The Chitina leader., 1912-03-23
ONE OF OUR GREAT NEEDS

As the days fast approaching for the holding of the various party conventions this territory and the naming of candidates for delegate to Congress behooves teresed in the of Alaska evidence to the who shall be forth standard bearers all ties to good strong characters who be relied upon get resu the verdict of the August election might be matter of much The Fairbanks Citizen takes rather gloomy view of the past and fuure although it doubtedy suggest for improvement In discussing the subject, among other things, 1t says:
 And yet spite of the delegates having been at work for the past five year there has been practically nothing plished in constructive way True if to believe what have been told have times been saved through the gallant efforts of $ 300 Jack the Giantke from mascaon in the of bad trusts that have saved gobbe but not much impressed with the narrOwness of escape would have been had moving picture of the wicked ogres.
 'In spite of the fact that mining principal industry and is universally recognized that the laws pertaining there to perncous there has been single correction of them made have game liquor laws been rewritten to make ordinary Our delegates have known and campaign thunder of the total nadequacy of the statutes and have been Washington the strength of promises to correct the and they have promptly injected themselves into personal squabble and forgotten their real mission
 Ther plea that Congress will not listen is not to be ceped for the truth Congressman elected from the best of American cizen and they the council cham Der give of their the nation They have many times indicated wish help Alaska and would undoubtedly do so could they only be shown the way
 Other Congessmen have secured legislation for Alaska Similar steps could have been taken with equal by the delegate with regard to the mining law and other matters of moment upon which practically the whole territory is united If he had cultivated his penchant for getting into squabbles and then setting out reputation fighter the strength of them But these fights have absorbed his whole time that matters of real economic importance put him by the constituents he is supposed represent have been disregarded entirely.
 ''And, unfortunately there appears at this time consid erabe likelihood of there being continuance of this kind of thing the delegate decides he already has had enough defeated at the polls For there good believe that the bkerngs that have been ably maintained at Washington to the hndance of everything useful will be continued just so long have partisan politician here" "
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 The Cordova Chamber of Commerce is preparing make itself heard in the halls of Congress- And all because pie insist that the should make appropriation sufficiently liberal to build road between Chna and Fairbanks that the United States mail and passengers from Seattle to the interior of Alaska without the weeks, during the time.
 An automobile road from China to Fairbanks means that during the all the passenger traffic the Alaska will via Cordova liberal appropriation upo1 the part of Congress will enable the Alaska Road Commission to construct such road will prove great boon the tero towns and also greatly add the prosperity of Coova