fathers. The white fishermen in
the great majoiily are voting for
the right to stay in this country.
The Juneau Vote
The Juneau vote cannot be ex
plained in the same way for the
vast majority of that vote have
NO economic problem. They get
their pay checks from Washing
ton D. C. and therefore the
People of Juneau are privileged
to vote their hates.
The Paradox
Not a few deluded church
members, Christians so-called,
cf Juneau and Ketchikan unwit
tingly joined forces with the
white-collared gentry who prey
epon the unfortunate denizens
cf the underworld, and gave to
George Grigsby a majority vote.
The bootleggers know that
George is for them—that he is
one of their best customers (al
tho we doubt if he ever pays for
what he drinks), but why the
church members?
And yet we do not despair.
While Aliab still reigns and Je
zebel is his queen, Elijah is still
the prophet of the Lord.
The Next Campaign
It is apparent even now that
the great issue of the next
campaign will be the MORAL
Question. Are the citizens of
Alaska going to submit to a gov
ernment beholden to bootleg
gers, to wife beaters, to John
Pegueses and to the Fd Morris
seys who said that ‘‘he knew
not ‘Black Matt’ and yet knew
him better than anybody else?
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ALASKA'S POPULATION
From The Juneau Empire
The Director of the Census has
announced that the population
for Alaska for 1030 was 59,278.
This is a gain of 4.242 over the
returns of 1920 when the popu
lation was 55,036. While this
gain was appreciable, it em
phasises the slowness of the Ter
ritory’s growth. In fact, the
Territory is still less papal is
than it was in 19C0 and 1910. in
which years the returns ware
respectively 63,592 and 64.3"6
Alaska’s largest decer.n’nl
growth was between 1890 and
1900, from 32 052 to 63,592. In
1880 the populat on was 33 '93,
according to the Federal enn n
craticn. It was estimated that
there were 30,000 in the Terri
tory in 1867 when the Uni ed
States took it over from Rusua
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