Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Eut-ablUhed Auprutt 19, 1904
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A DUBIOUS COMPLIMENT
Senator Norris in his bill calling for the limitation
of United States mashals, district attorneys and judges
in Alaska to one each, comes as a diluted compliment.
Evidently the Senator believes Alaska is so law abiding
that policemen are not necessary. In this respect he is
near correct.
But what about the army of special investigators,
prohi snoopers and other drones pulling a fawcet at the
national pap trough?
If half the money paid out for these luxuries of pro
hibition was saved to the treasury, beginning at Wash
ington and spreading thruout the nation, there would be
plenty left with which to balance the budget without
piling on more taxes and sufficient to guarantee Alaska
the public benefits she demands and is entitled to.
This thrust at Alaska is what is claimed to be an ef
fort to retrench in governmental expenditures measures
up to what Nebraska has to offer in small fry Jockey
statesmen. It will be remembered that his associate in
the Senate, Mr. Howell, had nothing better to offer in
the line of public economy than assailing The Alaska
Railroad, thereby crippling what should be a successful
public utility in an apparent effort to blind the public to
the abuses of the national Treasury thru such criminal
extravagances as prohibition.
Verily this is the age where intellectual pygmies in
stead of statesmen dominate the national body politic.
POLITICAL WASHINGTON EXPOSED
Not in many years has so searching an analysis of
the forces and personalities that constitute our govern
ment been revealed to the gaze of the public as in the
amazingly interesting book the “Washington Merry-Go
Round,1” copies of which recently reached Seward.
The anonymous author trots out before the reader's
eyes, one by one, our political heroes from the Executive
down, then proceeds to take them apart, piece by piece,
for all the world to gaze upon; their virtues and weak
nesses—and how!
Only a handful of men in high office escape the pit
iless scrutiny of the gifted narrator.
The final chapter is devoted to the preponderant
majority of American newspapers which the author des
cribes as being trivial reactionary and subservient, re
flecting the present debasing influences emanating from
Washington. The author winds up by saying that inde
pendent, honest, enlightening and courageous newspa
pers are almost wholly extinct.
To which latter statement The Gateway subscribes.
Whether or not the author paints a true picture of
America's alleged great men, can, at the best, only be
surmised; but at the same time it is good to have some
one occassionally relate his personal and supposedly un
biased viewpoint. He does not ask that all who read agree
with him.
“Washington Merry-Go-Rouna”is his story; a vivid
one indeed, and he sticks to it.
SPEAKING OF REAL PANICS
Harking back to other panics, how about that of
1873? Eighty-nine railroads went into the hands of re
ceivers; about 300 iron and steel plants closed; 5,000
commercial houses failed that year, 5..830 the following
year, 7,740 in 1875, 9,092 in 1876, 9000 in 1877 and in 1878
10,478 failed. Talk about hard times, those were the days.
The Japanese said they will soon finish General Mah.
Now if they get General Jong they'll have a world war
on their hands.
/^Member 1q3Q^
National Editorial Association
F
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3. (By
W.A.S.)—In addition to many bills
for pensions and private claims,
Delegate Wickersham has prepared
and sent to the Clerk of the House
for introduction in Congress many
important measures, among which
Jare the following:
A bill to amend the Organic Act
| and give the Territory greater
powers; providing that the Legis
lative Assembly shall have power
to provide for the creation and
organization of counties and county
form of government; that no
county shall have less than 500 le
gal voters nor a less area than 2,000
square miles, and shall not be creat
ed until the question is first sub
mitted to the legal electors resid
ing within the proposed county and
approved by three-fourths majority j
of the legal votes cast at such elec- j
tion.
That the United States shall an- ,
nually pay to the Territory a sum !
equal to 50 per cent of the amount:
received from the share of the U.;
S. in the operation of the seal fish- ;
eries of the Pribilof Islands.
To repeal the Act of Congress i
entitled “An Act to Prohibit thej
Manufacture or Sale of Alcoholic
Liquors in the Territory of Alaska.”
To establish a Supreme Court for
the Territory of Alaska, to be com
posed of a Chief Justice and the
■four District Judges.
To authorize the construction of
a coal bunker as a part of the Al
aska Railroad at Seward, and ap
propriating $75,000 therefor.
To authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to purchase Block 8, in
the Town of Juneau, for the site
and better fire protection of the
Federal and Territorial building,
and appropriating $80,000 for car
rying out the purposes of the Act;
providing that the Town of Ju- \
neau shall first donate $4,000 to!
assist in the purchase of the land. |
To authorize the entry of fur
farming homesteads, after a lesseej
has resided on the land for at least
three years and paying $2.50 per
acre for sail land.
To repeal the present law provid
ing for the location of placer min
ing claims and restoring to Alaska
the general mining laws of the
United States, as pertaining to
placer claims. (By request of the
Territorial Legislature).
To provide that no boat, trap, or
other property, belonging to any
Indian or other person residing in
Alaska, shall be seized and held j
for forfeiture for alleged violation j
of the fisheries law, until after the j
arrest, trial and conviction of the
owner or operator of sail property.
Amending a bill to provide that
it shall be unlawful to wantonly
waste or destroy salmon or other
food fishes taken in the waters of
Alaska; nor shall any portion of
food fishes, except the offal, be
manufactured into oil or fertilizer.
Because of the curtailed produc
on at the Kenencott copper mines
le Copper River and Northwest
ern Railway expects to close down
s 196 miles of rail operating about
re middle of January to remain
lie for three months. During that
eriod the mail wall be-carried be
veen Cordova, Chitina, McCarthy
nd Kennecott by airplane. Appli
ation to deliver that service has
een received by the Postoffice
apartment in Washington from
le Gillam Airways.
* * * *
Announcement was made on No
ember 28 of the death of Richard
tanley Ryan, at the home of his
rother-in-law at Berkeley Springs,
I. Va. “Dick” Ryan will be re
lembered by all the early Alaskans,
s he was prominent in the settle
lent of Nome and later was a
gure in the Ballenger - Pinchot
ontroversey over the coal claims
t Katalla. He married about 15
ears ago and established a home
ear New York City, where he had
stroke about three years ago and
rom which he never fully recov
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