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gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
"fckotna. Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, October 25. 1950.
GEORGE B. GRIGSBY URGES
MORE HOME RULE IN HIS
ADDRESS AT FAIRBANKS
Expressing the conviction that he
■will be elected in the November elec
, tion arid that he will be Alaska’s
next Delegate to Congress, George
B. Grigsby, Democrat, made the first
major speech of his campaign in
Fairbanks a few nights ago. He ad
dressed a capacity audience in the
Empress Theater and was accorded
an enthusiastic reception, says the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
An increased measure of home rule
was the main theme of Mr. Grigsby’s
Address, says the News-Minr. Be
fore Alaska can progress as it should
the people of the Territory must be
allowed u> legislate for themselves
and natural resources must be
thrown open to development, the
speaker asserted.
Personalities di^nJt play an im
portant part in Mro. Grigsby’s ad
dress, but he did assail James Wick
ersham, his Republican opponent, for
what be termed Mr. Wickersham’s 1
betrayal of those who believed in
hire by reversing his stand on fish
traps and accepting a large legal fee
for drawing up a bill for the can
neries he had formerly opposed.
Before speaking about the Dele
gate contest Mr. Grigsby urged sup
port for other Democratic candidates
for Territorial offices, praising the
records and abilities of Thomas Gaff
ney, Anthony Karnes, Richard Hard
icastle and William Hesse.
The speaker thanked Fairbanksans
for the majority vote they gave him
two years ago against Delegate Dan
A. Sutherland. In outlining his
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F. C. H. Spencer
Takotna, Alaska
Alaskan residence Mr. Grigsby sai
he served as assistant U. S. attorre;
at Nome for several year* and va
U. S. attorney from 1908 to 191C
Latft- he became mayor of Nome an<
in 1917 wa sworn in as Alaska’s firs
attorney-general, being elected to fil
Delegate Charles Sulzr's unexpirei
term.
Mr. Wickersham is taking to
much credit when he claims to be thi
father of the Alaska Railroad, as
serted the speaker. He described th
bill which provided for the road a
being the measure of a Democrat!
administration and put through b}
its leaders. “I want Mr. Wirkershan
to have all the credit to whih he i
entitled for ooperating, but he shoulc
not try to take lredit for being th<
father of the railroad,” asserted Mr
Grigsby.
He denoun sed the organic act o:
the Territory put through Congres;
by Mr. Wickersham and indicted i
on a number of counts, claiming thai
it allows less self-government thai
enjoyed by any other Territory o:
the United States at any time.
“The organic act is an insult to th<
people of Alaska,” Mr. Grigsby tol<
his hearers. Among the defect;
whirh he claims exists in the act are
It does not allow the Territory’ t<
establish the length of residence nec
essary before divorce can be secured
It makes it necessary for Alaska
cities to go to Congress fore permi
sion to bond themsehre.
It does not allow Alaska to legis
late on liquor and gambling.
Most important of all it does no!
confer on the Territory’ the right tc
pass legislation on fish and game.
“W can'll legislate here or
whether we can shoot a duck or a
grouse or catch fur-bearing animals,”
he said. Granting of authority tc
Alaska to pass its own divorce and
gambling and liquor laws is princi
pally important only inasmuch as it
would show that Congress recognizes
the fact that Alaskans are capable of
riding themselv^p, There has been
no other territory that did not have
these privileges as a matter of
course, Mr. Grigsby declared, and he
added that increased home rule is es
sential to the country's development.
The fish industry is the Territory’s
most important industry. From it
the major portion of the Territory’s
revenues come, and Mr. Grigsby sees
no reason why Alaska should not
have control of this industry from a
legislative standpoint. If elected, he
promised tq do all he can to have
control of the fisheries transferred
from the federal government to the
Territory.
“The Territorial Legislature should
have the authority to legislate on the
fish industry,” he said. “We are more
familiar with conditions than Wash
ington can be, and as American citi
zens we are entitled to pass our own
laws relative to the fish industry as
well as others.”
The speaker praised the residents
of the Territory as being eminently
qualified to legislate for themselves.
