The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-30
THE KETCHIKAN CHRONICLE HAS A I'll

If every Caucasian male adult in Alaska
 should rise up in rebellion, the organiza-
 tion would have little more than half the
 strength of the boiler makers union of Se-
 atte It is not surprising then. that Cover
 Riggs should take such care to warn warn
 the world of the red menace of the North
 and give Alaska such black eye. It Is
 surprising, not a bit, nor is anything
 that the esteemed chief executive of the
 Territory may do. Since he went South a
 few months he has done so many things
 beyond comprehension that there IS nothing
 new he can do that will surprise the peo-
 pie Alaska Even statement by him,
 declaring himself czar of Alaska would be
 received with the laugh that greets
 every official utterance.
 Alaska in it's fifty years under the
 American flag has had many setbacks, but
 it is doubtful if any single individual in
 that half century has spread as much hurt
 ful propaganda as the man who draws down
 s7,000 and mansion and who travels about
 the country largely at government expense
 spreading his ill-founded opinions.
 The whole affair and his record would
 be Imaginable 1t not for the fact that
 the hurt is too serious to every person in
 the Territory. As Governor of the Territory
 inc people in the States not knowing him
 as he Is known in the North, pay heed to
 what he says and the departments at
 Washington take him seriously. it is evi-
 1dent
 Z As he do good for the Territory
 in Washington, for he and his Shipping
 Board are but wasting $500 900 of Alaskas
 money. q substantial part of 1t, the sooner
 he returns to Alaska where he will be taken
 his worth the better 1t will be for him.
 self, the administration which he repre-
 sents and the people of Alaska
 And when he does return, he will find
 the loyal American Alaskan still in control
 land very unappreciatve of his joke of the
 Riggs Rebellion - (Ketchikan Chroncle)
 The Ketchkan Chronicle is excellent news paper, but sometimes it acts like it had taken a foolish powder It gets mixed the facts and befuddled in it's reasoning
 "The Riggs Rebellion" Gov. Riggs said anything at all that justies the exclamation in the least. On the contrary he said the government of Alaska could take of any situation that might arise.
 rbo tba in the United States wireless message that was intercepted between Moscow and Paris The Mos message said that revolutionary movement was foot in Alaska to have the Territory break away. from the United States Gov. Riggs, com menting on that, said while the great majority of the. people of Alaska loyal Americans and that the Government of Alaska could take of any situation that might come up there were radicals in Alaska who believed in Russian Sovietism, who did not believe in our form of government, He referred the strikes that organized by radicals last year. and said that at time there a plan on foot among the radicals for general strike to oc cur the first of May
 If the Chronicle will read the editorials in it's own paper of last September and October the counts of the formation of the Americans in its own columns. the proceedings when committee of its fellow townsmen talked Americanism to Ketchikan school children and recall things that were said and done-at the Juneau convention of the Alaska Labor Union, it must admit that Gov. Riggs was well within the facts
 The AlaSKa LaDor InlOn adOpted TOT SuDmlSSlOn Constitution that says in plain words that the n- terest of the employer and employee diametri- caly opposed to each other, and plainly ntmates that there never be justice until the producers control the industries. 1t submitted to its members a separate resolution practically endorsing Russian Sovietism Delegate from the Juneau local called on The Empire. and said the Alaska Labor Union un- der certain circumstances proposed to take the en- forcement of certain laws unto itself Other delegates from the convention called The Empire and berat- ed the paper for the condemnation of Russian Soviet ism. The of the general strike force the hands of the government and judicial action openly ad- yocaed Fish piracy upheld in street con- versations. delegate to the Juneau convention. heretofore mentioned, spoke of the time coming when the woFkingmen would take the stores. Gov. Riggs has in his possession letters exchanged among the radical leaders in the Territory and side of il signed Yours for the Red Dawn, Yours for the o. B. U, etc., wherein the texts plainly hal! coming a. changed condition, revolutionzed cia and legal status in Alaska. He has evidence i his possession of the plans that being developed for general strike at the beginning of the active season this Spring-about May lst. Many of these radicals circulating l. w. ", Soviet and other radical literature such literature has caused open breaches of the peace elsewhere
 The situation has changed it is But 1t was