Route 11: Box 185;
Seattle, Washington
• August 14,th 1927
My dear Paul:
Last ‘Evening Seattle Times’
(13th inst.), carries a Ketchikan
despatch stating the fact that your
salmon packing season had been
suddenly closed at 8 o’clock that
same evening—that O’Malley had
rushed to lock the stable door af
ter the horse had been stolen!—
that up to August 6th last you had
only 102,000 cases of salmon pack
ed as against 679,000 cases at same
date last year.
On the 27th of October, 1921,
standfhg so as to face across the
table of the Committee of Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries, the
Caliber’s delegation from Seattle
and Alaska, I told them that they
were destroying the salmon runs of
Alaska with the supine and anemic
permission of Hoover and O’Malley:
and, that in 4 years from Jan. 1,
1922, that ruin would be effected
by them as they were going on.
Here is the proof of my asser
tion which I quote above:—they
put the finishing touch on last
year, and the collapse is now just
officially admitted by Hoover and
his associates.
’ Cet out your copy of that Hear
ing on H. R. 2394, of Oct. 27, 1921,
and on pp. 63, 64, 65, 66, observe
and note what. I said then to those
banners and their spokesmen, E.
tr. McCord—plain words which not
one of them disputed when I chal
lenged them to do so! (See foot
of page 65).
I told Sutherland a year ago last
April (1926), that the end to Alas
ka salmon packing would come by
the close of the season of 1927—
that 1926 the canners would get
every .-salmon that came up from
ihe sea—get them so well that their
catch of 1927 would make the con
trast hideou3 and beyond dispute.
“What (official) fools (and
(knaves) these (official) mortals
are.” The fish traps have trapped
Hoover and O’Malley at last! Let
them smother in the “pot” of that
trap as they richly deserve to.
Faithfully yours,
HENRY W. ELLIOTT.
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