The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-03
This District is Interested in
 Mckinley Prosperity
CAPITAL REQUIRED HERE.
Alaskan Quartz Mines Require Money for Development and If Will Be No Money For Invsst- ment-will Get Representation.
By JOHN G. PRICE.

From ah Alaskan standpoin'S what would the election of Mckinley over Bryan sgnifv3
 As it is generally admitted that the cour trv has during the present adininis- tration enjoyed one of the most prosperous periods in its history and which promises to the country at large even greater good results should the present administration be continued, what effect will this have on the District of Alaska as whole?
 Alaska today. as any other new unde- veloped country, needs a good many things, but few of her needs are so prom inent and imperative that all others pale into comparative inslgnifcanee, ands from the many should select the two con- slider to be prominently paramount, to-wit: Capital to develop our great natural re- sources, and local or self-governments
 As to the richness of Alaska in -gold, silver, copper and many other mineral de- posts, as we'll as coal beds, fish, fuf and other resources, no one who knows any thing of the district will question. The means of turning this crude wealth from the earth and waters beneath is where the usefulness of money comes in. What benefit is it to Alaska as a whole, of any portion of it, or even in any other Tkrt of the United States, that great deposits of gold copper and coal abound In the VaIdes vicinity, in richness and quantity almost beyond credit, or what does 1t profit Skag- wly or Alaska that Rainy Hollow has ore the richness and quantity tf which sur passes the world famous mines in Mon tana, if we can only gaze at these riches in natures storehouse and have not the capital to take it in its crude form there from and transfer it into the channels of commerce and into our pockets in the form, of bright. shining t.uenfiesR ; .
 What have said of Valdes, Rainy Hol- low and Poreupine is true of Alaska as a whole, and the same Is also true of all the undeveoped natural resources of the dis trict. Then if this be true it must be very apparent that the primary want is capital to develop these resources. Can we get capital from Alaska? No; we are the locators, we are the owners by dis covery, appropriation and possession of these riches, and yet are poor when unable to form a partnership with capital possessors of fortunes but vet poor. As for capital, it has begun to turn its eyes Alaska ward and send its agents and ex- perts to see just what we have, and after seeing it has in a small way, and will continue, by greatly increasing. to back our uncoined wealth by it's coined dollars unless checked.
 We all remember the bond scandals of the last democratic administration. We all remember the way our surplus was disappearing from view We all remem- Der the general financial panic that stalked across the country and the thousands of young business men who were starting out in life with small capital, the middle aged business men, and even the old and experienced ones who had spent life time in building up business-how they all fell by the wayside under its blighting influence. Many of our neighbors being of the ones just described, who have come here to retrieve losses sustained in the good old democratic days"
 ato har nhs- sled by Bryan and democracy in ISo6 "that if the free silver candidate and cause were defeated and the gold standard triumphant how thi, great nation would sicken, decay and sink into innocuous dasuetude-how the producer and laborer would wear the shackIes of the gold bug, the cIank of which would make mankind weep and 1 turn sick at heart, etc, etc." What were the facts? Mckinley and republican congress were elected. Cash, the life blood of the nation, and as essential to its health and life as blood is to the man, bega to come from its hiding and once more flow through the arteries of trade. Commerce and speculation have been so aided by the tonic of sound financial legls- lation that to-day the whole nation Is en toying the full round measure of pros perity. The nation and the people have been changed from borrowers to lenders. Instead of depleted treasury left us by democracy the national treasury on the 26th of October, 1000, reached the enor- nous figure of $4sI,477,4o4, the highes, in the history of the nation and the great est reserve in the world. Capital is look 1