The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-29
DEMAGOGUERY OF
 THE WORST KIND
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north, and bad for the United States.
 For Alaska to be a state is a propo-
 sition of doubtful merit. Speaking
 of the United States he says: Tt is
 too much to hope that the imagined
 relaxation of it's national virtues would
 effect an augmentation of it's justice
 to distant people even were they
 sheltered and protected by the bonds
 of an anomalous statehood" Guessing
 just what that sentence means should
 be a pleasant indoor sport to help
 while away the long dark nights next
 winter, and thus will Drayton do his
 share to ameliorate the nardships Ls
 life in Alaska.
 This evangel of salvation tells us
 that the government of the United
 States was party to the footing and
 cOnfiscatiOn of Alaska's treasures
 That later shamed by public senti-
 ment, it tied them up, but only for
 the purpose of deceiving the public
 so that when public conscience was lulled these treasures could be safely
 turned over to F'the oil trust, the linn
 Der trust, the coal trust, and their financial confederates fol exploita-
 tion and profit-making at the expense
 of the American people," At last this
 man Drayton stands forth in his true
 colors. He is a demagogue. He reads like an editorial in a Hearst paper The same kind of an editorial that
 lead to the assassination of the be-
 loved Mckinley, through expressing
 the mind of a weak man with
 imagined wrongs. The people of Alaska are praying night and day for
 somebody to develop the coal, oil, and
 lumber To talk of trusts holding these resources in Alaska makes one
 fear for Drayton's sanity. The lum-
 Der of Alaska is in the absolute con-
 trol of the government under it's for
 estry bureau, and anything it can d0
 to make use of the millions of feet
 that are annually going to waste will
 help the country and not hurt it a bit.
 It takes capital and lots of it to de
 velope the Alaska oil lands. We
 have the land, and we believe there
 is oil on, it, but any fair minded man will agree that Secretary Payne is doing more to develop Alaska by reasonable and generous regulations under the oil leasing law than Dray- ton is doing with his. silly yelping about trustsn% That talk will drive capital away from Alaska, and help to further depopulate the territory. That is the kind of talk that Dray- 7 ton puts up for his Canadianized Alaska, with nominal allegiance to 5 the United States. We will have to : -Iadopt flag of our own. Alaska has l suffered much from ill-advised re- . marks of those who claim to be it's friends. But Drayton, running true = to form, is the greatest of them all. l His ambition seems to acuire a ques- . tionable notoriety. His talent lies in l the fact that he reads the dictionary / assiduously, but studies Alaska condi-
 tions but superficia1ly. Don Quixote
 come to life We don't know how
 long he has been in Alaska, or in what
 parts thereof he has spent his time, i. except that at present he resides at Seward. We recommend that he trav-
 el throughout the country and find ] out about conditions at first hand. g It is true that in the olden days, \ those good old days according to J. some, those tough bad days according g to others, but be that as it may, ill q those olden days, when we were wont g before dinner to put one foot on the E. rail, one elbow on the bar, and to 9 look with a pleasing glance upon the S white coated man who served us, e while we laid an offering on the S shrine of Bacchus, enkindled by the e warmth of pleasant drink, we used to - tell our troubles to the bartender and e prove to him, that unless these of f ficeholders at Washington 5000 miles y away, stopped expressing us and t grinding us in the dust, that there ,, was nothing left for it but to revolt l. Canada did things better. We had s stood for all that we were going to t. and much like sort. But let me say S it gently, though none the less firmly. }. The average Alaskan i8 an American
 He is a citizen of the great United
 States. The privileges and duties of
 that citizenship is the most valuable v thing that he possesses. And he will fight to keep them. The old red,
 white and blue covers him in it's fold ]. just as securely as it does the man