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THE ROCK ISL'AXD ARGUS, THURSDAY", JULY 45ft 1911.
Taft Assumes Responsibility in Controller Bay Affair
President, in Special Message, Answers Critics of His Elimination Order Finds No Trace of Famous "Dick to Dick" Letter in the Department Files or Elsewhere.
"Washington, July 27. President Taft
late yesterday delivered a message
concerning the Controller bay affair
and the reduction of the area of the
Chngach nations! forest reserve to per
mit the Controller Bay Railway and
Navigation company to acquire land
on the bey to be used as terminals
.for a railway line to the Bering coal
fields, twenty-five miles away. The
message 4m in response to a resolution
passed by the senate Jane 27 last,
which asked for copies o&all depart
mental orders, maps, surveys, letters.
reports and official documents la the
case. Copies of -these documents ac-
company the message.
The executive order of Oct. 2S. 1910,
referred to In the resolution was In. the
terms following:
CHUGACH NATIONAL FOREST.
ALASKA.
TJnflar authority of th met of congress
of June 4. 1897 (30 Stat.. 11, mt U and VD.
&od on th recommendation of tbe secre
tary of rleItur It !s hereby ordered
tbat tbe-proclamation of Fab. 23. 1906. en
larKtaK the Chusrach National forest b
modlilad to reduce tbe area of such na
tional forest by eliminating- therefrom the
following described tract, containing ap
proximately acrea of land, which
lias been found upon examination to Le
not chiefly valuable for national forest
purposes:
Beirlnnteg; at st point where the meridian
of lonc'.tude 144 decrees 6 minutes west
crosses tbe coast line of Controller bay.
thence north along- said meridian line to
the parallel of latitude at 60 derrees 10
minis Utm north, thnc:e went along said
parallel to a point where the same crosses
the coast line at or near the mouth of
liering- river and thence along the coast
to the place of beginning-.
The tract above described is hereby re
stored to the public domaln-
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
The "White House, Washington. Oct. 3.
1910.
The president declares that the order
does not permit the Controller Bay
Railway and Navigation company to
eeure a monopoly of the Cent roller
bay harbor as, under the law, a strip i
eighty rods wide must be left betweeu
each entry, having a frontage of 1'iO
rods on navigable water. The law also
keeps tbe control of tbe shore, which
Includes the flats lying between Ligh
water sad low water, tinder the di
rection of congress. This provision,
says Mr. Taft, fuIJy protects the pub
lic and absolutely prevents any in
dividual or corporation from acquir
ing a monopoly.
In regard to tbe "Dick to Dick" let
ter. In whk-h there I a reference to
Charlos Taft. the president denies that !
h!s brother ever spoke to him con- !
cernlnir Controller b:iv. Richard S. ,'
Ryan or any grant in Alaska. lit? says
that tbe letter in question cannot be
found In tbe tiles of tbe government,
oud he refers to it as a "wicked fab
rication." He declares that his broth
er never heard of ' ntroHer bay un
til tbe president sent hi;n a cable-ra-u
regarding the subject.
Possible Harbor In Controller Bay.
" The message describes the location
of Controller bay, vbili was original
ly Included In tie? Chugacb forest re
serve. For a titue it was thou. .'lit that
the water of the bey was too s'taliovv
to make It valuable us n harbor, but
In 11h;7 a channel was discovered ex
tending lato the bay about seven ir.iles.
The tract taken from the forest re
serve by the president's order covers
12..SOO acres In a triangular form, the
side along Controller bay being be
tween six and seven miles long, which
covers tbe channel meutionel.
The president's message then says:
All the territory surrounding Con
troller bay was included in the Cbu
g.tch forest reservation in 1909 by a
proclamation of President Roosevelt.
