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Published Every Sunday Morning at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER, EDITOR
Geo. M. Arbuckla. Publisher No. IF
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CONSERVATION VS. PRESERVATION
From where we sit it begins to look as though this
Conservation business is getting it somewhere in tlie region
of the Adam's Apple. Our old friend Gift Pinchot, who
has expressed a desire to tie up all the undeveloped re
sources of the country for the seventeenth generation fol
lowing the burial of the Big Stick, wis handed a juicy lime
the other day at the session of the American Mining Con
gress at Los Angeles, where, after a brief consideration, the
congress jumped upon him and his lieutenants with unani
mous feet and declared his extremeisms sham and airy per
siflage.
Gilt was down there with a long line of talk about
leasing government mineral lands on a royalty basis, and
other theories designed to save the virgin wealth of the
nation from the rapacious greed of grasping corporations.
He thought forest reservations should be extended and
waterfalls hedged about to sing their hymns of power into
the vista of dawning years.
The representatives of the mining industry in conven
tion assembled, gazed a while in awe and then in concerted
and concentrated voice shouted, "Rausmitem. Beat it Giff.
Make a noise like tyre and roll away. Mosey back to Teddy
and tell him he talks like a conservation coffee cooler. On
your way Pin-Show, we are tired of all this folderol,—we
want to see something doing.”
And then those miners got together and talked the
thing over and said to themselves and to each other, that
they thought, Pinchot and Col. Roosevelt and Jones and
Glavis had smoke in their turrets, and that they considered
it about time that theorists stopped putting up high hur
dles in the path of practical progress.
They declared that the minerals should belong to the
various states in which they were found, subject only to the
general laws in regard to location. They declared*that it j
is high time something be done to open up the coal lands of i
Alaska, and that Washington should get the hunch and
allow Alaska to develop without so much interference.,
Then they gave three cheers for dear, old Vassal' and dis
banded. .
Vsifiord 1 lnchot lias been called the millionaire theorist.
As head of the forestry bureau of tlie department of the
interior he fn>t got action on this conservation idea, and
after he got going well, he cost the government a good
many millions putting the idea into execution, although the
people of the United States have never had an opportunity
of saying whether they cared for the proposition or not.
When he first thought of it, he whispered it to Teddy,
and that astute statesman and press-agent glaumed it with
great glee.
Since Gift’ first got that little pee-wee in his chapeau,
things have been happening all over the country to the
great detriment of large sections, and especially Alaska.
Millions of words have been written about the coal land
proposition and millions more will be written because Pin
chot had the matter so balled up that it will take years to
untangle it.
And now gentle reader, we want to Bay right here that
we are not for this conservation song and dance, here in
Alaska, — we would like to see another piece on the boards,
entitled. “The Song of the Rail.” Conservation simply
means that natural wealth shall be tied up so that the big, j
naughty corporations can’t get it, nor anybody else. Then
after the conservation padlock is put on every thing in
sight, they will wait a few generations and give the key to
somebody and tell him to go to it. It's a nice, little game,
but we want none of it. Conservation to the national
government makes a beautiful theory but it doesn’t agree
with our preservation, therefore we are forninst it.
As everyone knows, transportation is the most vital
need of Alaska,—it transcends every other important fea
ture of our future development. As everyone knows further,
if he give it the proper thought, there will be nothing done
in regard to extending transportation lines until provision
be made permitting proposed railroads to get at the coal
necessary to move their freight. And not only is it neces
sary to move tonnage, but if it be such a great asset of this
territory, why not, in the name of common sense, give us a
chance to sell some of it to the Outside world and pocket
the proceeds.
Strictly speaking the coal question is the main issue in
southeastern Alaska, but it also becomes a vital issue in the
interior when it becomes apparent that we will have no
railroad until the coal question is settled.
We know that the Morganheims are trying to get their
hooks into Alaska and on everything in sight. That is
whit all the holler is about, and they would" be monumen
tal mutts if they didn’t try to grab that wealth. We also
know that it will take large aggregations of capital to ac
complish much in the way of building railroads in this
country, in fact, we believe it impossible otherwise.
Such being the case, and its a pipe that such is the j
case, we say,—let the corporations have it. Let them go!
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ahead and have it and let them make their money and we’ll
get our bit. Let them build and dig and develope, with
this one proviso,—see to it that there is a wide-awake and
capable lookout on the game.
This is a matter of legislation. If congress, as a repre
sentative law-making body is worth a customary cuss, then
it can surely frame a law that will put a proper restraint on
the greed of corporations without choking the development
of the country. It can surely frame up a few rules that
will allow the game to progress, giving us all a chance for
our white chip and putting the kibosh on the crooked box.
THIS IS WHERE HE GOT THE DOPE
When it became definitely known here that the Idit
arod was to have a perfectly line monthly mail service, it be
came a grave question at once in our minds as to just what
influence had agitated the thinktank of Chief Clerk Ran
dalls when he was arranging the excellent contract that is
ours.
