The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-19

country. they are coming out. and nothing should be done in my judg- meut that will cause a retrogression of the progress of Alaska And the minute you say that claim cannot be located by an agent, you shut out the possibility of anybody. excepting those residing in Alaska. If you leave it as it is now. permitting locations to be made through agents. men all over the country. from Michigan and Missouri and everywhere, can Eet their money together and send fl up there under the employment of an agent to locate mining lands in that country and develop them. And that will bring about this Instead of retrogressiou. as is going on in Alaska now. you will have progress from that time on. If you adopt that section Uhe power of attorney clause) you practically raise a Chinese wall around Alaska for the benefit of those who now reside there. for if man wants to go up there and locate claim it is going to take a good part of a year to do it,"
 i The gentleman. with all due sober ness. states that instead of people going into Alaska they are coming out" and that. therefore. nothing should be done that will cause re- ] Progression of the progress of Alas ] ka." What wonder that the depart ment of the interior has heap of l trouble on its hands when il has such l brains as this to run ii. Since Alas l ka was Alaska these same conditions have existed. which he says will in duce men from Michigan and Mis- souri 10 send up their money by fast freight to develop the country. but; so far as We are advised the banks have never complained of having more currency on hand than they could handle. and people are leay- ing the country instead of coming in If you leave it as it is now tas it has been since the beginning that ts). instead of retrogression, as k going on now in Alaska, you will have progress from that time on"
 Such logic,
 And the nerve of this representative of the interior department. who. it may be supposed in his spare mo- ments is advocating the administra tion's high protective tariff to voice such a sentiment as If you adopt that section you practically raise a Chinese wall around Alaska for the benefit of those who now reside there"
 Mr. Pierce, perhaps, best demon strates that he has the welfare of Alaska al heart in the last sentence of the paragraph quoted If a man wants to go up there and locate a iSllili IT IS StillS ip itht ti SDbU ItdlI of a year 10 do it." Think of it, If one of those poor fellows from the ShOWme or the Wolverine state
 wants 10 get hold of twenty or thir- ty association claims in Alaska he VII have to come all the blooming way up here to get them. and it will be almost year before he can get
 back home and have a chance to sell them. Perish the thought. let the government establish an attachment to its land offices throughout the states wherein locations of Alaska
 mining claims can be made right at home. Let us not be retrogressive.
 But in all seriousness it is cheer ing 10 Alaskans to be told by the
 Delegate that he proposes to keep up the fight for the abolition of the pow CT of attorney and the association
 claim, even in the face of such in telligent opposition as he has re- ceived at the hands of the interior deDartment