The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-11

made in July and September, 1907,
 and the Cunningham affidavit in Sep
 tempef, 1908. When the enmnauons were made there was not a vestige of
 evidence to show that we should pc on our guard to prevent such a mon opoly as is now evidently thaeat lened. Incidentally, anent the asser- ltion of MT. Ryan that he has no in- terest whatever in the Guggenheim
 syndicate, let me point out the. ex
 pllcit character of the Cunningham
 affidavit that the Guggenheims nau
 10 interest in their claims: and Tn
 any event, our entire past industrial
 history gives us warrant for saying
 that, if Ryan road is built as plan
 ned, 1t will be but matter of time,
 and probably very, very short time l before Ryan's road and the Guggen | helm interests are merged into o.--., Whether or mol MT. Garfield or
 anyone else had been told that the !Gnggenheims were engaged in a syn dicate to act in Alaska, MT. koose
 welt says he was never informed, but
 he, regards it of little consequence,
 because at that time, nothing had developed to show that they tended
 to establish monopoly in mining and Transportation.
 The elimination of Eyak and Valdez arm had no more bearing on the eliminaFion of the Controller Bay
 tract than the previous elimination
 in the Rocky Mountain states, he
 insists, and continues:
 Tn the newspaper dispatch to which have referred it is hinted that acted as l did because thought
 the law, then and still in force, surrl- ciently protected the public interest.
 Perhaps this is meant to be ironi-
 cal. It is for that reason that, as president, 1 repeatedly urged that the
 laws pertaining to Alaska be amend- ed; as l still urge that they be amend ed.
 Tn the Eastern states We have sur- tered from the fact that the owner ship of the coal and the ownership of the railways have been permitted to fall into the same hands. What havoc such a combination can work
 was snown when during the anthra- cite strike, the people of a large sec | tion of the country We're Threatened
 with winter coal famine, which
 would have caused disasters as graet as those of the Civil war The effort | to remedy this state of affairs by government action, after it had been permitted to arise because of govern ment inaction, was necessarily fraugnt
 with hardship and suffering for many Innocent holders of securities. It IS,
 to my mind, the duty of the United
 States government to prevent slm- liar condition arising in Alaska.
 do not believe in the policy of state owned railways as a general thing
 but I am quite willing to see the
 Panama Railroad owned and run Dy the government, as it actually is, md, in the same way, if difficulty occurs | in connection with what has been
 done in Controller Bay, l feel that it
 would be a good thing for the United States to build and operate the short line of railway (with its term
 inals) which would connect the pay with the coal fields. Then, With the coal fields given over to private de- lvelopment, the trouble in connection with the Alaska coal fields must be developed I advocate with all my heart the conditions of development being made sucn as to give ample return to those willing to undertake the work, and as there is an element of hazard in the work, would prefer to see the government err. if at all, on the side of liberality in making those conditions. A bill in principle such as, or at least, on the general lines of that introduced by MT. Robinson oi
 Arkansas, ought to become law .'