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Show THE ABUSE OF ALASKA. Mr. Gifford Pinchot may possibly believe that he Is an honest, country loving citizen. Our own belief is that he is an enemy of his race. The men who built the Grand Trunk road through to Prince Rupert had nothing but some physical and engineering work to do. The Can-i Can-i ' adian government guaranteed the interest on their bonds, gave them free use of all the material mate-rial along their line to help construct the road, 2 and the fuel to burn under their locomotives. .' When completed it knighted the projectors and I builders. The road opened the great wheat fields of western Canada and all the west coast j of the British possessions is booming. An American company went to Alaska, bought ." some inaccessible mines in the usual way and began the building of a railroad to connect the mines with deep water navigation. Then the cry was raised that this company wanted to es- - tablish a great monopoly. Through Mr. Pinchot it was tied up. It had ' to import its ties from the state of Washington. Though inexhaustible coal measures were near, it was forced to import the coal burned by the locomotives from British Columbia or China. Every possible obstruction was heaped in . its path and "quite 5000 men who would have been receiving good wages during the past six - k. 1 lc. i. : r - .. I yctun nave uceu ici i ij nuiii iui iiicmscivea, ami all business in that region has been sorely crippled. crip-pled. The steamers that visit Alaska have to carry coal enough for the round trip or import it from foreign countries. The naval vessels of the United States obtain their coal from Japan, China or have it sent to them around the horn. And all this is because of the conservation fad which Blr. Pinchot revived threescore years & after it had been tried and found so utterly un-I un-I just and unprofitable that it was repudiated by congress without one dissenting vote. The Republican party deserved defeat last November for its treatment of Alaska. The Democratic party will deserve the same fate unless it arouses itself and compels justice in that distracted country. Alaska owes nothing ; to the United States because of what the country coun-try has done for it It returned the purchase money by its seals. It has returned it over and over through its gold. The British government has placed lights on every headland of the Bris-ish Bris-ish Columbia coast The presence of them on the Alaska coast is an exception. Great Britain treats her colored men in the heart of central Africa better than the American government treats the brave men who have gone up there under the arctic circle to release a frozen land from barbarism. The provincials of the east would open the California valleys to the Japanese; but if some brave men go up and locate a coal mine close to Bering sea and try to utilize it, there is at once K a cry from the east: "Don't do that; we are part owners in that coal measure." Meanwhile the United State has the coal for her cheap navy in the Pacific sent around the horn. By the way, there is a belief on this coast that Mr. Pinchot is a larg owner in a great eastern coal . company. This treatment of Alaska has been a disgrace dis-grace to our government since the first year that Mr. Pinchot was made chief forester, c. |