The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-17

Grotley's advice needs modcrnizing lt should be Go west. young man and bring ,hc country up with you Horace vas ione on philosophy all right bnt he'd never seen or heard . Teddy when he formed his opinions. In his day the West was too busy killing lHdiar- To give much atten- ton To politics r let the East do all the linking about the way the country ought iC DC governed and i limited itself to doing the executing. which operation applied mostly to Indians. roai agents and crooked gamblers Government according to 7hc Western idea, consisted main ly in the 2hility to shoot first Some times man would be content just to gej the drop on the other fellow and then let him back away with his hands in the ir. provided he wasn't dn Indian But the rule was that if q man needed 10 have g gun pulled oH him he was dangerous enough To shoot without giving him any chance to beg of. and its pain ful 10 think what lot worse this wicked world would nave been by this time if those quick-trigger fel lows of the early Western days hadn't taken SO much pains to rid il of undesirable citizens.
 But that's wandering from the subject Such as il is. the West has grown Up wijh a hurran and now that it's arrived it keeps right on hurrahng When it gets new idea i', ready to shout down O. 70 shoot ny. metaphorically if not lit orally. any old ideas that happen to be III way And it has ideas enough 70 Gr the whole n.t,n and a good 'ig section of inc rest of he world. The West ain't conrcu, any longer .o !-f the East tell tf what it 1u2hr a do while i goes ahead and does as t HFcs. Its begun 10 tell the East what jo do and il wont rest ill it makes the Fast do what t says. That's the secre, of this pro sr 5siyc movcment or ,nsurgent increment or whatever Eou choose j 70 call ii. as interpret it. lis the West throwing off Eastern dom. jaariou and struggling for lhe su- oraNacl 10 WlicE it feels isclr entitled by virtue of it's acreage onl strength of mnes. if no, the number of jts peopt"
 "b TcGdy had come West, a. Ald- ricl did and Cannon did and tried 10 tell the West - be conservative. ,o stan6 par. to leave business mean,ns the corporations. al rest and 10 stick To the fellows who are
 na1ing thc money so they can keep on making fl, the West would have said that he'd had his head turned by he atterliors hes been "eceiv- inG from European rCy2lty. Bui Ted, dy cane ou hero with more pcli. cles than hes eyer had tine L. think cf when Ee was President. He was in favor of everything that The Was' was dong or rT'r had thought of doing. And the more he talked of doing. And the more he talked the louder the West cheered. and the louder it cheered the moro enthusiastic he got. for it does rouse a man enthusiasm to hear himself appiauded. and before he was through you couldn't have sold statue of the Spirit of the ] West anywhere this side of the Mis- souri unless il had eye glasses and a round head anu prominent saining teeth.
 l "I don't myself see just what's l just to come out of it. He says he's going 10 conserve natural re, l sources. WCll. that's d good idea l if you work it right. l always did | believe that il was better business when you have a mine. for instance, to conserve it than to work it. If vOu work it, you only get what money out of it there is in it. and then you have 10 abandon it. But 1 if you conserve it you can keep selling stock on the strength of il 1 over and over again till you've made 1 five or six times as much money out Of it as it ever was good for We've practiCed conservation in that way in ;he West for a good many years and we've made it pay pretty we'll l It's transferred a lot of good East ern money ta this part of the coun- 1 try and has been the means of cap italizing many lively poker-room, bu, l don't Quite see how we're s0- ing to keep it up permanently. You have to give the suckers little bait once ir a while or they'll stop biting.
 Then Teddy says he's going to make he corporations be square. Well, I've always done that in l Spoilsburg No corporation can do anything in this town without com ing around and giving !he boys what they ought to have. Perhaps