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Show v a ! i CAUGHT IN THEIR j i OWN TRAP. The-government has started out to 1 j .be the builder and owner of railroads. 5 , j When tho Alaska railroad measure becomes lawf tho government will proceed to construct 1000 miles of railroad in Alaska for the purpose of developing the resources of that territory. ter-ritory. Some of the equipment used on the Panama canal will be sent north and once more our army officers will be called on to direct a big commercial enterprise under government control. This movement on the part of the government will prove disappointing to the anti-conservationists, who have been denouncing the policy of conserving con-serving the resources of Alaska as an outrage on the people of that great I northwestern land. They have boon principally the mouthpieces of the big Interests which had planned to gain possession of all the rich resources re-sources of the territory and exploit them. They had no deep concern for the welfare of the people and simply pretended to be the protectors of the inhabitants of Alaska. Nearly every senator who has been prominently promi-nently identified on the side of the opponents of conservation voted against the measure empowering the government to spend 40,000,000 in railroad construction in Alaska. This, to us, Is one of the strongest proofs of the insincere position of those who have been attacking the conservation policy of the United StateB government. |