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be not an industry carried on only by Orientals in 

 the employ of three or four alien capitalists, but 

 carried on in such a way as to be a perpetual source 

 of income to the actual settlers resident in the lo- 

 cality. Just in the same way I want to have you see 

 that the lumber industry is exploited in a way which, 

 while giving a great return to those engaged in it 

 at the moment, shall also secure the preserva- 

 tion of the forests for the settlers and the settlers' 

 children that are to come in and inherit the land. 

 I wish to see such land laws enacted and to see them 

 so administered as to be in the interest of the actual 

 settler who goes to Alaska to live, who desires there 

 to produce crops, to raise stock, to make a home for 

 himself; subject to that condition I desire to see leg- 

 islation shaped in the spirit of the broadest liber- 

 ality that will secure the quickest possible develop- 

 ment of the resources of Alaska ; and with that aim 

 in view to have all the encouragement possible given 

 to those seeking to establish by steamship line and 

 by railway quick and efficient transportation facili- 

 ties in the Territory. 



Few things have been more typical of our people 

 and have been more full of promise for the future 

 than the way in which the resources have been de- 

 veloped ; and when one sees what has been done here 

 during the last few years I think we have cause to 

 feel abundantly justified in our belief that the quali- 

 ties of the old-time pioneers who first penetrated 

 the woody wilderness between the Alleghanies and 

 the Mississippi, who then steered their way across 

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