The lmpertanee of Controller bay is
that It lies about twenty-five miles
from verv valuable coal deposits. ;
k.u.wu as "the I'.erinir coal fields. Ka-i
ta.la bay Is to the we.-t of Controller i elimination would otTer au opportunity
bay and almost Immediately adjoins ' to the company to use laud scrip and
It. It is an open road-tend, upon the ! acquire title to extensive town sites,
shore of which an attempt was made 1 and the result of the joint considera
by the ?trgau-Guggenheini syndicate j tlon of both departments had been tbe
ti establish a railway terminal and 1 reduction to 320 acres,
thence to bull 1 a road to the Bering j a.sumes All ResDonsibilitv,
coal fields, already mentioned. Tbe
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.uruil-i uiiim ior ioe re. m
ras d?troyel ly storms and the
terminals tK-came lmirat tl alie. Some
fftv uine or more farther vref-t of
. illillia ttl . Ibl liiVUIIl 'l 1117 I
. , , ,, '
per river, where there is an exee'.leut
.,,.-, .,t f .,r.
dova. There the Copper River rail
road, owned by the Morgan-Guggen-
V ( t f?-iA.-t 1 ..- i ' j t .i m inq ! a anil
the line runs to the northeast along
tbe Copper river and has nearly reach
a. . ( 4 . V. . . . . M Ka In.
terlor. A branch from this main line ,
1 projected to tbe Rerir. coal fields ,
and is feasibe '
AVben the channel in ti e Controller
bay was discovered Mr.
Tit'ntan, su-
perlntendent of the coast survey, as
shown by bis letter in the record, was
of opinion that It was -of great value i
end ought to be maintained as a na
. ;
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HE FFwFF, FKO.M SFCH 1L1-S AS
Headache, Indigestion,
Flatulency,
Cramps, Diarrhoea.
H0STETTERS
Stomach Bitters
U tnxlj helpful in such caes.
I M. AWH,"1"!"
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All the
Argus.
news tul the cme Tfc
val reservation because of ft proxim
ity to the coal fields. His letter was
submitted by the secretary of com
merce and labor to the secretary of
the Interior, who Invited tbe comment
of the director of the geological sur
vey. That officer replied tbat the
harbor was a poor one and that It
would not be as good for a naval res
ervation as one already selected, but
that he thought that private capital
ought to be encouraged to construct a
railway from the channel over the
mud flats to the shore and thence to
the coal fields.
Captain Pillsbury of the army en-
j geers in a report in the record made
i a 1907 mentions three possible objec-
Hons to Controller bay first, that the
surrounding islands may prove to be so
j low as not fully to protect the channel;
second, that the flats extend two or
three miles from the shore, and. third,
that ice formed In the rivers ectertng
the bay and. affected by tidal currents,
may destroy structures put upon the
Cats and especially a long trestle buJJt
over them.
Ryan Asks For Land.
In December, 1909. Richard S. Ryan,
representing the Controller Railway
and Navigation company, applied to
Mr. Pinchot, the then forester, for an
; elimination from the Cbujrach forest
reservation of a tract of land to enable
his company to secure railroad ter
minals, bunkers, railroad shops, etc.,
on the northwest pbore of Controller
bay. This application was referred
by the associate forester to tbe district i w-jthin said district
forester at Portland, Ore., and by him j Under the first limitation the navfr
to the forester in Alaska. The result i cation eomoanv and everv other rer-
of these references and the application
was that early In 1910 Mr. Graves,
who had in the meantime become for
ester, reported tbat there was no ob
jection from the standpoint of forestry
Interests to the elimination of the tract
indicated or, indeed, of IS .000 acres on
tbe northwest shore of Controller bay.
Tbe attention of tfce navy depart
ment was Invited by the forestry bu
reau to the proposal to open the shore
of Controller bay to entry and occupa
tion, and inquiry was made whether
tbe navy department desired to ue
Controller bay as a reservation and
whether it objected to its being opened
up. The answer was in the negative.
