The Nome nugget., 1932-10-08

has paid a nickle for me. I have spent my own money and I make return every year. I made one two years ago and everybody has to make return. Congressmen or a Delegate to Congress. Under ! the Corrupt Practice Act passed by the Congress of the United States, you have to put down ev- cry dollar you have spent and where you got it, and for what you paid it. and what promises you have made. if any; put it down in detail and hold up your righ hand and swear to it. I'm afraid Tony is going to have a little trouble about that. The law pro- vides that a Delegate cannot ex- pend to exceed s2,5OO.OO in his campaign. The law says that he cannot spend more than that. I am not going to spend half of it If I can get out of it. went over to Circle City and do you know how got there? Old Andrew here carried me around and up there in his automobile, and I am not going to pay him a nickle for doing so either. I came | III oNtl lhe highway oH DuS and paid $1S5O for 1t and prot my wife along and paid s1S.5t for her. These are my own expens- | es
 There was another man from this city who ran for Congress four years ago and for whom large sums of money were raised and expended. S65,O0OO0 were raised by these same men who happen to be Tony's and Toms friends. The whole thing was so bad that that candidate dared not make a return. And he never did. He was either too good a citizen or too big a coward to submit his re- turn and face charge of per jury, and he didn't do it. But what Tony is going to do along these lines, don't know And when he sails around in this air plane at a cost of from fifty to one hundred dollars a day. he's got to make a report. Let me get at your interest in the matter. Who is he working for? Is he working for you or the people who put up the money: and you know Tony and Tom have been the attorneys for those big inter- ests for more than twenty years, drawing their salaries and fees from the canneries, the Kenne- cott Corporation, the Copper Riv- Ter Railroad and the Alaska Steam- Iship Company. The Alaska Steam lship Company has the deepest in- tterest in the Alaska railroad. The Alaska Steamship company. has, for the last few years, increased its rates from time to time and levery time you or your wife goes down to the store for merchan- disc of any kind. or when you pay the bills for machinery and fur niture, you are paying the Alas ka Steamship Company its excess sive rates, and Tony and Tom get their share of it, too.
 Do you suppose they are going to turn these fellows down now, these fellows who have been their advisors, who have helped them scheme to make more mon- ey by raising these rates again and again? They have been pay ing Tony and Tom big salaries all these years and someone's got
 
 est to you, everyone of you. You are interested in these railroad rates. You are interested because the Alaska Steamship company gets the big end of them and Tom and Tony get some of it.
 I don't Know whether you want Tom and Tony in charge of your railroad or not. have worked for it from the day I pledged my ! self to you that I would get it for you, and I have worked for } it to this day. I pledged my sup port and I never quit until the road was built. It is our railroad. We, the people of Alaska own it , and we ought to look after it. Don't crush it. It is your rail- road. The rates are sufficiently high, but the rates on the Cop ) per River railroad fixed under the advice of Tony and Tom have been so high that nothing could , get into the Copper River country. , Nobody has been allowed to go into that territory because the rates over that road have been prohibitive for copper and every , pie know these things. Why turn this roalroad over to those same : attorneys, who have gotten those rates so high, so excessive that Americans cannot prospect their , mines and cannot even go into that country. Do you know that the rate over that railroad Is ten ] dollars per ton, and that's on