Seward daily gateway., 1930-07-08
EDITORIAL
Continued from page one)

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 This "officiap proceeds to arragn the fisheries in the aspect of rapacous buccaneers, depicting Alaskas salmon fisheries, while babies starve. He winds up by saying that these same Interests blame the salmon depletion to the eagle.
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 But the piece de resistance in the Outdoor Life edit olial is the analysis of the staying of Forest Guard Thayer by brown bear which the motivating in fuence for lifting the limit restrictions bear by the Biological Survey and not because resident Aaskans had been killed and their property destroyed by bear But Mr. Reddington chief of the bureau is subjected to sarcastic reference by Outdoor Life because he yield cd to public pressure
 Listen to this
 history Thayer killing things First widely publzed the ancfng interests jack public opinion the Ihayer duty Thayer improperly rdponed ammunition with 150gran buets, that fright surprised bear bear immediately Thays n-tmed probably would off, Thayer Herng upon unexpectedly Evidently bear had asleep when the The bear haunches Thayer fired
 Let us analyze Mr. McGuires argument and opn- ions in the light of the element of fact found in the above. The fact is G) fhayer was hlled (2) he was killed by brown bear; )3) he was guarding U. s. tIeasuTe-timber
 Mr. lIrGuire overlooked splendid advertising
  properly armed. Here he should have parentheticay suggested: When hunting the non-ferocious Alaska brown bear should always be armed with one of Bunk & Co., special stainless smokeless, non-kckess, 411447-11 machine guns containing at least clips Of Kilems smokeless hand grenades filled with altar of which aWakens state of esthetic poetical tenn perament in the bear wherein he floats away tinted cloud into the lands of Morpheus like chinaman full of yen shee And don't overlook the chic hunting ogs advertised page 3 They are calculated brown bear into Boring Sea. While hunting brown bear the sportsmen should never be accompanied by renegade guide but should enlist the service of those only employed by recognized commercial organizations and carrying certificate from the Game Commission of merit for sycophancy in the presence of their super iors One may distinguish easily by remembering that frontersman who works in the hunting to get money with which to build little home and raise little mutton cannot be expected to possess the culture essary to entertain sportsmen around the campfire
 Further summing up facts, we have the oft-repeat ed statement that the Alaska Game Commission IS more anenabe to the gentlemen who pass around the cigars while indulging glance at Alaskas rustic" and pie turesque peasant1y than 1t is to the voice of men struggling to win this frontier The substance of Mr. McGuires editorial traced to it's source should carry great weight with jury of public opinion
 We find that the "Interests and money talks" is not the plutocratic Alaskan with his and gun but the selfish interests of those who consider big game hunters of value economically than permanent population, including babies and homes
 On the one hand is the sybarite a product of a putocratc age that is fast crowdng democracy from the stage and enthronng privileged class sefordain ed possessed of the traditional tan of mOnarchia in stitutions They demand that Alaska be made game preserve for their pleasure where they may slay for the joy of witnessing death struggle
 Here on the ground we have the traditional iron tiersmen and pioneer the prototype of the Pilgrim Fathers Daniel Boone, Ezra Meeker and the covered wagon plus their courage and enterprise in waging valiant battle against the wilderness who kill only for food save when some of them serve the "sportsmen" hunter, and commercalize only where dire necessity presses
 This conflict of thought has endured since the days of Solomons temple, where the germ of democracy was bo to later fructify in the Roman and Grecian repub lies, the United States of America the republic of France, the Cromwelian movement and on down the