“There has never been a more law
abiding population in any Territory,”
he declared. “There never has been
a higher average of intelligence;
there never have been people who
rad so much good literatur; they are
better informed on what i#> going on
in the world than the average person
Outside. There never have been peo
ple more fitted for self-government.”
The conservation policy applied to
Alaska has held back the country’s
development, Mr. Grigsby informed
his audience. He said Democrats in
the last three presidential elections
have pledged themselves to self-gov
ernment for Alaska.
Mr. Grigsby charged Mr. Wicker
sram with “selling his political influ
ence” in drawing up the fish trap
licensing bilL
In drawing up the bill Mr, Wieker
sham collected a fee of several thou
sand dollars, the speaker declared,
for a piece of legal work any othei
lawyer would have done for a hu*i
i dred dollars,- and Mr. Grigsby claim
T the large fee was paid to secure Mi
* Wickersham's political support.
“I claim the fish trap bill is a vi
1 cious bill,” the Democratic candidate
t declared. He said it was to the credi
1 of Delegate Sutherland that he re
1 fused to introduce the measure b
Congress when urged to do so b;
> William Paul, native leader who wa
; working in conjunction with Mr
- Wickersham.
i When Alaskans vote this fall the]
i will be registering either approval o:
: disapproval of the national govern
■ ment, said Mr. Grigsby,
i He charged that publis works ii
i the States were being speeded n(
1 while men were being laid off front
f the Alaska Railroad in large numbers
. solely to lessen unemployment Out
side before the elections, and thai
Alaska, with no voice in national af
i fairs, was being entirely disregarded
“What would have been spent hen
. to keep the railroad going as it was
i before the recent reductions wouldn't
have been a drop in the bucket com
pared to what is being spent Outside
to make people think that they have
I prosperity under the present admin
: istration,” claimed Mr. Grigsby.
“The people of Alaska should vot«
the Democratic ticket as a protest
against the treatment being accorded
the people along the railroad belt,"
he said.
Congress in authorizing construc
tion of the railroad knew it would
not pay for many years and fully ex
pected to meet an annua] deficit, Mr.
Grigsby asserted. He said the road’s
managers have been forced by au
thorities at Washington to cut down
expenses at the expanse of service
and maintenace and they have not
been allowed “to operate the railroad
for the purpose for which it was
constructed—to develop Alaska.”
Mr. Grigsby was applauded when
he said that by abolishing coal
leases, throwing timber land open
and applying home rule a papulation
.would be drawn to the railroad belt
which would make the line pay.
“We are victims of Eastern fad
dists who want to save Alaska for
future generations.”
MACHINE MINING CUTS
COSTS IN BUTTE MINES
BUTTE, Mont.—The automatic
machine, scientific processes and
combinations are sweeping all classes
| of workers into the employment
army.
Due to the modern machinery 100
miners get out as much ore in the
Butte mines as 400 did in the old
days of Marcus -Daly and Tanner U.
S. Senator Clark. Yet these men,
operating on 10 and Tl-cent copper,
made hundreds of millions of dollars.
One man at a local manganese
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tj INCOME TAX SLUMPS.
i WASHINGTON.—Income tax col
r lections as of September 19 indicate
, a drop of $42,000,000 as compared
with the same period last year, with
a net loss to the treasury for the
> current fiscal, year of $177,000,000.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
You, Ralph J. Rivers, Hans Gal
neck, co-owncrs with the undersigned
' in the Garnet Lode Claims No.
No. 2, iNo. 3 and No.’,4, situated on
the rcght limit -of Otter, <o» Mala
muto Pup, in Otter . Recording Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, will please
take notice that the srtidersigned, for
the years of 1927, 1928, 1929, did
perform more than $1,200.00 worth
of work far the benelt of the above
described claims. If each of your
proportionate share of assessment
work dues is not paid within ninety
days after 'last publication of this no
tice, your interest in each of tbe
1 claims ■will become forfeit to the
undersigned in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
RASMUS, NIELSEN.
First publication, September 27,
1930.
Last publication, December 27,
1930. 21
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