The Ketchikan miner., 1915-05-13

part of tho Dlvis.on ure as one man on the question and we in this region must be the same.
 The interests of all ol Southeastern Alaska are identical, we are perm anently settled, and able financially to support any form of government, and until we do this we shall have no satisfactory laws.
 Southeastern Alaska will eventual ly become one of the greatest terri tories and states in the Union. We have mining, fishing, timber water power and scenic resources not equal led anywhere on earth, and I see a day coming when SC shall have a government of our own in fact.'
 At the conclusion of Mir Sulzer s speech. Chairman Beegle told of his observations of the situation at ,Ju- neau, and how Senator Sulzer in the upper house and the "Solid Four' representing Southeastern Alaska in the lower house had stood together in the defence of this region against the onslaughts of the marauders from the other divisions. "And at the head of that Solid Four'', said MT. Beegle, "was Representative Heck man, whom I take great pleasure in asking to speak to you tonight.' '
 MT. Heckman's s Speech
 In part MT. Hickman said. "When l promised to speak here tonight l thought it would be to just small gathering of the Commercial Club, and am surprised and gratified at the number of people here. I am not much of a speechmaker, and in Juneau where Mir. Sulzer and I have at var lous times spoken on the same topic as We have so often, I have almost always simply said in following him, that l concur with what he has said. as he always covered the subject un- der discussion so thoroughly, and let it go at that, because he always GOV CTS every phase of a subject, so it is tonight, and you must excuse me if ] go over the same ground he has,
 In the lower house I experienced the same opposition to any measure proposed for this region that MT. Sulzer did in the upper house. Why practically every member of the house told me that we were entitled to all the Forest money but that their people would expect them to bring part of it home so they would do it irres- pective of the right or wrong of it, simply because they had the votes.
 We found that the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions had made up their minds that the First Division should pay the taxes for tine entire Territory, and the fact that the salmon industry has been levied on to pay $132,000 to $S0,000 from all the other industries including the noted and fabulously rich gold mines of the north, shows that they had the voting strength to mt their plans into exc cation.
 Those men from the north came down to Juneau with the Idea that the fisheries of this region was clear ing up millions of dollars every year, when in fact l have figures to prove that for the past several years the average profits for the immense bus mess done has not been to exceed six hundred thousand dollars a year, and the amount of taxes levied by the Legislature just closed is close to 23 per cent of that amount, and com pare that with the protests both loud and long the Nome mining interests put up against a one per cent. tax on their mines, which they were even. tually forced into, but they utterly refused to pay any taxes on their dredges.
 tell you, when you see such work as this, you feel that there Is no way out of it but separate territory of our own. We have to foot the bills for the whole thing now, and are then not allowed to say how our money shall be expended, and I am ready now to do everything in my power to further the separate territory move ment
 Now as to how 1 voted on other matters: l am opposed to a poll tax and fought it. do not believe that laboring man making a meger $2.O0 per day should be compelled to come through with $4oO per year. Why if the different industries came through at that rate the treasury would have millions in it at this moment. The attempt was made in both the House and the Senate to put Poll Tax legislation through, but thank goodness they came at the time that the different houses were dead