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^Entered as second-class -matter August
29th, 1923, at the Post ^Office at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March;#, 1879.
'JTOKOTNA, ALASKA. SEPT. 20. 1924
Exploitation of Alas
ka Salmon as Handled
by Secretary Hoover
Washington Herald.
In this incessant putrid drizzle in
\ATashington, an outrage must be extra
.ordinary to gain public attention—and
t;this Alaska salmon outrage is most ex
traordinary.
W,ere it put upon the stage its perpe
trators would make their exit in a gale
.of hisses, for it is more than wrong
from every angle, and when Secretary
jHoover tries to defend the indefensible
lie invites the ;cooclusion that he is
.either utterly ignorant ,of, or utterly
indifferent to, the deplorable conse
quences of his grant,qf this salmon fish
ing monopoly.
Against the testimqny of the people
,of Alaska, who have been robbed of
their right to make a living; against
the findings of two grand juries, which
.exposed a state of moral leprosy;
against the resolution of the Alaska
legislature speaking in the name of
that far-off empire; against the appeals
H.of the Alaska Delegate to Congress;
against the unanimous finding of the
.jllouse committee on merchant marine
.and fisheries; against all these, this
.complacent Cabinet officer stubbornly
lodges his own, solitary, majestic will!
He granted a fishing monopoly which
tbas brought ruin, rottenness and devas
tation, yet he defends his blunder as if
jjit were some fair-haired darling around
^wjhom circled voracious wolves.
Tbe exploitation of this vast salmon
.jSshery which the American people in
trusted to Herbert Hoover’s care is the
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repelling tale of brutal monopoly blud
geoning, corrupting, slaughtering its
wav over every human and national
right and every sense of decency to its
dwu sordid goal.- -
Yet Secretary Hoover has for these
despoilers that tender solicitude whtch
one might.visit upon an orphan in a
storm. The right to fish is nature’s
right; it is one of the.ojdest rights of
man, and upyonder in primitive Alaska
the Indians, the Aleutians and-the Es
kimos, the wards of this nation, fished
in their crude way, as their fathers be
fore them.
The number of salmon they took out
of the waters was negligible, and when
the Big Four Canning Trust looked
over this vast salmon field of the Amer
ican people and decided to seize it for
themselves they had to offer some pre
text, and so they sent a lobby to Wash
ington and told Secretary Hoover that
they wanted a monopoly of the fishing
rights in,Alaska ,in order to conserve
the salmon.
■There is something sublime in the
passion which the pillager has for the
conservation of natural resources!
This lobby .must have been per
suasive; its lips must have blossomed
with eloquence like unto that of Pat
rick Henry; its consecrated purpose
must have bloomed from skyblue eyes,
for-Secretary Hoover straightway gave
the lobby all it asked.
Secretary Hoover seems to have
signed the Big Four’s document as
eagerly as farmers once signed the
notes of lightning rod agents, but there
is this difference between the two
transactions: the farmer paid rlor his
own folly, and the American people,pay
for Mr. Hoover’s folly.
He signed a paper which drove the
natives away from the waters where
they and their fathers had fished, and
he let the Big Four Trust go after sal
mon with traps and every other known
device to take aud destroy salmon ]
wholesale. All this in the name of
conservation!
And he did something else. He said
that in the Cook Inlet the Trust could
pack J20S.000 cases of salmon, when all
they were able to pack with the utmost
effort was 8S.937 cases. ;In Chignik
bay Mr. Hoover said the Trust might
have 150,000 cases. In the interests of
conservation Mr. Hoover set the limit
at about three times as many salmon as
the Trust with all its fish "traps and
wholesale methods of slaughter was
able to takql
The Secretary of Commerce has
“conserved” the salmon of Alaska as
the late General Weyler “conserved’’
the population of Cuba; as a forest fire
“conserves” timber.
ADd this Canning Trust was as vile
as it was ruthless. It imported crews
of Chinese to handle the salmon aod
under such conditions that Alaska suf
fered a reign of lawlessness and im
morality, the like of which she had
never known, and the food of the Amer
ican people was handled by men whose
loathsome affliction with contagious
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice in all Courts.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
diseases made them unfit to be at large.
All of this is told in the reports of the
grand juries on which sixteen women
sat.
The Big Four isjtot only a cannieg
industry; it wholesales and retails, and
therefore fixes the price which the
American citizen shall pay the Canniog
Trust for the salmon which belong to
the American nation.
The contract which the Canning
lobby procured from Secretary Hoover
is not its first.victory over our govern
ment. Only a little while ago this
| same cluster of privilege-seeking stars
| induced a government official to give
! them more for fish supplied to the gov
ernment than the federal trade com
mission said they were entitled to. but
perhaps this Trust derives its greatest
joy from the reflection that during the
world war it sold to the United States
several hundred thousand cases of de
composed salmon for the use of our sol
diers!]
This is the public benefactor whom
i Mr. Hoover now defends so gallantly
against the combined assaults of citi
! zens, grand juries, legislators, and the
House committee on merchant marine
and fisheries!
^President Cool id ge, after hearing the
evidence, verv properly announced that
the salmon slaughter must cease.
J^The plain truth about the entire sit
uation in Washington is that this whole
Cabinet belongs to a regime that has
passed.I
President Coolidge should not be
hampered by a Cabinet that is out of
touch with his ideas and with the sen
timents and with the interests of the
public.
PRESS SQUIBS,
The job of keeping America out of
foreign entanglements might be done
if we could keep foreign entanglements
out of America.—Columbia Record.
Any president can lead Congress if
he can get advance information con
cerning tho way it is going.—Musko
gee Phoenix. ______
What hope have we from a system in
which Wall Street gets our lambs and j
Congress gets our goats?—Columbia
Record. _
The radio is still far behind the
grade-crossing as a means of establish
ing contact with the Infinite.—Life.
The lellow who butts his head against
the stock market knows why it is called
Wail Street.—Charleston Gazette.
The pikers in Congress reflect the
suckers in the electorate.—Columbia
Record.
FIRE!
You folks work mighty
hard for your living.
Why Take Chances
When Insurance
Is So Cheap?
Wire me collect if you want
protection.
San Francisco is: headquar
ters for all companies
on Pacific Coast.
; Maurice A. Gale
General Insurance
38 Sansome Street
San Francisco
A druggist can truthfully say that a
woman’s face is his fortune.—Charles -
ton Gazette.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To R. H. Brown ami Frankie Chew,
vour heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby no
tified that I, the undersigned, your co
owner, have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars per year for the
years 1921, 1922 and 1923 upon the
Pack Mule Association placer mining
claim, situated on Otter creek, a trib
utary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, in order to hold
said claim under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States and the amendments
thereto concerning anuual labor upon
mining claims.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you, or either
of you. fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of said expenditures, as well
as the cost of recording the same, and
the costs of this advertisement, your
interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditure under the terms of said Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
D. S. McDoneul,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Sept. 20. 2924.
Date of last publication, Dec. 27, 1924.
Blackburn
6c Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
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