Yukon Valley News
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WEDNESDAY, MAY
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ME A XT TO DECEIVE.
Alaska certainly got a lot of free
advertising by the people of Valdez
holding a mass meeting and asking
that the “district" he ceded to
Canada. And advertising pays.
The Valdez request did not have
much good, hard sense behind it;
tor Canada's consent would be nec
essary before such cession could be
made, and Canada, as it is, is swal
lowing United States citizenship
faster than she can digest it. Can
ada might object.
Hut, nevertheless, the action at
Valdez caused talk, and the talk
will cause the people of the United
States to think; and so, at last, the
people of the republic may come to
a realization of their al surd stand
regarding their outlying '•posses
sions.'”
Prominent papers of New Vork,
Chicago, Washington City, Pitts
burg, St. Louis, and dozens of other
places have declared that Alaska
his a just grievance. liven the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the cold
est blooded imperialist organ of
them all. is loud in it- calls for
“justice" for Alaska. The words
of these papers are all timely and
meant to deceive!
They conve) the idea that coti
gtess' failure is a result of igno
rance which is false The men
who have defeated Alaskan meas
ure# are the best informed men in
the world about Alaska. They have
its resources «>| every kind at their
lingers' end#. They know every
locality that can !>*• made to vieltl
revenue Ir m ti*h anil Inr. ami they
know the gold production amt
proUitde future output letter than
people in Alaska know them, fur
they have statistic* and mtoiiua
lion ul every kind at hand Thev
know, and would profit by their
knowledge.
The gr.-at Republican papers
which have so suddenly awakened
to Alaska’s needs are suspic.ously
unanimous in their solicitude, their
deprecations and their promises.
They all seem to think alike, and
they all shed promises in profuse
generality. As an aid in getting at
the truth of the matter the follow- j
ing from a Canadian paper, the j
Dawson News, is worth more than
everything that has been printed
by the itnj erialistic press of the
United States:
If tlie senate means anything it means
that no matter what the advancement of
Alaska, that district, as well as the Phil
ippines and Porto Rico, is never to be
allowed to enter the union of states
They are never to be part of the Union,
but to be held as "possessions,” just as
India is held by Great Britain today.
There is the truth, and Alaskans
know it is the truth. They can not
consistently be Republican parti
sans and desire Alaska to become
other than what it is regarded:
the bastard issue of an unrepentant
sire—begot for a juice, denied its
father's house, nursed by hirelings,
and pointed out to the world's de
caying aristocracy as one more
. i
proof that their own degeneracy is j
but the common fate of all.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE'
EAIR.
i
Governor Brady is evidently in
earnest in his desire to see Alaska
fitly lepreseuted by an exhibit at
the Portland fair. In securing the
appointment of Godfrey Chealander
.is special commissioner the gover*
nor showed good judgment, for Mr.
Chealander possesses influence in
an order that can do mole than all
other agencies combined to make
the enterprise in a measure success
ful. The Arctic Brotherhood in-1
eludes in its membership every
class tr< m every section, and is
ready organized f> r systematic ac
tion .
But the time remaining is so
short that the work can not be
properly done. Mr. Chealander is
now somewhere in the north, but
the exposition will be open and
receiving visitors long 1-efore he
can make the rounds He does not
use the telegraph, and the mails
are not running. When he doe#
reach a mining camp the |>enp!e
will be engrossed in the cleanup
anal will have little time ta> .spare
With all these di awhatk s it Mr
Chealander in sties nj a creditable
exhibit and gets it to 1‘ortlaml it
will he a wotidel.
The govern* r i' to he ci mmended
tor sending to the commissioner
here, and presumable to thwe else
where, a K-mmunkation urging the
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you, Only on Commission
Call on our Agent or write to us
F reigliter
and Packer;
Orders for Wood Solicited
All orders left at the Miners Store will
receive attention.
collection of representative exhibits.
But even this action was too tardy
to be of much effect. It might also
have tickled the people into a more
receptive humor by saying more
about paystreaks, rich pans, pick
ups, nuggets of gold and silver, and
so forth and so on, and less about
rocks, clays, soils, peat, fish, birds,
insects, etc. It would be hard to
induce a man to quit digging up
pay dirt and go to digging peat, or
a man who thinks he is about to
overtake a paystreak to pull off his
hat and go to chasing grasshop
pers.
It would have been a delicate bit
of flattery to our people to tell the
commissioner here that he had
heard of many nuggets, weighing
half a pound or so, being dug up
around Rampart; and would he
please try to borrow a few for the
exposition ? Me might have ad
ded: "I bad the biggest turnip at
St. Louis,and I sincerely hope your
people will have the biggest nugget
at Portland." Such little jollies as
that would go a long way toward
convincing people ol the Yukon
that the governor knows what they
are looking lor and hopes they will
find it in plenty.
Thi Washington correspondent
of the New York World, tinder
date of March 5, said: I’resident
R. osevelt lieginshis administration
with the howtilitv of congress well
developed, and the indications are
that Uf« re the rl« -e of his four year
term he will le more bitterly an
tagonized than was « .rover Cleve
land, who retired with only three
senators it his own party lett to
dr tend his po!n te s rhe fifty eighth
congress ignores I anil rehnked the
president as no previons body of
legislators has ever don* Nearly
C. If. GIBBONS, M. I).
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. m. and when not other
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office and Residence. Second avenue.
GKOKGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
J. LINDLKY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Leaves for (flen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To ond From All
tlie Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
every recommendation made by the
chief executive was ridiculed and
rejected. Apparently all required
to defeat a measure was »he knowl
edge that the president urged and
approved it. . . . No such array of
Miuhs was ever liefore administered
to a president w ithin three months."
In Chicago it is said to t* not
uncommon lor parents to sell their
12, i \ ami t.| year-okt daughters to
men tor wives. In two years 301
young girls have been thus married
In the same eitv a twaiitilnl young
widow has been convicted of leading
astray hoy a of tender age