Conditions are such, thanks to red-tapeism and bad politics, that capital, big and little, looks askance at Alaska and cannot be interested.

Think of it, Miss Standish! There are thirty-eight separate bureaus at Washington operating on Alaska, five thousand miles away.

Is it a wonder the patient is sick?
And is it a wonder that a man like John Graham, dishonest and corrupt to the soul, has a fertile field to work in?
"But we are progressing.

We are slowly coming out from under the shadow which has so long clouded Alaska's interests.

There is now a growing concentration of authority and responsibility.