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Show Big eastern interests desire to dominate do-minate in public lands, oil and mineral min-eral development, forestry and the; exploitation of Alaska. Most of these influences are reactionary reac-tionary and represent what is left of conservation policies that would tie up the west for the future. In the case of Alaska red tape and dilatory department methods have kept American enterprise out of the territory and population declines. The west should not be deprived of the position of Secretary of the Interior and it should be filled by an efficient western statesman. Congressman Mondell of Wyoming Senator Fall of New Mexico, Governor Gover-nor Campbell of Arizona and Herbert Hoover are the type of men needed. We do not want our hydro-electric powers, reclaimed, Irrigation and forest mlneraland oil resources tied t up forever. a . |