The Alaska daily empire., 1913-07-07
SITkA PEOPLE
 HEAR GOV. STRONG
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rights as American citizens, the found- CTS of an empire in the making, have been heard by the National Govern ment. and the first step toward com plete system of self-government was taken. when on March 3rd of this year, the first Territorial Legislature met in the capital city of the Territory. say it was the first step taken, be- cause the theory upon which States have been added to the Union, and stars to the flag, has been one of eVo- lution, and the full powers which a free people rightfully are entitled to can be attained only with full state hood and the road to it's attainment is beset by difficulties and hedged about by precedent.
 AS Alaskans we rejoice that step forward has been made and that the men who composed the first legisla- tive assembly, of Alaska, were high minded patriots, imbued with the spir- it that pervaded the Continental Con- gress when the members on that sa- cred and now time-hallowed day de- clared that the then feeble 13 colon ies are and of right ought to be free and independent States And so l declare to you today, my fellow citi- zens, and I disclaim any prophetic wis ion. that in the not distant future, that flag that has at times preceded the Constitution, will float over not one but several States that will be carved out of this great commonwealth; that here in this great and once neglected land, will be found the homes of mil lions of free, liberty-loving, patriotic, people, who shall have conquered the wilderness, built cities and towns and villages, and developed on magnifi- cent scale the many and varied great natural resources of the Territory which today are really just beginning to be known and appreciated.
 Alaska is the country of oppor- tunity, and it is the object of repre- sentative government to create an in dependent, self-reliant people. Its pol icies are not paternal. They are di- rected toward the development of the individual himself It is conceived that our highest state, under a repub- lie, should be one of the freest and widest opportunities to the individual leaving him to rise or fall by his own efforts. Is this not the spirit that has prompted the pioneer, since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers to those of this time, and has it not found lOdg- ment and nurture from the stern and rockbound New England shores to the broad and swelling West where rolls the might Oregon and hears no sound save his own dashing'; and still be- yond through the forest-clas hills that tower above the inland waterways of this fair Northernland and on to where flows that still mightier Yukon, over whose rapid bosom floated the first steamer as recently as 1869?
 When we look back upon the past quarter of a century we shall see that much has been accomplished, that makes for Alaska's growth an develop ment; and We shall also learn that the scheme of the universe is such that man can only be developed by making the effort himself It is a law that can neither be obscured nor evaded. A race of sturdy, self-reliant men is nurtured only in such countries as this.
 q am an optimist. I repeat, my friends, that Alaska spells opportun- ity; I believe that all who earnestly look for it will achieve success; I be- lieve that this Territory is entering upon a new era of development that will within a few brief years place it in the front rank of progressive and prosperous commOnwealths. We have within our borders those material re- sources-on land and sea-that are the mainstay of the world of trade and Commerce. The nation is at peace with the world; spirit of help fitness is abroad; the evils of section alisms once rampant in the republic, have disappeared, and the greatest re- public ever formed, the greatest nation of any time, founded in fear and trem- bling, but with consciousness of the justice of it's cause, has become the richest and most prosperous of the world If fears have been entertained that freedom would perish because of the agrandiZement of wealth and the substitution of rule by an oligarchy for the rule of the people, let such fears be dispelled."
 People Meet Gov. and Mrs. Strong.
 After the address by the Governor, the people of Sitka, and they were all present to meet the new chief execu- tive of the Territory, were introducd to Gov, and Mrs. Strong.
 Whites Defeat Indians.
 The baseball game between a team of white men and one composed of na- tives attracted more attention than any other feature of the sports pro- gram. The white men were victorious, the score being to in their favor.