New Britain herald., 1923-08-31
WALLACE DETAILS
PLANS FOR ALASKA
Resources Available for Develop.
ment, He Says

Washington, Aug. 31.-The policy
of the Coolidge administration in the
handling of Alaska, it's resources and
development was explained in a
statement made by Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wallace in which he said
that President Harding in his trip to
the territory found justification for
continuing the policy of conservation.
Secretary Wallace fought in the
cabinet to prevent loosening the leg
islative and administrative barriers
against exploitation of Alaskan re-
sources. Every reasonable opportu-
nifty, Secretary Wallace said, now was
offered for development. He added
theer was no justification whatever
for the assertion that the govern
ment's policy was keeping the terri
tory under lock and key.
Tn outlining the, policy for the flu
ture .the quoted President Hardings
speech at Seattle, his last public ut
terance, which Secretary Wallace
predicts will go down in history as
Mr.. Harding's most statesmanlike ut
terance. On that occasion President
Harding said: ~
THE processes of development and
establishment of permanent and
ample civilization lie in the citizen
ship with homes in Alaska, not in in
Yestors who are seeking Alaskan
wealth to enrich homes elsewhere"
Secretary Wallace said: AT once,
and it is to be hoped for all time.
President Harding quashed the in
dictment that the natural resources
of Alaska are under lock and key
He found that the Withholding of
coal and oil deposits from exploita-
ton is all water that has passed over
the dam; that the present federal
laws for developing these resources
now, give every reasonable opportu-
nifty to capital and business foresight
to develop them as rapidly as the
markets of the territory and of the
world can use them. In the long
and imposing array of Alaskan re-
sources the president found not one
which is not freely available to men
of energy and capital for CONNER
cial use and development.
petroleum and water power de-
velopments are also going forward
under the federal laws which are
parts of the general conservation
program. AS in the. case of Alaskan
coal fields and the Alaskan timber,
the extent of commercial develop
ment is in no wise limited by fed |
eral laws or restrictions, hut gov
erned solely by tho hard facts of
geography and trade.
Conservatism Aids Industries.
",rhe fact is that those industries |
i'm Alaska which have had the bene-
fit of conservation policies, and upon
which the Alaska of the future VIII
be built, while those industries which
have been thrown open to exploita-
ton are the vanishing Industries,
the looting of which has enriched
not the people of Alaska, but outside
exploiters, who took their money
away with them.
'rrhe conclusions reached by Pres
fdent Harding are the conclusions
reached by every man who studies
Alaska with an open mind. They
are the conclusions reached by
Alaskans themselves.
"As President Harding said, i
Alaska is destined to become one of
the bright stars in the union OF
states. The rapidity of her develop
ment will be governed by economic
She is now growing,
slowly but surely, in those directions
which make for sound, intelligent
and enduring population. II