Alaska and the Panama canal . ALASKA 25 rise to a fly. If we had only known of this report and stoodpat it looks as if we might have won without a single battle. The pioneers who followed the trail blazed by Lewis andClark up the Missouri River, across the Rockies and CascadeMountains to Puget Sound, and set up the battle cry of 54-40or fight, knew what they were talking about. Had the UnitedStates boundary line been carried north to meet the then south-ern Russian Alaska boundary line, at 54 degrees 40 minutesnorth. Great Britain, or Canada, would have been cut out ofports on the Pacific Coas
Alaska and the Panama canal . ALASKA 25 rise to a fly. If we had only known of this report and stoodpat it looks as if we might have won without a single battle. The pioneers who followed the trail blazed by Lewis andClark up the Missouri River, across the Rockies and CascadeMountains to Puget Sound, and set up the battle cry of 54-40or fight, knew what they were talking about. Had the UnitedStates boundary line been carried north to meet the then south-ern Russian Alaska boundary line, at 54 degrees 40 minutesnorth. Great Britain, or Canada, would have been cut out ofports on the Pacific Coast, and our coast line would have beencontinuous. The Government at Washington at that time, however,knew about as much regarding the Pacific Coast, and especiallythe northwest Pacific, or Puget Sound country, as it does aboutcertain portions of Alaska and the needs of the people of thewhole of Alaska, today. Indeed, the great and wise DanielWebster stated frankly in the United States Senate that hedidnt know anything about th
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