Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-17
A STRANGE SITUATION, VISITING CONGRESSMEN!
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 of the Government agents in charge.
 There are 5,OOOOOO acres of fertile agricultural lands in the Kenai Peninsula, the Susitna and the Mata nuska valleys and in the Tanana valley, where for A years crops of wheat rye and barley of hardy va eties have yielded averages above 20 bushels year. with never single failure.
 Can you beat that in California, or loaho or Ohlo, or Nebraska?
 See for yourselves the magnificent grass lands and the rpenng grains in the Interior See for yourselves the hundreds of fine gardens Tn Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla Talkeetna Nenana, Fairbanks and all other nlaces in Alaska growing every variety of vegetables that are produced in Idaho Nebraska Kansas Ohio
 If you please go to Sunrise 70 miles north of Sew ard and there for yourselves apple trees bearing as abundanty of the best grades and flavor of apples as you can find in any State in the United States.
 Resources? God in all His bounteous mercy never provided such abundance as you see 1ght under your eyes, here in Alaska.
 Wiv are they not being developed? Why? Why?
 Committee of United States Senators visited AL aska last summer They came to Seward. Ihey tray eed over the Alaska Railroad Some important facts then presented to them suppressed Senator How ell of Nebraska, chairman of that committee can tell you why they suppressed 1t IS important to know the real reason Some people in these parts have been driven to the belief that he influenced by the same secret powers that preventing developments in the field of the Alaska Railroad Is Senator Howell apol ogst and defender of former Secretary ot the nteor Albert B. Fall?
 This same Albert B. Fall, of $100,000 fame can tell you if he will who are the very influences that have prevented and preventing developments Tn the 1led of the Alaska Railroad He is the official who stopped Naval Coal developments in the Matanuska district who stopped timber developments who stopped all other de- velOpmens.
 Why did he do it? The policies he initiated here are still in full force and operation. Why? Why?
 Go to the bottom of those facts, visiting Congress- men, and you will be able to submit report to your colleagues in the House of Representatives which will throw an Illuminating flood of light the Alaska sit uaton
 If you will do this, gentlemen, you will render patriotic service to the American people such as no other Committee from either branch of Congress has ever eoualed in lasting and far reaching benefits concerning any Territory west of the Mississippi river
 Alaska has resources in abundance to support 2O, 100000 or of American citizens in comfort and m high degree of cvilzaon surely the correspond ing areas in northwestern Europe support 25OOOOO ot the hardest and best types of men and women m all the families of the human race.
 The resources and the favorable climate are here All that Alaska and the Alaska Railroad need are ln- telgent understanding by the rest of fellow Amer jeans and honesty in dealings with Alaska and the AL aska Railroad by officials in high places.
 It is within your official province to help the good work along It is within your keeping to tell the Amer ican people some wholesome truths from public ros trum that will carry your words for all to hear. to compel the application of the elementary principles of common honesty and of business ability which alone are requisite to make the Alaska Railroad an agency of great service for which Congress intended it, f nancially profitable in itse and Nationally helpful and creditabe to all the American people.