The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-30
"MOre Capital and Less Politics"
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 Governor told that capital is interested and is coming provided that its coming welcomed in the spirit in which it Big money will not go where it cannot be treated fairly reap fair upon the money invested for capital does not have to go where it is not wanted force itself in anywhere. No man in town had he big money would invest that money where he not of fair returns fair treatment, does everyman treat his money when he has it. From the penny-a- liners and demagogues of Alaska have every form of expressed Encouragement for capital which might have and developed here, and too many of the non-thinking people have fallen for that kind of talk and misrepresentation, and of Alaska must get the habit of believing that every moneyed man moneyed interest which comes here has dark and hidden for visiting country. The wolf-cry of "Guggenheim," which rings throughout Alaska every time some Demagegue wants job, has done to keep capital out of Alaska than any other thing-it the warn ing that capital not wanted here. Yet 1t is notable fact that wherever in Alaska the Guggen- heime have invested their money, there are railroads camps of the demagogus thus crying Wolf there is increasing stagnation to the point where the demagogues do not care to take a chance of making a living We must encourage capital, rather than discourage it. if would surrounding terri tory progress and prosper
 Judge Bunnel in his recent hike country, discovered Empre-in the Bethel region. It seems possible to him that it is the oil-sink of In- teror Alaska and possible that the much advertised Fort Norman fields which almost inaccessible may be no greater containers of oil than the embryo
 
 accessible it will take capital put in machinery to prospect it, and to develop 1t afterwards if it is as it looks there Interior Alaska will blossom the rose-when capital The excitement of Texas and Oklahoma will be with Interior Alaska, and then if indications proven to be correct
 Here need the prospectors but have made and making 1t undesirable field for their en- deavorl They longer feel at home here, and they no longer receive encouragement Only the farmer progressing and the farming industry developing the farmer needs and receives beyond what he creates and with his own eyes as the result of his long experience his hard work.
 For the past year the visitor to our town and camp would take it that principal resource thoughts hopes desires politics-that nothing else matters to us. For year nothing constructive (save the flour mi) has been talked here-only de- sructye political propaganda has been issued Thou sands and thousands of dollars have been spent of the peoples money for political here as if their only financial hope for the future depended upon the success of certain men in politics The result is all the result there coud bethe appoint ment Of three to office here; and three men would have been appointed to office here had our town and camp ignored the fact that the three ofi- existed. And. it is not apparent that even the three men appointed gathers by their victory certainly their personal winnings will offset the camps losses
 More Capital and Less Politics" That's our slogan