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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920
FOOLS OF APRIL
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It is plain from the work they are
doing at Washington and what the
ehairman of the committee before
whom they are performing says of
their work, that the “divided Alaska
house’’ in Alaska’s interests at Wash
ington are not goinng to be able to
do any harm this session—any way
you want to take it. When politi
cians and grafters fall out in pursuit
of an advantage, honest men have a
brief respite from the threat that
menaces.
There they are before a vital com
mittee at Washington, all and sundry
the great men who have been most
ly made by being able to claim the
North as their country, and there
and now they are fighting each other
to a standstill, one side to get leg
islation giving more powder to that
side in Alaska, and the other gang
fighting to prevent it. They are call
ing each other names, and if the com
mittee can bring itself to believe that
any or all of them can tell the truth,
then their rag-chewring, criminations
and recriminations would teach the
committee nothing else so well as that
it had better sidetrack the legisla
tion in question until men w'ho can
»ot be accused of ulterior motives ap
pear before that committee in re
gard to said legislation, and Chair
man Jones intimates that something
like that is due to happen. In the
0meantime, the real Alaskans can sit
back and enjoy the spectacle, now
that there seems to be little menace
in it figuring upon probable results.
How' many Alaskans knowr those
five men who are occupying all the
Alaska limelight at Washington to
day— Semmes, Leehy, Ballaine, Riggs
aBd Wickersham? How many know
them for the enduring monuments
they have raised to themselves in
Alaska by their own personal efforts
®nd achievements? Wickersham
has come closest to having built up i
m AidSKa, aitnough the latter years
have seen him mostly attempting to
tear down, as in opposition to every
thing urged. He built a home in
Fairbanks and lived in it several
years: he had many years, more than I
a score, on the Alaska payroll
through his political ability and his I
pull. Riggs has had three connec
tions with Alaska that we know of
—first skirting the territory on the
boundary survey, next as a commis
sioner to help build a railway and
next as governor of the Territory.
No house built by his hands or for
him at his expense marks any part
of Alaska we have ever visited. Bal
laine promoted a townsite and rail
way at Seward—the railway was a
failure and so far as he is concerned
the townsite was an Alaska failure,
considering his efforts, for the de
linquent tax list of Seward year after
year shows the name ‘“Ballaine” oc
cupying most all of its descriptions.
Beehy and Semmes, we take it, are
Seattle lawyers, put on the territor
ial payroll by Riggs, and'engaged in
the effort to earn their wages—if
either of them ever tended bar in
Alaska we never heard of it. And,
those are the “Big%Five” who repre
sent as holding our fate in their
hands. If they really do, although
we never heard it intimated that they
do, then saltpeter Won’t save Alaska.
Those men, or their representatives
are the men wjio are telling the world
through Henry Ford’s Weekly that
Alaska’s resources are so tied up and
conserved that the poor prospector
can’t take logs from the public do
main to build a cabin for himself, or
wood from the trees to keep that
eabin warm. What the (hec) do they
suppose the prospector and miner
live in, if not cabins,, or how they
keep warm in winter? Wouldn’t
that jar you? And wouldn’t you1
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think that a great publication would
have sense enough to know that such
statements are false? What have
we ever had in resources, in any
camp you have ever been in here in
•Alaska, that was so conserved that
anybody living adjacent thereto
couldn’t grab it?
The .statistics they feed us that
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the whole outside world, has come into
this camp and “cleaned” it so far as
their time allowed them to, even to
th timber in our little forests which
they used up before they left for
Seattle and San Francisco with the
i money they took out of the ground
hereabouts. 'What they had to buy
here to get through and by with un
til they could get out with the big
money they took from our ground,
they bought, making one merchant
bid agajnst another to give it to
them at the lowest price, but they
didn’t build homes here except the
cabins that they took our wood to
build and keep warm. And. when
they gutted the richness from the
I ground, they went away »as fast as
or.to or boat could take them, and
they took all they gained here with
j them. What they couldn’t take in
gold from the ground they took
through the “banks” they established
here for that anparant purpose—it
came that way, in three separate
cases, any way. If this country had
been any more “open” than it always
has been, those outsiders would have
taken Mt. McKinley away with them
and set it up in Pioneer Square, in
Seattle, or in Golden Gate Park
darn ’em!
If a few of those darn crocodiles
who are infesting Washington and
weeping tears over poor “Alaska”
would come into this territory and
spend half as much time and energy
in building something besides argu
ment or developing something beyond
graft and bull, Washington would get
a much-needed rest and Alaska would
be better off, more prosperous and
much safer. If Dr. Hornaday would
devote some of his time and graft
money given him by rich women in
New York and the East to “protect”
big game in Alaska to work at Wash
ington to bring about an “open sea
son” for those guys who are forever
misrepresenting Alaska at Washing
ton, darned if we wouldn’t put in with
him and vote his ticket—and that’s
going some as Rex Beach of Ram
part, Alaska, would say.—Fairbanks
News-Miner.
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