The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-18
Heading North.
Dawson News.)


 With the close of the war and the advent of the New Year come many tidings from the boundess out side that people from every quarter will be starting soon for the Northland.
 An exodus took place last fall The retleX acton is about to begin.
 As was predicted by many cool-headed observers a great number of those wlo went out have found the conditions in other countries anything but to their liking.
 Conditions in the land of dense population and close competitor do appeal to the man accustomed to this norhland realm of freedom and opportunity. The conventionalities and the self-submersion to which must submit in going into old communities robs of initiative and of hope
 In a virgin empire, such Yukon and Alaska, every man has a chance He who is poor today may be wealthy tomorrow. The wheel of chance here turns constantly, and the winning numbers many and not alone to those who boast of pull influence fla with the gods. Dynamic manhood is not stifed, or thwarted, while ancestry, blue blood and pedi- grees prerequisite to Merit counts.
 Outside it is different. Those without fortune or influential friends find themselves at the bottom of mighty of selfish and grasping humanity.
 Many who left here last fall found that in order merely exist they had poke their necks in the collar from sunrise to sunset and toll for the little masters with margin for a pinch for the rainy day. The promise of fat pokes from service in ship yards and construction works proved grand illus Now those who were stung are writing back Let ters coming by every mail in which former Yu- koners applying for work with the operators of this region stating that they coming back to the land of the tch-string and the open door They have found they did not fit in. Even where they did get toe-hod in works, those works being closed down by cancellation of war contracts The mushroom industries bursting daily The situation outside already is aggravated, and it will be all the more aggravated. When the several mil
 lion soldiers who crossed from this continent get back they will affect the situation in way known heretofore. In addition there will come other ad- venturcsome spirits who quit the shop and the coun- ter in Europe, and determined to follow up the outdoor life Labor markets will be flooded. The country will be taxed to its preserve order prcs of commodities and to satisfy those who produce. Australia dumps her long bockaded crops on the markets of Europe, and this continent all at once, there is telling how much dscouragement will invade the ranks of producers of the midands this continent.
 But no such Encouragement is possible in the land of gold The yellow metal will increase in demand When other commodities cheap it will be at a premium
 It is inevitable that the world eventually will as sume an even keel but whether there be hard times or good the land of gold is the land of safety and not only will the Yukon sourdoughs come back but others will come with them. Gold is of the big things that allures them Once here they will de- veop other properties also, and when the normal world conditions assumed the North will be big and steady source of supply.