The Alaska daily empire., 1920-10-06
SUTHERLAND DEMOGOGUERY.

Dan Sutherland, Wickite candidate LOT Dele6d'e to Congress is now engaged in campaign of abuse painst officials for mot enforcing the laws He says if they would enforce the prohibition laws better anu do urging the people to be yigilant against the danger of outbreaks of Red Radicals there Wouio be less class feeling.
 Mir Sutherands campaign against the oHlclals for ncn-enforcement of is based upon fasehood like much of his campaign is But Wlckltes Ike falsehood campaign premise. At least they seem always to choose it.
 It is true that lawbreakers escape the whip of justice in Alaska elsewhere in the country They escape it because the law gives those accused or crime the presumption of innocence until guilt Is proved beyond all reasonable doubt Then they es- cape because the verdict of the jury must be unan to convict, and many jurors are prone to acqut for many crimes. Some of those who howl loudest against the officials for not enforcing the law when called to do jury service stretch a point to vote mot guilty" Sometime ago The Empire compiled some statistics the way jurors viewed prohibition en- forcenent in Juneau for instance, and it discovered thatsthere acquitals in more than so per cent of such which came up for trial. As said, many the most persistent critics of those charged witht law enforcement have been the jures which voted for acquittal
 No officers anywhere enforce the law unless theybhave the cooperation of the people. They enforce the law if those laying claim being lead ing citizens refuse to cooperate and only criticse and hamper those who doing their best to discharge their trusts
 The wickite candidate for Delegate Congress has Fbeen of the most persistent of those in Alaska to crticise harrass and obstruct officials the discharge of their duties He gives infor- nation he professes to have to public officers He goes before Grand Juries with his boasted in formation Instead, he hides in the dark watches and waits for opportunity make political capital out of the situation. He has praed a great deal about miscarriage of justice Not long ago charged in the Territorial Senate that United States District Judge sending people the penitentary for political reasons-a charge if it had been true haV he Judpe tnt tha Mr Sutherland had had any proof of the charge and had been good citizen he would have presented his evidence to Grand Jury, to the Congress of the United States that it might a basis for Impeachment proceedings. If he had not the evidence that would have been acceptable to a Grand Jury and he had been good citizen, possessed of 2 sense of common decency, he would have kept hi mouth shut. But what did he do? He asked tha representatives of the be present an appointed time and when the time arrived he made political speech and uttered his accusation.
 Then again, some time later, MT. Sutherland treC 10 stir up nasty mess in connection with the man Ter in which the estates of the of the Princess Sophia were being handled He letters through out the Interior country designed to make people think the officials at Juneau and those who had beer selected to administer the estates were crooks and robbers He did not take the evidence to the Grand Jury Instead he tried to make political propaganda out of the case
 Yet a little later Mr. Sutherland asserted that he had the goods on the Democratic machine" lie said It had been committing all sorts crimes But did he take his information to a Grand Jury, to officers of the law or to the heads of Departments at Washington? Not Dan Sutherland! After much competing he got Wickite paper print lot of political propaganda.
 In all these cases, of course the charges were paently based falsehOod that they fell of their weight. Yet they stamped the character of the who is prating about enforcement of law They proved clearly the unftness and un- worthiness Mr. Sutherland for public office that 1. linEab hat thp Votp OT repose official trust in him again.