The Ketchikan miner., 1908-06-06

to this method of slipshod legislation.
 IL is not parliamentary procedure and it borders on the dangerous.
 And sir. whal about hume rule for Alaska? What about the rights of the brave and heroic people who have gone 10 Alaska from every State in the Union-as fine types of Ameri can manhood as ever breathed the free air of liberty? What about the bill to grant Alaska home rule and 2 Territorial Government? The Alas kans have been appealing to Con gress for years for Territorial rights, and Congress has thrown in the waste basket the appeals of these brave pi- oneers who have gone there to de- velop the richest asset in Uncle Sam's domains. It is an outrage on the people of Alaska to deny them Terri tolial government. They are entitled to it and will fight for it until they get it. Make no mistake about it.
 The people of \ laska want the right to govern themselves, and soon- er or later it must be granted to them. I have heeu to Alaska several times. l know something about that vast do- main. l know something about the people wEo live there, and l stand here to declare. with the confident Knowledge that 1 can net be success fully contradicted. that the people of Alaska-lhe people who have gone there, and who have lived there for wears. aud who are bona ide resi- dents of Alaska, and intend to stay there during the rest Of their lives-I know what they want. and declare that they want not only a Delegate in Congress. but they want Territorial government. They want the right that every other Territory in the Union has--the right to make their own laws, to levy their own taxes, to regulate their own internal affairs, and to spend the money gathered by the tax collector for their own use, for their own schools, for their own charitable institutions. for their own roads, for their own municipal affairs and for their own peace and harpiness. This is not asking too much in ny opinion. It seems to me it is only fair and just and proper and right. Alaska has population at the present time of 65. eco bona ide residents. as true and honest and as brave a people as ever walked the earth They want their rights, and they ate going to get their rights.
 "Mr. Chairman. Alaska is the world s wonderland. No words can adequa ely desctbe it. IL is the peer mans aud the rich mans and the sportsman's s parad SC The time, in my judgment, is at hand when this vast territory will he developed hy American genius. American capital and American en
 terprise ard take my word for it., there will be no more prosperous sec tion i0 all this progressive land for American brawn and American brain. Alaska is the place for the new set ller for the hustler for the man who wants to go ahead and get or. Alaska wants her rights: she wants home rule: she demands Territorial govern
 cent. Alaska wants this: Alaska must have 1t. Alaska with her patri- stic population Alaska with her in-
 igoclng climate: Alaska with her seau mi scenery, her magnificent
 t.stauees. her towering snow capped .Aculf4irs. ner majestic rivers her lelti.e fields. her great industries of Ssh ani f1es and timber &nd agricul- .ura possibilities: Alaska with her immense wealth in gold anl copper and silger ard lead and iroa and coal
 mineral wealth be! orc the dreaus 7. lne most imaginative person in he aOrld: Alaska with Ter brave and iod tearing American citizens: Alas ka with her churches aud schools, he, splendid institutions. her towns and villages: Alaska under the blue dome of the Union sky and in the shIGu~ ot the midnight sun: Alaska uith her incomparabIe glaziers, with her greal harbors and nnurerah.e lakes, and countless cascaaes; Aiaska. in the name Of all shese and l,y virtue of the fundamental principles of our free institutions l ask why you should not nave the right of home rule under rerritorial government?
 'Mr. Chairman, Congress is too big a body. too busy as legislative for Jm. W ith it's momentous affairs Of the sation to act as board of aldermen TOT Alaska. fer New Mexico. and for Ari7ona. Why not give them ~btt
 hey are entitled tu, and ltt them Iegislate for themselves. Tie prirci- oles Of local self-gogernment are dear Q the American heart. They consti-
 ute the cornerstone of tie American Republic. The people in Arizona and he people in New Mexico are entitled ao home rule. are entitled to self government. and tue only way they 3an get it is through the agency oi
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