The matter w;:s considered by the
forestry bureau, by the secretary of
agric-ulturo, by tbe secretary of tbe In
terior and by tbe general land office
and tbe result was a reccimm-uJation
to me in May, 1910. that au tlimina-
t'on be made of J20 acres with a front-
age of Pi rod on the northwest snore
of Controller bay.
i considered the whole case in Au
gust. 1910, and directed that the 220
acres, reconiaiende-1 by both depart-
Cients, be eliminated as recommended, j
The question finally came before the
I cabinet late In October. -f:er a full
! de'ission of the matter an 1 after a
, eo'is! -jerat ion
of il.n law I
expressed
i- because
I rl'ssatisfae'lon with 'the o
j ?t purported ou its f;ue
elimination for the ben.
to make tl 'j
;L of a rail-
road company of a tra
the company con!. I i.
t of land which
t secure under
the statute, for it
v. as a tr.vt J'-0
ar;N in one body U u only l'' ai res
could be fhi s aequlrel. In tbe s cm:d
p. la' e. 1 referred to iual.e u i.iiich
l.i rger elimination of a ti.nt facing
ti's' er;:ire channel and with sullicient
room for a termin.-i! railway town.
- I was willing to do this because 1
found the restrictions jn the law suffi
cient to prevent the possibility of any
monopoly of either the upland or the
barber or channel by tLe Controller
Railway and Navigation company or
any other persors or company.
It had been originally suggested by
the forestry bureau that l.O0 acres
might safely be eliminated so far as
forestry purposes were cou'-ernea. iui
fear had leon expressed by one of the
district foresters that such a large
I wish to be as specific as possible
lhat j a,one
am
responsible for the enlargement j
of the proposed elimination from 320
acres to 12.si acres and that I pro-
posed-the change and stated my rea- j
- a t-t a
sons therefor, and, while both secre-
, . .
itarles cordially concurred in it. the
I suggestion was mine.
The statement of Mr. Ryan, who had
; been i roier!y vouched to the forester
, oy two jreuueineu w uolu kuo.s . jar.
Chester Lyman and Mr. Fred Jen-
i r.'ngs. and wbo had produced a letter
" V"v '
Wetler & Co.. was tbat tbe railway
eompaay which be represented tad ex-
1. more than ST5.WO in making
reparations ror tr.e construction or a
railway from Controller bay to tbe
coal fields, twenty-rive miles away, but
tat they were obstructed In so dotng
dv me oraer reserving iue iQugacn
forest reservation, which covered all
' of the Controller bay shore. He. s
, well as Probst. Wetxler & Co.. gave
I every assurance that the Copper River
: Railway company, owned by Messrs.
I Morgan and Guggenheim, had no con
! nectlon with them and that they were
' engaged in an Independent enterprise
i in good faith to build an Independent
: railroad. No evidence to the contrary
. has teen brought to my attention
! since.
j Of course it was possible that the
i owners of the Copper RiTer Railway
j company might attempt to buy this
i railroad when and if it was butlL
; It was possible that Mr. Ryen was act
I iDg In tbe interests of the Copper RIv
jer railroad, although 1 did not believe
it
Protected by Congress.
If a railroad was to be constructed
from Controller lay to the Bering coal
fields it jru perfectly eUicia that
there must be a terminal town on the
shore of Controller bay, and I was
therefore glad and anxious to throw
it open to entry and settlement as one
Important step In encouraging railroad
enterprise. I was certain that congress
had provided In the statutes affecting
the entry and settlement of land In
Alaska limitations which would pre
vent the possibility of the exclusive
appropriation of the harbor and chan
nel of Controller bay or Its shores or
upland to any one railroad. This I pro
pose now to show.
The only practicable method for se
curing title from the government in
such a tract as this after Its elimina
tion is by the use of what Is called
"soldiers additional homestead right"
evidenced by scrip. The statutory lim
itations upon this method of acquiring
title are threefold:
First. No more than 160 acres can
be entered in any single body by such
scrip.
SeeondL No location of scrip along
any navigable waters can be made
within the distance of eighty rods of
any lands along such waters, and no
entry can be allowed extending more
than 160 rods along the shore of any
navigable water, and along such shore
a space of at least eighty rods must be
reserved from entry between all such
claims.
