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WKIJ.NKSDAY, MARCH I, I <905.
CANADA'S OPPOR TL SHY.
The fact is taken as undeniable
that the Yukon Territory, owing
direct allegiance to Canada and a
more or less indirect allegiance to
the Biilisli crown, has ex- rcised a
marked influence on the political
ideas of its next-door neighbors,
the Americans of Alaska. This
has been noticed by people in the
Canadian territory, and one of its
newspapers, in friendly car.dor, re
cently warned Americans that be
neath the surface ot some of the
much-lauded Canadian measures
lay grave defects. On the other
hand, Canadians in Yukon Terri
tory for seven years have kept up
a fight, only partially successful,
to prevent 1‘nited States influences
from dominating their country en
tirely. These things are natural,
and can not be avoided no matter
how hard the people of the two
adjoining territories try. It may
be taken for granted that the gov
ernment possessing the greate-t
merit will wield the greatest influ
ence in the end, but each will give
something to and receive some
thing from the other.
Looking at the matter in this
light it seems to an unbiased critic
that Canada now has ail opportu
nity to step to the front at d place
h-iselt in line of development into
one of the most progressive coun
tries in the world. Roughly speak
ing. Canada covers, in one solid
ImkIv, half of North America Its
tiatiiia! resources are not excelled,
perhaps in ihr world Millions ot
people the brsi (topic of every
land, including Canada's great re
publican neighbor. are anxious
l<>r an op|*>rtunily to go where
effort would be untrammeled and
merit could claim its due.
Why did a wilderness lie uti
broktn on the Canadian side ot the
line while people from many lands
built homes ami cities and states in
poorer territory on the United
estates side f An answer to the
que.-tiou would be furnished, in a
measure, to one attending a few
political meetings in Canada. The
very fact that the most weighty
political questions are opened, in
terspersed, and closed by songs of
praise to a Kuropean monarch
solves the riddle: not that the mon
arch is evil or the monarchy neces
sarily bad; but the truth is drive:
home that the center of the people’s
aspirations is too tar away and their
self reliance is stilled.
Now that Great Britain is with
drawing her forces from Canadian
ports and leaving the country to de
fend itself by land and by sea, w hy
does not Canada sever the rotten
cord that 1 inds her to the past and
look the future in the face with a
determination to win?
The form of government is a
minor matti r. Canadians could ar
range it to suit themselves. At
the worst it would be better than
now. If they could evolve a sys
tem whereby n:> man's child should
be deprived of tood, clothes, sliel
ter, education, and opportunity;
property would be evenly taxed
and men and their energy not at
all; and capital could survive only
by aiding industry, and not by
strangling it, they would place
themselves as far ahead of their
big neighbor as the United States
is ahead of Ilayti. Should they
even meet partial failure in all these
things, nothing could rob them of
the benefits of quickened impulse
and unfettered effort in all that
is good and j r< gressive in Cana
dian citizenship.
Till', custom of alluding to the
Yukon Tertitory as living included
in Alaska is well-nigh universal.
It prevails largely on both sides
of the Ixmndary line in the far
north, and I’acifi ■ coast and 1 ’uget
sound newspapers seem to have no
sense of distinction In-tween the
two localities An eastern man
might with as good reasoi return
home from a \isit to the State nl
Washington and declare he had
l>cen to British Columbia as ht
conld fiom Yukon Territory and
tell what he had experienced in
Alaska. This habit o! calling the
whole north Alaska must be mis
leading and I efuddling to eastern
people who In to gain a kt ow ledge
ot the north through the puMn
prints and in the intrrtst of com
noi sense and human understand
mg the newsjajers at !e»'l. <-nghi
to stop it.
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you, Only on Commission
C.i!l on our Agent or write to us
Thirty years ago a well-known
public man visited Texas and after
his return stated in a newspaper
interview that if he owned hell and
Texas and had to choose between
them as a place of residence he
would unhesitatingly sell out Texas
and go to hell. The i vspapers
lambasted, condoned, am, applaud
ed the rash talker—according to
their respective points of view—
until Texas got such an advertis
ing as it had never had before and
the state was inundated with de
mands for information. The Lieut.
Searles incident will not hurt
Alaska.
THOl'tJHTS
KV THE WAY
>4.. 1.
A few days .ago whilst employed
| hauling a load of firewood on my
sled along Front avenue, and when
i "
nearly opj osite the postoffice, my
sled suddenly stopped and I found
it impossible to proceed. I turned
to ascertain the cause, and I beheld
a maiden seated quite comfottably
on top the load. I gazed in aston
, ishment and wonder, and my look
1 of surprise induced into her coun
tenance a radiancy of brightness,
i and her eyes shone with such a
laughing brilliancy that 1 was al
most demoralized. At that mo
ment the shade of the immortal
Longfellow inter| osed and obscured
my vision, and through the haze I
heard the bard sing:
Be still, sail heart ! anti cease repining.
Behind the clonds the sun is shindig.
Thy fate is the flunninn fate of all—
Into each lift -olllt ram must fall.
Some dav> must he dark and tlreart
The ‘hade ami the maiden van
ished and I |>roceeded; hut I saw
nothing i>ut the eternal snow*, and
my thought* readily associated
themselves with the scene and oe
rasion: for man is never beyond
being contradictory, which is a
verv ha|>|>v survival of |>te-hisloric
day s; consequently the absurdity of
the whole was pl.nnlx aj j .irei t
And yet I wondered why it was
imjS'SsiMe to g.i/e on such a fright
scene until the "t r.uk of doom "
t«»r it U (ossible expecting noth
ing to pass h\ nature's tie.i*nres
ami heed them not
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. m. and when not other
wise engaged.
office and Residence. Second avenue.
OKOKfiE A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Kainpart. Alaska
J. MNDLGY (iKKKN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OF KICK OF
Commissioner ami Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER. ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FI KHT-«'I,A8S
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Leavi's for <>l«*n Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To oml From All
tire Creeks.
<*i(m><l Teams. (>oo(l Service
Kcor-ICnd Collision
Mests Army Officer
Skagway Alaskan. Jan. is.
The news w is received on the
Ramona that Major \V. I’ Richard
son was hurt in a r»ar end collision
near Cincinnati when on hi* nay to
Washington City early this month
The j re*s di« patches sa( he suffered
a severe cut in the head, hat was
not tatalh injured
It is said Major Richardson will
le ordered to Fort ('did on, at the
mouth of the Tanan.t river on the
Yukon, alter hi* vacation -hall
have eapred.