The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-22


 There is personal exchange of ideas and the giving and taking of advice. much as il k administered in the heart-to-heart talks in the family circle
 Some time next Fall, after President Taft has packed his golf sticks. dis charged his caddy. and bid adieu to the seashorc breezes Of Beverly. he will call his Cabinet friends to- ecther The first meeting after the summer vacation will he more or less informal There will be no re- porters present. If there were. and the official correspondent of The Alaska Citizen was stenographic expert. his report would be translat- ed something like this:
 President Taft. after lighting cigar. Iosoens his trousers waist band. walks over to the chair of the Auorney-General. and. skipping him in a vigorous and friendly way on the shoulder, says: Say. George. what kind of time did you and Nagel have in Alaska this summer? l was afraid the polar bears would get you, but you don't appear to be even frost-bitten.
 The Attorney-General: Bill, you missed the time of your life by not going with Us. You won't believe me, but l am telling you that Alaska is the greatest golf links on the face of the globe The sour-doughs up there use gold nuggets as big as cannon balls to play golf with. They place a ball on the top of Mt. Me. kinley and hit it a swat with the North Pole, It travels thousand miles or so, but no one has ever yet succeeded in driving the ball from one election precinct into the bound aries of another. That is country of immensities. Your Atlantic ocean l beside the North Pacific. There is more coast line in Alaska than from
 Maine to Florida The Mississippi river wouldn't be a respectable trib- utary for the Yukon. There are two separate and distinct coal fields there each with more coal than pennsyI- yana. And, by the way. Bill, they'd hang and quarter Pinchot if he ever visited Alaska. They won't stand for contiscation under the name of conservation.
 Finest climate and women and children you ever saw There's d town up there named after Vice 1 President Sherman's predecessor
 and it's corker They gave Us d reception, and now 1 feel lonesome and homeless, and friendless, when walk down Broadway or up Penn sylyania avenue.
 Secretary Nagel Gnterrupting);
 Bill, I'll back up everything George l says. In that town of Fairbanks they made us feel that every man. woman and child in Alaska was positively sure there was one great and good and d good number of them seem to think there are two good Wicker | shams
 President Taft: Did anyone intro | ducc you to the gamblers and hootch i peddlers and the undesirable ele ment" that l have been officially | told constitute the greater part of the population?
 Attorney General Wickersham: Bill, stop right there. Somebody's been peddling to you. Somebody had an axe to grind. The people of telligenCe, and as high in morality. as in any State in the Union They are patriotic, law-abidng gener- ous, hospitable, whole-souled people They sent by me a special and most cordial invitation for you to come and visit them. I advise you to go. It will open your eyes.
 Secretary Nagel: I'm from Mis- sOuri. They had to show me-and they did-and I'm an enthusiastic sOurdough Arctic Brother now Bill, let me give you a little good advice: Pack away with camphor balls your moth-eaten notion that system of government that is good enough for the Filipinos, is good enough for the Alaskans. They are a different breed The Filipino develops com merce of $2.50 per capita, per year, with the United States; the Alaskan develops a commerce of $l ,000 a year per capita. And there is just that difference in their physical, mental, moral and patriotic stature. A form of government good enough for Mass achusetts or New York is none too good for the people of Alaska. The people of Alaska are hardy, liberty loving pioneers. They are descend ants of the pioneers of the States-of in Boston Harbor. They believe in