The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-19

ton, across Cape Cod, thence BY Long
island Sound, and so or from one sound.
pay and tidal river to another, with
mere and there connecting canal to
De cut. there Is complete inside wa
terway from Boston to Florida In
Guided Is what / regard as the grand
est water site ever saw. Chesapeake
BAY. That 1t will pay on an invest
Inent vastly greater than is mentioned
here is unquestionable
Talks of Cheapness.
over 1t you can run boats safely
and sciret fically and cheaply, although
do not agree that a reduction 10 q
basis of absolute cheapness is of tho
pest benefit to commerce or to human
Kind"
He explained that New York had no
dock on the Manhattan shore large
enough TO receive the Olympic, so a
temporary permit for using two docks
was secured from the United States
government. which will not permit the
building OF docks further into the
river SO now at places the noses of
docks will be poked further lnshore
on the Brooklyn side there are docks
large enough. but 1t Is too far from the
hotel centre.
The Erie Canal, said Mayor Gaynor.
was largely the making of New York
small affair at first, 1t was ZEN
larSed In spite of those who sec evil
in everything, especially in putting
one foot before the other, and who sit
on the dead limbs of the centuries and
moot and cavil at every move which
goes on for the benefit of mankind"
Discriminating Rates.
Then he went into New York's crIav-
ance-the differential on the Ihrou,.h
Western freight rate of cents ner
100 pounds in favor of Baltimore ana
Newport News and Norfolk, and of )
cents in favor Of Philadelphia. The
city Is now lighting this before the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
No good thing" asserted the AIayor
straining to speak every word distinct
~ In spite of his partial disability In
this respect ever came out of inter
ierlhg with the natural course OF com
inerce' This situation is in the same
ciass with the discrimination against
individuals, which has been an eco.
nomic crime for the last generation
Railroads were never given tho
, power to carry you free and to make
me pay. nor to take your freight at ,
rae OF 10 cents per 100 and your rivals
at 80 cents, and thereby ruin him and
create monopoly. Yep that is what
the railroads did for thirty years with
the consent of the government They
aunt think they We're doing ANYTHING
wrong, They even pul these agree
ments In writing to charge A one rate
and b another and divide the differ
ence with the favored individual.
Relating Not stopped.
you may say all this is stopped
Well, ! wish could wink the other
eye like some people. 1t would be
more eloquent than anything 1 could
say, 1t has not stopped and I dom,
expect to live to see it stopped. al.
though 1t has been mitigated
| 1t was the notion Of some OF us
all along that what was needed was
not that the government should I'M
dertake the stupendous job of fixing
freight rates but to see that every one
was charged and made to pay the very
, same freight rate for the same ser.
/ vice. Our railroads are not private
! roads with which the companies may
do as they please. They are created
! and exist as public highways. and arc
therefore given the power OF eminent
domain. when one man or set OF men
In given business can get theii
! freights carried over these public
highways at s1to lower than the,,