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Declaration
of
Necessity
(By the Alaska Home Rule
Association)
Seventy odd years Alaska has
• existed as part of the United Stat
es. But today Alaska is a sparse
ly populated land, scarcely touch
ed as to her natural resources.
The struggle for the develop
ment of the country has been a
long fight against, first, Federal
neglect; and next, Federal bur
eaucratic strangulation. Some
ground has been won, but even
today:
* The Federal Government tax
es the people of Alaska but re
fuses them representation in Con
gress. for representation without
a vote is farcial.
The Federal Government main
tains Marshals and District At
torneys in Alaska who are so
limited as to discretionary ex
penditures as to make competent
investigation of all crimes com
mitted beyond the immediate en
virons of the respective offices
impossible.
The Federal Government main
tains no Court of Appeals within
the Territory, thereby in fact
denying the right of appeal to
the main body of the people be
cause of the time and cumber
someness involved in taking an
appeal to San Francisco.
' The Federal Government re
fuses to credit the intelligence of
the people by denying them the
right to legislate respecting the
fish and game of which they are
the actual custodians.
The Federal Government has
given department heads and
their subordinates who are
wholly unacquainted with Alas
kan conditions and needs, des
potic control over Territorial re
sources and developments, to
such an extent that a mass of
petty Federal officials are of
ficiously dictating to the whole
country.
And now there is talk in Wash
inigton, D. C., of setting aside
large portions of our area for
various reserves, where, for the
nest of time, we will be debarred
from the benefits of development
* and hindered by more petty Fed
eral officials.
There is a plan in Washington,
D. C.. for the development of
Alaska’s resources, drawn up by’
men who have no more idea of
Alaska’s needs than the English
Lords had of the needs of the
colonies. It may be that from a
purely theoretical viewpoint, the
National Government is justified
in wishing to make of Alaska a
neservor, but from a practical
standpoint the desire is imposs
ible of accomplishment—just as
impossible as it was to enforce
respect for the Indians’ territor
ial rights in Arkansas, Kansas,
and Oklahoma — just ®s impos
sible as it was to enforce prohib
ition. Thewhite man will not be
stopped. There are thirty thou
sand of us up here, and the only
certain result of such widespread
reservation of lands and hinder
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| JOIN
THE ALASKA
HOME RULE
ASSOCIATION
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An organization of Alas
kans formed:
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| 1. To unite Alaskans as one]
| people.
| 2. To free Alaska from feder- |
| al bureaucracy,
l 3. To speed establishment of ]
full Territorial govern- j
; ment.
4. To lay solid economic and |
j political foundations for j
| development of resources ]
j and future statehood.
| I solemnly swear that I am
| an Alaskan; that I believe in I
a united Alaska; that I will
| work faithfully for Alaska
| Home Rule.
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| Signed
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Enclosed is my contribution j
J of $1.00 to Alaska Home Rule j
) Association, which entitles me j
| to membership therein for a |
| period of one year.
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t Contributions will be used |
1 to circulate literature and |
carry on a campaign to at- |!
tain the purposes set forth. |
Address Alaska Home Rule |
] Assn., Fairbanks, Alaska. At- |
| tach sheet with signatures j
and contributions if signed by ]
two or more. Receipts evi |
] dencing membership will be I
! sent.
—Sponsors—
Sherman A. Noyes
E. F. Wann
Thos. McKinnon
R. C. Rot.henburg
H. E. Buz by
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ing of development will be con
tinual friction between Alaskans
and Federal officials which will
have a strong tendency to culmi
nate in disasterous encounters.
We have groups of Tories in
our own country, who. subserv
ient to Outside interests and
their own selfish blindness, cry
for and attempt to foist upon the
people schemes hatched three
thousand miles away, but most
inhabitants of Alaska are Alas
kans. There are a few far-sighted
men in Washington, D. C.. who
are our friends, but the majority
of those in power are such crea
tures as Lord North, who had as
much propensity fdr tyranny and
no more perspicacity or construe
live ability than the most hope
less of doddering old men.
