The Sauk Centre herald., 1905-02-23

SumClCue W supply IuC CuClIc WOIlu
with paper as long as your children,
grandchildren and great-grand-
children will use paper. Although
Alaska is a part of our country, we
are prohibited from importing into
the states single stick of pulp wood,
pound of paper pulp or an envelope
manufactured out of wood paper
material. The trust cannot get con-
troll of this supply; it is inside the
limits of government forest reserva-
ton and the only way that the trust
can get control is to have it taken out
of the reserve or get control of the
government. l have visited that
region myself and made a personal
examination of the timber resources
of Alaska. Speaking as timber
expert, and have some knowledge of
those matters having for years been
employed as an expert, / have no
hesitation in saying that the Alaskan
forests would be immensely benefited
if every other tree would be cut and
removed. Having remained un-
touched from the beginning of time,
they are simply smothering by their
own density. 1 am not sure but that
one of the solutions of the paper trust
question would be for the government
to establish an immense paper mill in
Alaska, thus furnishing employment
for the Alaskan indians who are will
ing to work and who are in a deplor-
able condition, and making to them
some remuneration for the immense
riches of Alaska of which they have
been robbed without any compensa-
ton. We bought Alaska of Russia
and paid the price demanded but
neither the Russian government or
our own ever paid the original Alaskan
natives, the rightful owners, single
cent in compensation for their posses
sions. l am not a believer in govern
ment ownership but prefer
government ownership to trust owner
ship.
No one mas asserted or dared to
assert that tariff on paper or paper
making material ought to remain.
The President of the United States
has recommended it's removal in
public speech if not in public mes
sage. The law prohibiting the i'm
portation of pulp wood and paper
pulp from Alaska is so silly that it
is incomprehensible to my mind that
our national representatives permit
to remain single day upon the
statute hooks. Just as long as the
tariff on paper making material re-
mains and the Alaskan law remains
unrepealed just so long will the paper
trust hold the newspaper business by
the throat and make it stand and de-
liver.
But as newspaper man speaking
to newspaper l am constrained to say
that we are not entitled to any SYM
pathy. We have permitted this
condition to grow up and we are
permitting it to continue without
protest and without action.
The mountain eagle is not entitled
to pity if she sits on a crag and per-
mits carriOn crows to make a meal of
her unfiedged young when by single
sweep of her wing she could scatter
them in terrified flight.
The lioness is not entitled to SYM
pathy if she stands idly by and per-
mits jackals to devour her whelps
when by emitting one roar she could
send them bowling into the jungle.
Men are not entitled to sympathy
being in bad social, political OF
business conditions if they themselves
possess the power of bettering these
conditions.
The newspaper men of the land are
not entitled to sympathy because the
tentacles of the paper trust, Devil
Fish, is reaching into every pocket
and abstracting their profits. They
have it in their power now and have
had it in their power for long time
to furnish the proper powers legisla'
tive ak with which to cut off these
suckers of the octupus by proclaimine
the facts to the public and issuing 9
clarion call to action.
Nothing will be done at this ses
sion of congress, and nothing will b
done in the next unless there is al
awakening along the whole line ane
this awakening will never come un
less the press which is the champion
of hsman rights peals for the bugl'
call to action.
| have faith that the time will com,
in the near future some writer vii
dip his pen in the ink of inspiration