The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-03-24
SPEAKERS URGE
CONTROL BOARD
FOR TERRITORY
Sutherland Speech Feature
of Public Hearing on
Controller Bill.

\ crowd that fliieu me hail of the
House of Representatives last night
listened to four speakers support the
Controller Bill. heard two splendid
political rally declamations, but the
Controller Bill itself was not even
Sutherland was the principal con
tributor to the one-sided discussion,
speaking for one hour during which
he attacked things sundry, including
bureaucracy in general, Alaska
bureaus in particular, the Bureau
of Fisheries by name the city Of
Juneau and the local press
Others who spoke were Henry RO.
den, Grover c. Winn, and Senator
Will A. Steel, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance and
sponsor of the measure about which
last nights meeting was centercd.
The Senator read what he termed
was an outline of the measure
which he declared was the burning
issue of the day. The Legislature.
lit stuttu, btInfo iiOcNth " ~ II
petitions for the passage of his bill,
unqualified endorsements OF il and
demands for quick action. He con-
eludad by waving aloft typewrit-
ten list which he said contained 373
names OF the leading citizens Of
Ketchikan, business men, working
men and fishermen who endorsed
the measure.
No Negative Side
Commenting on the fact there was
no speaker present 10 represent the
opposition to the measure, Delegate
Sutherland asserted there is no mega
tive side to the question. 1t seemed
TO be the principal issue before the
legislature and the people of Alaska,
ha added. He was glad, if it so re.
suited, thai Alaska could come into
the national limelight on the issue.
It is the great issue Of curbing
bureaucracy, he said This question
will be dominating factor in In"
next national campaign and those
who believed otherwise had not fol
great statesmen everywhere arc
agreed in their views regarding the
evils springing from the bureaucratic
system Of government and the wis
dom of combating that system.
He quoted freely from Senator
souri,, whom he termed "America' S
greatest orator" read extracts from
the Williamsburg speech of Presi-
dent Coolidge. characterized by the
speaker as the most conservative
leader" in the nation, and others
including a lengthy extract from the
speech of another Democratic sen.
ator about milk and cream" ali
"on the peck" against bureaucrats
and bureaus.
Parallel to Revolution
The purpose of the Controller Bill
! he declared, was to oppose bureau
cracy in Alaska. This is the thing
| which the colonies revolted against
posedly free government" That gov
/ ernment today is in stage of retro
gression before drive of bureaucracy Y
which, he pointed out, has caused the
downfall of many governments. 1t
had it's origin in white Russia
whose dynasties were established by
the same class and type of people
that inhabit this country. In the end
it brought about the destruction of
the Russian Empire, the killing OF
Gear Nicholas, the mildest of men
trail of bloodshed. suffering and
chaos, the establishment of com
munst Russia at cost OF 1900, ,00C
lives.
| Prohibition Bureaucracy
| From Russia the Delegate Travelled
back to Denmark and Sweden. ir
the latter country, he said sOmt
years ago prohibition became the
law of the land. 1t was established
on a basis identical with that in tn.
United States and depended for en-.
forcement on a bureau Recent,
Sweden repudated Prohibition ant
went back to the liquor business
The Swedes, he explained, are Z
very temperate people but are mos
Iliberty-loving and they took bacl
the demon rum just to abolish tn,
greater monster of bureaucracy which
was fastened on them by prohibition