The Alaska citizen., 1910-07-23

The editor of the News Miner says Where is Brch?" Patience, Mir. Editor. the Guggs don't usually pay in advance.
 ... :. :. The editor of the Times is prerar- ing for the worst He sees defeat ahead fer his candidate Victories were never yet won by anticipating disaster
 The Miners Union Bulletin has gone over to the Orr camp .appar- ently. It certainly is using more strenuous efforts to defeat Wicker. sham than it is to elect O'Connor.
 < :. z. A popular magazine has been pub fishing series of articles entitled, | What Eight Million Women Want We venture tC assert that there is i nothing these eight million ladies want more desperately than new hat apiece
 =. :. :. .GX-Presdent Roosevelt is not going to do anything whleh might injure his popularity in the country. His decision tc abstain from ihtarfer en e in Ohio state politics is wise one It would never do for him to be found fighting a losing battle at this juncture.
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 Inc Valdez Chamber of Commerce met recently to consider ways and means to boom the mining properties in their locality We don't remem- Der hearing of the Fairbanks cham Der of commerce taking any such intelligent action with regard to properties in this section.
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 A week or so ago the Guggenhelm organs were telling us that Alaska was much too large to be controlled by a hundred big syndicates Now they are telling the people that Stan dard oil is gCbbling up all of Alas kas oil fields Such maenificent in consistency needs watching. All trusts look alike to us.
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 As a result of the advertising cam paign carried on by Seward for the past year or so, il is reported that capital is flowing into Southwestern Alaska. In fact there is no diff, culty whatever in securing money for the development of mining ven, lures on the Kenai peninsula, pro- vided the same hold out any prom ise at all of ultimate success.
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 The equalization of the Buck Stove and Range company is one of the greatest victories ever won by or ganZed labor. For years this com pany carried on a vigorous campaign against unions, although all inteli gent public opinion was on the side of the latter There is no doubt but that the prejudiced decisions against Gompers and his companions greatly aided the unions in their fight
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 Inconsistency was never better eX- emplified than it has been this week by the Times For weeks that paper has been attacking Wicker ing, and now the same paper states that it will continue to fight the delegate after he is elected. That the Times will continue to support the Hoggatt-Clark faction in their efforts to hand over this gerat coun- try to the control of the Guggen- heims
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 Governor Clark has been talking sneeringly about the 'roughnecks" That shows the governor is out of sympathy with the great majority of the population of Alaska, and therefore unfitted for the position he holds. What would Alaska be without these same roughnecks? They are the men who are develop ing the country, not the Hoggatts, or Finks, or Abe Springs Gov Clark should know better than to in- suit hardworking men.
 :. :. :. President Taft does not increase his reputation by taking sides in the delegate election. Resident Alaskans know better than the president what form of government is most suited to local conditions, and if they asl: for self-government it should be granted, regardless of any advice which Hoggatt and his crowd might tender the president The reason