The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-03-01

that they can never be brought into serious, or injurious. conflict each with the other is equally gratifying. A local legislature could not, if it would, enact legislation which would benefit one section at the expense or to the injury of the others.
 Come now. one of you feeble advo- cates of continuance of pre- tent rule in Alaska, give us the reasons for the faith that you profess. What would be the cost of home rule to the people exercising it as compared with that of the present r ragime. the whole of which comes out of their pockets just the same? What would render the cost so bur densome as to make the benefit ex- pected to be gained undesirable! |! Certainly. if your assumptions are founded in truth, you should not xpect your readers to rest content with mere assertion unsupported by any statement of facts or figures.
 The Juneau Record Miner assume as a fact rot to be successfully dis puted. that the institution of popular home government in Alaska would have the effect of driving capital out of the district. The proposition is far-fetched. and without even the lamest kind of a leg to stand upon. Ii the Record Miner will make good any one of it's unsupported propositions as to result, likely to follow from popular home government in Alaska. by any logical reasoning based on history of the past. The Mining News will not be slow to abandon further advocacy of the home government cause.
 w hats that. A Washington dis patch under date of February g, to the Juneau Dispatch, says that Sen ltor Piles on that day had a long con- ference with President Roosevelt OF the question of territorial government for Alaska. The dispatch says that senator Piles is strongly in favor oi Alaska being made a territory. anC the president expresses himself as in favor of the same. The senator be- lieves that territorial government vii, be granted to Alaska. It must be that the Alaska branch of president 's kitchen cabinet has got away on q brief vacation.
 That is reform with q big R. Through the crusade inaugurated by ex-governor La Toilette, and forced. co successful issue. Wisconsin will be relieved of all state taxes this year, the revenues derived from the railroads being sufficient to pay all costs of the state government. And what is equally as good is the fact that under the laws as they now stand, the railroads cannot recour any part of the amount by increasing passenger and freight charges against the public.
 The army and navy league conven- tion recently held in Washington passed resolutions urging conrgess tc enact laws making it compulsory fol citizens to respect the military and naval uniforms of the United States. That would not be necessary if the officers and enlisted men of the army md navy would at all times so con- duct themselves as to win respect for the uniforms they are paid for wear ing.
 Almost everybody is satisfied with this fine old world and longingly hopes that they may not have to quit it even when they ought to. Andrew Carnegie, with the rest of Us, knows he has got to go, and says he would give two hundred million dollars for lease of life for ten years only. But his money will not avail him. In this he has no advantage over the poorest of his fellow men.
 The inheritance tax law yielded a revenue of S2S9, 044. co to the state of Michigan last year. Did it ever occur to the opponents of home government for Alaska, that an in- heritance tax might be made the source of very considerable part of the revenue necessary to the main- tenance thereof?
 Reed Shoot. the Mormon senator, has been allowed to retain his seat. Evidently he had too many brother senators who hold in high regard not one, but several, of the old time maxims, biblical and otherwise. The only wonder is that the lone with out sin could have been found to east the first stone"
 It is claimed that deer have become so plentiful in Rhode Island that the farmers are petitioning for the repeal of the game laws. It would be in- teresting to know about how many deer would be required to overrun that great state.
 ''The life of Teddy doth remind us
 That we, too, can make fuss,
 And, departing, leave behin us
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