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Show H ' r A POLICY OPPOSED TO FRAUD. H gf The Salt, (Lake Telegram says this goveraiAent has become H fanatical in the matter of economy and has gone to the limit in re- H 'serving nearly all the eoal measures in sight, and otherwise obstruot- Hk 'ing the development of the west. The Telegram perhaps has in H ' ,u hid the reserving of the coal measures of Alaska. H The government has done nothing outrageous, but has begun a H , task which should have been undertaken forty years ago. The re- H serving of lands has not closed the coal. Coal laud can be H leased under a royalty basis or can be purchased outright. Herc- H tofore large companies gained the benefits which now flow to the H roverament and small producers were squeezed out of the business H f producing coal. H In Alaska, all the coal land entries have been tainted with H fraud, and the government would have been derelict had it failed H o have blocked the efforts of. the powerful interests to monopolize H ;the coal industry through the instrumentality of fraud. The with- H .holding of the lands from entry until the territory has bwji purged H .of its unscrupulous monopolists may somewhat delay tho develop- H -nient of Alaska, but eventually the people of that vast cr.unlry will H 'profit by the wisdom and foresight which is now being -exercised Hl ' by those in authority. . H . |