Iditarod pioneer., 1916-03-04
THOMAS, WE'RE FOR YOU

Tn, Pioneer receipt of another communication from Thon.s Drayton of Kern Creek Mile 7 Alaska (va se" rd whoever he may prove o.b the question of statehood for Alaska" He submits for publication somewhat lengthy the subject and threatens us with others Evidently broad minded for speaking of the possibility o our not agreeing with his he says: You will find us of the petty contemptbe class who only improper motives m who disagree with them you do not agree with us the we'll think of you that you read the slgns of the me incorrectly you do with expect to see your name eshned who helped most nightly m oreaKlhS 'he l' com of our oppressed people"
 The inducement support Thomas propaganda is quite a weghty If there one thing in the world that we nave @ hanred for all life is be enshrned we don't kno" no" where But the term has such poetic sound that we fancy king for have been concerned in some way with our salad days But will be compelled to orego thS dSIlhcoh Thomas the thadom of oppressed people will have to continue be depended upon to relieve the Nuaon Mir Dayton that he has received large number Of re- es his previous circular letter and that he nds an absolute uniformity of belief that some change is imperative lie haS FOOT opinion of the authorities Washington for he says:
 Those of us who KNOW Washington absolutely which may be introduced in congress will emerge from committee doctored that the interests o Alaska Will be a secondary consideration statehood bill alone will force everybody into the where motives and purposes may be and measured
 It will Thomas and hope in time to be able to and measure the purposes of this Kern creek propaganda
 The language used by Mir Draytoh would be delight to any gained fame becoming of such phrases as nnocuous desueue and Theodore Roosevelt has Just en ced vocabulary with Byzantine logohetes But neither these distinguished Americans has anything Thomas B. says that compared the statehood problem the collective uSsance of all other territorial problems nconsequena and
  high sounding psnce however and thereby detracs from lcuresqueness of the Paadoxical as it seems after nterrogatoy expoon Hong distance administrative arrangement" neokng overlapping. ubiquitous congerleS of of cial busybo;es" of the phrases with which he ons his communication The act he terms an lngen GUS piece of e aive legedenan and ntmates that it slipped through by bureaucratic porch climbers CT sec UndsOry artists"
 United States officials apparently anahema to Thomas B. erd seemingly he them with the degree of affection that Kentucky moonshine beows the officer One can those hardworked officials qrm they read the following burning lines
 Naturally the territory with idle and useless oficials having useful duties perform certainly so important killing and drawing their pay Per these gentry do something ostensibly to justify their employment and insure the continuance of their In pursuance of which purpose they have developed inrocking overlapping ubiquitous congeres of official busybodes whose ncessant inremeddng has largely de
 eated all progress end seemingly reduced many of people 6 condition of ethargy, hopeessneSs kind of civic which is express itself in the laconc phrase Whats the use? As presumably imperative
 that the Washington government provide incomes for these unwelcome guests may safely be said that Alaska would gladly, joyosy, herself provide the largess
 the turn would consent to billet them section of the Republic able recoup the dis their presence entails
 In his the editor accompanying the Mir Drayon says If objectionable, there will be your newspaper occasional relating phase ether Alaska political situaon adds that such of the propaganda for statehood We that Thomas will and would regret exceedingly that he should imagine that his communications "objectionabe