The Alaska daily empire., 1922-07-11
STRIKING AT THE ROOT OF THINGS.

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 Governor Bone made suggestions in hi article in The Elks Magazine for July that arr worthy of consideration, because they srik the root of things Discussing the ills of Alaska h. declares that the task of applying remedies is one fo Uncle Sam, and he proceeds
 How is Uncle Sam to do it? Ky opening
 Alaska to settlement; by inviting peop.e to
 come in and making it easy for them to gain
 foothold, by unlocking its resources and
 freeing the Territory from red-tape rule; by unreservng millions of of forest
 lands senselessy rcserved BY SILENCING
 AND SHUNTING ASIDE THE VISIONARIES
 AND THEORISTS WHO SUCCEEDED IN
 BOTTLING UP ALASKA AND WHOSE
 IDEAS HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY TRIED
 AND CLEARLY FOUND WANTING BY
 PROCEEDING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
 OF ALASKA AS BIG BUSINESS PROP OSITION BY DISMISSING THE FOOLISH
 PEDAGOGICAL FEAR THAT ANY SO
 CALLED PREDATORY INTERESTS EVER
 CAN OR EVER WILL GOBBLE UP so
 HUGE A LAND AS ALASKA OR A MATER
 IAL SECTION THEREOF, AND, FINALLY,
 BY HARDLY REALIZING THAT ALASKA
 UNFETTERED AND GIVEN AN HONEST CHANGE, WILL. POPULATE ITSELF AND
 GO AHEAD and wax opulent and develop
 grandly and gloriousy, just the Western
 domain of the Union, in spite of Daniel
 Webster's obscure vision and dark forebod-
 ing, progressed and prospered and grew into
 States and added bright Stars to Old Glory.
 Then, and not until then, will Alaska be- come known to the world and the truths | about Alaska prevail undisputed and
 dure for all time.
 Particular attention is called to the capitalize portion of this excerpt It is based upon truths tha are fundamental It could be wished that the Cover nor had followed with logical declaration il favor of a full Territorial Government government by the people most concerned and bes informed those who live in the Territory. However they furnish argument that forms obvou hass for nd tho citu thoroughly understood the self government remed will suggest itself
 The tying up of Alaska, the removal of the oppor tunties that were available before the reservation and the application of bureaucracy. the departur from the principles and policies that applied t other American frontiers. have cost Alaska-and tn country-dearly. They have precluded the proba bility of the development in Alaska of Jim Hill Collis Huntington, Cecil Rhodes-empire builders all of them. It curtailed the activities and all bu drove out of Alaska the strongest combination o capital that organized to develop the Terri tory. And the tragedy of it is that have writer like Charles Bryant Powers, writing in Hearst International Magazine and Willis Mason West, f his History of the American People," text bool by the way. in the Alaska public schools who clair that this havoc done in the of hones government, for the purpose of preventing the rche of the Territory from falling into the hands of COT rupt capitalists!
 Through fear of brow beating "Nisonaries an theorists" the Federal Government yielded to tn demagogcal contention that so-called predatory in terests would gobbe up Alaska, and it shut of op portunities for development in many lines that dozen precious years were lost and then when the sources were restored for development purposes 8 many strings tied about them that the averag man with money hestates before tking chance. As long people have self government, ther need be fear of encroachments by capital on tn rights of the The people and do talk care of themselves It is great pity that capital di not get foothod-a strong foothold-in Alaska six teen years ago when the Guggenhems an others were ready to develop Boring River coal. Ka talla oil and rail transportation The that eapse have been wasted and the terms and red tape tha have been hung on the country have made it all bu impossible for small companies to enter into the of these and develop them such exten that they would appeal to larger aggregatons in tn manner that other frontiers have been developed satisfactorily