Putnam patriot., 1916-08-18

,,,f.b,, realm for his own individual
 -, unen Gordon is an unserupu-
 Ians advenrurer and upon the copper
 trust as a greedy corporation reaching
 put to strangle composition and absorb
 the riches of the udrthlaud But she
 had found o'Neu au houorahly amhi-
 tious man. busted. Ike others. in the
 struggle for succoss and backing his
 Judgment with his last dollar She had
 learned. moreover. 10 sympathiae with
 his aims. and his splendid defermina-
 tian awoke her admiration Her idea
 af the trust had changed. likewise.
 for il seemed to Dc fair and dignlael
 competitor She haG seen no SleHS of
 ,hat constituencies. gusWng policy
 usually imputed Co biz business. In
 regard 10 Gordon alone her first con
 vieti0n had remained unchanged He
 was as evil aS De had seen refuted-
 The readinstment ef her ideas had
 been disappa.Rtm- in way. sinUe it
 robbed her ef large part Of her am muniticu. hut si~ consoled herself with
 the thought that she had not vet reach
 el the lig, vital story which nest deep-
 Y concerned the we1are of the north
 Tie village of Kyak ay near the
 mouth og the most ea~terly outlet of
 he salmon. ana it Was milan in most
 resRe"ts to Horc aal to Omar save
 that 1t looked ont across shallow
 unHrote ted i4ay to the open reaches of
 the north Pacific The shores were
 low: pair of rocky iSless afforded the
 only shelter ta itS shipping and t was from these ss starting point that the copper trust had built it's breakwater X trestle aeresS the tide flats connect ed the work with the mainland. and along this roek trains crawled. adding their burdens to the strength of the barrier. Protected hy th's arm of steel and stone and timber lay the terminal buildings of the Alaska Northern. as the Heidlemann line Was called. and there also lay the terminus of the old MeRermott enterprise into which Cur tiS Gordon hal infused now life Both places showed plenty of activity when O'Neil and his two companions arriv- ed late one afternoon.
 kyak they found was inferior to Omar in it's public accommodations. and Murray was at d loss to find shcl- ter for the girls until his arrival was made known to the aseuts of the Alas ka Northern Then Nr Trevor. the
 engineer in charec, looked him ID and insisted upon sharing his quarters with 
 the visitors Tn Trev6f's heariug was no suggestion of an enmitv like Cor don's. He welcomed Ills rival warmly. After dinner O'Neil took Natalie to see the sights while Eliza prof tied by the opportunity to interview Trevor. In her numerous tilts with 0.Neil she haa not been oyersuccess- ful from the point of view of her mag azine articles. but here at her hand was the representative of the power best known and best hated for it's nc tivities in the northand and he seem
 ed perfectly willing 10 talk. Surely
 from him she would get information that would count.
 Understand. I'm on the side of your
 enemies" she warned him.
 "so is everybody else" Mr. Trevor
 laughed but that's heeaHse we're mis- understood"
 "The intentions of any trust warrant
 suspicion"
 He shrugged. The Heidlemanns
 are just ordinary business men, like | O'Neil looking for investment. They heard of a great big copper field hid den away back wonder in the noun tains. and they bought what they con
 sidered to be the best group of claims. They knew the region was difficult of access. but they figured that railroad | from tidewater would open up not only their own properties, but the rest of the copper belt and the whole interior country. They began to build road from Cortez, when some shoe stringer' raised the cry that they had mOnop- olized the worlds greatest copper sup ply and had doubled cinched it by monopolizing transportation also. That started the fuss. They needed cheap coal, of course just as everybody else needs 1t, but somebody discovered the danger of monopoly of that and set up another shout Ever since then the yellow press has been screaming. The government withdrew all coal lands from entry, and 1t now refuses to grant patents to that which had been properly located We don't own a foot of Alaskan coal land, Miss Apple ton On the contrary. we haul our fuei from British Columbia, just like O-Neif and Gordon Those who would like to sen local coal 10 us are pre- vented from doing sns
 sIt sounds well to hear you tell fl, sah Eliza. -But the minute the coal patents are issued you will buy what pou want, then freeze out the other people You expect to control tbe mines. the railroads and the steamship ines, but pusTe necessities like coal and oil and timber and water power should belong to the people. There has been an awakening of the public conscience. and the day of monopollzed necessities Is passing
 As long us men own coal mines they wlll sell them. Here We are faced not by a question of what may happen. but of what has happened. If you
 greed to buy city lot from q real
 state dealer and after you paid him
 ais price he refused 10 give you a
 leed. you'd at least expect your money
 )ack, wouldn't you? Well, that's the
 case of Uncle Sam and the Alaskan
 miners He not only refuses to deliv-
 CT the lot but keeps the money and
 forces them to pay more every year.
 [ raurpSeuf n body of rich men who