Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-21

| SlODS III IuhU TtblOn, anu III gains IOECe
not only from his experience in this kind
of work, but from his good judgment
and high character.
The popular estimate of Secretary
Stewards purchase of this territory from
Russia has been that 1t was seven mil.
lion dollars Of good money thrown away
upon profltless acquisition of remote
ice lands, for purposes Of national
buncombe or of private speculation. 10
be informed to the contrary is as sur
| prising as it is satisfactory. That the
| domain of Alaska is one sixth in
area Of our entire possessions is not
SO important, as that the climate
of such of this territory as is now open
to settlement, is as agreeable as that Of
| Minnesota in summer, and no more
rigorous than that OF Kentucky in win
| ter. That 1t is not so remote as TO be
unworthy of attention nor impossible of
regulation Is manifest In the fact that i'll
a weeks journey from Portland, Oregon,
| it may be reached by steamer. Its barren
ness of resources Is contradicted by the
showing that 100000 of gold taken
| from Alaskan mines was sent to San
! Francisco last year that the spruce
and cedar forests, as yet almost un-
touched, are available for the shipbuild-
ers of Maine that in oil, and coal,
and iron the deposits rival those
of Pennsylvania the salmon fisheries
will supply the worlds markets while
| the assumed unproftableness Of the pur.
chase is disproved by the statement that
the royalties paid to the government by
the seal fisheries alone have amounted to
more than an annual interest of four per
cent, on the purchase money.
That the native people with these re-
sources around them are not unworthy
the exertion sf civiliziug and Christian.
ling influences among them is demon
strated in the high degree Of social de-
velOpment attained by tAa -Aeuts under
|. Russian agencies From semf.barbHrism
they have advanced to civilization and
Christianity. Under the term:
OF our purchase the government was
bound to secure to these people sOmc
! ltt III Va CAV IL VI AkdDAaAk.Nus 40 X SAaN :
2 hold allegiance only to the Car, not a:
| their civil head but as the supreme power
OF their Greek church. The United
States government has given them
neither governor, courts, legislature noI
education. There are not only no and
titles, nor regulations Of Inheritance
, but no law Of personal property eNcep;
] that Of night and natives as well as
/ settlers in any part OF our dominion Ger
S talnly have 4 right to something better
D than this condition Of lawlessLess.
d Ii what is reported Of Alaska be true
,r and the authority Is most credible, I
I very small portion Of the sums voted by
# Congress 10 fruitleSs polar expeditions
a would open our extreme northwestern
g territory to prolific development o
ri great moral and material results. Thl
ii voluntary work of religious missions
a there has been so signally crowned witt
,r success that it well deserves the protec
!, tioH and supplementary aid Of the gov
if eminent.
JOEL HAIyEs and Jake Barr have iJGke
&c Jrus n the Tlird ward aldermauic fight
X and the baud has already b5IuG 10 play.
G. TIE iatsd "Cjty Of Columbus was tw
ne miles out Of her course whom she stguc
lc the rocks, and ninety seven human b-ia!
ng found a watery grave because Of piIo:
'ct negligence.
av FRANCE talks of an appropriation
40 3, 000 900 francs to release the tools Of me
a chanic5 from the pawn shops The sa l.
II. amount applied to giving idle lsboTcr
.n work would be an easier and more p.udcr
,a solutiol of the problem.
- KEEPER is down on the newspapers az
" it may not be rash assertion 70 max
"a that the compliment is returned. Oae
'sI the chief IN ssiops Of the press is - mai
known tho asses ears that belong
70 statosmcu Of tho Keifer ilk.
ad
is VAST quantities Of wheat are stored
IRE the elevators and warehouses of The we
ug which have been bought at prices i
FRS higher Than those now current The CO
ng sequence is that operators with tho lon
Ir est purses are holding out and the sma
Ch dealers are being pushed to tie va
pS !. was ever thus.
70 HUNTiEGTOS suorts defiance at Cougre
al, in the matter OF the forfeiture of Il
~ Southern Pacific land grant and dscl4rI
- that litigation vii! bo prolonged tTen'
vol years If necessary, rather than permit t
- government 70 got possession OF the IA
49, 900. 900 acres Of land 10 question. Hun
JSs ington may find ere long that he is furnish
n, ing Congress a club with which to bait,
=, his brains out.
e The debate on the Fitz John Porter b
.d, 10 the House will be closed next Frid;
les by cx Gov. Curtin, when it will probab
IL BE- passed by a majority Of abou; 80 al
be it, passage by the S?nato is cousdert
OF certain. The better class Of Republlcl,
he in either branch have littlo sympathy wi
be the el2uoramuses and partisAns who folio
yes Logan 10 his disposition to withhold il
In tice from a long abused man. Bu, ey,
Ow Logan Is said to filter, now tha. he Sc
Va the more chlya(rous soldiers of the count
aus almost universally faVoriHg Porter aft
they have investigated the facts Of