The Seward gateway., 1922-04-11

of the people, above ninetyseven per
 cent of the total remaining resources
 it's own excesses, the bureaucracy ha-
 bitually spreads false and misleading
 reports among the people of the out
 side world, particularly as to the de-
 plorable condition to which its malad-
 ministration has reduced the people of this land. To support and give plausi-
 bility to the false impressions 1t has habitually sought to create abroad, it
 has ostentatiously caused to be erect
 ed an Alaskan Legislative Assembly,
 but by hidden subterfuge deprived such
 Assembly of rightful authority; and 1t
 has habitually practiced other dissim-
 ulations and false pretenses inimical
 to the peace, happiness and general
 welfare of the people of Alaska. To
 further it's sinister purposes it has
 erected multitude of new offices, and
 sent hither swarms of officers to ha-
 rass our people and eat out their sub- stance. It has kept among us, in times | of peace, bands of armed soldiery to
 menace our people, and who wantonly destroy the game resources necessary to the well being of our population, Such of our aquatic resources as 1t | has not seized for it's own use to the dotrimert of our people, it has farmed out to foreign exploiters who annually invade our shores, and who have de- pieted our fisheries and enriched them serves by more than a half thousand million dollars without compensation to Alaska, and whose depredations threaten the extinction of our most es- sential food supply. It has caused to be passed cunningly-devised laws os- i tensibly restoring to us fraction oi our natural rights, but designed only to create new offices, and framed to be 5elf-nullifying in all other regards. De spite the fact that all of our public lands and natural resources save only
 scant three per cent of the total have been appropriated by the bureaucratic l despotism acting in the name and with the consent of the United States gov ernment, our people are taxed without | their consent and almost beyond theii capacity to pay even when practicing
 the most painful personal privations and economies The inevitable result
 the despotism itself, will be the anni- hilation of all private titles to prop erty, and the enforced repatriation of
 all men opposed to tyranny. The Uni
 ted States government having appoint ed the agents and instrumentalities | through which the natural rights of
 the Alaskan people were destroyed,
 and having assented to the enthrone-
 ment of bureaucratic despotism in
 Alaska, therefore, by the immutab.e
 rule of natural justice, we can demand our independence, and the American people will see that we get it despite
 the protests of all the carrion- hunting harpies who make up the thirty eight governments beneath whose weight Alaska lies prostrate today
 It would be possible to amuse you | and possibly interest you. with a dis cussion of bureaucratic rules and regu- lations and practices, but other mat ters are more pressing. Besides, should outline in general the unspeakably
 silly and nonsensical and childish reg ulations and practices you would not
 believe me. In addition to being unpar- alleled in history for intricacy, con- plexity, contradiction and confusion, our Alaskan bureaucratic government
 is unmatchable in disorder by any code
 of procedure recorded in human an- nals since the Ape-man overran the
 rocks and mussed up the sun-dried
 mud records of the Cave-men in the
 early pleistocene or whenever it was,
 if it was at all. Should read public
 statutes of the United States, decisions
 of Fedeal Courts, Presidential Exec
 utive orders, and the printed official
 rules of the many bureaus functioning
 in Alaska, in order to prove my expo
 sition, it would be equally useless. You
 would instantly decide that either I
 was faking, o had mixed my notes
 and was now reading from the jumbled mixture of the Cave-men. Moreover,
 it is unsafe to follow this subject too
 far, as there are instances of record
 where attempts to master it have in-
 juriously affected citizens sanity.
 But to give the devil his due-in using this sfmile in connection with bureau
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