All our other Territories have had Legislatures that provided for them local laws. Alaska has no legislative body at all. no means of providing thesimplest regulation of government. They have a very considerable immigration of miners. prospectors. lumbermen. and permanent settlers. yet they have no means of creating a single corporation in their midst for the purpose of carrying on the simplest business. and particularly no means to preserve the peace. punish crime. or protect life or property. Ton thousand civilized citizens of the United States in that Territory who owe allegiance to its Government have the natural rights of citizens to be properly governed and protected. and are today without any law whatever. We have owned the Territory for more than twenty years. we bound ourselves by solemn treaty when we acquired it to give it a good government. and here. almost at the close of Congress. no proposition has been made for any kind of legislation which they need.
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