Third. Nothing In the act contained
is to be construed to authorize entries
to be made or title to be acquired to
the shore of any navigable waters
! son is prevented from locating more
I than 1G0 acres in one body. By the
construction of the land department,
as shown In the record, this requires
a separation between any two entries
by the same person or in the same in
terest of a tract of forty acres. This
would prevent the possibility of any
one person or any one interest acquir
ing an entire tract like that of 12,800
acres.
Frontage Held by Government.
The second limitation Is important
in that it prevents the entry of claims
at any point on tbe shore having a
greater frontage than half a mile and
requires tbat between that and the
next claim taken up there shall be a
frontage reserved to the public and
kept In public control of a quarter of
a mile. The consequence Is that In
the seven miles of the frontage of this
eliminated tract there must be reserv
ed for government control and use and
ruch disposition as congress may see
fit to make and free from private ap
propriation a frontage aggregating
two and three-quarter miles and so
distributed along the shore in front
ages of eighty rods as to make cer
tain of a public frontage of this width
having all the advantage that any pri
vate frontage can have. In other
words, if a tract with a half mile
frontage is located at a particularly
advantageous place with reference to
the harbor then on each side of that
frontage must be reserved to the pub
lic a frontage of a quarter of a mile,
or a half mile in nil. for public uses.
These two restrictions necessarily
prevent a monopoly of land abutting
ou the shore, and as they necessarily
prevent u monopoly by any one lo
cator or in the Interest cf any com
pany for whom locators are acting
they take away the motive for the ac
quisition of land and frontage merely
for the purpose of excluding other
companies and possible competitors
and tend to confine locators to the ac
quisition of land to be profitable in Its
use.
Since the executive order was Is
sued, Oct. 28, 1010, there have been
four locations under soldiers scrip,
three of them of 100 rods each along
tbe bay, separated by two divisions
of eighty rods. I shall assume that
all of them are in the Interest of the
Controller Railway and Navigation
company. None of them has been ap
proved or passed to patent, but I shall
assume they can be passed to valid
patent.
Frontage Left Open.
Of the shore frontage nnlocated
which may be appropriated by scrip
there remain six frontages of 160 rods
each on tbe shore of the tract opened
by the executive order facing the bay
alJj channel, and In addition at least
two and three-quarter miles of front
age distributed in eleven eighty-rod
strips, subject to public use and the
disposition of congress. There is thus
ample room for many other railroads
to reach high water mark on Control
ler bay and there to acquire tracts
for terminals. Of the 12.S00 acres the
entries In area have covered only 800
acres, and all the rest Is available for
scrip location under the provisions of
the act.
There is a third reason why the
opening of this tract to settlement and
limited private appropriations cannot
lead to a monopoly In the Controller
Bay company or any one else. The dis
tance from the dry land 1. e.. the shore
land the line cf high water mark to
the line of low water mark la between
two and three miles, and the distance
to deeper water la a boot a aiile far
ther, making it necessary. If a harbor
Is to be reached aod used, to con
struct a viaduct or trestle three or four
miles long from the short to tbe chan
nel. This tidal Cat Is owned by tbe
United States, and the acquisition un
der the public land laws of tracts on
the shore abutting these tidal flats
gives no right or title to those Cats.
This would be the law If the statute
was silent on the subject, but Dot only
tbe statute of 1ST8 but also the amend
ing statute of 1903 expressly Imposes
the restriction that no title or right
can be obtained under the act la the
shore of a navigable body of water.
I submit to all fair minded men who
may have been disturbed over the
charges made tn re&nect to the execn-
tlve order of Oct 2S. 1910, that it has
been demonstrated by the foregoing
that no public Interest has suffered
from its Issue, that great good may
come from It and that no dishonest or
improper motive Is needed to explain
it. 1 might, therefore, stop here; but.
rather, for the purpose of the moral
to be drawn from them than to vin
dicate the order, I propose to consider
the attacks upon the order that? hys
teria or rancor has prompted.
