The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-10-25
BENEFITS FROM HOME RULE ARE
 APPLY DEFINED
Dimond Outlines Party Doctrines andPlatform
 In Great Speech
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 YOU a concrete platform of pro pressive principles supported b united and disciplined part pledged to bring to Alaska tn same measure of local self-govern ment upon which all pioneer de yelopment has been based de clared the speaker. What hop have you in a party that ha failed to accomplish anything, an' that today is hopelessly split, in al organization that has no harmon. in 1s," he asked.
 Meaning of Home Rule
 In plain and unmistakable terms Senator Dimond set forth Jus what the term Home Rule msans-that every local commun' ity should govern itself and ad- minister it's domestic affairs se far as is humanly possible. There gre certain activities, such as hand ling of mail, that are inherently Feleral in nature, but the admin istration of matters which are common only to Alaska ought not to be under Federal jurisdiction
 Two of the major items, fish, cries and game, were particularly cited as matters in which Repub- hcan leadership had penali7ed Al ayka. In no uncertain terms, he condemned the existing systems under which these resources are administered. He pointed to the Democratic platform which pledg- es the party to bring the control of the fisheries, fur and game to the Alaska Legislatures and pledg- cd himself to put this promise ahead of everything else if he is elected to Congress.
 Is Real Home Rule
 That is real Home Rule ne declared. Alaska's present Dele gate to Congress has thoroughly demonstrated he is not in favor Of it, he added After the Demo cratic convention at PetersburI laet November, he apparently adopt ed it's platform almost in it's en tirety. He introduced several bill apparently designed to put its dec s.x4o tn1t hic of fort ended there. He introduce the bills, then walked away an left them to their fate. He lei Washington and went to Chicagi then came to Alaska, and ther vas nobody else in Congress wh was going to do anything abou them"
 He called the Republican Ter ritorial platform a 'one-man" af fair, written by a single individ- ual and was signed by the Repub- lican Committee that is known to no one.
 Judge Wickersham he asserted as matter of fact that is sub stantiated by his official record doesn't believe in Home Rule, and he isn't going to do anything about it. He is the author of Alaska's $ Organic Act, that created the Ter ritorial Government which is the most limited ever bestowed on any Territory of the United States. That law was passed 20 years ago, and today it is more restricted then as originally provided for.
 He indicted national Republican leadership for the great timber withdrawals, the coal and oil res ervations. the present one-man fisheries domination and the re- strictions on the use of fur and game. The timber, coal and oil resources were nationalized when Judge Wickersham was Delegate to Congress with his consent and ap- proval, despite the fact that their utilization could only be of bene- fit to AlaSkanS.
 
 Protege For Others
 What Wckersham didn't consent to giving away his protege and successor did, continued Senator Dimond. The Alaskan fisheries law, that has driven local fisher men to the verge of bankruptcy and starvation, is a Republican measure, as is the Alaska Game Law Both vest supreme author ity in Federal authority. The for mer even permits the confiscation of boats and gear, the means of livelihood to local people, without the filing of any criminal charges, end the latter deprives local resi- cents of the free use of one of their most important resources Both were passed by Republican Congresses, signed by Republican Presidents and approved by Re- publican Delegates to Congress.
 He charged that Wickersham not only didn't believe in Home Rule for Alaska but he declared that he didn't trust Alaskans enough, to try and get it for them. In sup port of that contention he cited the Delegates statement before the House Committee of Merchant Marine and Fisheries last Spring on bill relating to floating can neries that he had introduced