The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-10

in any spot in the territory until the pres ent insane regulations of reservation are removed. That is a certainty that has been demonstrated over period of fifty-two years. The forests may continue to shoot their boughs heayenWard for all eternity and they will not be disturbed until new laws and regulations are put into effect
 The government may retain supervi- sion over the forests, and over the cutting of timber for paper, may insist upon taking a share of the profits from it, and upo. seeing that labor engaged in the work is given fair share of the output, but it must not insist upon any person or corporation advancing great sums for stumpage before it touches a foot of the material
 It must take the industry a profit sharing one for the capital invested, for the labor employed and for the government. That is a fair business partnership, one that will appeal to capital and labor, and until 1t is done there will be no develop ment
 So with the mines and the fisheries. The natural resources of fish, minerals and l other parts of the United States but until some benevolent, farseeing set of business statesmen take the proper steps, Alaska will remain stagnant.
 That's what is the matter with Alaska '-Ketchikan Chronicle.
 No one will disagree with the ChrOni- cle writer that the affairs of the territory l,o If 1ilin1I legislation and administration in Washing tOn But to condemn the government ut terly for nOn-dcvelopment of Alaska's $ re sources, to say that the government alone is responsible for such a condition, is hard ly justified by the history of Alaska even in recent years.
 Reduced to it's final form, the govern ment of the United States is the people therein, or else 1t is fraud. And when the people of the United States set the sea of their disapproval on any policy, whether 1t concern domestic affairs or foreign, ii such a policy is not abandoned the rep resentatives of the people, those who are charged with the administration of the af- fairs of government, pretty generally lose their official heads at the first opportunity
 In the matter of it's past policy toward Alaska, the government has had the ap proval of most of the people, who gave thls approval either thru indifference to thC North or on account of ignorance and ms information about it's resources conditions and possibilities. Their ideas regarding Alaska are at best but vague. And theT state of mind will be found reflected in the national legislative halls.
 Alaskans have had much to do with the average mans conception of their country i We don't say all Alaskans have, but gooC many of them have. Instead of spreading information about the realities of the ter ritory, they have been instrumental in giv ! ing publicity to the frealish side repre- sented here Instead of telling about the soil which produces as fine grain crops a: can be found anywhere, practice has beer made of talking about the everlasting ice that lies sixty feet underneath those grail fields.
 So it goes all the way down the line We have either made no effort to bring the real Alaska before the public generally, o1 | 1t has been done in such manner as tC produce false impression. Then, too, we have been prone to leave it to "Jones' tC do. Washington makes most of our laws all right, let them do it. If the laws don I ! fit the conditions we are ready to howl oul heads off, but it is a rare instance where any concerted effort has been made before hand to cooperate with the lawmakers and departments interested in Alaska to have beneficial legislation enacted.