The Cordova daily times., 1915-10-13
A TIME TO BE LIBERAL.

Colonel John A. Sleicher editor Lese's Weekly who recently made trip this territory is telling truths about the wonderful of the nortand III s excellent noozn which are going the people of the United States
 thinking and when this powerful influence reaches Washington is norIand will into its In fourth of series of articles among other things Col Seicher says:
 ssAlaska deserves liberal treatment and IS high time that the country realized the fact that of the greatest factors of its prosperity lies right here Aaskan have been at fault to extent They have been too provincial They have fought each other putting local interests ahead ot e public welfare and forgetting the prosperity ot al Cor dova has a railroad to the interior SkagWay has one Seward has Valdez Juneau and other welocat- ed places time stretch out their lines of steel into the rich interior Let everyone take hold and help everyone ese There is room for all Aaskas natural wealth IS enormous It undeveoped ready for the worker with money the ou CT with energy the capitalist with foresight GVe them all an open door There will be no crowdng There Is plenty ol room and abundance of riches.
 Statistics are tresome. Most people will not read them and who do speedily forget their significance But every reader remember few striking facts about Alaska 1nione incomparabe unequaled uneXceed 1t IS magmh- cient in it's solation It has of 6OOOOO square mics onefh the size of the United States, which means that It Will make IA New Works and nearly 800 Rhode Islands It cost Sam $20OOOO AS or less than two cents all acre It has paid itself twenty time and more in the out put of its fisheries It's gold mines this year will produce more than three times what Alaska cost Alaska cas to nave more cold than California copper than Michigan and Arizona more coal than Pennsylvania and IS wiling to prove it if the government will cut the red tape restrictions of non sensica conservation and let capital do its work as It has doe it with the gold and copper mines and the fish industry
 ea cattle ranges untouched and most of them are free to the homesteader - . .
 Aaska has population of about 65OOO with fertile u- developed acreage suitable for hlage exceeding several times the acreage of sections of Norway Sweden and kuSa o
 similar itndp with 100000 souls Let the people Of the whole United States think deeply of the official statement that Alaska with 6 GOO population, market for our own pro
 c is equal importance with China with population or 336 OOOOOO" Is matter of consequence to you, my neohbor whether the door Aaskas storehouse ot wealth shall remain closed be opened? It produces half the world salmon It sold year 20OOO pounds or two pounds an
 for every man. woman and child in the United States If claims the only tin mines in the United States It IS opening oil wells about Kaaa and across geoiogsts who are TOT o;no mn strong indications of oil belt all the way up to Nome! Wealth? Alaska will roll it in long before the present cnnrv approaches close Already Fairbanks away up m the interior 500 miles from the coast IS getting ready ce ra the centennial of Aaska purchase two years hence Get ready to go.
 ssSeate oo the great big brother of Alaska, that has done more than the of the country to induce the news" aer of our cities give Alaska far hearing e too a star city of the sea celebrate Alaska htteth brt dav And she will do it she does everything as she dd e recent splendid welcome the Shrners with an open hand ana po of Alaska means her. She is Aaska's gateway Se knows that Alaskan trade has doubled in 10 years and Will oarupe in the present decade Keep your Alaska and while YOU watch don't lose sight of Seattle The lat er's growth only begun It's destiny IS fixed and looms big the horizon of the Pacific one ot Amecas greatest commercial ports
 Snce Alaska hailed the American flag AS years ago the wealth of the United States has had astonishing expansion If is estimated equal that of Germany France and England combned increased since the opening of our new cen turv v one hundred billion dollars excess of our na tiona assets when took Alaska We have achlVed these amazing results have been united people, since we obterated sectional lines and since we have shaken hah across the bloody chasm.'
 auto Chitina Fairbanks