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REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
ALASKA ADVISORY REPORT IS
GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
We have received a copy of the re
port of the Alaska Advisory Commit
tee submitted to Secretary of the In
terior and signed by Alfred H. Brooks,
chairman; H. Y. Saint, Otto Prager,
E. A. Sherman. It is a document of
about 4,800 words and rehashes the
stale r cial and industrial history of
Alaska, some of the subheads being
Population, Industries and Commerce,
Value of Commerce, Mining, Fisher
' ies, Farming and Stock Raising, Tim
ber Resources, Reindeer, Furs, Trans
portation divided into Water, Wagon
Roads and Trails, Wood Pulp, Water
Power, Agriculture and Grazing, Pub
licity, Mail Service, and so on. It is
old stuff with which all interested
are familiar.
A o Tiro c* f a n nvr'AAfnrl tVi Ic 1 nn rrfViir
report very largely goes over the
same ground covered by various re
ports of the past twenty years. The
Post Office Department is exonerated,
when in point of fact through Mr.
Praeger’s office at Washington, it is
responsible for the inferior mail ser
vice. The Department of the Inter
ior is white-washed, when in point of
fact it has been responsible at all
times for the lack of industrial devel
opment in many ways too numerous
to mention. The Forestry service is
white-washed, when that bureau is ab
solutely and exclusively responsible
for the pall of conservation that has
stifled Aaska since the withdrawals of
1906, and as long as that condition
remains, no matter what takes place
in the way of investigating commit
tees or recommendations, there can
be no change in Alaska.
Lumber and wood pulp industries
are advocated, for example, but any
man or corporation would be fit only
for incarceration in an insane asylum
were he or it to establish any indus
try in Alaska having for its basic pro
duct the forests of the reserves, or
under the present conditions which
make it impossible to develop any
lumbering or wood pulp industry.
The principal recommendations up
in brief form are:
1. Lowering of ocean freight and
passenger rates and improvement of
transportation and mail service
through economies introduced by com
bination of two existing steamship
lin^s into one.
2. Concentration and co-ordination
of federal control of Alaska lands and
resources by obtaining legislative
authority for an Alaska Development
Board and, pending this, by the ap
pointment of an Inter-Departmental
Alaska Committee.
3. Co-ordination of federal road
construction, and the development of
a plan for a comprehensive system of
roads 'and trails to serve the entire
territory. Also the requesting of an
appropriation of at least one million
dollars for the inauguration of the
system.
4. Investigation of the commercial:
feasibility of smelting Alaska copper
ores within the territory.
5. The immediate development of
an Alaska pulp-wood industry and ad
ditional surveys of timber and water
power looking to the largest ^possible
development of this industry.
This tells the whole story. Para
graph 1, advocates the lowering of
ocean freight and passenger rates and
advocates a combination which is dis
tinctly against the Sherman Anti
Trust Law and the Interstate Com
merce regulations.
Paragraph No. 2 can be passed over
for no matter who is vested with
authority, unless the lands are thrown
open to settlement and development
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on exactly the same plan as were the
public lands of Pennsylvania, or In
diana or Nebraska, or Utah, no person
possessing a knowledge of bureaucra
tic methods would ever take an inter
est in such lands or invest any money.
raragrapn no. 6 is an excellent one, i
with the proviso. Routes and trails
to serve the territory are alright, but
not before industries are established.
Routes and trails must follow indus
tries. Industries will never in a thou
sand years follow the routes and
trails, under the present bureaucratic
control or even under the suggested
Inter-Departmental Alaska Commit
tee or Alaska Development Board.
Paragraph 4. This is something
that is not at all within the province
of the government. Smelters were
long ago prevented from proper devel
oping the territory. When some com
mon §ense is applied to the adminis
tration of territorial affairs, the smelt
ers wttl of course go into the country.
Thm paragraph is not only absurd
but is rather ironical for smelters
have been absolutely prevented from
going to Alaska and on> of the indus
*res that Alaska lost in 1906, as told
elsewher in this issue, was a large
smelting plant proposed for Prince
William Sound.
