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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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MOT TALKS
TO VALDEZANS
(Continued from page 1)
to look beyond your wr6ngs to a
practical solution that will put an
end them.
One tiling has struck me wry
forcibly. You are agreed on
nothing except tlia't you have not
had justice. The differences in
opinion between the men who
come here from the outside are
as nothing compared to the dif
ferences 1 lind among yourselves
here in Alaska.
The strongest impression I have
gathered of Alaska is that it is
a place for permanent settlement,
a place where, as .Mr. 'Hubbard
says, there is going to be a great
stable community of prosperous!
people, for whom Alaska will be ]
home. In my judgment, far too
much of the agitation about Alas
ka lias been carried forward from
the point of view of the man who
wants to make his stake here, and
get out as soon a$ he has made
it. The men who have not loyally
enough to Alaska to intend to live
here, but merely want to get rich
and get out, are not the men who
have the lirst right to be listened
to when it comes to proposing
method^ to settle the Alaska
question. It is Irom the point ol°
view of the men who mean to .>lay
ami live here that these questions
ought to he considered. The
permanent Alaskans should come
lirst. Anyone who lias seen even
as much of this country as I have
knows that it is going to be able
to support a large permanent pop
ulation.
I haw heard so many mistakes
and mis-statements about the
conservation work that 1 want to
talk lor a lew minutes on what
conservation really means. In
(lie lirst place, anybody who knows
at all what the leaders of con
servation have held from tin; be
ginning, knows that the very llrst
principle of conservation is de
velopment, that the conservation
ists are not now, and never have
been, trying to bottle up the nat
ural resources for some future
generation. 1 have heard and read
over and over again that that is
what we were trying to do. That
is sheer nonsense;.
Let ine speak very plainly. 1
have been in this light for a good
many years. We have had the
same kind of misunderstanding
and misrepresentation as to the
national forests in every state in
which forests have been created.
1 know how exceedingly hard it
is to get people informed as to
what a national forest means,
how to use it, and what the reg
ulations are. I want you to un
derstand clearly that there have
been from the beginning, and
there are still, men whose per
sonal interest it is to misrepre
sent what the national forests are
and what the conservation move
ment means. False stories start
ed by such men get into the news
paper exchanges, and come to be
believed in absolute sincerity by
many thousands of people. We
conservationists never intended,
never desired, to lock up anything.
All we mean to do is to see that
the natural resources arc used
reasonably and without undue
waste, and for the benefit of the
many, and not solely for the ben
eIIt of the few. I hav<* not a thing
to apologize for as to the part I
have taken in the conservation
work.
in developing tile resources of
Alaska, Ih«* conservationists hold
--and this is important-- that
they should not In* developed sole
ly from the point of view of the
men and women who are in Alas
ka now. Alaska oimht to he de
veloped for you llrst, but any con
tention that the men and women
who are here now are the only
people to he considered falls to
I lie ground the moment you nui
sider how few people are here
now, ami how many there are go
ji'K to he. Your rights come llrst,
Wul those coming after you have
rights In he considered as well as
>ours, i11111 they undoubtedly will
lie considered. We hn\e m mure
right to disregard the future peo
ple i»f Alaska Hum you who are
fathers and mothers ha\e a riuhl
lo plan >our own li\es without
reference lo jour children.
The day has gone by when llie
old mistakes, which were repealed
over and over again in the older
.-tales, can lie repeated amtin
here. I have heard men argue
I lint because we looted the re
sources of I tie west, and allowed
them to pass into the hands of
great monopolies, therefore the
same sort of thing ought to be
tolerated in Alaska. Thnt%nrgu
inenl does not hold water. Tip;
/ "Tr •' '
world mpves on, and -the mistakes
or the past will not control the
future. This country and its re
sources ought to be so handled
that it will be a better place for
your children to live than it is for
you.
A word about this coal situa
tion. The coal withdrawals were
made for two reasons. I was con
sulted in that particular matter,
ami I know about it. The idea
first started when the prreal thefts
el' coal land in the coal tields of
Colorado ami elsewhere became
known. They called I lie alien! ion
of the president to I lie necessity
for protecting some of 111«• coal,
flie idea was turned into action
bv the knowledge (hat similar
: hefts were Item*: attempted in
Alaska. I have no apology what
ever for any share I had in the
w it hdrawals. They were rightly
made, hut lliey oujihf to have been
followed at once by legislation.
Kvery effort was made by the
Roosevelt administration to have
them followed by legislation. I
deprecate profoundly the cheap
talk made lo'niphl as to Theodore
Uousevelt by .Mr. Itilchie, and the
cheap misinformation yon heard
from him about what ltoose\e||
d:d or trfed to do. In three special
messages ami two regular mes
sages to C.onpTe>s, President
Itoosevell called the at I <' 111 ion of
(lonjiress to the absolute necessity
for immediate action with refer
ence In I he coal lands of Alaska.
