The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-16
W. J. GAYN0R
 LAUDS SOUTH Speaks at the Jamestown
 Exposition. "G0vERNMENT IS PURE" New York Justice Praises This
 People. He Declares That Country is shaekled by MonopoIies In Commerce
 And Favoritism in Freight

NorfOlk, va, Oct., lo-6roOhiyu Lay at the Jamestown Exposition was exercises were held in the drawing room of the New York building. where an oration was delivered by Justice William J. Gaynor.
 Judge Gaynor first spoke of Brook lyn, and the extraordinary identity 1t has all over the country. He said that the absorption of the city of Brooklyn into the City of New York did not eff feet it's identity in the least before the country, 'and here we are now as a proof of it," said he. Brooklyn is as great moral force as any community in this country. We know how to rescue government there from the political boss and looter, by indepen- dent voting, and lift government up and make 1t decent. We know of no loyalty party outside of loyalty to righteousness. Brooklyn forever"
 Judge Gaynor then said:
 We are on the soil of the South, where government is pure. where statesmanship is high, where private greed and corruption are not and never were uppermost, where politics and government have never been debeuch- ed by the use of money and the the greed of private interest. Nowhere is the great American spirit stronger end more patriotic than here in the new South. The new problems before the country 1t Is meeting in that high spirit, and with that high aim, which alone in government. as in religon. in science. and in all that goes to human advancement, can achieve good results. however slowly and gradually. Our aim must be high to achieve even Q iittle,' and we must be content with slow progress. Slow growth Is Gods law of the universe. How long and patiently, He brooded over this world of ours before 1t was fit. How slow Is the growth of this body of ours, and of the trees and all natural things that are good and enduring. And the rule is just as true in the growth of the human race In philosophy. in morals and in government. and in ell that goes to gradual. but let us hope sure, evoiu- ton toward perfection"
 shacixled by AEonopolies.
 Judge Gaynor spoke of the commerce tion, and how 1t has been shackled and centered in monopolies by favoritism in freight rates. and said:
 We cannot too often speak of this thing. Our commerce should be absolutely free Competition In 1t must be free. and not destroyed by the aid of privilege or favoritism. There is no other way to prevent monopolies. and no greater curse can come to a country than monopolies. That our railways. which are and were from the beginning by law--by the very law of their being-our public highways, should be used to create and sustain monopolies, is the greatest crime of our day and generation. I need not say to you that if can get my oil. or my sugar, or my tobacco, or my wheat. or my wire fence. or any commodity. carried over the highways of the coun- try at one-duarter or one-third the freight which you have to pay. I can thereby undersell you and all competi- tors that much in the market and ruin you, and establish a monoply in my self
 And that is what has been done fol many years all over the country and is being done now. Some think that because penal law was passed against 1t that it was stopped They do not know the immeasurable distance be- tween the passing of some laws and their observance. The case tried be- fore Judge Landis at Chicago, a few months ago, illustrates this great evil of favoritism in freight rates. The suit of the government was against the Standard oil Company to recoveI about 1,500 different penalties for hav' tuK 1IS OH CdETfcu TUT lCoo lildh shS rate charged to all others. Now you all know that he law is that every interstate railroad has to file sched' uIe of its freight rates in the office oi the Interstate Commerce Commission And then the law is that these sched' uled rates must be charged to every one alike, no more and no less, unti a change is made by new schedule filed; that there can be no discrimina' Ak- hof hn road schedule so filed gave the freighI rate on oil from Whiting, in Indiana to East St. Louis, in Illinois, as eigh- teen cents the hundred pounds. It wa: discovered by the government that tho Standard oil Company had It's oil car ried between these two points all tht time for six cents the hundred pounds This was twelve cents less than th' schedule rate which all competitors haC to nav. It was thus enabled to un der sell it's competitors in the marke twelve cents on the hundred pounds and ruin them. No competitors could stand up against such competition al that. There were no competitors, anc there never can be any while sucf favoritism in freight rates continues This twelve cents was actually more than the wholesale profit on oil. Think of the highways of your country being used for such a damnable purpose at that. The government which should permit such @ thing to continue could not itself in the nature of things long endure. That the highways of the country should be used to carry the freight of a few at less than the rate which all competitors have to pay, and thereby enable them to undersell such competitors that much, and drive them out of business and establish monopo. lies in themselves, Is such a thing SC heartless and so criminal that our de. scendants will look back upon us as A generation largely lost to moral sense for having suffered 1t to continue so long. And this favoritism in freight rates is given in all of the principal products of the country, thereby creat- ing monopolies in each of them. Nc country ever had as many commercial monopolies as we now have in this country"