Show RAILROADS rt 2 AND Mm MISUSED ALASKA LASKA I The San Francisco Chronicle discusses Alaska and nd I q begins in b by declaring that th the government of the United States under the inspiration of muck- muck 4 has about don done i Alaska up 4 I f That is true Irue Noting that the last jat proposition 1 t MS to I ask k congress SS to build uil a a. government t. t d l lm m hat country the Chronicle thinks that should congress dues f ilo do k such a thing the first b si e s would Y tJ jUte tV order a survey r and iu in the end cud the report port M r Il b that nothing along along the tho lil line of f the prok pro- pro k J rj Pe road o q would ro justify 9 building Jt it t That Tb-it too 1 It t ue l and it adds truly that If the t tf f q j jeen een l let et alone IonE Alaska a b be lie b booming o ni g I J. J w anc whether the main mam speculators gained gamed or orby by their sir s speculation e ula ti n everybody e e in Alaska la Im rJ K ha have hate been beCu making a lot of monc money and the thc i resources of Al Alaska ka would be getting conserved c I Y J ot the thc benefit of the present g generation n l' l r T That it is the J exact truth It It- Itis is said that since Pr Taft returned from his great swing r f around the circle he lie has expressed great doubt douht l bi his succeeding himself or about any li licau lian an succeeding him If that proves pios to be i 1 h case ease it will ill ill be bo due clue to three C causes One uc is neither he nor any of his near advisers nUl dr any Republican in congress s has seemed to grasp the fact that the first e essential of the thc government is to so change the financial system em of the country as u to tp give the p people a e chance to to u the he 1 1 l. l need d' d enterprises n t at nt remain cri crippled or moribund Tho The se second on has been tho the assaults upon great enterprises made through the endless meanness mean mean- ues ness s and anti red tape of tho prosecuting g officers of the go government ent The third is the conservation fad fact of ofa a conclave of ofle learned cd mf men who have no practical l seu sense c and and not common honesty enough to hurt them which ch proposes in some sOnic theoretic way by paralyzing zing the tho men leon of r this generation by some seIne hocus b such as asnien men who want something for foi notI g 1 can n always figure out ou to mako Illk ko the next generation rich In the pursuit of this all aU common sense and althe al all all th the e equities have apparently been set set aside until men by tens of thousands in the west vest have hac become incensed beyond bc ond In the course coure of tho the Chr Chronicle niclo article artic e it declares de de- do- do clares dares that Except for 1 military purposes purposes- such as caused aused the building of ot Hie trans-Siberian trans road when it was built built i if a r railroad will not pitY pay il it ought not to be he built huilt wj- wj Who Vho is to ju judge ge whether a road will pay or oi 1 not if it built After Aftel the old C Central Pa Pacific c com company m p pany had hac completed the r road d from S t to Promontory it pursued railroad o d building on that tha plan Where no subsidy wa was Vas involved its question question ques ques- tion va al always s 's was when then a proposition was ma made le to it t to 1 a branch road What resources are there along the line of the proposed branch branchI and at the further terminus 1 I It ran the old ole Central Pacific treating the country through which it ran as as- worthless until at l last st it c consisted sited of little more than a streak of rusty steel and a a. a right o of way y TI They e were ere men o ostrong of strong b business sense who and controlled that road they had the cold mathematics of business in their minds mind always hv s 's but they u utterly terly lack laek lacked d business inspiration Thi This was clear to some of f us for many years It was made cle clear r to to the tho y world orld by tho the first five years of l Mr r. r Harri ris work J I ITe e caught the inspiration almost at a a glance c ah and transformed things The Chronicle should amend amend its sentence and make it read that no men men should be permitted permit permit- ted to build a a- railroad unless they believe it will pay |