The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-19
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srsea hv Ks fqeads lso-oaliea1 and waose prayer to be dehveced from tAem seemed to 60 h0pelsssy an aaswerei. tais Is that ,and--AisAShA A. ls there no Cod to vhom we can turn wtA confidence CT hope oi svupasay or aaderstandingG Is tAere nothing Cor it but a reeura to the principles of our fathers--ao rely up- on ourselves as our owR and only frSeads2
 Of ooarse-having said this much and then sat back to tsok ai iI it S discovered to be tOmmyrct--'i1'- jasunahle tommyrot We know that ~GOa relxus and the government si Washington stia livos" as Mr. Car fsela exclaimed at a naticaal crisis. And as we azain look at this heroic exp-esssoa we discover that it too, so far as Alaska Is concernsd--is also sommy-rct. WASHINGTON. why f seems to us up here as the Far away seat and playground of our hereditary enemies. Washington. it ss where we are taught to 60 with cur pleas. as Go the Great Father, only to meet there the ignorant and incapable and selfish. who answer us with sueers and betrayal wash iaStou appoints men to govern uS and. bsing fsfrly seated at Juneau, while the han3closp of cur welcome is sHn warm they begip the laborS of their Forerunners Ca forging new Inks tn cur chairs. rf the people oi Alaska are to be distinguished ia his to~y ss anything more than brave and self-reliant pioneers. who gave their lives Co subauinS a wilderness, then s must he for the5r patience they sAan be distinguished. But it sAan never be t-uthfu)ly said or them that they sat silent in presence os tAelr uroazs and CT their resAsct
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 man a copy of the Washington R''S', coatalniue a rero-, oS a speech by SO called "Gove-uOr~ Clark. delivered si Waterbury. Com. and edi'orlal aiscuSsSoa og that speeeh, which we published yesterday. The language of tAe edIto1ial la the light of the lazruare og the speech would ind'- cate the sane authorship. Governor Clark. ia his speech declares there is or should oe 10 Alaskan problem, That there should be none Is true Writers he says who never vis- tied Alaska CT even the Pacific slope have filled the newspapers and tae periodical press wsth the most mis- leading statements and have Sepeated the assertions of persons whose sei' fish interests are better served by scandal than the truth
 The entire speech so far as it was contained in the Post. printed in tAis paper should have been read. It nowhere contains the sta,ement that Alaska does not need self-goy- enment Governor Clark Is aware of the sort cf storm that would beat about his head should he make such declaration ppblcly. He knows the history os the late Governor Hoggett- Bus the editorial. printed on the sane page of the Pust as Carries he speech. leads off with this remark; Governor Clark ol Alaska removes
 many misapprehersions concerning that Territory in the speech deliver cd at Waterbury etc, and 5mmed- lately goes on to say. Alaska does not need. and probably could not sup port. home rule at this tine lt Is mcre dependent upon congress than any other part of the United states outside of the District of Columbia"
 Unless Governor Clark wrote this himself it Is a glari1g instance oS the truth Of what he says, that writers who never visited Alaska fin the newspapers with most misleading statements"
 Governor Clark. before he became Governor Clark was walter Clark. a Washington newspaper correspondent Naturally he might be expected to. easily influeuce newspapers of that city to make statements coaceruing| matters of which he claimed special knowledge and Of which the news paper itself knew nothing. The Post is read every day hy every member cs congress. How many members ofI congress read the pleas of the people ns Alaska. made directs Year after year the people og Alaska. represent d ev conventions cF both poiical parsles. 'csn upon cougress for permit to conduct their own goverameRt--tol cause them to be no loaysr depend ent upoa congress" Sa matters about wAtra congress knows scsAinE Three