Order Was Made Public
The charge has been made that this
was a secret order and that though it
was made In October, laio, no one
knew it until ApriL 191L This Is ut
terly unfounded. The statement of
Mr. Vernon, the correspondent of the
Post-Intelligencer of Seattle, a news
paper of wide circulation among a peo
ple most interested in Alaska, shows
that ten days before the order was
made news of the details of Ryan's
application and tbe probability of its
being granted was given wide public
ity. It further appears from tbe rec
ords of the Interior department that
the evening the order was signed, Oct.
28, 1910. a full notice of the Issue of
the order and its details was furnish
ed by the department to all corre
spondents in the form of a news bul
letin. Finally the agent of the Asso
ciated Press certifies that at 7:23 p. m..
Oct. 28, 1910, there was sent out by
that association to all its newspaper
clients a telegram taken from a type
written statement issued by the in
terior department as follows:
Washing-ton. Oct. 28. Approximately 12.
800 acres of land in the Chugach National
forest. Alaska, hare been restored by the
president for disposition under appropri
ate land laws, according' to Information
made public today by the Interior depart
ment. These lands are situated on the
coast line of Controller bay. In southern
Alaska, near the Cunningham claims, and
have been found upon examination to be
of little value for forestry purposes.
It would be dimcult to prepare an
advertisement more informing to tbe
public or more likely to attract the at
tention of all likely to desire acquisi
tion of land on Controller bay. On the
29th the chief forester sent a telegram
making a similar announcement to his
district forester at Portland, Ore.
The order has been attacked on the
ground that it did not contain a pro
vision delaying its taking effect for
thirty days after Its publication, as
orders restoring land" to settlement by
homesteaders frequently do. An ex
amination of the record furnishes an
explanation of this feature of the or
der as made. When in October tbe
two departments had agreed, wilh my
acquiescence, that the order should be
an elimination of only 320 acres an
order describing the o'-'O acres, direct
ing its restoration to settlement und
containing the usual provision post
poning Its taking effect thirty days
was prepared in the forestry bureau
and forwarded to tbe interior depart
ment. There It was deemed wiser to
spread on the face of the order a spe
cific declaration that It was made to
afford terminals for the Controller
Railway and Navigation company, and
as no one else was expected to inter
vene and take up any part of the elim
inated tract the restoration was made
immediate.
Approved by Secretary.
The form thus amended was submit
ted to the secretary of agriculture, who
expressed his preference for the im
mediate restoration order through his
solicitor's memorandum on the face
of the order, as follows:
Mr. Clements. Af.stant Attorney In the
Interior Department We think this CK.
The secretary says it Is the direct way
and appeals to him.
GEORGE P. M'CABE.
The idea of the secretary doubtless
was that the short form of order was
preferable because on its face it was
directly indicative of the purpose to
secure an opportunity to the railway
company by proper entry to settle on
the land eliminated, and as no one else
was expected to Intervene no postpone
ment was needed. Accordingly when
the case came for decision In the cabi
net the order was without any post
ponement clause. This was the form
sent me for my signature by the acting
secretary of the interior department-
When I directed tbe striking out of
the reference to the railway company
and the enlargement of the area from
320 acres to 12,800 acres the form of
the order in its provision for imme
diate restoration was not changed. I
have no doubt tbat this was tbe rea
son why the order issued took the form
It did. Had tbe postponement clause
been suggested I would doubtlessly
have directed it to be embodied in tbe
order. But the event has proven that
it was really not Important In this
case, for In now nearly nine months
only the Controller Railway Naviga
tion company has made any scrip en
tries on the eliminated tract and this
although 11.000 acrea and three miles
of water front still remain open to en
try and there are several different rail
way companies in addition to the Con
troller Railway and Navigation com
pany that had filed locations for right
of way in the vicinity in the last two
years who have had in the last nine
months the fullest notice of their op
portunity if they wished to enter od
this land.
The "Dick te Dick" Letter.
Before closing I desire to allude to
a circumstance which the terms of this
resolution make apt and relevant It
Is a widely published statement at
tributed to a newspaper correspondent
that in an examination of the files of
the interior department a few weeks
ago a postscript was found attached to
a letter of July 13, 1910. addressed by
Mr. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary Bal
llnger and in the present record urg
ing the elimination of bind enough for
terminals for the Controller Railway
and Navigation company. Tbe post
script was said to read as follows:
Dear Pick I went to see the president
the othec- day, . lie asked roe wUo it was i
I represented. I told him. according to
our agreement, that 1 represented myself.
