Valdez Daily Prospector
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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1912.
Democratic Ticket
For President—
WOODROW WILSON.
For Vice-President—
THOS. R. MARSHALL.
For Delegate lo Congress—
ROBERT W. JENNINGS.
THE WEAKLINGS.
Commenting upon (host* goiugrj
to the outside on business or a
vacati«>n, (lie Nome Nugget says:
"The Nugget's only regret be
ing I hal every person who is
forced 1<> remain in this coun
try for a period of two seasons,
or years, cannot pack up ami make
a gel away for a few months at
least, ami heller still, a home
slake, so I hey can remain away
for good ami allow the other peo
ple to carry on their work in the
exploitation of this vast domain."
The Nugget may he right as
the X.Mil yet we doiihl it.
Thi' Alaskan, the hue Alaskan,
is the person who comes here
with liis Family to mak»' it his
honie, ami In grow up with the
country. :is it were. We are not
a> isolated from the great world
outside a> were the pioneers of
California, Oregon ami Washing
ton in their day. We ha\e more
conveniences and are in much
closer contact with the renters of
civilization than were they. These
pioneers did not pine to "go
back," nor did they think il
•'criminal stupidity to carve out
a great empire."
Ih re in Alaska we have a coun
try great 'r in extent than all of
northern Europe and infinitely
richer. Climatically we are as
well favored as Norway and Swe
den, and why, pray, should not
Alaska support a population of
from ten to fifteen million con
tented and prosperous people.
True, we. Hie pioneers of the
norlhlaml, cannot expect to spend
our evenings at the opera or I he
aler: there are many of the lux
uries found in the stales which
we must forego, lnil upon the
other hand, we have health; in
dependence is ours for the effort
and we can always be assured of
a place to eat and sleep, and thai
is a great deal more than llo1
"big and wonderful world" offers
its inhabitants.
r>ane ami neaiiny minus neeiii
have n<» f«*ar f»f Ihe "spell of the
moon" as Ihe editor «f the Nome
Nugget has it. Minds so affected
will slip a cop even in Ihe great
outside iti I lie daily struggle for
existence, as is shown by their
crowded asylums and growing
roll <»f suicides.
What Alaska needs is men and
women who come here to stay;
men and women willing to forget
Ihe vanities <»f life as well as the
tornadoes and cyclones, riots and
.strikes; periods of want and de
pression. Alaska offers to them
a life singularly free of worri-j
menl. will give him a living with
less effort than any other place
under the sun. Here Ihe poor man
can plead no excuse for race sui
cide, for lu* can hring up a fam
ily as our forebears <1 id. strong,
virulent, honest. Ood-fearing men
and women.
The Nugget lacks Ihe true ring
of an Alaskan newspaper; it has
Ihe mufTled squeak of the molly
coddle, the murmurings of the
spoiled child, needing mother's
soothing caresses. Its mentality
is low dowh in the scale, and is
sadly impressed by the great,
while silence and the effulgent
rays of the arctic moon. Ho back
to the stales, boys, where you
can rub' up apainsl "Ihe greal
men of the day and absorb some
of their brightness," and leave
Alaska I *» the type of men who
know things, do things and are of
some benefit to the country in
which I hey live. "Alaska for
Alaskans" means these things, al
though tt may appear incompre
hensible to Ihe editors of the
Nome Nuppef.
THE DIKE BILL.
Delegate Wickershani is much
given to writing lo his friends
and supporters telling what he is
doing and how hard he is work
in},' for the upbuilding f Alaska.
Only a few days ago lie wrote to
Valdcz friends telling how assid
uously he was working for the
dike bill and telling that he had
introduced a separate bill for fear
the dike item would be cut out of
the llivers and "Harbors bill.
What bosh to deal out to an in
telligent people. Why is it he is
just now introducing a bill in the
House when such a measure pass
ed the Senate months ago where
Alaska has no representation.
The man responsible f«»r the
passage of the Senate measure is
a member of the conference com
mit lee and he doesn't say the dike
item is in danger of being elimi
nated from the bill. 11 •• knows;
Mr. Wickersham does not; he was
interested in the passage of the
bill, Mr. Wickersham was not, if
we are to judge from the I ale
told by I he House journal. Mr.
Wickersham has had ample time
to bring up the dike bill in the
Hou'c, but he has never given the
mailer a moment's attention un
til he suddenly, on I he eve of the
election, discovers that the dike
appropriation, if properly shaken,
miglh prove a vole-getter. The
<1 ike bill, like the bill permitting
Yaldez to extend its corporate
limits, will sleep during eons to
come if dependent upon Mr.
W'rkersham's efforts to fan it. in
to life.
The dike bill today is in the
rare of Senator Knule Nelson and
we will have to depend upon thai
gentleman for any favors we are
likely to receive ami not Delegate
Wickersham.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Tin* world is Hit' loser in the;
ilealh n|' ;i niii 11 like l>i'. I-'. M. Itiii— ]
ing-r. I
Tnl'1 needn't fear; Secretary
Wilson will ini| re>inii his post In
join Teddy.
From present appearances of
Ihe Republican corpse rigor inor
lis lias set in.
The Nome Nugget says I ruth is
a Ionic. Maybe lhal accounts for
I lie weak spots in the Nugget.
II now looks to us as if Tafl j
will give us a good imitation of
u fifth wheel in the coming elec
I on.
The dispatcher would indicate
lhal New Yorkers will soon have
lo protect Ihcmsclves from llie '
police.
The Republicans must lie in a
light box indeed when they even
contemplate stealing Roosevelt's
imitation party.
Kx-Senator Heveridge is gel
ling even with Tafl for having
induced him to father the Alaska ,
?ommission bill.
The Republican press will not
Jisplay the headlines announcing
Ihe withdrawal c»f Beveridge and
Loch from the party.
An irreconcilable difference up
"ii a specific subject appears (o
pxist between Harry Thaw and the
judge who heard his case.
II takes from us much of the
keenness r»f our sorrow when we
reflect that Japan will not be long
without an emperor in ease of I ho
mikado's demise.
The Prohibitionists evidently
selected a Portland man to con
duct their campaign by reason of
his pedal extremities resembling
those of a water fowl.
The Nome Nugget continually
reiterates the statement that
Jennings has withdrawn from the
rlelogato3hip race. If the Nugget
had any standing in the territory
for either truthfulness or accu
racy in new.s gathering its state
ments might do «omn harm.
We incline to the opinion,
judging from reports from var
ious sections of Alaska, that the
delegate fight baa narrowed down
to Mr. Oilmore, the Republican
nominee, and Mr. Jennings, the
Democratic candidate. Tloth aro
first-class men.-Seward flntoway.
Due to the lethargy of the Con
grrH* in failing to pass the an
nual appropriation bills, the work
of the U. R. geological survey in
Alaska i«i handicapped. Compar
atively few experts have been de
tailed for Alaska duty this year,
owing to tho want of funds. The
civil sundry service bill having
passed Congress belated parties
may be sent to the field.
Senator La Follette is unani
mous in the opinion that Iloose
velt should he suppressed. We
may now expect to hear from
Teddy.
As the details of the Alaska
home rule bill slowly reach us we
begin t<> feel grateful that the
enacting clause was not amended
by the Senate.
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