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Show For Democratic Kickers. Hut a shoit time ago"Imperlallsm" and "expansion" agitated the minds of the. people, and the Dcmociatlc press of today fietpicntly gets In a howl about the Impropriety of our owning the Philippines, and bemoans the loss of that $20,000,000 paid to Spain. Those who arc at all familiar witli history will readily call to mind the stienuous objections to the annexation an-nexation of Texas, and how those objections ob-jections have been proved hut Ignorant vaporingsof demigogues who sought to agitate, and nothing moie. The Gadsden purchase met with the most violent opposition, and in this purchase pur-chase iis well as In the annexation of Texas the farsightedness of keen business men Is commended bevoud measuie today. And who Is there that will not iccall the terrific onslaughts on-slaughts of the opposition to the purchase pur-chase of Alaska? The battle was fought and re-fought, but finally won by the fi lends of expansion and anyone any-one knowing the value of Alaska today to-day doubts for a single minute the wisdom of the purchase. The tenitoiy of Alaska being so lar away people fail to keep In touch with Its progiess. The conveniences and climate me usually based upon In i f cl tales that have been heard fiom time to time. Alaska Is a great empire live hundred hun-dred times iis large as the state of Hliodi! Island, ueai ly as large In area as all of the states east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, and has resouices to support sup-port ten millions of people. The Yukon Yu-kon Is now believed to be the largest river in North Amei lea, being longer and laiger than the Mississippi, it being be-ing possible lo travel a distance of I two thousand miles upon it with as j much commit as upon the Hudson I liver. It Is stated that the Yukon valley is ilcher I ban the Missouri valley: val-ley: that there is more coal in Alaska than theie Is In the state of Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Gold has been the drawing caid to Alaska, and well it might be if it is tine as staled that It Is believed be-lieved theie is nunc gold there than ever was taken Irani California. Tlicie has been In opeiatiou theie for yeais I past the laigest gold stamp mill in the world, and lecently mountains of j copper have been discoveied. In llHKl the salmon catch alone In Alaska 1 amounted lo mine than Hie piucliae 1 price paid to Itussia $7,000,000. There i Is nunc cod in the Alaskan waters I than theie is on the banks of Nevv-i Nevv-i foundland;hiindieds of miles of fine timber is now untouched; and the possibilities pos-sibilities of agricultuie in that north-' north-' ern legion have not been considered at I all. Last Maich congress passed a l law wlieieby anybody can homestead lunacies of land in Alaska. The question ques-tion of agriculture In some localities 1 Is not conjectuial, for during the past fcvv.veaislhe l S. government lias i had experts who have carefully Investigated In-vestigated this proposition and they icporl that theie is at least 100,000 squaie miles susceptible toagiicultttic t'rom the lepoits of the Alaskan commissioners, there lias certainly I been many misconceptions legardiug I Alaska being a baircn waste. The j climate on the southern borders of i Alaska is similar lo that of Washing-1 Washing-1 ton, Oiegon and oven California, hav-I hav-I lug tlie benefit of t lie Japanese cur- , IMMNPMMHHWIHRHIHMHMHHMi I SINGING TIIK PltALSKS ' of our goods won't make them better, I'nloss tliey possessed unusual nieiit i we would hesitate to claim it for 1 them, 1 lhoso musical Instiuments have been selected with the greatest caie. They aie fiom factories famous for the quality of their productions. Thoioughly tested beforrbeing put mi sale. Kveu the very cheapest io i beautiful and well finished. i These figures prove tlie siiiiillness of 'our pi Ices; I Gultais s.l.ou up; mandolins n.oo flip: accordions H.M up; violins M.00 up. New best strings, violin losln, double bass rosin, etc., etc. at the very lowest prices. , We have also over 'J.OOO copies of the best sheet music tit 10c. a copy. Also 'all the latest novelties at from 25 to .')0 percent discount. G. & H. Thatcher, 13 South Main and 0 Center Sts. lent. However, theie aie gieat (II- . vcrsltlcs of cliinalc owing to tlie I enormous extent of the country. In I the Intel lor It Is stated that the win- I ters are cold and exhiliratlng, .similar 1 to those in Manitoba and the Dakotas. I Tlie above Is but a short synopsis of I (some of the authentic reports of that I countrj, which easily proves the wis I dom of the puichase from Kussia, U which was at one time deemed rank I folly. The Democratic press and opposi- I Hon to the Philippines may yet live to I see the time when they will kick thorn- I selves for their willful Ignorance. |