ACTION URGED
BY GOVERNOR
IN HIS REPORT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (by Associ
ated Press).—Declaring that “for lack
of intelligent government assistance
the truly great resources of Alaska
must perforce lie in idleness,” Gov.
Thomas Riggs, Jr., in his annual re
port voices a plea for the adoption by
the government of a more liberal
Alaskan policy. The report said that
lawlessness, “particularly that fo
im-uted by pro-Germans, I. W. W. and
Bolshevik elements,” was becoming a
menace.
“Appropriations are placed at such
a low figure as to preclude effective
ness; rich mining regions are unavail
able for lack of transportation facili
ties; fisheries are threatened with ex
haustion for lack of protection; na
tives in time of epidemics are allowed
to die of disease and starvation, and
as a result of laws and regulations,
at every turn appears the huge Teu
tonic sign, ‘Verboten,’ ” the governor
said.
The people of Alaska, he added,
hold out their hands to Washington,
not as supplicants for bounty, but in
petition to be allowed to develop as
were the Western territories, now the
great Western states.
Referring to the menace of increas
ing radicalism in Alaska, the report
said:
“Indications point to a continued
immigration as the result of army de
mobilization and the closing of war
time industries. Alaska is receiving
the extremes of the social scales. On
the one hand the fine young men of
the type who developed the great
Western states are becoming evident
in increasing numbers, and on the
other hand, the I. W. W., alien enemy
and Bolshevik!, knowing the unpro
tected condition of the territory, are
arriving in force and making their
presence known. The great numbers
of foreigners in Alaska who can
hardly speak the English language fall
easy victims to the insidious propa
ganda of the seditious agitator. It
does not seem right that the decent,
honest, law-abiding majority should
not receive full protection at all
times.”
The governor's report deplored the
action of congress in failing to ap
propriate money for the relief of the
native population during the recent
severe outbreak of influenze in the
far North. There were more than
1,500 deaths, chiefly among the na
tives, Governor Riggs reported, and
conditions in the interior of the coun
try were beyond description. The en
tire adult population of many villages
was wiped out, the report stated, and
hundreds of children starved or suc
cumbed to cold.
Despite the serious situation, said
Governor Riggs, “a bill introduced in
the senate appropriating $100,000 for
Alaskan relief passed that body but
failed in the house, although at the
same time congress was considering
appropriations of $100,000,000 for the
relief of the destitute in Europe and
$1,000,000 for fighting influenza in the
United States.”
Great credit was given the Ameri
can navy and the Red Cross for vol
untary assistance during the epidemic.
The report incorporated the following
recommendations:
Reimbursement of the territory for
money spent for the relief of natives.
Consolidation of all governmental
authority possible in the department
of the interior.
Removal of restrictions on export
of birch timber from public lands.
Establishment of a uniformed con
stabulary.
.Assignment of naval or coast-guard ;
ships to continuous duty in Alaska
waters.
Transfer of jurisdiction over fisher
ies! to the territory.
Assistance to farmers by loans of
money and cattle.
Restoration of national forests to
the public domain.
Appropriation for Mount McKinley
national park.
Increased telegraph service.
Increased, appropriation for work
among natives.
Increased appropriations- for the
protection of game and the suppres
sion of the liquor traffic.
Increased appropriation for the es- j
tablishment of aids to navigation.
Increased appropriations for coast
surveys.
Renewal of mail contract system for
the delivery of mail.
Job printing at Dally Times office.
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