The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06
FROM OTHER PENS
ALASKA.

ALASKA.
Alaska has long desired a territorial
status, and this year the Yukon Elk
position seemed a good time to make
a strong play for 1t. 1t has white
population of 10000, nearly the same
as Nevada, and though this is small
for q state, it has usually been con-
sidered enough to make territory or.
gold of $2O,OOO,000 in the last five
years. Since 1880. its gold product has
been over $140,000,000. 1t is proving
to be a great copper country. and in
1906 100000 pounds of copper were
exported from Alaska. Recent sur
yeys still incomplete, show that Alas
ka has coal in abundance and of the
finest quality. Surface indications of
oil are reported. Marble has been
found in various quarters. Tin. sill
yer and a large number OF m1scel-
laneous metals are reported. All this
indicates very rich possession, but
the gold exceeds them all The gold
bearing areas of Alaska are SO ex-
tensive as to make 1t not improbable
that it will prove to be one OF the
richest gold-producing sections In the
world. This indicates land of In
exhaustible riches, but President Taft
tells the Alaskans that mining pop
ulation is a wandering population and
not good material for local self-gov-
ernment.-Philadelp Press.
a.
RES ADJUDICATA.
fernando De Soto Money, United
States senator from Mississippi for the
past 10 years, is quoted as saying in
a Baltimore address than the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
the United States constitution were
not constitutionally adopted and that
he intends to make an effort at the
next session of congress to have the
attorney general take this question to
the supreme court. Why he has been
silent on so important matter for
his IA years in the house of repre-
sentatives and his decade in the up
per house he does not explain.
It is not easy to imagine Re-
publican attorney general voluntarily
raising the question of the validity OF
these amendments. It is dlhcult TO
see how congress could force him
into doing so, if it had the unanimous
desire to do so. It is impossible to
conceive of a Republican congress
showing the slightest desire to nave
the question reopened.
United States Senator Hernando
De Soto Money may as well recognize
this matter as res adjudicata. Mis-
sissipui doesn't need to worry much
over the negro. anyhow. unless ne
tries to move away. Even In tnat
case she has shown ingenuity enough
in stopping him.-Brooklyn Eagle.
LOVING ONES WORK
If a man doesn't love his work. he
had better get something else to do.
But the trouble is that such people
will hardly love any klno OF WORK.
The trouble is in them. They lack
intelligence. If they knew enough to
know good work they would soon
learn to love it. The manuai tralnins
scheme has this in view-to surround
the job a man is doing with such IN
teIlisence and taste as will make it
attractive to him.
lob gets more contentment out OF life
than any other" says Brander Mat
thews; and he gets great part OF ms
contentmerit in doing his work right.
No man can love his work who shlrks.
No man can be contented VINO is dis-
honest about his work. This is snlrk-
ing or doing it negligentiy. so lnese
things always go together-honest
work. contentment and love OF the
toh--Ohio State Journal