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CAMPAIGN EXPENSES
The declaration of prohibition candidate Walkins that, 'the country at
u ree does not care thirty cents to find out the exacn figures otf any campaign
^ind” will havp little or no effect on the torrents of erimjtugn thunder now be
'\K loosed by the politicians, over the question of what constitutes fair cam
aign expenses. >bu we nevertheless opine that it is not very- far from the
\\> ,.-i it coni' s right down t » bt..s* tacks, there is hardly :uor*> than
l!.ne in ten of th< r«.i p»lh>i" who can ■< tinkers’ hang how much is raised
,y eith. : the republican. democratic. or . ny other pa-t.v in the furtherance of
heir .: mjMign plans. It may he true, s one dt n*cratk* pajse • sti mates,
hat i: <es:* tiie republican candidates i d their Mrpporters something like
.1*r**** million dollars to secure nl-out three hundred pledged delegates to the
Chicago convention, but the average person will probably not bother them
Velves ale-ut it in the least. The prospects are that the only comment of the
majority would be to the effect that the price of republican del-prates appears
'pretty high, even in comparison with the inflated values of everything els*.
M.-. Average Citizen ajipurently assumes that the question of the
amount of money spent on a political campaign is not as important as the
question of how It Is spent. Kjtperlenee hns taught liitn thwt the his political
parties are certain to spend millions and he is little concerned as to whether
the amount is five million or ten million, as long its the expenditure is alone
legitimate lines. If there is no Indication that campaign funds are employed
for illegitimate purposes, few voters will give more than cursory attention to
their size Indeed many of the Inst intentioned voters are prone to look upon
large campaign expenditures as merely a manifestation of political energy
which merits no objection.
In view of the prostituting influences wnicn mu> uewiopeu inr->ugn up
dispersion of excessive amounts of money in connection with political cam
paigns. >t Is regrettable that the average person given no little attention to the
subject. Perslsence in such an attitude in ;Um<'st certain to lead to condi
tions which cannot be considered as subnervient of the best interests of the
nation. There in too much of the view among politicians that the end
justifies the ineann to make excessive pjunpaign fund’s condonable on any score
of political expediency. There is nothing actually wrong in a political party
raising even so huge a campaign fund as fiovernor Cox charges the republicans
with contemplating but there should, nevertheless, be a limit to campaign ex
penses in the interest of electn politics and the preservation of our political
ideals. As long as politticinns are possessed of no greater moral virtues than
appear in present day political activities it is clearly unsafe to permit un
restricted use of money for furthering campaign purposes. In the absence
of restraining influences the temptation to Induce by monetary Influence what
cannot be gained by proper means is undoubtedly too strong to be resisted by
the unscrupulous elements which ordinarily tak* so large and active a part In
our political life, and is also very liable to overcome the moral scruples of
many ordinarily honest and well (mentioned inen. without whose influence
politics would speedily sink into utter corruption.
No one ha* so far offered a practical suggestion for a perfectly
method of limiting presidential election campaign expenses but there is much
room to hope that something will develop out of the present loud political
clamor regarding the alleged fifteen million dollar fund planned by the re
publicans which will tend to eliminate money Influence from politics as fai
ns practicable.
NEW CHAMPIONS VOICE ALASKA’S PLEA
and Pennsylvania to the Paeil
secretaries are very much cone
for the Shipping Hoard opera
lias been the custom to build
That Alaska’s plea for more home rule and wider freedom In the de
velopment of her resources is attracting ever increasing attention in the Out
sldo press Is clearly cxamplifled by the following array of press referenc-s t j
the territory and its needs embodied in the following article printed in The
Idtemry Digest of August 21, 1920 under the caption: ’’Alaska’s Plea Ko
hl jene Rule.”
