The Daily Alaska Empire

Support Home Industries.
(Prince Rupert News.)

The Daily News has been accused of supporting the monied interests because it believes in the policy of supporting home industries as against foreign, of supporting home merchants as against mail order houses, of keeping the wheels of industry running instead of sending those we now have to the boneyard 'along with the hundreds that have gone before. The north is too full of the skeletons of unwise investments or unsupported industries.

Let us try to forget this petty policy of pulling down and try to build up. There are over a dozen meal and oil plants using the herring in Alaska, yet we are told this north B. C. coast will not support one. Possibly a dozen is too many, but shall we let the Alaskans have everything and not support one on this Canadian coast? We have very definite information that the herring run this year was a very large one and that the taking of 5,000 tons from it could hardly be noticed.

Usually our sympathies are with the fishermen but like other people they get off wrong sometimes. They are a splendid lot of people and we admire them very much but we think they are wrong in this and we have the courage of our opinion. It is as reasonable to say we must not make meal from herring as to say we must not make pulp from timber, just because timber is used more rapidly there than in any other kind of mill.