Yukon Valley news., 1905-03-29

who have embarked on oCeaE-gOlng veS- sells to settle in Alaska-to make it their home-be admitted to the enjoyment of guaranteed to those who remained longer than three years? Can American citi- zens ill Alaska, who fulfill all possible qualifications as to nun Ders, intelligence,
 industry, sobriety, patriotism, and nor ality, come to congress by their chosen representative and demand as Int that the republican form of government which they have created and ordained here, be
 admitted as state of the Union Sen ator Summer was present during the hours of the night when the treaty was drawn spirit and purpose. Listen to the won- derful words in his speech on the cession of Russian America to the United States, delivered in the senate ten days after that instrument was signed, under the head of Extension of Republican Institutions":
 More than the extension of dominion is the extension of republican institutions, which is a traditional aspiration. ltwas i'll this spirit that Independence achieved. In the name of human rights our fathers overthrow the kingly power, whose representative George the Third. They set themselves openly against this form of government. They were against it for themselves and offered their example to mankind. They were Roman in character, and turned to Roman lessons. With cynical aus terity the early Cato said that kings were "car- nivorous animals" and at his instance the Roman senate decreed that no king should be allowed within the gates of the city. kindred sentiment. with less austtrity of form, has been received from our fathers; but our city can be ! nothing less than the North American conti- | nent. with it's gates on all the surrounding seas John Adams, in the preface to his Defense of the American Constitution" dated Jan. ', 7s7. thus for a moment lifts the curtain of the future: Thirteen governments" he says plainly, thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone and without any pretensc of miracle or mystery and which are destined to spread over the northern Iart of that whole quarter of the globe. is a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind" Thus, accord tug to this prophetic minister. at that early day was the destiny Of the republic manifest. II was to spread over the northern part of the American quarter of the globe and it was to be a support to the rights of mankind.
 We believe that the great mass of the voters of the country, irrespective of party. want Alaska to become an inte- gral part of the United States by the extension of our institutions as fast as conditions warrant, and that when they
 have opportunity to express themselves a, the polls they will send men 10 con gress to voice their sentiments. -. If Senator Platt speaks as the representa- tive of the people of Connecticut. 1t mus,
 be of that deteriorated stock which has
 been SO much discussed m the press oi
 that state. and not the stock of the hardy
 New Englansler from the time of John
 Adams down to Charles Sumner
 It is regretted tha, we can no,
 print the entire letter of trausmittal.
 lt does not read like the expression
 oi a demagogue or an ignoramus,
 and furnishes no clue to the hos
 tility manifested ,o the governor
 before and since his reappointmen,.