Alaska needs less ’’governmental regulations" from Washington and
ITne’e Sam needs more coal, wood-pulp, fuel oil, and other essential innt**r|: 1
supplies from Alaska. These seem to be the outstanding facts emphas’xed
by the recent visit of Secretary «rf the Interior Payn . and Secretary of the
Navy Daniels to our northern Territory. Tin* secretaries, reports J. J. Kn
it* -nod In the Seattle Times, found that by establishing a coaling base mid
way between the Orient and the I’nited States on the Aleutian Peninsula, the
Shipping Hoard vessels plying between Seattle and the Orient could save a
thousand tons of cargo-currying capacity on each voy.ige. or enough to enable
each ship to pay for itself thru increased earning capacity within a period of
ten years. This would also make It unnecessary to ship coal from Virginia
c fleet. Furthermore, says this paper, both
med over the threatened shortage of fuel oil.
es many oil-burners, and In recent years it
•il-buming naval vessels because of their in
creased steaming radius, speed, and fighting capacity, and these are not easily
changed to efial burners. Alaska's oil resources, we are told, are just be
ginning to he exploited.
That Alaska needs more home rule for tit ■ prompt and efficient devel
opment-of her vast resources is the centention of many of our papers in widely
separated parts of the Union. “Washington should give the Alaskan Terri
torial Government wider discretion, for Washington can not know Alaska’s
needs,” argues the Syracuse Post-Standard; and Secretary Payne
In the New York Times as saying: ^h ,t Alaska needs Is mor
women to settle the country and less governmental regulations
ipeciflcally the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch tells us that_
“Alaska is getting sick and tired of lioing interfered- with in her de
velopment by the people of this country, who know nothing about conditions
i.p there. There are many real men in Alaska—men who have gone there to
make their homes, men who have developed themselves along with the de
velopment that has taken place In the country, men who are capable of say
ing what ought to he done and what ought not to be done.
“The Alaskans ask only that the Government create a Hoard of De
velopment. the members of which shall be Alaskans, and leave to this Board
t!,r working out of the destiny of the Territory. I, |„ simple ro„ue«t uml
one that ought to he granted an nnnn an Congress again In in session."
"Malle to and -from Alaska are now handled an freight," declaren the
Seattle Time*, a oonnlatent Champion of Alnnka. rn other ways. we un
told. the people of .the Territory, nl* thousand a,lien from Washington a-e
poorly represented. True, points nut the Tlnr-n. th<* are represented In
Congrenn by n Delegate, but he does not have a vote. The chief hindrance
to good governme-tt In Alaska and the development of the Territory, declares
til's paper, is “the burden of Federal bureaucracy.” Continues the Times:
"Centralisation of Abakan government in Alaska otters the only sj.
lotion rf political and economic problems confronting the Northland. The
n eatest measure of local eelf.goveminen. should ha -cyarded the Territory.
Tfe dead hand of Washington bureaucracy should he removed from Its ntrails.
A change In the Gove-nment policy toward the Territory la due In
d-nnd titers the K-dcrtl authority
future. lifting completed ,
must-see to It that the line pay»—if not at once, then an speedily as possible.
There is but one way In which that end may be achieved. Alaska must
be mude attractive to settlers and investors. The first step must be the
bringing of Federal control, to whatever extent exercised, closer to the
country.
A bureaucracy never developed a country! The American Wort
was rescued from the wilderness by Individual initiative. Ambition to
succeed in life, to get ahead, to bcome financially Independent—-these things,
coupled with the spirit of adventure, caused men to forsake the comfort and
safety of civilization and press on into the new lands west of the Alleghenies.
•*The spirit of high ornprise that animated the pioneers still obtains,
it would its* directed toward Alaska were it .given a little encouragement. It
never will come from a group of ineoordinajbd and barely functioning bureaus
in Washington, D. C.”
“Alaska needs a helping hand now,” declarer the Knoxville Sentinel,
but It would seem, in running through a catalog of Alaska's resources, that
the Territory may have to rescue I'nclc Sam from the plight in which he finds
Ihin seif, particularly with regard to coal for the Pacific fleet, pai>er for the
nation, oil for naval and merchant ships, and water-power for manufacturing
paper. As We read in the Boston Herald:
"No area within the jurisdiction of the 1'nlted States has been so
grotesquely misunderstood as AL'iKku. The resources of Alaska have been
known for many years, of course: but they have been mainly recapitulated 'n
the arid pages of government publications, which are read by very few.