But this didn't seem to satisfy him. So 1
tent for Charlie Taft and asked him to
tell bis brother, the president, who It was
1 really represented. Tbe president made
no further objection to my claim. Tours.
DICK.
The postscript is not now on the files
of the department If it were, it would
be my duty to transmit it under this
resolution. Who is really responsible
for its wicked fabrication, if it ever ex
isted, or for the viciously false state
ment made as to its authenticity is
Immaterial for the purposes of this
communication. The purport of the al
leged postscript Is and the -Intention of
the fabricator was to make Mr. Rich
ard S. Ryan testify through its words
to the public that although I was at
first opposed in the public interest to
granting the elimination which he re
quested, nevertheless through the un
due influence of my brother, Mr.
Charles P. Taft. and the disclosure of
the real persons in interest I was in
duced improperly and for the promo
tion of their private gain to make the
order.
Tbe statement In so far as my brother
is concerned and that is the chief
feature of the postscript is utterly un
founded. He never wrote to me or
spoke to me in reference to Richard S.
Ryan or on the subject of Controller
bay or the granting of any privileges
or the making of any orders in' respect
to Alaska. He has no interest in
Alaska, never had and knows nothing
of the circumstances connected with
this transaction. lie does not remem
ber that he ever met Richard S. Ryan.
He never heard of the Controller Bay
railroad until my cablegram of inquiry
reached him.
Mr. Balllnger says in a telegram in
answer to my" inquiry that he never
received such a postscript and that he
was in Seattle on the date of July 13,
when it was said to have been writ
ten. Mr. Richard S. Ryan, in a letter
which he has sent me without solicita
tion, says that be never met my broth
er, Mr. Charles 1. Taft and that so
far as he knows Mr. Charles P. Taft
never had the slightest interest in Con
troller bay, in the Controller Railway
and Navigation company or In any
Alaskan company, and he utterly de
nies writing or signing the alleged
postscript The utter improbability of
his writing such a postscript to Mr.
Balllnger at Washington when the
latter was away for his vacation for
two months must Impress every one.
The fact Is that Mr. Balllnger never
saw the letter of July 13, 1910, to
which this postscript is said to have
been attached. It was sent to me by
Mr. Cnrr, Secretary Ballingcr"s pri
vate secretary, at Beverly, on July
14 the next day. I read the letter at
Beverly in August with other papers
and sent them to the White House.
It was placed upon the White House
files and remained there until April
22, 1911, when It was. by request of
Secretary FLsher. for use in connection
with his answer to a senate inquiry,
returned to tbe interior department
and it was after this that the corre
spondfmt is said to have seen the let
ter with the postscript attached- Mr.
Carr saw no such iostscript when he
sent the letter to me. 1 did not sre it
when I read it No cue saw it in the
executive office, but it remained to ap
pear as a postscript when it is said
that the correspondent saw the letter
in April or May on the files of the In
terior department All others were de
nied the sight.
Tbe person on whose statement the
existence of what has been properly
characterized as an amazing post
script is based is a writer for news
papers and magazines, who was given
permission by Secretary Fisher, after
consultation with me, to examine all
the files in respect to the Controller
bay matter, and this under tbe super
vision of Mr. Brown, then private sec
retary to the secretary of the Interior.
After the examination, at which It Is
alleged this postscript was received
from the hand of Mr. Brown, the cor
respondent prepared an elaborate arti
cle on the subject of this order and
Controller bay, which was submitted
to Mr. Fisher and which was discuss
ed with Mr. FLsher at length, but nev
er in the conversation between them
or In the article submitted did the cor
respondent mention tbe existence of
the postscript Mr. Brown states tbat
there was no such postscript in the
papers when he showed them to the
correspondent and that he never saw
such a postscript Similar evidence Is
given by Mr. Carr and other custo
dians of tbe records in tbe interior de
partment Stronger evidence of the falsrry and
maliciously slanderous character of
the alleged postscript could not be
had. Its only significance is the light
it throws on the bitterness and venom
of some of these wbo take active part
In every discussion of Alaskan issues.
