SAMPSON WHITES LETTER
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Ketchikan, Alaska ..
March 25, 1930
Mr. John N. Spaeth, President
Craig Chamber of Commerce,
Craig, Alaska
Iviv dear Sir:
. .Your open letter dated March
loth, 1930, and printed in the
Ketchikan Chronicle on March
^t»lh, offering to trade the polit
ical patronage of the West Coast
of Prince of Wales Island to leg
islative candidates, for the pro
posed portage road from Craig
to Kasaan via Klawock, intrigues
me as a candidate to reply. The
sense of humor which frames
your letter , and which sets off
so forcefully and startlingly the
real need which you portray, fur
ther intrigues me to frame a part
of this reply in similar vein.
It would be tremendously grat
ifying to me to work for and to
accomplish your request for this
road, of esl imable value in dol
lars and cents, and of inestima
ble value in comfort and conven
ience. This paragraph is seri
ous and sincere, and refers to the
matter of your letter. Now may
I imitate the method of your
letter to touch upon another sub
ject suggested, and that bears
heavily on legislative success,
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and this is patronage.
The dollars and cents of value,
as computed by cost of outlay to
procure that road, compares so
tremendously to the candidate
with his net dollars and cents in
crement, if elected, he may b 3
constrained to require a more
attractive log-tumbling offer.
The point that I am trying to
make is that the dollars a a
cents feature of statesman .nip
is the servant and is not the
master, and to put Alaskan
statesmanship on the level of
real accomplishment, this must
be rigidly recognized.
Your need at Craig and on the
West Coast, acute as it is, is a
symptom and is not a milady.
Similarly, the economic need of
the Alaska natives in this sec
tion, and so vividyl pot trayed
lately, is likewise indicative oi
something and is not the main
event. There are other condition?
that are less ad vet tised that like
wise have their indications, but
it is the customs record of Ter
litoiial exports and imports that
really paints the picture.
For fourteen years the Balance
of Trade, in Alaska’s favor, has
averaged roughly some twenty -
five million dollars a year. In
1929 alone it was some forty odd
million dollars. We have yet to
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Steps were invented for convenience. They
enable you to mount by easy stages.
Small, steady deposits in your bank aceount
are the easy steps by which you reach your finan
cial goal.
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Miners and Merchants Bank
.. Ketchikan,
Established in 1906
hear of the first shipment ol gold
to Alaska in payment of this
>■- wle balance. It can be classi
fied only as plain loot until
statehood is prepared for and en
ema aged. Such effort of prepa
! et:on toward statehood will
mount to a pick and shovel
nth which Alaska can dig into
that Trade Balance for herself,
instead of futilely clawing at it
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