[The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookThe Alaskan CHAPTER II 7/35
I doubt if you'll get anything. When politicians from Iowa and south Texas tell us what we can have and what we need north of Fifty-eight--why, what's the use? Alaska might as well shut up shop!" "But she isn't going to do that," said Alan Holt, his face grimly set in the moonlight.
"They've tried hard to get us, and they've made us shut up a lot of our doors.
In 1910 we were thirty-six thousand whites in the Territory.
Since then the politicians at Washington have driven out nine thousand, a quarter of the population.
But those that are left are hard-boiled.
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