Paragraph No. 5 is equally absurd.
Not that there is any lack of wood
pulp, but unless the forest reserves
are thrown open to entry, no wood
pulp manufacture would ever think of
going into any big investment under
existing conditions.
The sensational feature of the re
port is that the railroad building by
the government and costing to date
$50,000,0000 is not touched upon.—
Railway and Marine News.
THE CANDIDATES BEST RECOM
MENDATION
Sometimes a man’s best recommen
dation is the enemies he has made.
We can hardly say of the Republican
nominees that they have made ene
mies, for they seemed to have lived
so uprightly and dealt so justly both
in their public and private lives that
they have escaped the enmities which
usually fall to the lot of those in high
places. Both candidates are men who
are loved by men of all parties alike,
just as there are well known men
prominent in the Democratic party
who are well loved by their Republi
can compatriots.
However, we are not referring to
personal animosities, but to the atti
tude of the foreign press with refer
ence to the nominees and, naturally,
chiefly toward Senator Harding. We
refer to the comments of the foreign
press in Berlin, in London, in Vienna,
in Paris, in Tokyo.
In each of these cities the papers
have something to say derogatory of
the candidates. The London papers
advise the Democrats that they now
have a chance to elect their candi
dates, a chance "which seemed very re
mote heretofore. Berlin papers fear
that they will have lost a friend in
President Wilson and will find in
President Harding one w'ho wall not be
so complaisant. One and all fear that
under President Harding, they will
not find it easy to lure the United
States into financing the League of
Nations nor assuming a share of the
expenses of Epuropean nations in the
conduct of the war. They fear that
he wall be for “America First” and
not for any hifaluting international
idealism. They realize that there will
be no “visions” by visionaries in the
presidential chair w^hile it is occupied
by President Harding.
Further, there will be no doing
awray with economic barriers, but on
the contrary, there wall be barriers
raised against the unfair competition
in American markets of low-labor cost
foreign products.
It is not true of Senator Harding
that he is an enemy of any of the
other countries', any more than it is
true that Americans, as a nation,
are unfriendly. Americans and the
future President of this country have
only good wall toward foreign nations.
We desire to maintain friendly rela
tions with all. That does not mean,
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however, that w^e are to neglect our
ow n interests and allow others to dom
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mate us either politically or econom
ically. No foreign nation has ever as
sumed such an attitude toward the
United States and none ever will. Nor, |
after the close of the present Adminis
tration, will this nation ever again
adopt such an attitude.
What the foreign press fear is the ,
sturdy Americanism, the sincere pat
riotism, and the quiet but firm insis-,
tence on the part of the Republican !
presidential nominee for the uphold-!
ing of the constitution, adherence to :
the Monroe Doctrine and a careful
avoidance of permanent entangling al
liances, as well as an insistence upon
such “economic barriers” as shall pre
serve the economic supreamacy of the
United States and maintain the Amer
ican standard of wages and living.
But we should not be disturbed by
that, for there are the very reasons
which prompted the Republicans to
nominate him as their candidate. The
foreign press need not worry. Foreign
nations will be treated fairly, al
though there many not issue from the
presidential mansion so many high
sounding phrases, so much sentimen
tal gush, so many glittering generali
ties which promise so much but which
mean so little. Instead, the Republi
can nominee is a man of whom these
lines of Beattie might well have been
written, so apt are they in their appli
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though
free;
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
“COLONEL DICK” COMING HOME j
After an absense of some three
years, General Wilds P. Richardson or
“Colonel Dick,” as he is affectionately
known to thousands of Alaskans to
whom he has become endeared dur
ing his many years service with the
Alaska Road Commission in the terri
tory. is coming home. He calls Alas
ka his home and he is regarded by
Alaskans as one of them.
From his long connection with
Alaskan enterprises and intimate as
sociations with the people of the ter
ritory he loves the north as one of
its sons and he has always upheld
Alaska’s cause whereever he has been
called by his duties as an army offi
cer. Although on detached service for
years prior to the outbreak of the late
war, at the very beginning of hostili
ties he hurried back to a line organiz
ation and the record which he made
both in France and Siberian fields is
a matter of pride to Alaskans. And
whenever he goes on his trip through
the territory he will find old friends to
greet him and welcome him "back
home. From Ketchikan to Home his
will be a joyous home coming.—Ju
eau Empire.
