Show TRY A COMMISSION Congress has been backing filling and shuffling over o Alaska for years keeping the people there in inconstant inconstant inconstant constant doubt of what is being done and constant apprehension of what is liable to be done clone When Louisiana was purchased there was grave doubt in the mind of President J Jefferson ef erson and the wisest congressmen as t to what kind of a government government government gov gov- should be established there At last It t was Jas determined to tr try a government by a commission commission commis commis- sion it to handle atta affairs t there Iere and to report its work regularly to congress It was a i perfect success success suc sue cess and was continued until the territory was admitted admitted ad ad- mitte l into the union What more sensible course could be pres prescribed for Alaska 1 A commission made up of emi eminent ent business men third one of whom should be residents of Alaska the governor the chairman and the body given legislative ve and executive powers and subject only to congress Tr Try that and then l let t A Alaska aska alon alone |