Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-01

GRAFT IN ALAsKAN COAL LANDS.
have taken little time to under
stand the situation in Alaska We have
been hearing great deal about conser-
walton and what 1t stands for in the
United States, but it is subject too
deep for the casual reader, when we rec
ollect that the Guggenheim combine
placed one of their own men in the Uni
ter States senate to graft the coal BUSH
ness in Alaska. Just in the same way
the Pacific railroads placed Leland STAN
ford, one OF the owners. In me United
States senate to hold down their pur-
chased senators and brihed congressman
In their places and TO shovel out the
brides to these unworthy represents
tives Just as the Standard Oil combine
placed Mr.. Payne, of Ohio. in the United
States senate to prevent any legislation
which would protect the people from the
graft that had swallowed up all the
independent oil wells in their reach.
Just so the Guggenheims placed their
senator in this lofty place and some
future historian will give US reasons
for his election to the senate.
In Alaska there are immense coal
deposits and exceedingly valuable. The
anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania
are said to be eight miles wide and 60
miles long but in Alaska there have
been discovered already much greater
coal fields and of immense value to this
government which is obliged to pay as
high as $l2 per ton for all war ship
coal on the Pacific slope.
BY controlling all the lines of railroad
in Alaska, and by using Influence" in
the senate the great Morgan-Guggen-
helm combine have made monopoly or
the entire coal business in the far
west. and are SO directing legislation that
this great monopoly will come into abso-
lutte ownership. and control of this vast
deposit
The people did not see INTO wake up
until Secretary BaIlinger. of the inte-
rior department. displaced the men who
disputed with the Guggenheims this con-
troll and ownership and the readers Of
The Semt-Weekly Journal will recall my
story of the investigation which took
place In Washington city last spring a
year ago. l heard a part of the trial
and it is my opinion that the people of
the United States rose up at the last
election and overturned the Republican
majority in the house of representatives
because of such manifest graft in plain
view.
1t will be seen. later on Ihal the SehdIe
could not dislodge Mr. Lorimer and the
Guggenheims have money enough to pre-
vent ''unfriendly legislation"
All these things win be threshed over
next year during the presidential can
vass, and in my opinion Mr.. Taft will
find 1t difficult TO explain away the part
he took in shielding those grafters, and
through the interior department
THE WONDERS THAT REMEMBER.
After writing of the air ship which
covered more than 100 miles in safety
last week, | went back in memory to the
time when there. were no railroads IN
our part of the country. no telegraphs
and. OF course, no telephones or wire
less dispatches. a sa
was a small girl when the first rail-
road came along. and I, as | have OFT
en- said. rode on the first passenger train
that ever pulled out of Marthasville-
and later Atlanta, 1t was poor chin
ouapin ridge where the first depot was
erected in that early town, and no hint
was given of those slxyscraper buildings
that are crowding the spot where the