What About
Fish Protection?
PREDICTS
A
“WET”
OREGON Excurson Rate Fleet Celebration
Seattle and Tacoma.
Prohibition
Mr.'Hippie Believes that
is Already oa the Wane.
Tte following letter appeared in the
j Oregonian of May Sth:
"To carry the whole state of Oregon
That the food fish of our State need better protection than is now afforded
for prohibition in 1910, is the announced
is agreed.
You have already or doubtless will receive considerable literature on the intention of Rev. J R Kondell, a young
subject, but no matter how attractive the argument, stop and consider how gentleman whom I understand to be
the salaried superintendent of the Anti
much it may be colored by self-interest.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries are the greatest expert authorities Saloon League in this State. Of course,
as Mr. Knodell makes his living by this
on the subject and have no ax to grind. Read what they say:
prohibition agitation, it is but natural
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR
that he should speak confidentially of
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
his ability to put some 10,000 men out
Hon. Charles W. Fulton,
of employment here. May I be excused
United States Senator,
for doubting if all the alleged evils of
Washington, D. C.
the liquor business ever caused as
Sir: The Department realizes the importance of the various questions affect much misery or ruin as Mr. Knodell
ing the salmon fishery in the Columbia River brought up in your letter of the camly proposes to bring abont by such
18th ultimo, and has taken this opportunity to make a thorough investigation of an election?
the matter. There can be no question that the status of the fishery is unsatis
However that is not the point. I
factory, and that in a comparatively few years the run of salmon in that stream want to state my conviction that the
will be reduced to such a degree that thousands of fishesmen may be thrown excesses of the Anti-Saloon League are
out of employment and much capital rendered idle. The Federal go-ernment more detrimental to the community
s without any jurisdiction whatever in the premises, and the duty of consesv- than the excesses, long past, of the li
ing the salmon supply in the Columbia developes on the States of Oregon, quor business, and also my conviction
Washington, and Idaho; but this Department has been charged by Congress that the prohibition movement has now
with important fish cultural operations in the Columbia basin, and has felt reached high water mark.
impelled from time to time to direct attention to the necessity for giving ade
“During the past month, the Anti
quate protection to the various species of salmon frequenting that stream. Saloon League has been defeated in
The Department is convinced that the run of salmon in the Columbia can be Maryland, New Jersey, New York State,
amply maintained for an indefinate period if artificail propagation is supple Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The pro
mented by rational protection; but artifical propegation alone cannot cope with babilities are that it will be defeated in
the situation, and, as a matter of fact, the recent experience of the Depart the near future in Louisiana, Florida
ment has shown that its beneficent labors are rendered almost futile by the and possibly in North Carolina.
failure of the State to appreciate this fact.
“One of the most significant things
The Department sees no reason for advocating the elimination of fish that has happened for some time was
wheels from the river, as there is no evidence to show that this form of ap the admission, April 6, by Rev. P. A.
paratus is particularly destructive to salmon. A condition that is specially Baker, National superintendent of the
favorable for the passage of salmon—namely, very high water render the Anti-Saloon League, at Plainfield, N. J
wheels unserviceable and, on the other hand periods of very low water, when the that the tone of the press is changing.
fish are much restricted in their movents, are also unfavorable for the wheels.
Mr. Baker declared that newspapers
During the past two or three season the catch of salmon by wheels been com all over the country that have been
paratively small; but even if it were very large it would be a fact of no special friendly are now turning against the
significance in the present connection.
Anti-Saloon League. He accounts for
The Columbia River is, however, made to yeild a quantity of salmon far it by declaring that the liquor merchants
greater than regard for the future supply permits, and the drain is yearly be have bribed the newspapers. This is an
coming more serious. No one farmiliar with the situation can fail to appreci old charge and has been the means of
ate the menance to the perpetuity of the industry that is furnrshed by the con frightening many editors in the past,
centration of a tremendous amount of fixed and floating apparatus of capture but it begins to look as though slander
in and near the mouth of the river. This apparatus comprises about 400 pound was losing its effect. In any case, it is
nets or traps, over 80 long-sweep seines: and more than 2,200 gill nets, the last interesting to know that Mr. Baker
having an aggregate approximate lenght of over 570 miles; and these appliances should feel it necessary to recognize
capture more than 95 per cent of the fish taken in the Oregon and Washington publicly the change in the tone of the
waters of the river, the figures for 1904 being nearly 34,000,000 pounds, or press and try to account for it.
98.7 per cent of the total yield. Under such conditions, it is self-evident that
“Manufacturers, merchantsand labor
but comparatively few fish are permitted to reach the upper waters where the unions in different portions of the
spawning grounds are located.
country have gone on record publicly
The details of the measures necessary to place the salmon industry of the within the last 60 days as believing
Columbia River on a permanent basis can not be elaborated by the Department that prohibition is a mark of stagnant
at this time, but in general it may be said that there should be (1) a restriction community. For four years past, the
on the amount of apparatus employed in a given section; (2) and adequate only persons who have dared to express
weekly close season covering possibly two days at first, but reduced later if the such ideas publicly have been the liquor
circumstances warrant it; (3) an annual close season, preferably at the begin merchants,and their small voices have
ning of the salmon run. and (4) joint arrangements between the States so that been drowned in the clamor and riot of
protective measures may be harmonious.
professional prohibitionists, and the
Respectfully vourr,
sensational, self-advertising, money
(Signed) O scar S. S traus , Secretary.
grabbing preacher.
“I do not think that Oregon is going
Bill No. 318 embodies Government recommendations and should pass. It is a
dry in 1910. The pendulum has started
square deal for all
to swing the other way. It may even
VOTE 318 X YES
Bill No. 333 was framed to foster the selfish interest of a single locality, be that in two years Rev. Mr. Knodell
It is against the Government recommendations, and will mean a heavy tax on and the other professional agitators
the State to carry out its provisions. It favors monopoly and is unfair. It who now draw salaries from the
Anti-Saloon League, will be earning
should not pass.
their
living in some other way.
VOTE 333 X NO.
H.C. H ipple . "
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re
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“
yes"
on
election
day.
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NOTICE.
Judges and clerks of election are re
quired by law to seal their tally sheets
in an envelope, not in the ballot box,
and deliever the same to the county
clerk. Attention is called to sections
2785 and 2786, page 84 of the election
laws.
REGULATE ALL FISHING
Some Peoples* Ideas of Salmon
Protection
“The Astoria idea has contended that
no closed season in tide water was
necessary. It has extended the open
season for fishing by means of its in
fluence in Legislatures. It has re
quired the Fish Warden living at As
toria to permit suspension of the closed
season laws. It has allowed gillnets
on the bar, thus getting up a barrier
to entrance of salmon into the river.
It has so amended the laws that they
are now a nullity as far as protection
through closed season goes. It has
successfully resisted efforts to cut
down the catch of tidewater gear. It
has pursued the April, May and June
salmon so hard that they are now near
extinction. It has extended the open
season in August by one installment
after another, until the August fish
have been almost cut off from Hatch
eries.” Oregonian.
If you think the state has had enough
of selfish greed;
VOTE 333-X NO
to a continuance of the Astoria Idea;
and
VOTE 318 X-YES
to further the U. S. Government Re
commendations.
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