THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second - class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
TERRITORIAL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
met informally one night and some one suggested that
a proposed Republican Platform be adopted for the
entire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other
discussions for the consideration of the Republican
Party in Alaska, to-wit;
1. Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices:
2. Separation of Territorial offices from federal offices;
3. Equitable taxation;
4. Trap-tax baised on catch;
5. Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen;
6. Repeal by Congress of Section 27 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
“THE VERSTOVIAN DEPARTS FROM FACTS”
Thus begins an editorial in the Juneau Empire. As
between the veracity of John W. Troy, editor of the
Empire, and the Rev. James H. Condit, D. D., editor
of the Verstovian, not a single person in ALL
ALASKA will hesitate for a isingle moment. That
should end the argument.
And yet it is necessary to meet y the argument in
another respect.
The Empire charges that it has a letter written
by William L. Paul offering to “deliver to the Dem
ocratic Party 500 to 1,000 organized Indian votes.”
The Empire has no such letter; or has anybody
else. The very fact that the Empire during all these
years has never printed such a letter, the very fact
that this is the first time, the Empire has alleged
that it had ever received such a letter, should be
proof enough that there is no such letter.
William L. Paul delivers nothing. So long as he
is honest with the laboring clasa, whether white or
Indian, he will have their support. John W. Troy
and the Democratic Party could have such support
by following the same course.
STROLLER WHITE
In a recent editorial, the Stroller got rathy at
William L. Paul, called him a breed, and credited him
with dominating the regular Republicans of the last
legislature. ^
Do you know what is the matter with Stroller
White? His wife has been getting $100 a month
for doing nothing at the Territorial Museum. The
last legislature changed the law so that the Stroller
cannot get that indirect pension. We would think
more of Stroller White if he would put his own feet
in the trough.
THOMAS M. GAFFNEY
Alaska’s Sir Edward Carson, with apologies to
Thomas Moore the Irish poet.
“The Harp that once through labor’s halls,
The cau'se of labor plead,
Is now as deaf to labor’s call,
As though that cause were dead.
So sleep the pride of former days,
So glory’s thrill is O’er,
And hearts that once beat high for praise,
Now feel that pulse no more.”
“The Harp who love of freedom boasts
Hats wandered far away,
And joined the plutocratic hosts,
To get what’ere he may.
No more along Nome’s golden beach,
Will labor’s woes be told,
Nor Federation doctrine preach,
Its standards to uphold.”
“The Harp who once sang loud for Strong,
Now wears the brand of Troy,
Now sings the plutocratic song,
But not in notes of joy,
Farewell and once again farewell,
The Harp of halcyon dayis,
The bureaucratic chorus swell, i 11
With autocratic lays.”
manors note.—bir Edward Carson was ^ne of the
strongest opponents of Home rule for Ireland. He rep
resented in parliament what is known in England as
a “rotten borough” or a very small constituency usu
ally controlled by some lord or squire, quite similar
to Lomen’s control of Nome. It is reasonable to be
lieve that Gaffney’s change of heart on the home rule
question was brought about by the Lomen influence
to which he owed his election to the legislature.