“it is expected that the needs of the Padiflc fleet in the matter of coal
will presently be supplied from this source. The fisheries of Alaska, more
over. have hardly been touched, alt ho they are known to be of great value.
All in all, it is a country of wonderful possibilities: the wonder is that we
have been so long in realizing any of them.”
As the Boston Herald says, most of the information we have of Alaska
comes from “the arid pages of government publications.” For instance, wo
rre told thart the Federal income tax of Alaska usually amounts to more than
fifteen millions; the Territory proudly claims the only volcano and the highest
mountain (Mount McKinley) in North America; from reports that there are
not enough passenger stttuners to carry the people who want to visit the
county this summer we gather that it is becoming a summer playground: the
same ground that is covered with snow in winter has grown wheat that took
first prize at Minneapolis: Alaska contains the only placer tin-mines on the
continent: the marble from the Territory for which Uncle Sam paid less than
two tents .'ll acre rivals that of Vermont, and is used to udorn Western of
fice-buildings and hotel lobbies; and the value of Alaska’s products since the
country^>v.ls acquired by the United Stales is almost a billion dollars. The
newest industry, and one of the most profitable, is that of reindeer raising,
which has in;uJe the majority of the Eskimos economically independent: the
piin in this intl-o;; _ u . ;ir, .old. hits buen more than twelve hundred per
cent. I»r. Nelson, chief of the Biotorical S'urvfy, is now In Alaska studying
reindeer propagation. T'm W.vy. for the first time in history. is now min
i-.R its own coal in Alaska; and. finally, a transpacific cable and land line be
tween the United States and the Orient, via the Aleutian Peninsula, Is to lie
con-'i'f red during the next session of Congress.
•t^ipital and enterprise are\nceded to usher in the day of supreme
accomplishment in Alaska,” declares Governor Cox's paper, the Payton News,
but the Rochester Times-Union says:
A oung men can't do it alone; the pioneer wives and mothers in this
country did as much, if not more, to build it up than the men. Virile young
men-- nd women—nrig r d • web to onridcr Aia«,,;a."
"Folks arc apt to forget that Alaska is about one-fifth as big as the
United Stales,” writes Burt M. McConnell 1n the New York (Sunday) Times.
This writer reminds us that in Europe "twenty millions of people live and
prosper where climatic conditions arc less favorable than those of Alaska,”
and he suggests that "Swedes and Norwegians, who are not afraid of a little
cold weather,” be urged to colonize the Territory. Furthermore—
"No country in the world him been so grossly libeled and generally
misunderstood as Alaska. The average American associates Alaska with
reindeer, caribou, polar b'urs, and Eskimos.
"Polar bears ar| plentiful in Alaska, but so are children and schools.
It is rarely that a child is compelled to miss school because of inclement
weather. Can the same be said of North Dakota?
"When present means of communication and transportation are con
sidered. Alaska is no farther from New York than St. Pouis wns a hundred
years ag» She has fourteen incorporated towns, in each of which you
will find the same sort of folks and social life that you enjoy in towns of the
same size throughout this country. There art
incorporated towns and districts, and about sh
populated sections.
"You will find the telegraph, wireless, oi
ls only one important port of a dozen or more tha
"Alaska is an asset; a valuable one. not a liability. It is '
That part lying below ihe Yukon, with Justice to the people of Alaska and
profit to the .United States, could well become the State of Alaska, while the
rorthern portion could became the Territoiy of North Alaska, with the seat of
government at Nome.
Ruble everywhere, and there
cut off by ice Jn winfe-.
"At the present itime the Government is building a Federal railroad
into the interior. Unle-ss and until Alaska is governed by Alaskans, how
ever. settlers will not rush into the Territory. Men are never developed
except by responsibility and by showing that you have confidence in them.
Self-government and swimming are two things that can not be taught by
correspondence; the only way to puike a .people worthy of self-govmment Is
to give th'm self-government. Throw them in where the water is deep!
