The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-09-27

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 as will leave the fisheries oper only to the bona fide residents of the Territoy, wherever that is practical, and where by such pol Hey the settlement of the Terri tory can be materially stimulated. As to the proposal to shut out ev- ,ery nonresident laborer, MT. Rust gard, speaking for his ticket, de- clared it wasn't legally sound, and I was economically unsound since i there isn't enough surplus labor in the Territory to supply all the canneries during the fishing sea- son.
 Further, every candidate on that ticket castigated the opposition for the fight waged by Paul and the Indian organization against the United States Forest Service for | it's pulp timber sales policy. They quoted from Indian organization papers to prove the Forest Service had been charged with being a creature of the pulp trust and warned the voters that victory for Pauls legislative ticket would be blow to the proposed estab- lishment of pulp and paper in- dustry here.
 Make Weak Compromise "In order to obtain the backing of the very faction they had so logically and reasonably contro- verted in the primary, they have weakly compromised on this issue, getting for themselves nothing and giving away on this, one of the most important issues before the people of Alaska today.
 Let me recite their most recent platform utterance. In plank num- Der two of that notorious docu- ment of betrayal of confidence, they promise: TO aid in, and encourage, the investment of capi- tai in the development and fair utilization of the natural resources of the Territory And who is to say what is meant by the phrase fair utilization?' Will it be the Paul faction or the general public? Such a pledge on it's very face would mean nothing and is noth- ling but a general gesture of beney- olence designed as a vote-catch. Lack of Meaning showed That it is nothing else, and can be no more, is clearly demonstrated by the next succeeding pledge in the platform, which reads:
 "'To obtain such legislation as will leave the fisheries of Alaska open only to bona fide continuous residents of Alaska
 Here without any pre;ense at sugar coating we find the old fam iliar war cry against capital all ready invested in our fisheries. This ] is the very same proposition that Gardner and Scott scoffed at last Spring as unsound in theory and absolutely impractical. Last April they agreed with MT. Rustgard 1 that there isn't enough surplus labor in the Territory to supply all the canneries during the fishing season. and that it is absurd to think of prohibiting canners from importing labor until other indus tries build up sufficiently to furn- ish employment twelve months a year-until we have established q labor market; now when the hook | is baited with 1000 or more bossed votes from the Indian organization, they turn their backs on the pledge they made in the primary cam paign and adopt the reactionary policy which as reasoning men they must know is impracticable and l indefensible It is altogether like ly that neither MT. Gardner nor MT. Scott yet realize just what they have agreed to in that plank.
 Threat to Capital
 Its threat to invested capital | is not even yelled. It is deliber- ate declaration of intention to blackjack the millions of dollars of capital already invested. They must know, since it is within the knowledge of even the most sim ple-minded, that such treatment of capital already here will dc more than anything else to scare other capital that might be or the point of being invested in other -esources-such as timber for wood pulp and paper manufacture.
 "It is matter of record thai the Indian leadership and organi- zation is openly antagonistic to-
 ward the Forest Services timber
 sale policy as it has been estab- lished to induce men with finances | to come to Alaska to engage IT
 the manufacture of pulp and pap CT. Yet Gardner and Scott, wht
 were nominated by voters Of thi! Division pledged to encourage that project, break that pledge wher they openly advocate Legislation
 to force an impossible proposition
 on the Territory.
 If by legislation they can com pei canneries and owners of fish ling vessels and cold storages tt
 employ only residents, regardless
 of the fact that there is not sui r;aiAa4 1nhor i,, the Territory t(