The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-10-27

askans to his procedure. He seeks to dis credit these protests by saying that they arise from the well-known mercenary pro- clivities of all Alaskans. "The people of Alaska a1e from first to last, diligent ex- ploiters of the natural resources of Alas ka," says this hobby blinded protectionist, and the majority of the white population look forward to getting out of that terri tory to spend the remainder of their lives elsewhere"
 In other words all of us are here to gut the country; to rob it of its means of 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 much wealth as we can use, we will pull up our stakes and move to places that are inhabit- ed with such persons as the doctor appears to be, harh punishment for even renegade Alaskans.
 Twenty years ago, or even ten years ago, there might have been modicum in the assertion of Dr. Hornaday. And today there are some persons who are here to get rick quick-how they are going to do it even the doctor couldn't say-there are people in Alaska today who possibly have no idea of remaining here permanently, a 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 it Alaska is HOME. To it the Alaska of the future is something greater and more useful to the nation than merely a preserve for wild game. It knows and loves the North and plans for the com- ing of day when, despite the hindrances that have been erected in its path, the ob- stacles that ignorant outsiders have creat- ed by senseless and futile legislation, it will have developed the country to such an ex- 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, ''In times like the present the truth may better be told bluntly than in any roundabout way''-when he asserts that Alaskans are premeditatedly and sys~ tematically robbing the country in order that they may acquire sufficient funds to live elsewhere, he is either totally ignor- ant of Alaskan ideals or he is deliberately falsifying.
 The opinion of the doctor is of itself not of sufficient importance to justify the publicity which is being given it but when he and his associates attempt to have it foisted on the North in the shape of legisla- tion enacted by the national congress it is time to give it notice. The doctor gives due warning that he is working for new game laws for Alaska.
 In the article appearing in yesterdays Citizen he outlines that law, And he specifically states, "No; we cannot agree to any sale of game ANYWHERE" And he proceeds to set forth legislative pro- gram that would make criminals instead of conserve game. If that program is to be defeated it is up to Alaskans to get busy. Already the forces of so-called conservation are busy. Other conservationists of bygone 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 intelligently for those of the future. And if the doctor is as successful in his present attempt as were the so-called conservationists of 1906 and 1910 when the coal and oil resources of AL aska were rendered useless, it will result in the further depopulation of the North Consider the situation as if exists in