The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-22

Hornaday rescntS the protests made by Al askans to his procedure. He seeks to dis credit these protests by saying that the, ianSe from the well-known merccnarv pro chvities of all Alaskans. "Thc people O Alaska are, from first to last, diHgcnt cx ploiters of the natural resources of Alas ka, says this hobby blinded protcctionst and the majority of the white bopul3tpol look forward to getting out of that terri tory to spend the remainder of their live, elsewhere"
 In other words all of Us are here t, gut the country; to rob 1t of its means ot future greatness in order that we of the present generation may receive the i'm mediate benefits. And when we have com pleted the despoilation, or got as muc wealth as we can use, we will pull up ou stakes and move to places that are inhabit ed with such persons as the doctor appear, to be, a harh punishment for even renegade Alaskans.
 Twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, there might have been a modicm il the assertion of Dr. Hornaday. And today rick quick-hOW they are going to do ii even the doctor couldn't say-thcrc arc people in Alaska today who possibly have no idea of remaining here permanently, { few of us build apartment houses in Ia coma, but by far the biggest portion of the white population of Alaska has settled down for life To 1t Alaska is HOME TC 1t the Alaska of the future is something greater and more useful to the nation thal merely preserve for wild game It knows and loves the North and plans for the com ing of a day when, despite the hindrancc> that have been erected in it's path, the ob Stacles that ignorant outsiders have crcat ed by senselesS and futile legislation, 1t vii have developed the country to such an cX tent that Alaska can stand on its own bot tom and have the same disregard for the opinions of Dr. Hornaday and his kind that Dr. Hornaday now has for the views of Alaskans. And to use the words of the doctor, "1n times like the present the truth may better be told bluntly than il any roundabout way''-when he asserts that Alaskans are premeditatedly and sys dramatically robbing the country in orde1 that they may acquire sufficient funds tC live elsewhere, he is either totally ignor ant of Alaskan ideals or he is deliberately falsifying.
 The opinion of the doctor is of itscl- not of sufficient importance to justify the |publicity which is being given it but Whel he and his associates attempt to have i foisted on the North in the shape of Iegisla | tion enacted by the national congress ii is ! time to give 1t notice. The doctor gives duo warning that he is working for new gamC laws for Alaska.
 In the article appearing in yesterday Citizen he outlines that law And Inc Specifically states, No; we cannot agree to any sale of game ANYWHERE" AnC he proceeds to set forth a legislative pro gram that would make criminals instead o1 conserve game. If that program is to bt defeated 1t is up to Alaskans to get busy Already the forces of sO-called conservation are busy. Other cOnservatiOnistS of bvgonC days have so successfully locked up the riches of Alaska that today it is practically Impossible to do more than exist There iS no chance for that development necessary for prosperity either present or future. We can neither supply the wants of the pres ent generation nor plan inteligently fol those of the future. And if the doctor i> as successful in his present attempt as were the so-called conservationists of 1906 anC 1910 when the coal and oil resources of AL