the fish business for years, who permitted Ketchikan.
Wrangell and Petersburg to go ahead of them a3 fish
eries centers, now rise to speak for the Territory, to
defend the wanton destruction of herring for fertilizer
and meal. As their vie wpoint of the past regarding
the fisheries was way behind the foresight of the other
towns of Alaska, so now they are attempting to des
troy, by aiding and abetting the fertilizer packers, not
only the herring but the salmon industry.
The argument is put forward that the meal is used
for the raising of chickens in California and other
states. Herring was never the natural food of the
chickens, but herring is the natural food of the salmon
and halibut. It would seem more in order for Alaskans
to attempt to preserve and conserve food for their
fisheries than to furnish fodder for California chickens.
Other food can be found for the bird, but there is no
substitute for the salmon.
Of course, the chicken food talk is a lot of camou
flage. The herring men are destroying the fisheries.
They know it and everyone else knows it, but they
think only of today.
Somebody is always getting in the way of the man
who is in the pursuit of happiness.
The Meaning of The
Controller Bill
Continued From Page Three.
lature. Why should Judge Wicker
sham or any other private citizen
be compelled to prosecute these
cases before the courts iu the in
terest of the people if they desire
to correct the present conditions?
If offices under the Territorial Gov
ernment are held illegally, or if
money is appropriated from the
Treasury of the Territory in viola
tion of the provisions of the Or
ganic Act, why should not the pro
secution lie with the individual who
represents, in a legal capacity, the
people who elected him? The ans
wer is that he is denied quo war
ranto authority before the courts
by officials Bureaucrats. He is de
nied the privilege of exercising the
powers conferred on him by the
legislature whereby he could protect
the rights of the humblest citizen
in the court3. He is denied the
privilege of appearing before the
Bureaus in the interest of Terri*
torial citizens. In a word, lie is
denied the right to exercise the pow
ers that were inferrentially con
ferred on him by the citizens of
Alaska when they elected him to of
fice. Verily, a strange and incon
gruous situation lias arisen in the
North. A free people, authorized
to work out their own governmental
salvation, yet finding themselves
hamstrung and shackled at every
turn they make to free themselves
of incumbrances, and even blocked
from entrance to the one tribunal
provided by the American Constitu
tion for the adjudication of their
rights. And yet four Alaskan Sen
ators and seven representatives pre
ferred the present board of control,
which is responsible for these de
plorable conditions, to one to be
selected by the people of the Terri
tory for the protection of their in
terests.
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Ketchikan Grocery
R. W. EDMONDS, Prop.
Redman Building, Phone 71
Night Phone—Green 233
Ketchikan, Alaska
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STR HUGH DENNTSON
Main Features of Speech Before The
Skagway Chamber of Commerce
Sir Hugh stated that he had been
requested by the chairman to give
his idea as to what was the matter
with Skagway and what might be
done to improve the situation here.
It was his opinion that the U. S.
Government had no apparent inter
est in the development of this dis
trict and that if the people of Skag
way wished to improve their con
ditions he made the following sug
gestions. :
1st. That the people of Skagway
endeavor through their representa
tive to Congress, to have the Town
of Skagway and the Skagway val
ley leased for a long period of years
to the Canadian Government for the
purpose of using same as a port for
the development of the Yukon and
northern British Columbia.
In this connection he stated that
at present we had only around
10,000 tourists a year while with
proper handling we should really
SYMPATHETIC HOOVER
l-Jerbert, Hoover is very much concerned over the
serious situation in the flooded areas along the Missis
sippi ltiver. From the public prints we learn; “Sec
retary Hoover is known to be worried over the out
look for the Winter in parts of the valley, and it was
believed he would bring this problem to the attention
of the President. Where crops have been a failure
there is no source of income UNTIL NEXT SEASON,
and destitution therefore seems inevitable through
out the Winter, Mr. Hoover found.”
Then the story goes on and tells how he will urge
the Red Cross to get in and help.
The Great Sympathetic Hoover.
The situation in Alaska is identical. Not a single
fisherman in Southeastern Alaska made his expenses.
Thousands of women and children face “destitution.”
And when their appeals are sent to the Great Sym
pathetic Hoover, even thru the President. “Great
Heart” turns the appeals of the afflicted over to Henry
O’Malley, the “Iron-hearted” and the “Adamant.”
It might be different if Alaska had votes in the
next electoral college.
The pity of the Alaska situation is that Hoover is
to blame, while otherwise in Miesissippi.