The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
GAYNOR ASTONISHES
!. GOTHAM POLITICIANS
Party Hacks AstOunded at the
Way Mayor of New York
Does Things.
is PUTTING THE CITY
ON A BUSINESS BASIS
Doing What He Said He would
Do Before He Was Elected
Mayor.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.


NEW YORK. March 26-Mayor
Gavnor is growing steadily III the
rood viii OF the people of the city, who
are beginning to realize that at last
they have a chief executive VINO Is
really doing what ne said he INTENDED
IA do before he was elected. He is
poing ahead quietly but thoroughly IN
the work of putting the city on busl-
ness basis, incidentally surprising the
old time politicians, who had the same
idea the old Georgia darkey had
who declared Hplatforms wuZ made
ter GIT IN on, not to stand on; ~
Gaynor is a man of many pecullarlCes;
one of these is that be hates faWninS
md circumlocution. I heard good
story the other day illustrating tins
point. 4 Young man came TO the mayor
and asked for an appointment as u
deputy commissioner;
'.On what ground do you ask the
appointment?' asked the mayor. :,
"'Well," was the reply, you stated
the other day you wanted good men for
office, and | am a good man
The mayor sized up the visitor
minute. and then said "Young man,
YOU come in and see ME next week.
Inquiry showed the applicant was
good man, and he got the place he
wanted, and so far has made good. IL
is this sort OF thing which is both
amazing and painful TO the politician
who has become accustomed TO see
offices parceled out only by the district
leaders.
Farmers Trust Greatest.
Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the
sugar trust, even the steel trust are
pigmies compared with the greatest
of all trusts, the farmers trust, &C
cording 10 William c. Edgar of Min
neapolis, editor of the Northwestern
Miller. Mr.. Edgar declares the
country is on the verge of serious
situation with respect to its grain sup
ply, advocates the abolition of the 20
cent duty on Canadian wheat, and de-
clares that the farmers are banded to-
pether in a trust of great magnitude
and influence, which de6cs the Sher-
man law and all other laws relating
to trusts In the course OF an inter
view. Mr.. Edgar said:
sIf we could get Canadian wheat
across the border without the 20,cent
duty which the tariff imposes, the ques-
ton would be solved. The great north
west beyond the Canadian border is
raising wheat, more and more of it1
all the time, but against 1t we have
raised a Chinese wall, for the 25-cent
dnty is practically prohlbltlye' inns
ground in Canada or goes abroad as
wheat and is ground there. 1t does
not get into this country at all.
Wants Tariff Removed.
"Unless we take the tariff off wheat
and the American farmers won I raise
any more than they dot will not be
great while before there is a serious
shortage III our supply. The east does
not realize how narrow a margin there
Is between consumption and supply. |
If We ever get free wheat, the eastern |
part of the country will have to bring
it about; the demand will have to come |
from this part of the country for free
food. 1t has been a source of wonder
10 us out there, why the east, which is |
dependent upon the western farmer for
It's bread, does not realize the gravity
of the situation.
"The farmers in the United States
have formed the most nearly absolute
trust ever heard OF, in defiance of all
our laws against trusts. They hold their
wheat until the market reaches a price
they have fixed They are still holding
wheat now, and may do so until another
crop comes, though wheat is now alb
normally high. and flour is being made
AT a lower margin than ever before in
the history of flour. / remember when
the miller used to figure on dollar
. cents profit it is perfectly satisfac-
"Diversifed farming is responsible
for the condition of the wheat sup
ply. You used TO see great, unbroken
fields of grain. They are getting scarce.
The farmer goes IN for other crops, for
cattle and for truck. IL Is always the
case that the pioneers first crop is
wheat. The virgin crop is always strong
end good, and 1t can always be sold.
1t is like raising money. When the
pioneer starts out he wants to raise
the thing that will bring him money
quickest. After he gets his mortgage
paid off and his farm cleared he goes
in for luxuries, He gets improved ma
chinerv Then he gets a piano. sends