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“ O l'R « OVER X OR.”
The iate President Harding, in hid tour of Alaska, became so con
vinced that the development of the Territory required the appointment
Of Alaskans to public office, therein, that he adopted the Alaskan slogan
"Alaska for Alaskans.” President Coolidge, following in the foot «teps
of hie illustrous predecessor, has announced the same principle. It now
remains for the four Judicial Divisions to get together and formulate a
plan before the Primary Election to be held in April of 1924. to the end
that our best men may be nominated to public office. In doing this,
aucb a spirit of fairness should prevail as would give to each of the
Divisions an approximate equal representation in the allotment of Terri
torial offices controlled by the Primary election.
Under Chapter 11 of the Session Laws of 1921. our Legislature has
given the voters of the Territory an opportunity to express their pre
ference for Governor of Alaska, and altho such expression may not be
actually binding upon the President of the United States, tb~ Nugget ex
presses the opinion that if a capable Alaskan is recommended for ap
pointment by the vote of the people, the newly elected President will
appoint a-nd the Senate confirm Alaska's successful candidate. With a
Delrp^&e to Congress; a National Committeeman, two delegates to the
National Republican Convention, an Attorney General and a Territorial
Treasurer, to be elected, coupled with an expression of the voters of the
Territory of their preference for a Governor of Alaska to be appointed
by the President, to be exercised, it ought -not to he a hard task for the
various Divisions of the Territory to get together on these various
offices; select our best men for each position, and go to th- polls at the
-4pril Primary with a solid front; each Division treated fairly and
equitably i-n allotment of positions, and pulling together for the upbuild
ing of our Territory. If this is done, Alaska will no longer be the
laughing stock of the National Capitol by its unseemly scramble for ap
pointments to public office,—each Division pulling against the other.—as
was the case at the incoming of President Harding's administration. The
natural outcome of this failure to unite, was the appointment of a Gover
nor who was not an Alaskan; a stranger in our midst, unfamiliar with
the Territory, its customs, its laws and its people.' Let us see to it
that it does not occur again.
The people of this Division feel that the Governor of Alaska should j
personally visit each Division in the Territory at least once during his i
term of office; meet the people and become acquainted with the industries, i
customs and requirements of each community. The Second Division, [
greater in area than mapy of. the larger States of the Union the home of j
the growing reindeer industry; the largest dredge mining area in the j
world producing a million .and a half in gold annually with an increasing I
production; the only tin deposits on the North American continent that i
UHU be mined at a profit; a live, wide-awake, giuwfug t-oiliitiiili'i j .—<*nil
still, our “OutsWe,” govt rnor ha- failed to honor this Division with even
a passing cail during his entire term of office.
The Nugget rises to remark that it is high time that Alaskans
practiced what they preach. “Alaska for Alaskans." and selected a real
Alaskan for Governor of this great Territory wnom we can ail call “OI K
GOVERNOR ” Give us an Alaskan who knows the people; its laws, its
customs; its needs and requirements; a man who is big. broad, construe*
tive and with a vision commensurate to the upbuilding of this immense
empire; a man without former entangling alliances, political or other
wise, and who is not in the employ of or under the dictation or domini
| tion of any of the great corporations or interests of the Territory, and
I yet who is b!g enough and broad enough to realize that capital is ne.
[ essary to the development of our nntouc-bod resources, and that labor
land capital must join together for sure ess and both bn treated fairly.
The Second Division has just such a man. and the Nugget voices
| the unanimous sentiment of the people of this Division when it proposes
[GEORGE D. SCHOFIELD, of Nome, for GOVERNOR of ALASKA at th»*
April Primary Election in 19U1. In so far as the Nugget is advised,
this Division has no candidate for Delegate to Congress. Nalions! Com
mitteeman. Delegates to the Republican National Convention. Attorney.
General o‘f Territorial Treasure, but it has a stick ..f real live timber for
Governor, and suggests that the First. Third and Fourth Divisions agree
upon a division of the other office and support the Second Division’s
candidate for Governor.
Judge Schofield is a Republican, and one of the ablest lawyers
'and strongest advocates in the Territory'; he Is a bona fide Alaskan with
over twenty-three years experience in the Territory behind him. and his
interests and investments are purely Alaskan. During tie Hughes cam
paign as a candidate for Attorney General, he carried every precinct where
he was able to speak and his defeat in that election can be attributed only
to the fact that his limited time did not enable him to cover the Territory,
lie is strong in his home- Division and is well and favorably known in
every Division in Alaska. He has travelled broadly over the Territory;
knows its people, its laws, customs, needs and requirements.
As National Councilor for the Nome Chamber of Commerce to
the Chamber of Commerce of th<- United States, he has been extremely
active in Alaskan matters. His speech on Alaska at the All Alaskan
Dinner, given by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to five hundred editors
of the State of Washington, was quoted widely through the Press of the
United States; so also was his address last winter before the Alaska Com
mittee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He is a strong advocate for
Alaska and has given the Territory wide publicity.
