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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1919.
SENATOR NEW OF INDIANA
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Senator Harry S. New of Indiana,
from whom, as chairman of the senate
committee on territories, Alaskans are
liable to hear much in the course of
the next few years, and Avhose coup
In the senate the other day resulted
in speedy action on the Alaska rail- j
way bill, was born in an atmosphere
of politics. The readiness with Avhich
he was able to take advantage of a
lull in the proceedings of the senate
to further a piece of legislation in
which he Avas interested was but the
result of natural and developed talent
for political manipulation.
The father of the senator, John C.
NeAv, Avas one of the shrewdest poli
ticians developed in the Hoosier state,
noted for a breed of politicians than
whom the country has produced no
superiors. It was John C. New Avho,
as publisher of the Indianapolis Jour
nal, brought out the candidacy of
Benjamin Harrison for the presidency
in 1SS8, and who, in spite of the in
difference Avith Avhich that candidacy
was at first received, nurtured and
fostered it to victory in the convention
and at the polls. This Avas Consid
ered a great achievement in the polit
ical annals of the country, as Harri
son Avas the victor in a field Avhich
contained such illustrious names as
those of James G. Blaine, John Sher
man, Walter Q. Gresham, and of half
a dozen or so of “favorite sons.”
John C. NeAV himself became chair
man of the national Republican com
mittee, and the strenuous campaign
that resulted in the defeat of Grover
Cleveland Avas considered by him and
his friends as the croAvning achieve
ment of his life. He afterAvards was
reAvarded by being made consul gen
eral at London, a post which he him
self chose.
Harry S. New, as neAVspaper re
porter, manager and publisher, fol
lowed in the footsteps of his father
and became a political leader in his
home city of Indianapolis. He was
elected to the state legislature and
later to the United State's senate.
It is safe to say that if political sa
gacity and maneuvering will gain for
Alaska legisation any preferment, the
chairman of the territories committee
will take advantage of every point.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH
ALASKA?
For fifty-two years the United
States has owned Alaska. Fifty-twc
years and yet not 50,000 people in the
territory! Either Alaska lias no nat
oral resources, its residents have al
been failures or the government o.
the nation has been at fault. Or car
it be a rigorous climate which makes
it unlivable, impossible of develop
nient and a barren waste for all time'
These are serious questions, of in
terest to every man who has a dolla
invested in the country, to ever:
prospector and fisherman who hai
spent any part of his life in the terri
tory, to every mother and father win
is raising a child, hoping that tha
offspring will have better advantage
and better return for his life thai
the majority of parents. They ar
the vital questions. Their answer
are simple, known to every Alaskar
but they are not known in the natior
al capital. The people of Alask
must start the campaign of educe
tion which will bring it into its owr
It is a tremendous task for som
25,000 people of Alaska, referring t
the whites, to start on the campaig’
of education of the 100,000 person
or their representatives, but it mus
be done—and nowr.
For fifty-two years the Unite
States of America has made a blitl
ering, vjacilafing, idiotic failure
its management of the territory of
Alaska. That is a strenuous indict
ment, yet is borne out by the fact.
And the most substantial proof is
the undeveloped state in which the
territory is today, together with the
small population.
Everything that Alaska is today, it
is in spite of the federal government,
in spite of the petty politicians, in
spite of narrow departmental heads.
Why do not paper mills spring up in
Alaska with its wonderful timber re
sources? Why do not the mines go
ahead instead of dropping behind?
Why is the fishing industry threat
ened with extinction? Why are there
not thousands and thousands of home- ■
steaders in Alaska?
Shout these questions throughout
Alaska, and the echo will always ring
back from its rich mineral-bearing
hills, “short-sighted administration.”
The timber in the forests of Alaska
standing as it has stood down through
the centuries is not worth a cent, a
morsel of food or a stich of clothing
to anyone in the world. If it stood
there for the next seven thousand
years, as during the past seven thou
sand years, it would profit no man
nor mankind.
For fifty-two years the Upited
States of America has owned that
timber and it has stood as during the
past seven thousand years. During
that time the paper industry has de
veloped tremendously throughout the
world. Forests have been converted
into paper, billions of feet of timber
have been ground into pulp, yet not
a foot of Alaska timber has gone into
the great industry.
For years the paper makers have
been searching for material. Investi
gators have been sent to Alaska and
have found the material, the power
and conditions ideal, yet at Washing
ton they stop. All ideas of develop
ment for Alaska stop at Washington.
Let any man appear at Washington
with a legitimate proposition for the
development of any resource in Alas
ka and immediately he arouses the
suspicion of some official. At once
that official assumes the attitude that
“Here is someone who wishes to gob
ble up the territory of Alaska. I
must do a heroic service for my coun
try by preventing him from getting
i
any hold.”
it is a disease, a deadly germ tor |
Alaska that has gotten hold of official
Washington, down through adminis
tration after administration—Demo
crat and Republican alike—and up to
the present time no serum has been
found to kill it.
No paper mill ever will be estab
lished in any spot in the territory un
til the present insane regulations of
reservation are removed. That is
a certainty that has been demonstrat
ed over a period of fifty-two years.
The forests may continue to shoot
their boughs heavenward for all eter
nity and they will not be disturbed
until new laws and regulations are
put into effect.
The government may retain super
vision over the forests, and over the
cutting of timber for paper, may in
sist upon taking a share of the prof
its from it, and upon seeing that la
bor engaged in the work is given a
fair share of the output, but it must
not insist upon any person or corpor
ation advancing great sums for
stumpage before it touches a foot of
the material.
It must make the industry a profit
sharing one for the capital invested,
for the labor employed and for the
government. That is a fair business
partnership, one that will appeal to
capital and labor, and until it is done,
there will be no development.
So with the mines and the fisheries.
The natural resources of fish, miner
als and timber are greater than to be
found in other parts of the United
States, but until some benevolent,
far-seeing set of business statesmen
take the proper steps, Alaska will re
main stagnant.
That’s what is the matter with
Alaska.—Ex.
■ HE SLEEPS ON WINDOW LEDGE
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' Thousands Watch New Porter Slum
• ber on Perilous Couch
r in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia.—Office workers in the
.•’adding near Broad and Chestnut
5 streets and thousands of pedestrians
n the street had the chill of their lives
3 as they watched a man lying on the
x edge of a window of the Land Title
3 building, taking a siesta.
3 Entirely oblivious to the commotion
he was creating he slept peacefully
’ an, his arms outstretched in luxurious
'ase. his feet sticking over the edge
1 >f the sill from which was a sheer
• Irop of forty or fifty feet to the pave
. uent.
3 His slumbers, however, were soon
3 brought to an end when repeated tele
phone calls to the building superin
tendent’s office told of the sleeper and
3 his perilous couch. The man turned
• out to be a new porter and John, the
head porter, climbed out, woke him,
I and soon brought him “back to earth,”
. both figuratively and physically.
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