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.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
THE ALASKA FISHERMAN RECOMMENDS:
James Wickersham for Delegate to Congress.
He is remembered for getting the College at Fair
banks, the Alaska Railroad, and the very legisla
tive system for which we are now voting. But
his greatest service was when he, single-handed,
defeated the infamous Alexander Fish Bill, which
would have given a leasehold similar to the one
now advocated by Rustgard for a long term of
years. He talked the bill to death.
Frank L. Knight for Treasurer. Frank has be
longed to a Labor Union ever since he began to
work and still belongs. He is an able courteous
gentleman who has not been spoiled by seventeen
years as an appointed treasurer.
Cash Cole for Auditor. You should cast your
vote for a sober man—a man who has always sup
ported the cause of the fishermen and at a time
when we had few friends in the legislature.
William K. Keller for Commissioner of Edu
cation. Here is a school man who impresses you
as a school man and who is not dumb.
Will A. Steel for Senator. He has a fine, liber
al record and has the endorsement of Dan Suther
land and every other progressive Republican.
J. E. Johnson, of Ketchikan William L. Paul,
of Ketchikan; Peter Sommer, of Petersburg; Grov
er Winn, of Juneau. These men will work for the
best interests of the residents of Alaska.
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JOHN RUSTGARD
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On October 10th, 1928, Mr. Rustgard wrote me
as follows: “There is no chance, in my estimation,
of putting over the Controller bill unless at least
half of the members in one house or another
are pledged to the plank of “no appropriation of
Territorial funds must be made for operating any
federal office.” > 3 .
_This is the same Rustgard who now says: “It
would seem obvious that the peace, progress and
prosperity of Alaska demands the closest and
friendliest cooperation between Territorial and
Federal agencies with the Territory. * * * It shall,
therefore, be my aim to establish and maintain
the friendliest relations with the Federal Govern
ment and its several agencies in Alaska.”
Mr. Rustgard promises “to cooperate with the
Bureau of Fisheries in securing the best possible
fishing regulations” when every intelligent person
knows that our only relief has come through
FIGHTING THE BUREAU. It was my fight a
sisted by my friends that caused the repeal of the
rule against the “hook-off.”
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RUSTGARD’S QUEER BEDFELLOWS
Rustgard’s former political associates were
Dan Sutherland, Will Steel, Cash Cole, James
Wickersham, William D. Grant, and myself. He
was bitterly opposed by John Troy, John Pegues,
Bert Faulkner and R. E. Robertson, Tom Gardner
and others.
Today, his chief political advisor is the un
speakable John Pegues, and others.
Have we changed?
We are today running on the very platform
which Rustgard himself wrote. But Rustgard has
even gone to the limit of accusing Sutherland of
being “dishonest” and a fool, and of introducing
bills into Congress “Without reading” them.
He bids for Indian votes and yet insults them
when he says that Sutherland will not; read any
thing “unless it is smeared with fish oil.”
RUSTGARD UNFAITHFUL TO HIS FRIENDS
In 1925, while Rustgard was an applicant for
the judgship of the First Division, he wrote a fine
endorsement for William D. Grant for U. S. Mar
shal, and then he SECRETELY withdrew the en
dorsement.
ON TRAP LEASES
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Rustgard’s only reason for favoring trap-leas
es is to enao> him to collect a tax This really
means such a lease-hold as will have value WITH
OUT actual occupation—in other words, it is the
damnable Alexander Fish Bill which Wickersham
defeated in its worst form—otherwise what good
would it be to sell a trap lease?
RUSTGARD’S KETCHIKAN INTERVIEW
In Ketchikan, Rustgard defended the trap
system because he said it caught better and
cheaper fish. ’