Alaska should now be support
ing a population of millions, but
everything Alaska has gotten she
has gotten in spite of the cabal
against her, by the work of a few
good and farsighted men and a
few accidents of fate, not be
cause of any general desire on
the part of -the Government or
financial interest to help Alaska.
Instead of spreading enlighten
ment as to the true physical
conditions and glorious possib
ilities for development, Alaska
has been consistently pictured as
a mass of ice, and such stories
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are spun as England spun of the
barbaric conditions existing in
tre colonies.
It is imperative that we com
i bine as one people to speak our
minds and enforce our demands,
lit is high time. There never was
a better time. The steady reach
! ing out for Federal control is
making the situation desperate.
If we are ever to call our souls
! our own we must unite before
i the Federal tentacles stretch into
every home and make it impos
I sible for us to move. United, we
j can accomplish more for Alaska
i in ten years than the Federal
I Government has in seventy. Di
vided, we gain a petty advance
j ment for a small locality here
i and there, and as surely as the
; sun sets each night, sink towards
! a darkness that will pe perman
| ent in a land where a great north
ern Empire might have existed.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget carnet
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports
Mining Deeds, Placer knd Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers,
Special Power of Attorney form?
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
| di, how many, and the Associa
lion Claim, described in detail, in
1 pamphlet form, for sale at The
Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Home Nugget office
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SHE’S BOSS of a Scran
ton coal mine anil 20 workmen
call Mrs. Anna Sklepko, 24, a
good one. She took over the
mine, which produces 40 tons
•Tally, three years ago at her
husband's ileaih. The mine was
hc'jueathpd her by lire :a.Iie".
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® ^ PANAMA BOUN P—- this 10,000-ton Pinenier and cargo vessel Panama I
which has been called by U. S. naval architects "the safest ship afloat.” The ^Panama ’ shn^i .f
Quincy, Mass., at the start of her trial runs, Is said to be virtually non-stnkable and is fireproof The I
vessel and similar ships beinc built wlU oly between New York and Panaml ]
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
That unique and humorous
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beer
brought strictly uptodate, and ar*
now available at the Nugget off!
ce.
Old Papers For Sale
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
at The Nome Nugget.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
L O. O. F.
NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Meets every Friday, 8 p.m.
Odd Fellows Building
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L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Next Meeting April 3rd
Initiation of Candidates
Nomination of Officers
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 P. M.
Dr. W. A. Rvstrom
DENTIST
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First Avenue West
Phone Main 22
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
rhos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
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MUST BE MUSIC that engages these two in such earnest ,
conversation. They are Walter Damrosch, musician and conductor,
and Miss Ampero Iturbi, sister of Pianist Jose Iturbi, at a dinner
r concert in the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
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TWO SONS OF ERIN got together in New York to
brandish shilalahs and discuss affairs on the Emerald Isle. Left to
right are the Hon. Robert Briscoe, only Jewish member of the
Irish parliament, and Judge Cornelius F. Collins of New York
General Sessions. Judge Collins spoke on Irish democracy at a
meeting of the American FraWnitv Sons of Erin.
? ^ ^ QUEEN A ONCE-OVER, these nurses at Newcastle-on-Tyne, En*.
land, didn t miss any details of Queen Elizabeth's costume, from hat to shoes, when Britain's rulers
visited the general hospital. The king (left) and queen, who'll be visiting Canada and United States
this spring, were touring the northeast and later visited armaments factories.
THE MAIL COMES THROUGH) non-stop, at Coatesville, Pa., scene of recent preview
of air mail service to begin May 12 for 55 communities In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Vir
ginia. It works like this: mall for delivery (right arrow) is released through plane's trapdoor. The
pick-up mail, attached to a “free rope" supported by two poles, is snagged by a grappling hook.
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