Voice of the* Alaska Press
Alaska is not th»* only country that
h.-iH waiced war ujKm birds of prey.
Canaria before the war Rave a bounty
of $2.50 on eagle*, owls anrl hawks.
The purpose was to destroy these
wolves of the air in the interest of
waving more valuable wild and domes
tic species of animal life.—Juneau
Empire.
W'e have had long, lean months of
adversity: prices have gone higher,
and higher, and the outlook for the
winter is not so good as it might be.
The music made by th*- bottom of the
flour barrel and the wrinkles In lh«
sugar sack are mighty j»oor comfort
to wc-uns. Hut one bright s|K*t ap
pears it: the horizon: Huckleberry pie.
—Valdez Miner.
Col. \V. B. Cireely, chief forester of
the United States. Is at the present
time paying an official visit to the na
tional forests of Alaska. Colonel
'Ireely Is authority for the statement
that the forests of Alaska ean annual
ly produce enough pulp to supply half
the eonstimiglon in the United States.
Tills Is a direct way of giving people
•tn Idea of the great potential wealth
n wood pulp alone in the territory.
Who can doubt ’but that In the course
of a few years imrt. of not all, of this
timber will be used, and that the
wealth of Alaska will be Increased
and many thousands more inhabitants
will he added.—Douglas News.
A* least Alaska Is ho* ing a steady
growth In the number of vessels In
operation in her waters. In the fls
cal year ended July 30 there was an
increase of nearly ten per cent In the
number of water craft registered in
Alaska.—Juneau Empire.
Everyone is entitled to kill three
deer during the coming hunting sea
son. There are a Jot of folks that
won’t get their three, however, but
will wear out a lot of footwear look
ing for them.—Douglas News.
Mr. Sutherland, candidate for con
gress on the Republican ticket. Is mak
ing friends In Anchorage who will
support him at the t>olis in November.,
In his quiet, unassuming manner Mr.
Sutherland appeals to the people who
further realize the force of character
which dominates the man. A Repub
lican congressman from Alaska Is es
sential this year. It Is practically con
ceded that Senator Harding will be
elected president of the United States
lr. November; moreover, the election
of a Republican house will be an east
task In the states. The gain of a
Republican bouse will give the new
administration a free hand In national
affairs which Is essential to the restor
ation of normal conditions. Mr. Sj>.
therland Is neither a politician nor
an office-seeker, but simply a plain
and honest Alaakan with the courage
of his convictions and exception illy
well qualified to represent all things
Alaskan with which he is so closely
affiliated. Don Sutherland Is a r 11 /s
man end the tried and true friend of
the best interests in the territory. He
la worthy; he is capable, and should
be elected .-—Anchorage Times.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED BY THE NUGGET
WITHOUT REGARDS TO ANY POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS.
VOTE FOR
Hon. Dan Sutherland
FOR DELEGATE FROM ALASKA
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ml, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Hon. John Rustgard
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
O. D. Cochran
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
O. H. Flowers
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Andy Anderson
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
VOTE FOR
Victor A. Julien
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
. VOTE FOR
Jas. P. Daly
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
VOTE FOR
Ed. W. Burroughs
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1020
James Ivory
Independent Candidate
FOR SENATOR
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920
V O T E F O R
E. L. HOLT
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd. 1920.
I am out of politics.
I JVave withdrawn from the Sanatoria! racs.
I thank all-my friends for thsir support and I am indesd very sorry
to disappoint thsm at this time.
I have taken ovor ths management of the D. E. Crowley Grocer Co.
and expect to remain in Noma Indefinitely.
R. B. Julian
P. S. See news item in this paper for further information.
VO T E FOR
James J. Bogan
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE, ALASKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
Chas. W. Brown Jr.
28 YEAR8 OF AGE AND 19 YEARS RESIDENT OF NOME
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FOR TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE AT JUNEAU
ELECTION TUE8DAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
E. B. (Duffy) O’Connor
(INDEPENDENT)
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTAT|V E ALAEKA LEGISLATURE
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER lm4. 1*30.