The Nome nugget., 1928-10-06

bill which placed this in the hands of the Secretary of Commerce at the same time. and the bill is called the White Bill because White was the chairman of the committee. But the original White bill turned these fisheries over to the Presi- dent direct. Dan Sutherland's bill turning it over to the Secretary of Commerce, introduced in 1924. about the same time that they had these same hearings that have read you where Dan denounces Hoover.
 In fact these hearings are on the Sutherland bill and the White bill in conjunction. and talked to your delegate on the subject and I asked him why he was turning the fisheries over to the Secretary of Commerce and why he had enjoin. ed them to do it. He said: "r have clause in here that says there shall be no exclusive rights or privileges granted. The common right of fishing shall be unimpair- ed" said: How does that help it?" You take man you call . crook and make him Secretary of Commerce and place him in once and make a rule that he shall be honest. Win that make him hon. est!
 There is a man down at Ketchi- kan who draws the line on the enormous coast line and says here and there shall be no fish traps or no traps of any kind; then he op- ems ten miles and then after the open ten miles he has a closed area of fifteen or twenty miles: then he has another ten miles. and so on. and no man has an exclusive privi- lege. But there are lot of can- neries down there owned by the rich cannery men and there are a lot of independent men who have 8 lot of independent traps who have been put in closed areas. and in the next five or ten miles there is another man operating five or six traps. and you cannot make the poor fellow operating his own trap believe that he did not get the worst of it. and yet Dan introduced bill to put all this power into the hands of an individual that he claims was dishonest to start with, and tried to make him legislate honestly. Can you make a man honest by law? That is what your delegate tried to do and you all know it is a dumbbell proposition.
 You cannot have any principal industry run by bureau that will be satisfactory. President Coolidge says of bureaus that the bureau cratic form of government is the most baleful, the most paralyzing of development, the most inducing of corruption. of any system known to civilization, and why Because men like O'Malley (who may be honest for all I know), they are re- sponsible to nobody in the commun- ity where they reside They are responsible to nobody down in Washington. That is the trouble with bureaucratic government. It is the opposite of local. self-goyern. ment. that keeps the government close to the people. It removes the government as far as possible from the people and the officials selected to administer this form of govern ment are not responsible to any, body. in that community.
 That is why it is evil. and when the Democrats decree against bu- reaucratic government, that is the Kind of bureau we are talking about and not Carl Thiele down in the legislature who collects the lic- ense tax. Judge Wickersham points as example the man collects your taxes and little things like that, which do not amount to anything, and says this is your bureaucratic government which we denounce. and which the Comptroller Bill is going to cure. and your Republican candidate for Congress is running on that proposition.
 l You will remember that when