Everybody Talks?
Nobody Does Anything
Alaska seems to be something
like Mark Twain’s weather: Every
body talks about it but nobody does
anything about it.
Senator Willis of Ohio is the
latest talker. He sees the vast pos
sibilities of the territory and says it
should be developed. Now he will
go back to Ohio and forget about it.
Probably there’s not much wrong
with Alaska. It is badly governed,
it is true, but it Is comparatively
prosperous; its resources are being
brought into development. Thera
is no pressing need for rapid-fire
utilization of everything Alaska has
- to offer. ,
But If Alaska waits for congress
to do anything she will wait in
vain. She must dig in herself, re
membering that Providence aids
those who aid themselves.—Seattle
Times.
RADICAL LINDBERGH
In these days of glorifying Lind
bergh, we wonder if the people of the
United States would also honor his
father, and if they do not really ap
prove of his principles.
Congressman Lindbergh was elect
ed to the 60th Congress as a Repub
lican. He served from 1910 to
1917. He was an Indefatigable
worker, keen-minded, fearless, pro
gressive. He was a member of the
Banking and Currency Committee;
he was a foe of the “system,” made
many speeches against monopoly was
a friend of the masses, the toilers
on the farms and in the factories.
Speaking in the House, April 8,
1916, referring to the fact that two
per cent of the people own 60 per
cent of all the wealth in the United
States, while 98 per cent own only
40 per cent, he said:
‘‘Plutocracy has plundered the
nation.. The toilers do all the work
that creates the wealth but the
schemers get it. The majority of
its are slaves to the system.’* * *
The question is, What shall we do
to get justice? It is simple enough,
but It takes determination to put it
into force.. Therefore we must grit
our teeth, clinch our fists, and fight
with a determination to win.”
Senator Bartley Howard
Announces Candidacy
Delegate to Congress
Senator Bartley Howard of Anch
orage played up to the program as
laid down by his supporters and
verified the statement published in
The Alaskan recently, to the effect
that after touring the westward
Divisions he would wind up at the
home of the "Lomen” Division and
there come out in the open and
announce hi3 candidacy for the of
fice of Delegate to Congress in oppo
sition to Delegate Sutherland.
In a statement made by him at
Nome he said: “I have just com
pleted an extensive tour of Alaska.
I am convinced that the people of
the Territory believe that great re
sults to Alaska could be obtained by
a delegate in accord with the ad
ministration at Washington.”
The campaign slogan which will
be pushed by Senator Howard no
doubt is a remnant of the Marquam
campaign of two years ago “A de
legate in harmony with the admin
istration.”
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