The intensity of their desire to be
smirch all wbo invest in that district
and all wbtf are officially connected
with its administration operates upon
the minds of weak human instru
ments and prompts the fabrication of
such false testimony as this post
script I dislike to dwell upon this
feature of the case, but it is so full of
a lesson that ought to be taken to the
heart of every patriotic citizen tbat I
cannot pass It over in silence.
When I ma lie this order I was aware
that the condition of public opinion in
reference to investments in Alaska,
fanned by charges of fraud, some well
founded and others of an hysterical
and unjust or false character, would
lead to an attack upon It and to the
questioning of my motives in signing
it I remarked this when I made tbe
order, and I was not mistaken. But a
public officer when be conceives it his
duty to take afirmative action in the
public interest has no more right to al
low fear of unjust criticism and attack
' to hinder him from taking that action
that be would to allow personal and
dishonest motives to affect him. It is
easy in cases like this to take the
course which timidity prompts and to
do nothing, but such a course does not
mure to the public weal.
I am in full sympathy with the con
cern of reasonable and patriotic men
tbat tbe valuable resources of Alaska
6hould not be turned over to be exploit
ed for the profit of greedy, absorbing
and monopolistic corporations or syn
dicates. Whatever the attempts which
have been made, no one, as a matter
of fact has secured In Alaska any un
due privilege or franchise not com
pletely under the control of congress.
I am in full agreement with the view
that every care, both in administration
and in legislation, must be observed to
prevent the corrupt or unfair acquisi
tion of undue privilege, franchise or
right from the government in that dis
trict But every one must know that
the resources of Alaska can never be
come available either to the people of
Alaska or to the public of the United
States unless reasonable opportunity is
granted to those who would Invest
their money to secure a return propor
tionate to the risk run in the invest
ment and reasonable under all the cir
cumstances. On the other band, the acrimony of
spirit and the intense malice tbat have
been engendered in respect of the ad
ministration of the government In
Alaska and in the consideration of
measures proposed for her relief aqd
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Capital $200,000.00 Surplus 9100,000.00
PHIL MITCHELL, President. I. S. WHITE, Vice President.
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OOL'RTEOUS ATTENTION TO ALL.
BIJOU Cigar Store
1626 Second Avenue.
Under the new management
What brand do you smoke? If you want to set tbe full flavor of
your favorite cigar you must get it from a dealer wbo keeps bis
cigars in the same condition as the maker Intended. Lots of cigars
lose that peculiar aroma when exposed ours are always kept In
air-tight showcases and regulated by moisture to tbe right degree.
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The
Phone West 555.
Herman Kain.
the wanton recklessness and eager
ness with which attempts have been
made to besmirch the characters of
high ofB el a Is having to do with the
Alaskan government and even of per
sons not in public life present a con
dition' tbat calls for condemnation and
requires that tbe public be warned of
the demoralization that has been pro
duced by tbe hysterical suspicions of
good people and the unscrupulous and
corrupt misrepresentations of tbe
wicked. The helpless state to which
the credulity of some and tbe malev
olent scandal mongering of others
have brought the people of Alaska In
their, struggle for its development
ought to give the public pause, for un
til a Juster and fairer view be taken
investment in Alaska, which Is neces
sary to its development will be Im
possible, and honest administrators
and legislators will be embarrassed In
the advocacy and putting into opera
tion of those policies in regard to tbe
territory which are necessary to its
progress and prosperity.
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
The White House. July 20, 191 L
Mayor Is Arrested.
Atlantic City. N. J., July 27. On a
warrant sworn out by Simon Fabor.
head of a reform movement in this
city, George W. Carmany, acting mayor
of Atlantic City, was arrested cn
a charge of soliciting a bribe In con
nection with the granting of a liquor
license to a hotel.
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