Who imagines that when the third of a century during which we have already held Alaska is rounded out to a full century, that unorganized Territory will even then have any greater prospect than at present of admission as a State? or who believes our grandchildren will be violating the Constitution in keeping it out?
Reid speculates on the future of Alaska's statehood, questioning the likelihood of it remaining unadmitted for another century.
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I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.
As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.