Ill was \ e ry remarkable for I lie
[•resident |o ,ui\e so liiliell alien
lion |o jiny >imrle subject. In
addition lo lhal, to my personal
knowledge, he used his personal
elforls. ami lie dirceted officers of
his administration to use their
j personal efforts, and not only to
I pel hills drawn hut lo push them
Iiinnmii liUllKH'SS. no 11* Iff I to
get laws through that would pre
vent. fraud and monopoly. Tin?
same iik'd who had been trying to
get. possesison of tin; coal lands
checked his elVorts over and over
again. The reason why we could
get no legislation at. that time
was that the men who preferred to
lake their chance on heating the
law we*re unwilling to have the
law amended so as to give every
man a fair chance.
At the last session of Congress,
the Mondell and Nelson hills were
reported from the House and Sen
ate committees on public lands.
Roth these bills contained jokers
so raw that the House bill was
simply snowed under, while the
Senate bill, when il was pointed
out in the public press what some
of its provisions meant, was nev
er even reported from the com
mittee.
I
> I • 11 IH'MIII l«» See llOW impossi
ble il is In make uimkI I lie cliiri^c
against Ihc conserval ionisl thai
111(• y were responsible I'ni* locking
up Hi*' cnal. Thai 111«• withdraw
als wrrr made was. in my .judK
111• *111, lair and rijrlil, We rcfus
1 cd In si and for 111 * * snl'l nf steal
thai was j-roiii^ mi. I am in nn
sense responsible I'm* tin* delay in
opcniiu-r I In* cnal lands. I regret
il as much as you do. The men
wild were responsible were I lie
men wlm were Irving In jrrab
what they shnnld nnl have. Pub
lie agitation is now sn slrmm' that
these men can nn longer hnld llie
ninveiiienl hack. lint I venture
In predict thai if by any chance
Mini legislation shnnhl fail In
pass at this next session, the
blame fnr il will he found to lie
at the donrs <»f llinsc very same
men. and nnl al the donrs of men
like HooseveJt. and the other con
sei'\alionisls, who have tried con
sistently to kH remedial legisla
tion pushed through ('oiifrress as
soon as the withdrawals were
made. I speak with some rnnll
dence, because I was ill that tl^hl.
Jusl a word or Iwn ahnut the
national forests. II is curious
Imw difficult il is In ^e| | Ile facts
befnre any body nf men. The Act
of June II, MMMi, .«pecillcally op
ened all auricu 11 lira I land in ev
jery nalinnal fnresl In hnmeslead
entry, and llmusands nf such en
tries have been made. All ami
cultural land in any nalinnal fnr
esl in Alaska is npen I *» entry imw
and has been fnr live years.
I have heard the slnr> that the
fnresl service chai'Res J't renh a
<nrd fnr dl iflwnnd nmre (ban mice,
I am nnl informed in ihc particu
lar case Mr. It i I ell ie nienl inued,
bill I \erilur" in assert frnm my
kliowleil^e of I he fnresl service1
lhal when lhal slnry cmues In he
invest ijrated vim will llud there is
absolutely nothing In il. For ev
ample, I lie charge was made al
Knlalla with III" ufnioHl parlieu
IariI>. I Innk Ihc pains In look
il up. and there was no founda
tion fnr if whatever. II has been
circulated Jusl as I lie idea lhal
ynu can not enter a homestead
on a national forest has been cir
culated. / . .
PROFESSIONAL
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
BE WARD, - ALAHKA
Patents Mining Incorporations
CHARLES C. GANTY
FRANK H. FOSTER
Lawyers
Alaska Securities Bl'd'g Valwz
D. H. SLEEM, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Alaska Drug Co. Huikling.
Phone 83 Valdez, Alaska
DAGGETT & LEAHY
DENTISTS
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS
Next to Scuttle Hotel. Phono Kl. Always open
V A L I) K Z
DR. GERMAN
I I,on, la the dentist
Olllco rooms over Owl [)r,m store. < Hl>rr hours !
9 u. in., to 0 i>. hi.. 7 |>. iii.\ to 51 i». iii. Sunday* j
by appointment All worlt t:uui'<itit<*o«l.
i
UISS ,0'MALLEY |
Teacher of Piano
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W. H. CRARY, Representative
Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
Valdez Mining District
For any information concerning
mines or mining, write to or see
J. P. SIMONS
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Beaver Dam Roadhouse
NELS J EPSON. PROP.
41 Miles from Valdez
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Connection Alaska
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Carpets and Rugs
Kb
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