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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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INSPIRATION IN “UNCLE JOE’S” LIFE
• Every Alaskan youth may draw inspiration from the
life history of “Uncle Joe” Cannon, the patriarch of Amer
ican statesmen, who rounded out nearly a half century in
the service of his country.
Like all great men in American history, and those
who have been called by the people to represent the heart
of the nation in high places, “Uncle Joe”-started as a poor
boy, born amidst frugal, Christian environment. Schooled
in his early youth in rigid conformation to the funda
mentals of religious thought, he emerged prepared for
self-discipline and fortified by high moral character. Then
we see him, filled with the same roseate dreams that are
the heritage of American youth, engendered by the very
essence of our national being, looking forward to the day
when he, too, could stand among the great as an integral
unit in his country’s mighty forces of freedom and equal
ity. He did not accept the preamble of the American
Declaration of Independence in its literal sense, but rath
er grasped the more correct interpretation that equality
carried with it impositions aside from the mere accident
of birth—-that it was merely a relative term, and that
equality had many subdivisions and distinguishing grades.
He chose the equality of statesmen and lawmakers, set his
face to the task and emerged the Grand Old Man of Con
gress. » - - ... . . /' . .
We pan see him as a grocery clerk, a mere boy, the
nominal *head of a family, finishing his daily labors to take
up his law books and spend the evenings that he might
have dissipated in care-free leisure, absorbing and digest
ing the laws of th& land and dwelling eagerly on the sub
ject of political economy, the mainspring for legislative
direction. Again we see him, with honest naivete, stand
ing before the dean of a law college and confessing his
poverty, to pay, while displaying his thirst for perfect
knowledge, and his later triumphant tramp along the
roads back to his home.
Thus fortified for the services he was to render to his
nation, he entered the political arena. His success was not
opportune; it was the result of courage and learning
which stamped him as a fitting representative of a free
people in the halls of Congress.
The time has approached when Alaska’s youth are to
be called to take up the labors of lawmaking along with
the commercial activities supplanting the earlier pioneer
departures of the Territory. They may, like “Uncle Joe,”
stand in high places. But the high places must be won,
not merely on personal popularity; they must be won
thru ability—preparation in the science of statesman
ship, profound learning in the subjects of national well
being.
Alaska needs the expression of youth, its energies,
its daring and its brains. She needs them in her legisla
tive halls, for it is there that much of her salvation is to
be worked out. The boy or girl who sets his or her face
to the task and emerges prepared for the work yet to be
done, will deserve well of his fellows. Like the ambition
of “Uncle Joe” Cannon, it is worth striving for.
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resident in Alaska and having to do
with the Bureau of Education work.
But it was found that but $2,500 was
available for the drive, and after Ash
enfelter, who was from time to time
connected with the Bureau of Educa
tion, had visited the Eskimo herd own
ers around Nome and Council, secured
promises of joining the drive, and
was ready to begin, he was informed
that the additional sum of $2,500 to
defray the expenses of the undertak
ing was not available.
Those familiar with the reindeer in
dustry naturally ask why it is that
treble the sum of $5,000 is being ex
pended annually among the Eskimos
of the North when the transference
of the herds would relieve the govern
ment of the expense, and at the same
time conclude the program as at
first conceived of providing the native
with something whereby he could
| sustain himself and rise above the
primitive condition from which the
Bureau of Education claims to have
sought to lift him.
“Made a Bum” Says Native
An educated Eskimo recently re
marked: “The government has made
a bum of me; it educated me out of
the ways of my people and then turn
ed me loose to exist on a small herd
of reindeer, which I cannot sell. If
it is only a question of meat and
clothing, I can get that doing odd
jobs. As far as my deer are concern
ed, they arfe a huisance and no bene
fit to me.”
Hence history is being repeated—
the government embarks upon a phil
anthropic enterprise to repay the na
tive for his lands and for taking his
means of livelihood from him, and
then allows him to drift as a half
prepared specimen of humanity un
able to immediately transplant him
self into the white man’s scheme, and
at the sanie time unfitted to follow
the instincts of his primitive ances
tors *in wresting a livelihood from na
ture.
It is reported that among the East
ern stockholders in a big reindeer
herd in the North is Archie Roose
velt; that the company was compell
ed to borrow considerable money in
New York. $ If this is true, the answer
to the question of what influence is
being used to prevent the Eskimo and
small herd eskimo from coming into
active competition with the big com
pany herds may not be far to seek.
Two years ago members of the Bu
reau of Education, Biological Survey,
namely Wm, Lopp, received letters
from the vicinity of Nome saying that
raids were being made upon the na
tive reindeer herds by white men;
that it was' impossible to secure a
conviction for these offenses, and re
commending that the deer be remov
ed to a point where better supervision
could be had and where there would
be no conflict of range. This opened
the question of transfer. It was put
up to the authorities at Washington,
but after the incident cited above, the j
matter was allowed to die.
Following his efforts to have the
Bureau of Education transfer the na
tive herds to Broad Pass, Ashenfelter
attempted to secure finances from
Northern Alaska banks. After the
matter was taken under advisement
for some weeks they declined to con
sider the loan. It is claimed that this
refusal was due to conferences with
| Bureau of Education officials, who
cast cold water upon the enterprise.
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