Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-04-03
THE PASSING THRONG

in Washington City makes interesting read
ing for the country by and large. The lie
and the modified lied has been freely ex.
changed between the representatives Of
the two factions and may perhaps both
sides are correct, but amid it all / have
watched and waited to hear one or the
other charge the other with representing
the working people-the men and women,
who form the bone and sinew of not only
Alaska, but the entire United States but
neither side seems willing to assume the
onerOus task of representing the people,
and thus does Alaska become but fat
and juicy bone, over which hungry dogs
fight to death. The goods that the gods
have gwen unto Alaska are to be gobbled
up by few highwaymen and in spite of
the alleged greatness of Uncle Sam he
is powerless to turn the whole over to the
working people Of his eminent domain,
but is forced to sit as an arbitrator be-
tween two Earring factions each contending
for the lion s share You say there is
unrest among the non-mllionairies Of this
country and we quite agree, but the state
of unrest is absolutely nothing to what it
will be If the present powers that be con-
tinue to say, if not in so many words, by
their actions, to hell with the poor man,
but the rich are to be made richer
Alaska is great store house and no specific
class or selected few should be given con-
troll of those splendid store houses which
have been provided by Mother Nature, but
every citizen of this country should be
given a chance to share in it's vast natural
resources.
There came to my address one day this
week copy Of newborn publication in
Tacoma, which is labeled Ryan's Weekly
and l smiled as | opened it and said aloud,
Its almost as hard to break away from
the newspaper game as it is for the pro-
verbal camel to pass through the eye Of
a cambria needle. John II. Ryan seems to
be in manner born for newspaper work
and though after first beginning he has
repeatedly broken away from the game, yet
he has just as often returned to it. | think
1T was in Spokane where he first developed
the bug, but decided it too hard a graft
to make it pay and he pulled away. He
next Joined hands with the editor hereof
in the publication Of the Seattle Republic
can but getting a hunch that he could
do better in Tacoma he began publishing
The Forum, which he operated for sixteen
years. but firing of that he laid it aside
and repeatedly declared he was through
again at the wheel and promises to give
us one of the most vigorous weekly publ
cations in the state, and, judging from
what I have already seen, it at times will
be so red hot that it will scorch the hands
of it's readers while they are in the act Of
devOuring it's contents.
am not surprised at the Seattle police
shakeup and from what | have heard from
persons who frequent Seattles underworld
great deal more than shabeup might
be staged, but evidence for such proceed
ing is exceedingly hard to obtain. 81
know said man who lives by his wits
in that distlict,' that we get hold OF
whole lot of money from suckers, who want
to see the sights and see them, but believe
me- a very little Of it remains IN our hands,
simply because we are forced to give it up
for protection. Mayor Caldwell is shaking
up the gang now, but IN less than week
the protection CRATER will be on his job
again and the fellow that fails to come