The Alaska citizen., 1911-05-08
Phone 262 Phone
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
THE COAL PARTY.

The dumping of a lot of tea into Boston Aarbar in 177& started some. thing which has resulted ultimately 70 .ho imm,asurahlc benefit of Am ericau ,i.izeu~hlp The spirit shown a, that lime by 'he founders ut this great republic has been praised lu prose and verse, and the younger generations have been taught .har t Wa~ the basic foundation uf American freedom and liberty The technical breach of the law, by u.rmal. law@a1.d.ug citizens. has al ways uat only h,.n ,oudoned but laGd,d. because il Was recognized The lawgiycrs had gone beyond the limits of justice and were pracric- .ug oppression tr 'hr p-M' where opposition was Justified And it Was this same spirit. aroused to ac- rion by a similar course Of oppres sion. which acrua,cd he Cordoyans las, Thursday 10 dump hundred t,ns of foreign coal into the bay, and it is not ar Ill unlikely that the results thereof will be equally houedcial -o AlasFan- a- were ,hose of ,hc Boston "a party .o the coun, Try a~ a whole
 The trcatment of Alaska at the hands al the Republican admins traitor has been such as would have gaadyd lc-- patriotic popul ace 10 pen rebellion years ago. De nied inc righ, ro govern itself al t1oaga pa-s,--iHa all he qaalitica. 'ion- that hitherto have been deem ed u,ses-ars Wh,r, more fortunate territories have been in question. Alaska has had withheld from it that essential code of well advised laws ~i'hour which no country can achieve i,@ best Chased by the rresiden, f he United States as somewhat lower iu importance. DO lrically. but about on par oth- crvisc with ,hc natives of the Phil ippiuc islands and Porto Rico. it's almost unanimous demands for self government have been scofed al Turning into the coffers of the Unit ed States annually many millions of wealth il has practically created, il has yet had withheld from it its nat ural resources, which belong 10 it to just the same cXreu; a. did those of the earlier founded territories 10 the residents thereof. Blessed with a citizenship of an order of in telligence possibly higher than pre-. yails in any other part of the do- main il is yet deemed essential by the administration that the fed eral offices. the only patronage al it's bestowal, should be given to incompetent Carpetbaggers who have almost consistently turned out to ! Q unqualified for the work and breeders of discontcnt.
 Is there any wonder that free born Americans, forced to pay ridiculously eXorbitant price for for tlSH coal NItu JIItN dlt ttIlIth 'llt right to use that which they right fully own, should remember that story of the Boston Tea Party and take the law into their own hands?
 There is not a red-blOOdtl man or woman living in Alaska but will compliment the Cordovans on their pluck The demonstration may not have been such as would have been advised by a careful and prudent attorney. but it certainly was one calculated to arouse the people Out side to a realization that there are some live people in the North who are just as intOlerant of oppression as were the fathers of the revolu- tiCn And, when the necessity for such demonstrations is existent il is devoutly to be hoped there will always be enough Americans of the old type left to make them, for in such action lies the safety of the re- public and the ideals which gave it birth. It is as true today as ever that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, and it is most reassur- ing to know that Alaskans are not ocln