The Nome nugget., 1903-05-23
AN OUTRAGE ON ALASKA.


 west, entirely unacquainted with the conditions which prevail in Alaska with the growth which that dis trct has witnessed within the past few years, com placenty approve Senator Beverdges scheme to have delegate to congress from the territory elected by the federal office hoders excluding the 100000 actual residents of the territory from any share in the selec tion of the man who is presumably to represent their interests, says the Seattle Post-Inelligencer. These news papers talk about chaotc social conditions" the likelihood of an unsuitable representative being selected by the people themselves, and the like. Says the Minneapolis Times, for example:
 For natural reasons the opening up of Alaska will be very slow The best person to hasten that along will he a delegate who knows what is possible for the territory unit, how fast possibilities can be pushed and where and how to distribute advanta- ges from outside and increase internal ones For the territorial expansion of Alaska Senator Beverdges s plan seems excellent and feasible"
 A few days since the people of the state of Wash ington celebrated the 5Oth anniversary of the pass age of the act organizing the territory of Washington. For thrtysx years the territory governed under that ac with substantial amendments made to it.. At the time the full territorial government set up in Washington there were barely 5000 people in the territory smaller number than are at present per manently residing in the single Alaska of Skag way. Thirty years after the territorial government of Washington went into effect, the total population of the territory less than the permanent white population of Alaska is today
 When Washington was organized as territory and for many years thereafter, the only means of communication with the outside world was by an occasional sailing vessel plying to San Francisco, which place connection could be made with steam ships running monthly to Panama; thence the sthmus to another steamship at Colon thence to New fork. The alternative was the toisome journey by OK team on horseback across continent, involving weeks or months. Alaska has at the present time a daily steamship service to the terminus of three trans continental railroads at Seattle.
 When Washington organized, its eastern boundary was the summit of the Rocky mountains; and the eastern and western portions of the state were separated from each other by high mountain range, impossible for many months of the year. The means of internal communication, then and for man years thereafter, canoes and sloops along the water courses and horseback trails elsewhere Alaska has fleet of steamships plying along her coast line bringing all coast points, outside of Boring sea, in close and intimate connection at all times of the year and during the summer months dozens of steamboat ply on the Yukon the whole of its navigabe length with other steamboats the tributaries of that river WaSnlnGtOn was organized its exports were insignificant During the past six months the territory of Alaska has sent to the United States it's products to the value of S20O00O0O, of which nearly on half of products aside from minerals or ores.
 The 100000 people resident in Alaska of the best of American blood and brawn the finest types of American manhood. It is not country for the help- less dependent unenterprsing What scandals have occurred in the administration of affairs in Alaska have touched merely the officials appointed from the outside the officials who according to Senator Rev. eridge and his admirers alone fit to be entrusted with the selection of delegate to congress, while the 1OOO 900 residents of Alaska who have, gone there o their initiative and who engaged in developing the resources of their country considered incom potent to exercise the duties of American citizenship Alaska is better equipped to maintain full territo. rial government than any territory organized was at the time it's organic act passed. It is out rage the Alaskans that they denied the privi-