Show I AL ALASKA AND HER W WRONGS Mr rr Seward purchased Alaska for 72 7 It has alwa always s 's been been- understood that the was in payment for the coal burned burne by the Russian fleets that swung swung- into New York and San SaD Fraucis Francis Francisco Fran Fran- cis cisco ciso o o harb harbors rs when France and Great Britain were ere socking r excuses for interposing in favor of oE the southern confederacy The most of the people of of ort the e United States Stat s thought that Secretary Seward Seward Sew Sew- ar ard had purchased merely a polar bear pasture not worth 30 cents anti and would have ha been glad to see sec it sol sold at cost or 01 at a discount under the cost But Senator Miller of or California headed a company which bought the right to catch the Alaska seals eals paying a percentage upon every seal caught In Iii that U way vay the government in a brief time got goti back the time entire purchase mOll money cr Then the government in another brief time got back haek its money noney again out of or the thc fish fishon on the time coast I Again in u-i mother another brief brief time the gold from Alaska supplied to the nation twenty times the amount of gold goll paid for the country Again when hen the reports reached Washington of vast bodies of cedar timber growing in Alaska the government promptly st stretched c a ii reservation around it ii In the meantime the government would not furnish one half the needed lights to protect the thc navigation of that coast It has been the thc work of th the mc men 1 of Alaska that I Jt has lias s' s got back to the government over and over what was paid for that tha it is their heir work that i las made made- ot priceless y value lue what through all the rolling oiling ages arres 0 w was vs s worthless In Inthe time the meantime in return the government has interfered with them has n never ver cx- cx to them what wa r freely granted grant to ever every other ther territory and during the past four cars has treat d them thou as ns though thc they were grafters graft graft- ers nn and swindlers or the people of a dependency I Government ownership of bf the public do- do domain main nain from the first has been held in trust for forthe the people plc n no not t as a whole but to that portion of the he people ho who would go upon that domain in settle upon it and upon such fair conditions as the got gov eminent might pre prescribe m make l e homes home there In that that thata way all the fair lauds of the time gr tc m ral val- val vallo lo loys s 's were absorbed at per pel acre acre- and for that price perfect titles given them The coal and zinc zine and iro iron l and copper were likewise sold rOl foi a trifle and anti perfect titles given And Amid because use of that rule and that policy the world worl l awoke one one- morning to find ind that th the Unit United d States was a power invincible i iii l ight unapproachable in majesty After Aftel th that t. t history wh why docs Toes not congress move at it once and stop the persecutions which are being heing leaped heaped upon the thc men who bo against all kinds of hardships hardships hard hard- ships and and against a dozen forms form of injustice have m tle Alaska what it is and have never asked au anything any ally thing except that they might be he permitted to do 10 10 what all aJI Americans from the first have done as a matter of course and have had th the unquestioned d right right- ht t to do ao |