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THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE
David Lawrence, writing in the Saturday Evening f
Post, along with Isaac F. Marcosson, both of whom are t
journalists of international repute, uses this language in (
opposition to the action of President Calles, policy of con- ]
servation of oil lands: t
. . . The Mexican government has declared that her laws will have
no practical effect because she is willing to exchange leases for 50 years
(to the oil lands) for the titles. I asked a high official of the American
government whether he considered a lease as adequate exchange for a
title of ownership.
“Suppose,” he said, “I should say that the American government will
seize the house you have bought and paid for, and in exchange will give
you a lease, which of course, is terminable at some future date. Do you
suppose you could sell a perfected title?”
Offering as his own argument in support of the United
States bringing its power to bear on the small southern re
public to force it to return to the bribing oil barons the
surface as well as the sub-soil values, Mr. Lawrence says:
“If the United States were to accept this theory s of raas it applies
to Mexico, it would be tantamount to an announcement that any country
could by the same process of constitutional amendment obtain posses
sion of the valuable properties owned and developed by citizens of foreign
countries. The whole structure of international law as well as domestic
law, is involved in the policy of the United States government. . . .
This is one of the reasons why President Coolidge in his recent utterances
has expressed wonder that anybody in the United States could see two
sides to the legal aspect of the matters at issue with Mexico.”
Let us substitute “United States” for Mexico and
“Alaska” for the United States and see if there is any an
alogy in the premises. If it is wrong to take the valuable
developed lands of Americans in Mexico from them, it was
wrong to take the valuable developed lands of Alaska from
Alaskans. The nature of ownership differs only in that
Alaskans acquired their right to title through settlement
and reclamation of a wilderness. This title has been recog
nized by the United States government in its relations
with its people since the passing of the crown grants of
England to the federation of States, therefore it is a valid
title sufficient in the present instance. Involved in the
entire premises is every precedent of national progress, in
cluding the Louisiana Purchase, which, like Alaska, was
bought outright from France. To get that and other un
developed sections of the then small nation populated, the
government recognized pioneer precedents. Title was the
essence of progress as pointed out by Mr. Lawrence’s “high
government official.”
Compare the rates of progress of the pioneer United
States with Alaska and note the difference.
If President Coolidge and those advocating forcing
Mexico, at its first opportunity to express the choice of the
masses, to yield the principle as laid down by Mr. Law
rence and Mr. Coolidge, then Alaska is not dreaming when
it asks the same restitution, not to foreigners, but to citi
zens whom the late President and Mrs. Harding referred
to as expressive of the highest type of Americanism they
had encountered in the nation.
The old bromide about “the people of the United
States” purchasing Alaska will no longer suffice. Who
were these people? It was not New England, Florida or
Ohio; it was the entire nation of which Alaskans are as
much a part as any, with the addition that besides the
monetary contribution they earned the added right to title
by paying in blood and sacrifice. They ‘‘drowned like rats
in her rivers; stormed her ramparts of snow”; grappled
with the forbidding and treacherous wilderness and con
quered, then laid their standards of victory at the feet of a
proud nation, only to be told that they should share only
such tithes as a despot might grant to his leal subjects
while he divided the treasure wrested from the van
quished with his retainers—the bureaucrats.
"When we get a man in Washington who will marshal
his facts and lay his case before Congress.and the people of
the United States, Alaska will be emancipated.
Now is the propitious moment* when the United States
must give to her own subjects in Alaska the same privi
leges she demands from Mexico for oil barons who se
cured their immense holdings by bribery of presidents
from Diaz to Obregon.
OF CAGE SERIES
ANCHORAGE GIRLS OPENED DES
PERATE OFFENSE SECOND
HALF SATURDAY’S GAME
Seward High School girLs won their
third straight victory over the Anch
orage team Saturday night in the S.
A. C. hall, thereby establishing a re
cord never duplicated by a Seward
basketball team in the history of
inter-city athletics. The Seward
girls have demonstrated conclusively
in the recent series that they not
only have an excellent team but that
they possess a fighting spirit rarely
found in athletic aggregations. In
the final game the .team was consid
erably weakened by the absence of
Bert McIntosh from the line up for
the greater part of the game and
won out only by a remarkable de
fense against a smoother working
team. No finer spirit has ever been
displayed in a local game than that
of the first night when the Seward
girls won after trailing by a score ■
of 15 to 4.
Seward got away to a good start
in Saturday’s fray and led at the
end of the half 9-5. In the second
half the ‘Anchorage girls opened up
a desperate offense which almost
landed the victory and the injection
of Bert McIntosh into the line up
in the last quarter is probably thq
factor that staved off defeat. Cecil
Leslie, playing her best game of the
series caged the winning basket. The
final score was 11-10. Elsa Larsson
and Katherine Neville were all over
the floor playing the best game of
their careers, Viola Sheldon, sub
. stiitute guard played a great defen
' sive game. Wilma Harrison, how
: ever, was unquestionably the indivi
> dual star of the game breaking up
play after play which seemed to be
' certain of ending the score. Wilma
' has shown marked improvment in
' each game and has been a big factor
> in every victory. She is the all
round star of the series.
The Anchorage girls put up the
: best battle of the three games and
their passing is superior to that of
1 the locals. The fact that in the three
1 games Seward has scored only four
: points more than Anchorage shows
1 clearly that there is little to choose
1 between the teams. In Hedberg, Nel
son and Nichols .the visitors have
‘ three excellent performers and the
return series in Anchorage next week
, should bring forth some more super
! basketball.
Lieutenant Jones refereed in a
I satisfactory manner, four personal
fouls being called on Seward, three
^ on Anchorage, of which Anchorage
coverted two and Seward one.
The series was a success financial
^ ly, a good house Saturday night nett
> ing $34.
In the preliminary the Seward Mid
5 gets defeated the Jesse Lee School.
' Saturday’s line-up:
' Anchorage—Hedberg, F; Nelson,
j F; Carlson, C; Staser, G; Nichols, G.
* Seward—Larsson, F; Neville. F;
Leslie, C; Sheldon, G; Harrison, G.
^ Substitutions: Snodgrass for Hed
7 berg, McIntosh for Sheldon.
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ZANE GREY’S
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This is a very fine picture of the strenuous days of
the West, when weaklings were killed off and women
were scarce
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Full of Excitement and Comedy
This is the wonderful cast:
ANTONIO MORENO — HELEN CHADWICK
ROCKLIFFE FELLOWS — CHARLES OGLE
GIBSON GOWLAND —LUKE COSGRAVE
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