Valdez daily prospector., 1915-10-27
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1915
LEST WE FORGET.

Crowding twenty-four hours of real living into each day and busily oc"u. pied except during the sleeping ses- session with their own affairs, Alas kans are about as complacent reo ple as any that swears fealty to the Stars and Stripes. This, in the sense that they will put up with lot with out making any uproar; or, in 't'er words, their ability to "grin and bear it" has been cultivated to the point where exhortations to rebel against galling injustices are most likely to elicit the answer, What's the use?'
 One does not have to 5e st'3r- dough of very ancient vintage to re- member the tribulations of political origin, that were forever outcropping in the territory, and which left a soreness like unto that expel' by Job when his boils were heading up, but had to be bourne with d f)rti- tude quite equal to that of the pro2h- ct of old.
 It is not hard to recall the days during which Hoggatt was governor when the big corporations of tn Southeast got all the recognition that was coming to Alaska; nor yet the later period when Hoggatt discredit- ed, Walter Clark, a cog of the same wheel, did his best to emulate the man whose place he had been surrep- titiously appointed to fill. Such lit tie episodes as the holding up the building of the detention hospital for a couple of years after the appropri- ation was made, because MT. Clark did not like the color of the dele gates eyes, help to perpetuate Wal ter's memory.
 Nor does the oldtimer find it hard to recall the payment of the Oklaho- ma political debt responsible for the Fourth division being decorated with Judge Si Reid and his cohorts. Those times, when decisions in pending suits were peddled to the highest bid der, were too exciting to be lightly forgotten.
 Even less a strain on the memory brings to mind the days when the recent district attorney took unto himself the task of regulating the morals of all else than himself, and found more means for creating petty annoyances than ever existed in the New England Blue Laws.
 These, and many other pestiferous unkindnesses Alaskans have had to bear as the result of misdirected en- ergies of former administrations. They are past, and wisdom would dictate that the dead past be allowed to bury it's dead. were it not that by being too previous with the, ohse- uuies a more pleasing task might be overlooked.
 It might he well hefore these mem- ories are relegated to ghostland, that they be used for nurDoses of com parison. Lest we forget, in our com placence, that our present state is one devoutly to he thankful for.
 For more than two years Alaska's little old ship of state has been rid ing in waters undisturbed by rip pie. She is making more progress every day, and gathering headway right along. The governor, enjoying everybody's confidence, receives at Washington the regard to which he is rightfully entitled. Our judge has earned a reputation such as should be the ambition of one holding his high office. The marshal's endeavor is to run his office to best suit the needs of the district with which none is more familiar And the district at torney is exercising the good sense God gave him and thereby making a most enviable record for himself.
 So that it is we'll for us, once in a while, to compare the present with the past, to the end that we may not neglect the necessary steps to make impossible a recurrence of the old days.-Fairbanks Times.
 Harper's Weekly, after thorough