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N E REPUDIATED
le most itifying result of Tues
emocmtiv m.;<nine gang. Irre
result is the one Unit ipp’-als the
e and appreciate eleankncss and
decern; ; , with h>r political att'n-rs.
Tin tactic* of the machine have lone since become disgusting to
a majo' : e people and we doubt if there is .1 single fair minded and rtgbt
think:’ :. \ 1 i>k ■ n who does not heartily rejoice at the complete overthrow of
the •. ii’inity. fa Iso dealing and disreputable practices instituted and
main-.'died l.\ the gang during the past five or six years. In pursuit of its ef
forts to l.atten upon the territory, the corrupt aggregation has sunk Alaska
into the uttermost depths of political vileness and made h r very natn* an ob
ject of reproach wherever morality and justice prevail. I’nder its contuma
cious rule the rights of citizenship have been stolen from the people by fraud
and trickery, justice has been manipulated and subverted to disreputable
ends; and the territory has had foisted upon it as choice a pack of political
rascals and incompetents as ever held office to the detriment and disgrace of ..
land or nation.
Vow, thank God, :he people have awakened, and spoken with a mighty
voice the word which will shortly end forever Sts career >f pollution and de
basement and Alaska will soon he free to breath*- once more the pure air
which their presence has so long contaminated.
GOLD PRODUCTION
Comparison of gold production figures, local and national, for the pus*
four or five years discloses that the decrease in the annual gold yield of the
Reward Peninsula district is in direct ratio to the decline in production thruout
the United States. This indicates that the local decrease is not due. as the
numerous puri>oseful pessimists insist, to the country being "worked out,” but
is to he attributed to the same combination of economic causes which has pro
voked the general reduction throughout the nation.
The present gold production of the United States is about fifty per cent
of the amount produced between 1S10 and 1915. In proportionate ratio, the
1 cent gold yield of Seward Peninsula is also about fifty per cent of what i*
was during that same period. A portion of the local decline may be due to
1he exhaustion of the ground but if we take into consideration the fact that
practically all of the mining operators of this section who have suspended op
erations have done so for no other reason than prohibitive costs, it is clear
that the percentage of production decline due to working out must be relatively
Past figures show that the average yearly gold production <»f the
district approximated eight per cent of the total production of the United
States for the period between 1898 and the outbreak of the war. Since then
the gold production of the nation and district has declined to about fifty per
cent of the amount produced between 1910 and 1915, but even this year, (1920)
with conditions about as bad as they could be. Seward Peninsula will proba
bly produce between three and four percent of the total national production.
WHERE THE REMEDY LIES
In the midst of the clamoring for governmental relief from present con
ditions it should be reculled that the real power .to change conditions rests in
our own hands. It lies neither in the White House or in Congress, reeirdless
of whether democrats or republicans are in power. When we get down to
the real basis of things the power to change conditions has its seat no where
else than in the mind of the average citizen—the you's and I's, the men and
women of the hind. We wail about high prices and restrictive conditions but
it is as certain as certain can be that when fifty or sixty million of the every
day people mnke up their minds that conditions are unbearable, that prices
ore too high and that they won’t pay them only when absolutely unavoidable,
then things will change. Instead of hearing that prices are going still higher,
we will find the dealers advertising big price reductions. When a majority
of us make up our minds fully that we want no more of present conditions they
will change and change quickly and we need not bother our heads about what
the politicians think or want or what the party platforms say. It is your
mind and my mind and the other fellow’s mind that wields all the real power
that is needed to make things the way we want them.
CRANBERRIES, APPLES AND THE SPECULATOR
(From the Sunset Magazine)
Last summer apple buyers by the hundred swarmed into the orchards
of the Pacific Northwest, offering fabuolue prices for the fruit then ripening on
the trees. They contracted for half of the 25,000 car load crop.
When they shipped their high priced fruit Bast, the retailers had to ask
for it prices the consumer would not pay. To move the goods, he cut prices,
lost money and bought no more.
As a result the market was disorganized, the cold storage plants were
jammed with apple boxes that could not be sold except at a loss and low prices
prevailed for this fall’s crop.
Now look at cranberries. It takes a lot of sugar to make cranberries
palatable, and sugar was rationed last year. The cranberry crop reached
600.000 barrels, the largest in history. It would have been easy for the or
ganized growers to have fixed an opening price of $12 a barrel; they controlled
the available supply and the trade would have had to pay it.
