Seward daily gateway., 1927-04-25
LEGISLATIVE SPIT-BALLS

LEGISLATIVE SPIT-BALLS
 Much of the radical legislation pending in Juneau sembes nothing so much as recacitrant school boy blowing spit-bal]s at the teacher.
 In this respect some of the tax measures, bills for nruding the legal machinery of the Territory into the private affairs of industry, etc., the sptbas and their authors the bad school boys Of course invested capital is the teacher.
 As incongruous as it may seem the fact stands out garingy that two of the highest officials of the Territory are accessories if the prime movers in this general assault They the Delegate to Congress and the At torney General Y
 One may readily understand the position of the Dele gate Congress actuated by the sting of defeat in effort to play Samson with the fishing industry As to the Attorney General different analysis must be ap piled If there is for ranking antipathy 1t does not appear to lie much against the fisheries against vested interests in general not overlooking the ranspor tation service to Alaska, wherein he proved such poor lawyer and logcan in his assault the rate ques tion emerging therefrom in such ridiculous light that man possessed of the finer sensbtes of capable of being Attorney General ought to have retired to private life in shame.
 If there was merit in the matter of transportation rates was lost in the general bngng of the question: In fact the Attorney General could not make out case incapable of being mpeached not by clever lawyer but by layman.
 When the rate question disposed of the total of the result show that the office Of Attorney Gen. era not a"+1ated by desire to equity for the Territory of Alaska so much to satisfy personal spleen.
 In the absence of evidence supporting the position Of the Deeeate that the fishing industry of Alaska had been surrended to ononolv and citizens barred from partici paton but the contrary evidenced by the number of canneres which have up especially in the waters claimed to have been surrendered and the added fact that these financed and owned by local capital naturally arrives at the conclusion that sonal incentive and not the public welfare dominates the Delegates attitude.
 It pardonabe error for legislators and especially those inexperienced in the arts and trckeries of po tics to to what thev believe authorve source for information and guidance with respect to mat t should be- until it is shown that the source of nforma ton is poisoned and biased by vndctiveness and pre dice. the Delegate and Attorney General Recent bolshevst General to prove it. They cannot be sincere with out revealing their author lacking in legal knowledge
 The Delegates general blanket assault upon the fish, those who surrender the faculty of thinking for them selves to his who yet unable to view all sides of the question:
 The result of this personal vindctiveness has been reaction to the detrent of the Territory wherein the people made to appear ridiculous capital has been frightened and the of progress devouty wished his been set back.
 Sometimes requires stiff jolt to awaken the indi- vdual action There may yet be some virtue in this deluge of freak legislation It will hit so hard that even the most casual individual will feel it.
 Then there will be an awakening and house-cean- ing.