Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01
A INSTANTANEOUS SOVEREIGN

A MAGNANAMOUs SOVEREIGN
 If native-born American proposed the Fourth of July that stand the steps of the Capitol build ing Washington and sing God Save the King they'd parcel his hide souvenirs of occasion for defending the Hand of the free and the home of the brave"
 Yet if the person happened to be Alaskan the sug geston would be emneny proper. Not that he had in mind George w. King defender of the faith etc. or any other European monarch but the monarch of the United States plus his tyseven varieties of bureaus his ad visers and counsellors.
 The Alaskan would be just as much in "good form' as would any Engshman within the British Dominions, for he s along with the Fpinos Porto Ricans, Virgin Islanders, Hawaiians and residents of Guam and other American dependencies much subject as any man doing homage to king. The proof:
 EXECUTIVE
 of Secretary Alaska Railroad employees the rail permanently hereby permitted to become candidates for municipal office therein
 
 
 positions the CALVIN COOLIDGE
 The House, p,
 Here we have the interesting circumstance of more than thousand aborers mechanics, clerks etc., duced to the level of the subjects of any ordinary archy simply because they employed by Federal bu reau and employing the largest number of men in the Territory; whose earnings have gone to build up the towns along the ralrOad whose surplus sustas one Of the largest banks in the Railroad Bet who have invested mines and other ventures yet must have special per- mission from the President of the United States mendaton of the general manager of The Alaska Railroad before they may sit city council and there have voice in the government of the cities of their homes And this dispensaton only does not interfere with their abors
 As these employees are not political pap-suckers, but are the backbone and new of the business and social life of the Railroad Belt holding their positions solely through their merit workmen capable of delivering fair days pay for fair days wage the situation gains interest
 Among these felow-subjects of ours are men who breathed the hadean blasts of Chateau They and red the boodsodden banner of freedom onto German soil The fact that they felt the call of the great wide places and cast their lot with the sturdy pioneers who conquered the wilderness when only strong could survive, they automatically surrender the primary principle of free government the right to hold ofce unless under dspensa tion of the chief of bureau
 Alaska is dependency of the United States, hence it's people subject to any rule regulation law inn posed by Congress and Hnzes pickle number of bureaus operating by divine sanction hereunder and also subject to the will of the sovereign This sovereign may make ap pontments to office in Alaska from the free and independ ent people of the United States rule the subjects situate in the dependency.
 What other rights may be accorded by the Secretary of the Interior and general manager of The Alaska Rail- road to white free and independent railroad employees?
 There things than being sourdough with frozen off. Think of being millionaire tied to Sheba who refuses to be shaken.
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