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The Alaskan

CHAPTER III
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No territory on the face of the earth offers greater opportunities for capital than Alaska does today.

Ten thousand fortunes are waiting to be made here by men who have money to invest.
"But John Graham does not represent the type we want.

He is a despoiler, one of those whose only desire is to turn original resource into dollars as fast as he can, even though those operations make both land and water barren.

You must remember until recently the government of Alaska as manipulated by Washington politicians was little better than that against which the American colonies rebelled in 1776.

A hard thing for one to say about the country he loves, isn't it?
And John Graham stands for the worst--he and the money which guarantees his power.
"As a matter of fact, big and legitimate capital is fighting shy of Alaska.


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