The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-21
Cry of An Empire Penetra-
 tes the East.
IS THE BEST OF PRAISE
That Which Come. From Able East srn Editors and Demonstrates the Wide Circulation and Standing of the Daily Alaskan.

The following Is from the Seattle Posts ln,elligsncer of the I2th inst. which ered- its the article to the 6uffaio. N Y" eS- press, and Is one of a number of able edl> torials called forth by m editorial pub liShed in the DAILY ALASKAN carly this year;
 lt would surprise some people to know that Alaska Is sufficiently advanced to have daily paper. bright, well written and well edited. lt would also surprise some people to know that AlaSkans are so dissatisfied with their government, or rather lack of government, that there Is talk in thlt far northern land of the Ike public ot Alaska. Many people of this country have no adequate conception of what Alaska really Is. They have thought of lt as a land oi glaciers and mosquitoes that would rival the merry New Jersey brand in the summer time. Lately, to this conception has come the further one that Alaska Is a land where a man can get lot of gold bv digging fl he Is lucky, whieh gull he will take into the states as soon as he gets enough to live on comfortably. Doubtless the average citizen of this eoun- try has never thought of the'g q vemmental needs of the people of Alaska. lf he has thought at all of "the people of Alaska" he has probably conceived them to be lot Of dirty Indians who have no ambition ex- eept 10 catch enough fish to live on.
 Some echoes have come from Washing ton this winter Of the "AlaSka question" ," but they have attracted little attention. ! . cause the people of the states have not re- alized there vas an Alaska question. They have been too busy thinking of what We shall do with Puerto Rico. with Cuba. with Hawaii and with the Philippines There has been no though, that there are thousands Of men living In Alaska whose need of a government is as great as or greater than that Of any Of our new pos sessions. ln a long editorial. the DAILY ALASKAN. published a, Skagwav, de- mandS that congress shall give some heed to the needs of that land. The bitterness of long neglect IS apparent thrOughOu and there Is threat of secession if something is not done to put Alaska on terms of slullty with the territories, if no, the states, of the Union.
 We are not inclined 10 regard with'seri- ouSnesS the suggested formation of a Re- public of Alaska. The white men in that country are Americans who love their fl9g. who were born and bred in respect of law. and who will doubtless continue to suffer their wrongs patiently until those wrongs are righted. But it is time the voice of Alaska was heard and needed in the halls of congress. There Is a large population, larger than many of the territories had when they were created, whith Is without sufficient number of courts, without the rish, to form municipal governments, with out the rigtt to do any of those things that We regard as essential n any we'll regulated community. That these men are lovers of law and order Is sufficiently proved by the fact that they have volun> tarily created governments of their own to which they are loyal and the law of which they respect even though there Is no form of authority for the existence of that gov emment
 The Alaskan paper referred to complains that Alaska has been made the plavthing of the poliiici ns and the sealing e)mpa- nieS and the like since Alaska was bought. Democrats and republicans alike have de- nled to iis people all political rights, It declares that congress must be awakened 10 "the fact that we are a very angry and dSgruntl-d people, that We cen no longer be trifled with, that we are grow ng da1- gerous." And it demands "a little share of their Solieitude for the future of the people of Cuba and the duskv tenizens of the Philippines. What have we, Amer ieans born, and still Americans, done" it asks, that these aliens should at once De granted constitutional liberty and laws for the protection of life and property, while Alaska. Ike a blind BeliSarius, begs and begs in vain }"
 Can anyone answer the question Is it not time that the voice of Alaska be heard and its demands be heededl