He has been active with the State Dejiartinent on the Siberian
question and with the Interior Department on the extension of privileges
to bona fide oil land locators in the Territory. Ho is well known at
the National Capital and has strong friends in the Senate and House, and
knows how to do things to get results. Locally, our coast line is now
lighted through his personal efforts. also secured the last allotment
of $1 10,000.00 through the Engineers of the War Department to com
plete Nome Harbor jetty at a time when Governor Riggs and Delegate
Grigsby had wired that nothing could be done. In recognition of this
service, the Nome Chamber of Commerce, joining with the Arctic Bro
therhood and Pioneers of Alaska, tendered a public banquet and made
Mm a life member of the last two named organizations. In the local
railroad tangle, it was largely through his negotiations that the Pioneer
Mining Company and the Territorial and Federal Road Commissions
reached a final agreement that saved the road to this Division. He is
man of strict integrity and strong personality, and as Governor of Alaska
would make history that would go far in the upbuilding of our beloved
Northland Empire.
.MiASK VS l’ROSFHCTK
The prosperity of the Pacific Northwest has been shared during
the summer season by Alaska, where there has been a strong upward turn
of business and industry. Reports to the Department of the Interior '
from Anchorage show that three tinier as much freight was handled by
the Alaska Railroad in July as was handled in the corresponding month j
of last year. Th*- volume of shipments on boats operated by the Govern
ment on the Yukon and Nenana rivers also was unusually heavy. In 1
September when mercantile firms and industrial concerns were laying «
in their winter stocks, the capacity of the boats* was taxed to the limit. .
All signs point to increased activity in the nortbland next year. For one !
thing, the favorable publicity received by the Territory this year will
have a beneficial effect in stimulating tourist travel. Thousands of
travelers, who until this year have had little information about the north
land, will include the Territory in their summer tour. What is equally
important, there are abundant indications of larger industrial operations
than for several years. The attention of the country is slowly but surely j
turning toward Alaska.—Seattle Times.
Cheerfulness and .good will make labor light.
When the resources of Alaska shall have approximated adequ
development ;i truly will have won in perpetuity its claim to b»; called '
wunderland «»f America. In picturesque b-auty, grandeur and wea
if already is such a wonderland. Nor Switzerland nor Italy can vie w
tne mountain scenery of Alaska. No country in the world can equal
hikes and forests. Its mighty woodlands and its imperial valleys, its gl
iers of the glamour of that romance which was wrought by the hardy n
who dared th;s glorious northland and won it for our own
One day -and that day is not far distant Alaska will shelter
teeming and prosperous population. Its cities will rival Petersbu
Moscow. Copenhagen; its wealth will make the long traverse over mi
ern railroads and on the flood of mighty rivers to its amply harbot
coast*. Ln that d*y the Alps and the Pyrenees will no longer lure c
tourists to lesser majesty of mountain scenes. -Cincinnati Enquirer.
<;OOn FOR THK AUSKA STEAMSHIP COMI'ANV
The. Alaska Steamship Company s entitled to credit for its c*nti
prise in making Prince Rupert a port of call for its steamship Alamet
Trade is the life ->f the industrial and commercial world, and transport
tion is ft trade necessity. The Jones Act makes it impossible to sh
goods, en route to or from American points in the East via the Canadi
Northern Railway, to or from Prince Rupert in a roretgn bottom. T
Empire has contended, and contends now. that this condition should n
cc-ntlnuo unless American steamship lines offer Alaskans the opportuni
tn ship in that way in American bottoms. The people of Alaska hare
r.ght to utilize this shorter haul across the continent. The Alas;
Steamship Company is now providing the service so that a trnnsportati'
route which has been denied to those of Juneau and other points in Alas
may be utilized.—Juneau Empire.
"LOYALTY
If you work for a nun. m Heaven's name, work for him. If
p.ijs you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, spe;
well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents,
pet to a pinch an ounce of loyally is worth a pound of cleverness. If y
must villify. condemn and eternally disparage, why resign your positlc
arcl when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. Hut as long
you are a part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do, you a
loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and th first hi;
wind that corns alone you will blow away, and probably you will nev
rhy. Elbert Hubbard.
ITIZK.VS POLITKWL IM TV
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt: “It ought to be axiomatic in tl
| country that every man must devote a reasonable share of his time to d
j in," his duty in the political life of the community. No man has a rig
| to shirk his political duties under whatever plea of pleasure or buaiues
| and while such shirking may be pardoned in those of small means, it
' entirely unpardonable in those among whom it is most common—in t
I people whose circumstances give them freedom in the struggle of life.'*
And the fact remains that the form in which the woman jury b
V.as j>assed by the late Territorial Legislature was about the most assi
ine chunk of legislation ever perpetrated. It not only places the w
men in a somewhat embarrassing position but it also makes monkeys
the Court officials. Either the women should be on an equality wit
the men or they should not be subject to b*'ing drawn as jurors.— Valdt
Even during non-flood periods Oklahoma has its troubled waters.
Unless Congress hurries up and appropriates that relief mon<
to Germany she will have to quit revolutioning and go to work.
Marriage is a partnership that always breaks up when one of th
partners tries to take somebody else into the firm.
Metal shrinks in cold weather, and that may explain why a three
ton bin will hold five tons of coal. Akron Deacon Journal.
Even after all the forest fires there is always timber enough left
for a Democratic Party platform, although it seldom means much.
H. tl. Wells, the noted English writer, says that the European
League of Nations is a "blind alley for good intentions."
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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