The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12


 adelphia, each costing $13,700. Coat O Arms of the United States costing $1, ,50' and other national emblems upon tht structure. Below and around these fig. ures is representation of all the states of the Union, with their coat of arms and state notices upon the edifice, al connected with mystic chain linked to- gether, so that none should be lTJt from a cemented union.
 This tomb stands as representation of national fidelity to it's distinguished dead. Inscription upon the tomb:-
 With malice towards none, charity for all,"
 Abraham Lincoln"
 The Louisiana purchase by Jefferson, and the Alaskan purchase by Lincoln, were substantially co-eXtensive in ter ritorial area; and both represent more money values than the human mind con comprehend. The Louisiana purchase supplied gold and silver demands of the nation, from 20 millions to 70 millions of people, and is still pouring 1t into the national treasury at about 200 millions year.
 Its coal copper iron, lead and other mineral deposits are euplying demands of the nation with their products, in vast quantities from unexhausted re- sources.
 ALASKA, As yet hardly scratched for its mineral values, is sending down it's golden treas ures by the ton weight, and soon will send it down, almost said, by the ehip- load, ito be coined into golden eagles for circulation among the people.
 Its mineral deposits rich in quality and extensive in quantities are resting in their silent beds, waiting the hand of industry to unlock their secrets, and for transportation facilities to realize their values.
 4 One generation from the date of the purchase, telegraph and tele- phone systems are stretching their quivering nerves up into Alaska, and the wires tremble, and the ear tingles with the weight of messages that come over the lines to the astonishment of the world.
 The hundredth anniversary of the Louisiana purchase will be in 1903, and predict that by that time, railway bands will reach from the northern of that purchase up into Alaska, to secure its commerce, and the mystic hands of Jefferson and Lincoln will clasp over the physical union of the two great acquisitions secured to the nation through their instrumentali- ty, and cemented into the Union.
 Both of theee great acquisitions to ,ur National Domain, were the result of honorable purchase and peaceful de- iverance; and not by bloody conquest 1t the cannons mouth.
 It is idle to claim that any action in fife, or sentiment expressed by either Jefferson or Lincoln, favored by con- luest foreign territory, or foreign peo- ,les through the agency of war, In order o add to our territorial expansion.
 We are now in the throes of war in listant Islee of the Sea, in wide depar- ure from the historic policies of our Government, under circumstances open o severe criticism in it's inception, it's progress, and exactions. No paper plati- udes, however artistically drawn, or orcefully expressed can alter it's signi- icance.
 The play word and birth mark" in ts baptism, was humanity but it's History emphasizes it's ''inhumanity" on lines sof territorial con uest, political ambition, and imperial stic venture, with the slaughter of in- ocent human beings, and sacrifice of | National treasure, almost beyond com utation.
 Victory will come to our standards, | 8 might triumphe over right, but | thite elephant as the prize, with the | are and responsibility of it's keeping, ] i'll be no cause for congratulation by | ur Government or it's peoples. As Jefferson was denounced for the louisiana purchase, so Seward was de- | ounced for spending the Nation'e mon- y for a cold barren country, productive nothing but rocky coasts, polar bears, nd icebergs, unworthy of consideration y the Government.
 The value of the Alaskan purchase is ot dependent upon, or measured by it's 5ld and mineral deposits alone, great as ley are. It's timber Is valuable, its Ial and fisheries extensive and profit ole.
 Gov. Knapp of Alaska in his official port to the Government in 1890, says: Among the resources of Alaska, are e products of the sea, and the salmon shing is by far the largest and im- 1rtant industry"
 "6SS, 322 cases of dozen one pound ms each, and 1900 barrels of salted lmon exported last year. and up to 90 two million cases of canned sal- on, besides salted salmon in barrels Hue, $10,337. .000 exported.
 WHALE FISHERY" tt From 1873 to 1891, 31S917 barrels of |; 4,931,915 pounds of bone--272, 400 'unds of ivory, value $1,215,293.
 "COD FISH. y '1S90-'97, 800 tons--in all value $12,- 2,650,
 "HERRING.'' 1890. 100000 gallons of oil-7OO barrels f lted, 800 tons of Guano, value, Sl14000. , Joseph Murray, special agent for the r )vernment to inspect fisheries in Alas ! , says, that during the year 1895, 6 00,000000 cases of 4S pounds to the f Sc of salmon canned, besides salted :, lmon in barrels, value over S2 900, ,000." f Aggregate thee items from the date f the purchase to the present and see f lere the ledger will balance will strike , Other fish, such as halibut whitefish. "a ,ut, greylings, and black bass, are Q undant in Alaskan waters, furnishing 2