Show WHAt WHAT ALASKA NEEDS V J i We We arc arc told th that t Alaska Jaska will petition n for statehood state- state hood od when congress meets Ye Vc hardly think it is time time fore or statehood and and we further think that if c congress would adopt the system which was put in iu force in Louisiana after her purchase and ands cont continued continued con con- t until statehood was giver given that territory it iv after aft r a little trial be perfectly satisfactory 10 to the mass mass of the people in that territory It has hasa a at government by a commission If 11 a commission could t be le authorized made up up of say a dozen first class men half from the territory and half from capable men outside and the governor be officio ex chairman irman with power to act as a legislature on all t- t ty y questions u and subject only to the approval ocon o con gr sf and an then th n have hav capable courts to administer i thc ti la laws s about all ll Alaska's political w wants would I SJ t fr I I S I P 1 d 0 2 J j i l Jh thi t la k i laska ii r t J 1 h r. r tJ t- t J r L. L f c I So t 11 1 5 J a- a has l La as become a vital sital factor in our country I. I-I. Hr l' l gold her fish tish her hel coal her copper copier make mak her of real reLI to the whole country Since 1898 twelve t tw years ago when the gov government a asay say of- of lite ike was established at Seattle more thau tha w worth rth of Alaska gold w been purchased pl cha ed b bv that office c alone During ti the te e present year yea tiC tiC- acc ac- ac c c to lo the Post Post I. I 39 I IJ J 1 it has buen b tn purchased there I front from the t lC Alaska gold fields fhI s At the s same time timo perhaps as much more h has ha's s been sent to San Francisco It II It may maj he bo asked w why a part pari of ion should should-be be 10 made macIc up of nien men from other r states Io rOl the tho simple reason that a narrow provincialism per pcr vades the eastern states and nothing seems to assimilate assimilate as as- with it so o readily as a nasty su suspicion against both hoth the intelligence and integrity of the wert wt laska Alaska wants to be be- u untrammeled When I makes a just demand there is s sonic ine one to cry cry out ont She She wants to to appropriate an inheritance to us all RH If oil on the t ho he commission are arc archd half hlf a dozen men with whom the tIle east is familiar familia it will Avill be listened to So soon as possible her coal measures should be berf released leased rf Coal is now being eing imported to our west coast from across the Pacific nd it should stop should sell out ut the 1 As s soon as possible congress reservations up up there and it never will on oil the petitions pe petitions petItions pe of the west ivest alone The government Of f the territory should be re reduced re- re diced to a business basis in the hands of ment men t whom the authorities in W Washington a ahin hington will listen to |