Instead, they began offering the crop at $9 a barrel, gradually lifting
the price as the supply diminished. They sold the entire quantity of 600,000
l»firrels without a hitch or a complaint, the sugar shortage notwithstanding.
The bearing acerage of Northwestern apples and other fruit-is in
creasing year by year. If the growers want to derive a profit for their labor
they will have to organize, eliminate speculation and merchandise their
wares just as the manufacturers do.
EDITORIAL TRINKLETS
We wonder what Senator Fall's famous Committee on Mexican Affa'rs
did with the testimony about the money raised by the plute interests for anti
Mexican propaganda.
"Four per cent of tha entire cotton crop is run Into automobile t’r«*« ••
*-jys an exchange. Yoa, and the other 96 per cent runs mostly Into higb
priced woolen good*.
Voice of the Alaska Press
BROOKS OPTIMISTIC
Alfred H. Brooks, who has had
charge of the geological survey work
In Alaska since 1898. and who has
spent most of his sunipiiers in the
Territory’ during 4lu.t time, is now on
the coast gathering data for the inter
departmental committee, of wh cb he
is chnirmnn.
In a statement recently made at
Cordova, "Dr." Brooks declared thj.t
Alaska should bo governed in Alaska
ind approved the proposal to establish
in Alaska Development Board to ad
minister the Federal resources within
the Territory.
He said tbit when Secretary f*uyne
took office his knowledge of Alaska
was very meager, hut that his visit
0 the Territory has opened his eyes.
He said, at least. Said "Dr." Brooks,
rained an accurate conception of the
rise of the Territory, and now he real
izes that it is a pioneer country and
must be helped. He declared that the
loes act quickly when he arrives -,t
1 conclusion.
FJrooks, "that one -nan’s information
ind opinion should mean so much . o
Alaska as it does in the case of the
iska should ho governed in the Ter
icceptlng conditions as they are. “Dr."
:he idea of the \ la ska Development
arront need of Alaska is population,
<aid “Dr." Brooks, and he will do all
within his power to encourage people
to come to the Territory.
“Dr." Brooks said that in his opin
ion Alaska will develop oil on a com
mercial basis. While it is said only
drilling will demonstrate whether the
Territory possesses oil fields of the
world, the indications are that oil will
be located in commercial quantities in
Alaska. Tt is his opinion that oil will
be located in sufficient quantities to
supply the local demand and for ex
port. and that there is a strong pos
sibility that a great oil field will be
located.
That Alaska has great quantities of
high grade coal in both the Bering
River and Matanuska fields, nnd also
large areas of lignite that will be use
ful for local consumption in the Ne
anan and other regions, also was
"Dr.” Brooks declared that the dis
coved placer gold fields of Alaska
which could be worked at a profit un
der the conditions that existed befoie
the war. contain as much goM as Pas
been taken from Alasku. He also said
that there is no question but that Al
ontains great gold bearing .'odes
ill be developed when transpor
nicai mining conditions, ro-es
The copper situation, Ur. jsrooks
said, Is similar to that which sur
rounds gold mining. He said the in-1
dications are that great fields of cop- j
per await the restoration of normal
conditions.—Nenana News.
SUPER-REGULATION OF
ALASKA IS ATTACKED
Alaska is the most be-ruled, be
lawed, and be-regulated of countrle®,
says the New York Times editorially
In its issue of July 26th. The editor
under the caption of “Conserved Al
“Mr. Payne, the secretary of the in
terior. puts his finger on the *or»
spot of Alaska: There are too many
things ‘reserved.* One almost thinks
of ‘verboten* in Germany. Conserva
tion in the states is most desirable,
but what Alaska needs is more men
and women and less governmental
regulations'.
“Never was a truer word spoken of
that region of unlnmnded resources
and potentialities. From the best of
motives Alaska has been overconser
ved and constricted. Her develop
ment has been fettered lest somebody
should get rich in the process. Not
thus did the great states of the west
grow up. They almost paid a bounty
on energy’. A free field and free play;
and let the pioneer become a ‘pluto
crat* if he could. They prosper be
cause they invited an active and am
bitious population. Alaska has beftn
for years the most be-ruled. be-lawed,
be-regulated of countries. Wealth
immense, population scanty, develop
ment arrested or straggling. Such b
the result of fanatical 'conservation.
