Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-10

army officer who had nothing to dc
 with the keeping of the records in
 question. His inuendos that the N. c.
 Company profits especially from the road funds is equally untrue and ex- cuseless. + :..', M .... - -'
 "The N. c. Company has for years
 cashed time checks and orders of the
 workingmep of the Alaska Road Con-
 mission as an accommodation for the
 men and to expedite the work. The Company holds these orders and
 checks for months before it gets the
 money on them, and gets no interest
 whatever on it's. money so invested.
 The money spent on roads and trails
 throughout Alaska, be it little or be it much, is secured from the National Government through the influence aud upon direct demand of the War De- partment. Coming through such a
 source the amount is larger and more
 easily procured than if an individual or local organization tried to get. 1t
 from Congress. It is, foreign capital
 to Alaska, and as such Is easy mon-
 ey.' Be. the work done little or much
 no Alaskan is taxed one penny to pro vide these funds. It is Alaska's only
 grab out of the annual pork barrel.
 Because it does not come to us thru the direct efforts of our Delegate he
 knocks the appropriation and all con- nected with it and tries to destroy the source and the revenue as we'll. He is not backed up in this work by any Alaskan and but that he has 8 cant paign on he would undoubtedly today be fighting at Washington to abolish the Alaska Road Commission altho the Commercial Club of this city and other towns have attempted to induce him to drop the destructive effort. He tried in his first campaign and while running for Congress to become the paid agent for the Guggenheims; he fell down in the attempt and was 'bawled out,' and ever since he has sought to destroy every corporation and every agent of every corporation in existence. offering nothing worth while to replace them with. He is still representing that he has a gigan- tic bugaboo in the shape of imaginary corporations to fight constantly to save Alaska, and he is abusing and everybody and every thing worth while which has to do with the expenditure of money or the execution of public works in which he does not receive the credit It is this ruling passion of the Delegates which today finds the thinking men of Alaska against him and leaves his support among those whose votes can be controlled by exciting their passions through misrepresenting our largest industries.
 ITO us, when he is ranting and
 fighting, windmills and tearing down by wholesale, just as he always is when campaigning or speak ing to the public press, Delegate evinces weakness which shames the Alaskans he seeks to represent. He simply cannot for get himself, and puts his personal ag- and personal likes and dislikes ahead of the needs or best in- terests of .Alaska-uses his office to vent his personal spite upon men and company and parties. Just for that Alaska is getting tired of Wickersham and his continuous vaudeville of per sonal troubles and has now begun to seek to rid the Territory of his inf1u- ence that Alasak may so ahead. He has held development back to date, to keep Alaska under his personal con trol, but the time is not far distant when he will be retired from further activities against the best interests of