The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-08-11
Former President Roosevelt Says Government
Must Supervise Affairs in North.
TO PROTECT THE COAL LANDS FROM MON0pOLItS
Railroad Connecting Controller Bay and the Coal Fields
Should Be State Owned as Is the Road in the Pana-
ma Canal Zone--. Examinations From Forests
Should Be Carefully Made.

improper not to eliminate 1t; and yet,
II the elimination of another tract of
land will give monopoly to mining
company. or a transportation company,
or any other company 1t may be to the
last degree improper.
AT the time the elimlnations at Eyak
and Valdez Arm were made. no. sug-
gcstion had been made to me from any
source. nor was there any public
knowledge that there was the slightest
danger of the Guggenheim syndicate
or any other syndicate obtaining con-
troll of Alaska. as the developments
during the past three years have
shown to be the case and as has been
"a matter of public notoriety for at
least two years.
Months after the date of these
eliminations Cunningham made affida-
Wits that he knew of no entrymen In
the Cunningham group that had any
contract with the Guggenheim syndi-
cate: the eliminations being made in
July and september. 1907, and the Cum
ningham affidavit In September, 1908.
When the eliminations were made
there was not vestige of evidence to
show that we should be on our guard
to prevent such a monopoly as Is now
evidently threatened
incidentally, anent the assertion of
Mr.. Ryan that he has no. interest
whatever In the Guggenheim syndi-
cate, let me point out the explicit
character of the Cunningham affida-
Wit that the Guggenheims had no in
terest in their claims; and. in any
event, our entire past industrial his
tory gives us warrant for saying that,
IL the Ryan road is built as planned,
It will be but matter of time. and
probably very, very short time. be-
fore Ryan's road and the Guggenheim
interests are merged into one.
"The state of affairs Brought to light
during the administration of Mr.. Bal
linger showed conclusively and for the
first time that we had to guard against
monopoly In connection with the de-
velopment of Alaska, or, to speak
more properly, the exploitation of
Alaska by great syndicate for the
sole benefit OF that syndicate. When
the eliminatons at Eyak and Valdez
Arm were made, not revelation as
regards the Guggenheim syndicate, or
any other syndicate. had been brought
to my attention. or. as far as ] knew.
or know. to the attention of any man
In responsible position around me,
and the public was wholly unaware Of
the existence of any such state OF
things as the Ballinger investigation
showed to exist.
whether Mr.. Garfield or anyone
else had been told that the Guggen-
helms wer' engaged in syndicate to
act In Alaska / know not. for l was
never informed; but, In any event, II
was of no possible consequence. be-
cause at that time nothing had de-
veloped to show that they had become
an exploiting syndicate intending to
establish monopoly in mining and In
! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from. the fact
that 1t had never suggested. as 1t has
since been proved, that the" were ex-
pecting to be beneficiaries of waat haf
! since been declared to be fraudulent
transaction. The difference between
J elminations in one case and in thu
: other seems to me to be sufficiently
: obvious.
, "The eliminations at Eyak and Val
dez Arm have no more bearing rpoi