The mystery has been explained, however, for ingoing
over some old files, we encountered some postoffice records, j
copied evidently from records now resting in the filing cases'
in Randall’s office and from which he is doubtless shaping'
his conduct. Here is the latest dope on arranging mail
service schedules where they will do the most good. They,
will be found interesting to the aveiage reader as showing
how the old-timers, back in the dear, dead days had us
skinned a Mormon block:
EARLY MAIL ROUTES
The first record contained in our colonial history ot any kind of
mail service dates from 1676, when the court in Boston appointed Mr. j
John Hayward to “take in an 1 convey letters according to their direc
tion.’’ In December, 1716, arrangements were made to receive letters!
in Boston fiom William-burg, Va., during four weeks of the summer!
time and eight weeks in winter. In 173.S Henry Pratt was appointed !
“riding postmaster’’ for all the routes between Puiladelphia and New-j
port, Va , to set out in the beginning of each month and return in 24
days. Postage stamps were first introduced into the' United States in j
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ENTERTAINING Of all the occupations known to me, enter-!
PREJUDICE taining a prejudice is the most absurd. Yet;
— the practice is almost universal.
The prejudice is usually uninvited. He comes in quietly, re-j
moves his hat and coat, saunters up to the guest chamber, and pi-e- j
pares to become a permanent feature of the establishment. You j
entertain him royally, strain him to your bosom, exhibit him,
proudly to every one, tight for him, defend him, and perpetuate
him. Yet you do not even admit that he is present. “I entertain:
a prejudice?” you say, with becoming scorn. “Never!”
Birds of a feather flock together. It therefore happens that if
there is one prejudice present, there are also others. They alway
come in unawares, and take their places silently and unobtrusive),
But, oh, how they hang together in an argument!
A group of prejudices is invincible. They have never been
beaten.
A strange part of prejudice is that one would think they would
prefer more commodious quarters. But, no; the narrower tho
mind, the more content they are. They don’t mind close quarters.
The closer the better.
Prejudices are always busy. If they are not tampering with
one’s eyesight, they are screening the mind from the open; put
ting blinds on and making it dark enough to sleep in comfortably.
A man can get insured against almost anything else but preju
dices. He can insure himself against tire and water and loss of life
and accident and depreciation in his property. But there is no com
pany so fortified that it would take the risk of insuring against
prejudice. And then no man would ever think of taking out any
insurance on one, because he would never admit that he ha7l it. The
first thing he does is to make the man think he isn’t there.
That is why prejudices, no matter how much damage they
cause to character, are never evicted. They have come to stay.—
Lippincott’s Magazine.
fVl AN’S Toiling up and down the street, in the wintry snow,
ERRANDS in the summer’s glare and heat, evermore wo go; not
an hour have we to waste, till the day is gone; in our
frenzied, foolish haste always pressing on. In our youth we’re
gray and bent; always worried much, lest perchance an old red
cent may escape our clutch; driving others to the wall, working
tooth and nail, making plans—and after all, what do they avail”
Rustling, hustling in the strife, adding to our pile, missing all there
us in life, that is worth our while. We’ve forgotten how to play,
since becoming men; bring us back the yesterday, make us boys
again ! Let’s forget a while the time swimming in the ponds ! Rob
oing nests of bumblebees, for the honey heap, swiping apples from
the trees, while the dog's asleep! Idle dream of idle mind! Dreams
like these are wrong; sentenced to the sordid grind, we must plod
along; wearing out the city’., pave, wearing out our souls; ever on
ward, till the grave parts us from our rolls.—Walt Mason.
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American troops at Manila have been ■
ordered to be in readiness to proceed to ;
the Hunan Province in China to pro-1
tect American citizens from the com
ing uprising of the Chinese against!
foreigners. The Asiatic fleet it ,s been !
Put in shape to proceed at once to j
Shanghai upon receipt of orders from ]
the war department.
Because of other labor troubles in ]
the East, the bricklayers of the Pa-j
eific coast may be ordered out on a!
sympathetic strike according to the I
suggestion of the president of tho ]
Bricklayers' Union. He would call a
strike in Seattle, Portland and San ]
Francisc).
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Kid VcC>y, the famous pugilist is up]
against a game where all men lose.
He has been named cc-respindent in a!
suit by I. Willard who is suing his j
wife ft r a divorce. Willard and McCoy ]
came to blows in New York recently -
over the matter and both were pinched. J
A big international aviation meet is]
being h.ld in New York city th'sj
month whereat will be tried cut all t he i
lttest things in air craft. A thirty-]
mile flight over the city will be one of i
the features of the big meet.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
been freed of the charge of being im
plicated in the town lot frauds in that !
state. He received an acc,uittid from a
jury at McAlester on the last of -Sf ] -
tembor.
The Seattle Independent Telephone
Cot: pany owned chiefly by Cleveland
caj italisls has been sold to the Bel
Company for $2,000,000. This deal com
pletes the big western merger intended
by the Bel! company.
Theodore Roosevelt is back at Oyster
Bay. delighted with his success in tlie
Saratoga convention in New York
date. He will tour the atate and speak
in every county during the fall cam
paign. _
The remains of Felix Pedro, the dis
coverer of gold in the Fairbanks dis
trict were sent Outside on one of the
last boats. The old timers of Fair
banks escorted the body to the boat
landing. He will be buried at San
Mateo, California.
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