The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-04


 pathduders summoned up all the re-
 sources of fertile mind, and with
 combined wisdom and foresight which had been schooled and matured by re-
 Hection on the woes of the multtudes
 that had gone before, they framed the
 Constitution of the United States
 an instrument which has ever since
 been the wonder and admiration of
 the world.
 The fact that all through the stormy scenes surrounding the evolu-
 ton of their theories into that life
 breathing fountain of human rights and the amelioration of human woes,
 that by the final compromise between | the extreme radical views on the one hand and the as extreme conservative
 views on the other. that by the checks
 and counterchecks, the delegation of
 authority, and the careful warding of
 of the multidtudes from close contact | with the framing and administering of the laws, there was exhibited a seem ing distrust in the good sense and
 calm Judgment of the people as a
 whole-does not in any wise detract
 from the superhuman judgment and
 the spotless integrity of those great
 and noble men who led mankind out
 of the wilderness of despair into the Ihayen of promise and hope
 We pride ourselves that every
 thing concerning Alaska must be dealt
 with in terms of the superlative, Alas ka is the largest. the richest, the ruggeddest and the grandest. The least understood. it has been the most abused. Promising the least, it has
 returned the most The most prolific in it's opportunities for the applca-
 tion of human enterprise, ambition
 and success, it has become a mourn CTS bench for a conscience-stricken | nation. to whom a just expiation for
 the sin of dissipating it's own resourc- es seems to be to steal that of its Iueighbors Overcome with spirit of belated repentence, burning with a
 blind zeal to atone for it's own errors, 1
 it would deny to the pioneer of this
 countryside Pioneer-The man who
 has dared all, who has risked all and
 who has sacrificed all, the just fruits
 of his own efforts. Under false the ories of conservation, which are so
 utterly inapplicable to conditions, that they can only be summed up under
 the broad term of a farce. and under
 the technical ham stringing methods
 of government bureaus, the develop
 ment of the country has been retard
 ed, and it's resources, with it's great
 water powers, and it's immense for
 ests and it's inexhaustible fields of minerals. waiting to be applied to the comfort of suffering humanity, have been tied up, allowed to lie idle, to-
 waste away and decay.
 Liberty.Lovins Stock
 We claim no more for AlaskanS than has been universally conceded to the pioneer of all lands. That that l same hardy, virile stock without . whose heroic efforts, sterling grit and masterly ambition the West would today be a barren wilderness, peopled 5 by The roaming savage and with it's great resources and natural wealth still locked up in natures vault, make up the population of this country, is without cavil or dispute Nourished in their bosoms the same seed that was planted on the cold barren rocks of New England's shores, from which ? spraug the mighty oak of freedom, l sheltering beneath it's mighty arms
 the downtrodden hosts of despair - ing humanity has again found root ir this the other extreme of a land dedi- s cated to liberty, ready once more to T Iructify and perform it's mission of d peace and good will to man. Spread ling out it's roots in a soil untram- f meued by those pernicious influences s which make one often wonder if the e efforts of our forefathers were not all d in vain, and gathering within it's com S forting shades the same promise and IT the same hope, which has made Amer. s. ica the guiding star of the oppressed n and afflicted of all lands, of all races l. and of all ages-a broad-minded, ad-
 yenturous liberty-loving stock, whose 't independent spirit and energetic na- y ture could not rest content among 1T the petty conventionalities, the social a slavery. the dollar worshiping bigotry, d the hypocritical cant, the artificial D. pomp, and the enervating settled rut 'f of an efrete civilization. where in- e. dividuality is lost and the only in- a. centive to human action is to satisfy 'S hunger's crave.
 D "These are the red corpuscles in v, the veins of the body polite, warding l off the contagion of ildleness and de, " cay. in reinvigorating it's life's blood ~ and overpowering the germs of dis
 content, misery and crime, filling it's
 lungs with the air of freedom, and