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POINTS REMEDY
FOB ALASKA'S
The following comnuinTeatlon was
I received by the Daily Times from
Thomas Fl. Drayton, of Kern creek, as
;a part of u propaganda for statehood
| lor Alaska, and is published for what
]it is worth:
At the venture of offending s-r. i
Ibllities having much official cause to
'lie delicate, it is here recorded that
! Ua: ka has one overshadowing prob
letn iompared to which the collective
] Importance of all other present lerri
jiorial problems is inconsequential an.I
! negligible, and that problem i-: Shall
Masks he governttied in the interest
of Alaska and the republic, or con
tinue to be governed in the interest
of a coterie of political parasites?
Every Alaskan realizes this; how
be, in our territorial mit^t most
statesmen, publicists and other accou
tred of political harness or having
axes to grind employ a ladylike mode
of expression, fastidious to the point
of ambiguity, in referring to the sub
ject
Paradoxical as it scents after that
interrogatory exposition, it is yet true
that Alaska is not governed at all.
What by an exaggeration of courtesy
we call our territorial government is
hut a long distance administrative ar
rangement. by which territorial func
tions arc parcelled out between a
large number of Washington bureaus,
eaclt seemingly intent chiefly upon
the creation and maintenance of jobs
for persons having claims upon it, but
without reference to the needs or
interests of Alaska.
Naturally the territory is overrun
with useless and idle officials. Having
no useful duties to perform certain
ly none so important as killing time
and drawing their pay — perforce
these gentry must do some make-be
lieve work to justify their employment
and Insure the continuance of their
sinecures. In pursuance of which
purpose they have developed by de
grees into an interlocking, overlap
ping, ubiquitous, congeries of official
busybodies, whose incessant inter
j meddling has largely defeated all real
progress, and seemingly reduced many
of our people to a condition of lethar
gy, a hopelessness, a kind of civic
coma, which Is wont to express itself
in the laconic phrase: "What's the
use?"
As it is presumably imperative that
the Washington government provide
] incomes for these unwelcome guests,
i it may safely he said that Alaska
would gladly, even joyously, tax her
j self to provide the largess if the gov
ernment in turn would consent to Mi
llet them upon some section of the
republic more able to recoup the dis
aster their presence entails.
In 191? f’ongress passed an Act cre
ating a territorial legislature, and con
'Jferred upon it what may designed a3
a limited measure of initiative. In
other words, it may indulge in legis
lative play acting, its enactments be
ing valid or void as approved or dis
approved by Congress in theory, but
in fact by Washington bureaucrats; a
degree of authority substantially tan
tamount to that exercised by a con
course of private citizens convened in
a town meeting, with the important
difference that the town meeting can
point with pride, even with alarm, re
solve and resolute until it is black in
the face upon any known subject or
upon subjects known only to itself:
whereas the Alaska legislature upon
turning to the simplest matter of
purely local interest, will, ten to one,
find itself frustrated with a proviso,
exception, reservation, prohibition or
j joker, adroitly designed to secure the
[tenure of a federal job.
Our Organic Act is as ingenious a
piece of legislative legerdemain as
was ever slipped through Congress by
bureaucratic porch climbers or second
story artists; and was designed alone
for l he dunl purpose of pacifying the
growing discontent of an oppressed
people, and concurrently making le -
■noticeable the utter uselessness of
multitude of utterly useless jobs. \\
Alaskans have not even the poor con
solation that our Organic Act rises
to the dignity of a great and compre
hensive plunder scheme, designed for
the exploitation of a country's resour
ces. .lust jobs; that's all. Not even
good jobs, but mostly cheap, mean,
puny, little Jobs suited to the needs of
laino ducks, incapable friends of in
fluential persons, and folks of like III;.
Important? Yes: because of their
number and united capacity for harm;
not harm intentional or malevolent or
dishonest, but that harm which gratu
itous intermeddling by incompetents
Invariably propagates.
The remedy? There is none but
statehood. No kind of hill affecting
Alaska's government, excepting a
statehood hill alone, will ever again
pass through Congress without the
imprint of bureaucracy upon its t*\on
line. Schemes of various kinds may
tie foisted upon ns in the hope of paci
fying discontent and averting atten
lion, hut with the outer covering re
moved they will all disclose the same
old skunk with tin same old smell.
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SOCIALISTS ABE
AMSTERDAM. Netherlands. Feb.
in. Dutch Socialists conceive it to
be their special task to bring together
their comrades of the belligerent na
tions for common action against the
war. In this they have so far not suc
ceeded, owing chiefly to the refusal
of the French and German Socialists
to co-operate to this end, according to
Mr. Schaper declared, was the cause
of the European war. and it redounds
to the credit of the Socialists of all
.! It. Schaper. the principal spokes
man of the Social Democratic Tarty at
*ts conference just held here.
Competition fomented by capitalism,
Rations that they have everywhere
protested against it. "Except in Ger
many." interrupted a heckler, where
upon Schaper angrily retorted that in
Herlin two days before the war the
streets resounded with anti -war songs
and cries for peace. The speaker de
nied that the war had shown the fall!
biliiy of Socialistic principles, and af
firmed that on the contrary they had
fully justified themselves. The war.
he contended, has proved that Social
ism is not an unattainable ideal, and
he pointed out that the state regula
tion of food supplies and the estab
lishment of maximum prices on the
necessaries of life, as adopted at the
present time in most European coun
tries, was the first step towards the
realization of the Socialistic idea of
distribution.
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Daily Times.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
T. J. Krickson, his heirs and ns
signs, and to all whom it may con
cern : /
I You are hereby notified that there
lias been expended, during the year
1915, the sum of seven hundred dol
lars ($700.00), lawful money of the
United States, in labor and improve
ments on the Lucky Strike group, and
1 the Big Four Fraction, located at Mc
Kinley Lake, in the Cordova Mining
and Recording Precinct. Territory of
Alaska, all of which is of record in
the records of the said Cordova Re
cording Precinct at Cordova, Alaska.
This labor and improvement was done
and performed on said quartz mining
claims under the provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United Stan,-, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the aggregate
amount of labor required for the year
1915 upon said claims.
And unless within ninety days after
the commencement of the publication
of this notice, you contribute one hun
dred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00)
ns your proportional part of the ex
penditure on said Lucky Strike group
and Rig Four Fraction, your interests
In said claims, then all your right,
title and interest In said claims will
become the property of your co
owner, the undersigned, who has
made such expenditure as the law re
. ires. H. THISTKD.
luted at Cordova, Alaska, this 14th
of January, 1910.
I late of first publication, January
14. 1916.
Tiate of last publication, April 14.
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NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
During the day water will be shut
ercept between the hours of fi and 8
a. m.
During the night the water will he
shut off. excepting between the hours
of 6 and 8 p. m.
Telephone service will he continued
during the night while the water is
shut off.
In case of fire notify central at once
and water will he turned on.
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