The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-03-22

larger and hundred times more prosper ous than It Is today. presume the uier- chants of this town have discussed that question. believe have been Informed that the chamber of commerce has taken it up with the government of the United States. and notwithstanding ths fiet that Asslatant Secretary of Treasury Spluldlng was here two years ago on visit and was Invited to take up that question and pass upon lt and act upon it. He promised to do SO, but when he got back 10 Washing ton he die not do anything and has not to this hour, he knowing and you knowing 1 that t would result to your benefit and to the benefit of future Americ'n trade and commerce, to this town :nd everybody In this town. Yet when Spauldlng went back he neglected to act In the mltte<, and nothing was done and S never been done. l would advise that your chamber of com merce here and your eitv council take up this question now while lt Is being agtat ed and urge them to action, and will guar .n,ee fl while this question Is warm they will m Ike a reasonable demlnd on Canlda, Can lda win grant the light to put goods In the bonded wsrehouse-to ge, goods from Vancouver and Victoria and i'll ord,rs for the interior and sell the goods Into Canadian towns without paving duty on them.
 Now, l do not propose In dealing with these questions 10 say thlt which will sound harsh In the ears of any Canadian citizen who may te In thls hall l am only going to say harsh things against the government of the United States that has neglected you in this country for the Inst ten wears. After waiting year after year and ye eir after year to hiye congress do something for this country. they it last went to work and spent a few hours over an important question and passed certain piece of legislation two wears ago through the national congress, and l am going to call your attention to lt. You sent com mlttee down from Alaska to ask that con gress do something for this district. lt was necessary to have reorg nlzltlon of the laws-to have a new code. There were many defects in the old enc. The men went down and made this demand.
 Gov. Brady also went to Washington and want to read for you part of what congress did for us at that time, was In Washington and know, with the multi tudlnous business before congress the com mlttee regretted to give even an hour to this matter because they did not think Alaska worth considering. was aston lshed at the time that they passed this tax law, that t did not receive more con- slderatlon. was there before this bill passed. l went to two or three senators and asked them to prepare speeches against law which provided for taxation without representation on American soil. said to them, fl you plss this law you arc going to do an act that never has been done In the history of this nation, From the days of George Washington down to the present, the people of an outlying ter rltory or district have never had to pay a dollar of taxes into the treasury of the United States. Why could they not have found some spot In the United States or its territories where the conditions of life are less hard than they are In Alaska; why did they come Into a new terltory-a new district made up of new men who came to open up an empire, and came like all men have gone into new countries to form and found empires with scarcely dollar In their pocketsy