Wasn't it Drysdale in Tom Brown ai
Oxford who explained, when caught
In a vinous moment, burying the col
lege plate, that he was ‘providing foi
posterity?”—Juneau Empire.
An exchange say* Cordova women
have the prettiest lips in the ter.
rltory. We'd be willing to put ou-‘
ip against them..—Valdes Miner.
TALK AND THINK ALASKA
Talk Alaska, is the advice of Step
hen S. Wise, one of America’s promi
nent leaders in social welfare move
ments and noted all over the world.
Do It now, is the next step he advo
In other words, if you know Alaskn,
its possibilities, its potential sources
for greatness, whether it be in scen
ery, in Ashing:, in timber, in minim;,
in farming or any other industry,
don’t keep your knowledge bottled up.
Give it freedom. Turn it loose where
it will communicate itself to others
who lack it
Tie a booster for your own country.
And it *s not a difficult task for one
who knows this great Northland to
boost for it. Turn to almost any sec
tion of Alaska and there will be found
opiportunitier wl ich are deserving «.f
special ment*on. Alaskans have be
come so familiar with the possibilities
that many of them are taking It for
granted that they are a matter of
common knowledge. Many fail to
realize th-u what to them is an old
story, to others is an unwritten boo.i.
Alaska has had lots of publicity
and most of it has been of the wrong
kind. First, it has been pictured as
a land of eternal cold by flctionlsts
who used icicles for penpoints and
with telling effect. This impression
has been made deeper by a few would
bo heroes who have written the folks
back home about the terrible hard
ships they had undergone mushing
across the frozen, snow-drifted steppes
and ice-filled streams In the middle
of July, or whatever summer month
they happen to hit the frigid 2one.
Then the conservationists got in a
deadly blow with their sandbags and
the resources the writers of letters and
fiction didn’t freeze up the latter ele
ment locked up so tight that it has
taken two decades to unlock and the
process has just started.
Now that the unlocking seems In a
fair way to begin, It is also propitious ,
to start a real education campaign
about Alaska. And Mr. Wise points
out the way. Talk Alaska. There
is no closed season for that kind of
game and only those who know Al
a«dc3 can really talk about and for it.
others have done it with disasterous I
results which can only be counter
acted by real facts. Alaskans have
the facts and are in position to use
them.—Juneau Empire.
WILL DEVELOP ALASKA PULP
"President Taft, when chief execu
tive. in addressing: an audience said
that hard work an*’ not votes would
develop a country, and the same holds j
true as to Alaska," said Col. W. B.
Greeley, chief forester of the United j
States. "We may get laws that will
aid in the development, but it is hard
work that will get the results neces
sary,” says the Ketchikan Chronicle.
Colonel Greeley on his trip of in
spection thru the national forests J*
Alaska, which will require a month or
more, is accompanied by C. H. Cecil
of Portland, district forester and by
John D. Guthrie, chief of public rela
"In our department.” continued Col.
Greeley, "We have received many
communications relative to the pulp
and paper possibilities in Alaska.
Some ofthesn are from bonaflde engin
eers and others interested, while some
others from promoters who hope to sell
somebody something. Some substan
tial people, however, are now interest
ed and will have engineers in the
country in the near future."
The visitors are of the opinion that
the government should give more aid
to the development of these resources
by surveying more thoroughly the
water power and the timber and to
that end will do all In their power.
They have found that one of the
chief difficulties i» onvncing capl
alists in the pape* inlurtry in Alaska
is that they believe ill Alaska in so
remote that it wouM a most !•*? an
impossibility to get started and to get
out their product. Colonel Greeley
wild it should be part of the ambition
and duty of all AJastoans to overcome
this misunderstanding.
Two cabinet members have come
to Alaska and hove received a great
welcome. Everyone In the territory
was glad to see them. Tn , eople are
sure that »hey ar.-. »:; for the
very best. There is ancthe.* cub1 net
officer. Postmaster General Rurl.'son.
that we Invite and—in fact—dare to
come north.—Douglas News.
Some men are born thirsty. Others
live In Ketchikan.—Juneau Capital.
It is reported in Fairbanks .that
Captain Sdneett may return to Interior
Alaska to take charge of an aerial sta
tion which the Government is plan
ning to establish in the uppc*v ".ow*
Nenann News.
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