THE DIFFERENCE
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Under representative government
the people may own the state; under
socialism the state will own the peo
ple.
Under representative government
success may be made a matter of
push, under socialism it will be a
matter of pull.
Under representative government
the politicians may be made to work
for the people, but under socialism
the people will be compelled to work
for the politicians in power.
Well, there’s going to be a “great
and solemn referendum” all right;
great for the Republicans and solemn
for the Democrats.
The Democratic and near-Demo
cratic newspapers which say they do
not know what the Republican na
tional platform means surely ought to
be able to conclude from reading it
that at least it does not endorse the
present national administration.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Alaska can never regain unusual
prosperity until mail contracts are
again established on American steam
ship line plying from Puget Sound to
Alaska ports.—Alaska Dispatch
The trip that is being taken by
Secretaries Daniels and Payne to the
territory is probably one of the big
gest things that has happened in some
time as far as Alaska is concerned.
Even if one tried, one could hardly
over-emphasized the importance of
their visit.—Juneau Empire.
California is bragging over the com
ing nut crop. While we hate to take
our sister down a peg, we can safely
state that the size of Alaska’s nut
crop is only limited by the popula
tion. The Bristol Bay district in par
ticular is where old man Nut first
started operations, and the crop has
never yet been winter killed, requir
ing three deputy marshals, one steam
ship and a U. S. commissioner to
handle it.—Valdez Miner.
The announcement that Douglas
had a population of nine hundred and
nineteen did not come as a surprise
to any one who takes notice of things
in the city. The communityl is a pe
culiar one in the fact that, we believe,
out of that population of over nine
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hundred, there are at least six hun
dred children. This is the greatest
community we know of for children.
Being a strictly home town, most
every one here has a family that lives
here.—Douglas News.
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The job of editing a small town
paper is indeed as simple and delight
ful a task as one can imagine. Here
in Nome, for instance, the editor, who
by the way does the work of gather
ing and preparing the news single
handed, is expected to get the full de
tails of every incident or happening
large or small and take a generous
“cussing” if he don’t get it exactly
right. Isn’t it a smiple, childish job?
No wonder that almost everyone
knows how to run a newspaper and
could easily do it much better than
the fellow who is on the job!—Nome
Nugget.
STEALS, BUT RETURNS LOOT
Mysterious Stunts of Thief at Paris
Ky., Baffles the Local
Police.
Paris, Ky.—A thief who steals dia
mond rings only to return them is
baffling police here.
Several weeks ago two diamond
rings, valued at $800, were stolen
from the home of Mrs. Ka^ie Wilson.
Ten days ago they were returned to
her mysteriously.
Miss Carolyn Itoseberry, daughter
of John Itoseberry, wealthy citizen,
lost a $0,000 platinum cluster ring.
She offered a reward and agreed not
to ask any questions. Later she found
a tin box tied to the front doorknob.
It contained the ring.
A week ago a $700 ring disappeared
from the home of William Farris, res
taurant man. Later it was found
hanging by a string to a window at
/lie Farris home.
Police believe the thefts to be th
work of some one who has access to
the homes.
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Human Arsenal Is
Chased by Police
New York.—Dropping thirteen
blackjacks, ten revolvers, two
pairs W handcuffs, eight deputy
sheriff badges and six private
detective shields, a man whose
identity is unknown, ran away
when approached at Broadway
and Reade street by Patrolman
Gaetano Christiano of the Beach
street station.
Patrolman Christiano fired
one shot at the man, but slipped
when he started to chase him.
Other policemen, called by the
shot found a five-escape ladder
at Reade and Church streets
swung to the street, and follow
ing fool prints in the snow on the
roofs discovered at 99 Chambers
street William Rnnken, seven
teen. of, 9S4 Race street, Phila
delphia.
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