The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-26

Attached to every position there are doubtless certain duties which have to be performed which often enough are oncrous if not actually irkspme. Governor Strong's rep IL gives one the idea that this is per functory duty which is best indulg- cd in, because part of the gov ernors functions, in a mcnner ot slittering generalitios.
 Frankly taking up this report and ignoring to whom it is addres sed, and not asking the why of it. one could regard it as a generous advertisement of the Territory by some transportation or real estate company wherein the advantages are all set forth and the disabilities hardly ever
 It is incorrect to say that the re- port does not embody facts of ex. treme importance and matters which for reference sake must be consider ed invaluable. It does just that It shows the progress of tho mining and fishing industry as we'll as other lines of social activity which are of paramount importance to the country.
 But it almost deliberately avoids dealing with any of tho disabilities under which the Territory labors to the extent that practical and efficl- ent remedies for these things could he found.
 This is especially the case with such an important industry as the fisheries, wherein many of the dis Araeefhl conditions iirdustriallt axdl socially that prevail are not men, toned or if hintcd at, are hinted at in so general way that they will occasion little inquiry and d. mand little attention,
 To be sure the Governor concerns himself with the restrictions and red tape which has hedged around the private enterprise in many lines and restrictions and red tape which it will later on be admitted have been of most salutary effect inasmucn as it has prevented a wholesale seizure of those resources which were available for seizure.
 Conservation has worked we'll in Alaska, and only the mouthpieces of those corporations which have ob- served with covetous eyes the ter. ritorial resources think otherwise. and the pity of it is that some of that principle has not been extended to the fishery resources the un- bridled exploitation of which not. withstanding Strong's denial. has resulted in depletion of the salmon run in many valuable streams.
 To suggest otherwise as does the report. is to suggest condition ex- periGnce has taught from the Co- tumbia river to Alaska is not the case
 The real estate agent style of boosting conditions in Alaska and winch is marked characteristic of 'tilis report, Is most profound and unworthy mistake for any official, Alaska has opportunities for many but Alaska is now and will for long time be no place for the man without capital.
 It is a lot of sententious non- sense to say Alaska therefore is the land of plenty and opportunity It invites the man of means as well as the man of whose brawn and brain are his only capital. Success awaits these if their efforts are only rightly directed" Such nigh. be all right when written at the dictation of Chamber of Con- merce publicity committee for an editorial, but is has no place in a report where facts and figures and not glittering genera. ities which are generally glittering nonsense should have place.
 Some of the recommendation as to Schools for example, or as to an nulling the contract with the Morn 'ingside asylum arc valuable and worth consideration. There is no reason why there should be any of money for the support of the schools in any section Of AL aska. and that there is. is crying scandal. It certainly is a monstrous condition to note the vast output of the fisheries and the producing lode minss in Alaska, and. to consider