The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-20
would be better to refer them "stooges, for not
loading Alaska up with more taxes

loading Alaska up with more taxes.
The Governor told the last session that we would
have deficits our Territorial Treasury He told the
Secretary of the Interior in his report Alaska last
June that it failed to anticipate the obvious needs
of the future in either reforming the inadequate Ter
rorial tax structure, to meet impending deficits !"
Yet we are told by the Territorial Treasurer that
we have surplus of more than two million dollars in
the Treasury There deficits, and no impending
deficits as far as we have been able to see. Why
not give the last legislature pat the back for
doing good job on taxes?
Likewise there has been much talk about an
income tax bill that introduced last session in
the House The thing tossed into the hopper by
Stanley Northumberland left. Not even McCutcheon
made any attempt pull it out for discussion. Prob
ably he realized, most of us do that the income
tax field is pretty much taken up by the Federal
government which needs the money to run the war
The Governor and his henchmen, also have made
lot of fuss about how the last legislature failed to
do anything about amending rewriting Alaska S
unemployment and workmens compensation laws.
large part of the union men in this division
have been taken in on this onel
These bills were introduced only for the purpose
of being the election this year Every one of
them was so poorly written, complicated that not
even the men who introduced them knew what they
were all about!
But the average person, who didn't read the bills
knows nothing of these things. And the fact that
they weren't passed makes good vote bait this year
Lord help the poor working if they had been
passed Einstein might have been able figure out
a way to put them into effect-but doubt it.
The whole move, of course, is to pack the coming
session with men and women who will take orders
from the Governor.
There are few bills that the Department of the
Interior wants passed.
Mind you, don't feel like calling the Governor
names over this thing He was sent up here to do
job and he is doing it the best way he can. That is
his jobworking for the Department of the Interior
However, Alaskans have rightly some voice in
making the laws which will govern them-they have
some home rule granted to them under the Organic
Act 1t is squarey up Alaskans to determine next
Tuesday if they want to keep this home rule.
The Governor, if you want to help him do his
job, would have you vote for such candidates as
Crystal Snow Jenne and Norman R. Walker for the
Senate; A. B. Cain. Chris Hennings Anthony zorich,
j. F. Krause and others for the House For Ralph ].
Rivers for Attorney General and Frank Metcalf for
the Highway Engineers post because these two will
serve on the Board of Administration and this would
give him control of that body, also.
Then of course, he wants you to vote for E. L.
Bartlett formerly Secretary of Alaska now on leave
from that position while he runs for Delegate This
would give the Governor control of our only repre-
sentation in Washington, D. c. and it would be easy
shedding from then on
On the other hand, if the people want someone
in Washington to represent them then A. H. ziegler
made his position quite clear in his radio talk last
night.
The ballot which you will be handed next Tues
day would be much simple for you to understand
if the election laws would allow the printer TO label
the candidates with the tag of the Governor the
tag of the people.
That's the situation it. And we've
seen a lot of it.