Alaska cost the United States seven million five hundred thousand dollars in the year 1867. Since then Alaska has paid into the treasury the sum of one hundred and fifty million. Note the interest on the purchase. Still we have no means of representation. There are today in the District of Alaska 60,000 population who stand in the same place that our forefathers stood when the tea-party took place. It is a shame that in this land of the free we are denied ANY means of representation. There is a mistaken idea that Alaska has a territorial form of government. It has no voice from the people whatever. We are peoned. And why? BECAUSE ALASKA AFFORDS ONE OF THE CHOICEST TREES IN THE ORCHARD OF GRAFT. And its political plums are distributed among the carpetbag grafters who enforce their presence upon the pioneers who are fostering and fathering the country. There is not an elective office in the District. Our mining laws are obnoxious and afford the greatest chance for official graft. Did you ever stop to consider what a great country Alaska is, and how it is controlled? If I may, without taking too much of your valuable time, I will call your attention to the following facts. Alaska is one-third as large as the United States. It is not an iceberg, but affords future homes for millions. Alaska is in the same latitude as England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Russia. Alaska has the greatest fisheries on earth. These fisheries are controlled by the beef trust. GRAFT! Alaska has great beds of finest anthracite coal, now being gobbled up by the Pennsylvania coal barons. GRAFT! Alaska is covered by fine forests now being taken up by means of soldiers’ fractional script. GRAFT! Alaska has the largest stamp mill on earth. The mine has produced over $22,000,000 in gold, more than three times the cost of the District. This mine is not timbered and there is an average of one man killed a day by caving. GRAFT! Alaska has the only fur-seal islands in the world. These islands are leased to a big corporation. GRAFT! Alaska has a navigable river twenty-eight hundred miles in length, a reservation at the mouth controls the harbor and permits are issued for warehouses to two big corporations only, so Alaskans again have to stand for GRAFT! I could go on giving cases of graft for a month, but time is limited. An article by a well informed writer in Appleton’s _Booklovers’ Magazine_, entitled “The Looting of Alaska,” is well worth reading. * * * * * _S. C. Le Baron, Smiley, Tex._