Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-14
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 The Anchorage Tmes by what was assuredly an in- advertence chose most appropriate heading for it's e tora opposition to the Gateways stand Bureaucracy and it's attendant evils The Times calls it Barking in the Manger Of course the Times was too gallant to pre- face the abridged phrase with the term Dog" so will supply it. And by the token will agree with the Times that there has been barking in the manger with the reservation that it not the Gateway but the Federal government that has been the specific canine domced in AaskaS manager Of natural resources and emitting the grows since the day loaded the Territory with Pnchot ism and it's attendant burdens In the sme drawn by the Tmes 1t hit the nail squarey the head It is to voice the protest of the people Of at least this portion of Alaska against continuation of the condition that the Gateway braved the ire of the bureaus and took up the cudge
 The Times appears to consider Pnchotism an abstract question: or is it academic? question never becomes either abstract academic until proven dsproven in all of it's ramcatons If the proof which every Alas kan has hand showing the blight the theoretical depar tre from sound economic principles has brought to Alas ka Is to be scrapped after 20 years of demonstration of untness for progress then might become abstract or academic under the heading that the King do no wrong"
 The Times expresses the belief that the Gateway should have voiced it's sentiments at the inception of Pin chcsm. Reference to the back files of ths of the oldest newspapers the Territory shows that has receded from it's position of condemnng bureaucratic encroachment from the day the Cunningham coal claims cancelled
 eternal vigilance is the price of liberty in this nation of ours, simply giving evidence of adherence to the mehonored cauton by refusing to surrender that favor may be gained from the bureaus
 In this position do not stand aone for the entire West of the United States is up in against what has approached to free American institutions and prerogatves We rather aer ourselves that we are in such good mental company.
 As pointed out before the entire situation resolves it. self into where restrictions rules and regulations and interference in private business has prevented the rank and file of small capitalists from participating conserved natural under exceptional conditions like railroad coal contracts The politicians have not learned after 20 years of experiment that the plan will not work thing known to all of business and economic training applied to Alaska The rules and regulations complained o are not of ancient datethey of today and will con-
 ue until the Federal government gracefully yields to the voice of the people and right the wrong It is never too late to see and atone.
 The Times appears apprehensive lest antagonism to the bureaus may halt activities the part of the govern ment and retard development Is the Times prepared to offer evidence to support the contention that progress better under government ownership and operation than it was or will be under system where every in Alaska had an equal chance Has there been "Kennecott de- veoped out of conserved natural resource? Has there been Kaala developed in consrved oil fields? Can tI pomt to the Alaska Railroad and overlook the pioneer en- terprse that crushed by the conservation policy in the coal fields? And set opposite the results achiev ed by private capital such ascos Eka and Chickaoon where the Federal government wasted more than million dollars trying to show hardheaded coal miners how to scientifically mine coal only to have such coal miner- not engineer in the employ of bureau-develop the first commercial coal mine in the Eska field
 Will the Times attempt to shift the dog in the manger| sme to the Gateway in the face of the statement of Dr. H. Foster Ba chief of the Bureau of Mnes made before the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce that there wasl neither quality nor quantity of coal in the Matanuska