New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-19
'GAYNOR ASSA|LS TRUSTS
Monopo|ies and Railroad Rates
Under Mayors Ban.
.FAVORITISM is DENOUNCED
Remove Discrimination and Com.
binations Will Disappear, He
Tells Waterways Men.

,,o.,d Va oct 1s-Following
uorr, veIcore by the city and state su-
,hor,ties the delegttes to the convention
:, r. A,,a,t,o Deener Waterways Associ-
alton got down TO business To-Day A"o
convention will continue throughout
morrow
Governor Mann made the "elcon'o
speech, and the annual ADDRESS OIL
dent J. Hampton Moore. noting INC pc
ress during the year of the wster"aS'
projects. advocated by the associa'io"'
aroused the enthusiasm OF the deieea'9
Mavor Gaynor of New York was rounulS
anpaudAd for his attack on favoriusm III
railroad rates and monopolies.
Probably the proudest man at the con-
vention to-day was Captain John GURUS d
| Confederate veteran. who Is Richholo
harbor master. Mayor Gaynor OF Ne"
York in greeting the veteran, rernarheu'
| "s,r want To compliment you on your
striking resemblance to that great, goo"
man. General Robert f. Lee" The south-
erner bowed low in recognition or the co"'-
/ piment. 49,
In his address Mayor James II Preston
| NJ Baltimore dwelt upon the importahoe
| Of the proposed Chesapeake and Delaware
canal, saying
r. r.oro ,ronortant 10 the manufacturers
o1d other consumers Of coal IN faStel
| Psnusvlvania in New Jersey, IN New IL I'll
ard in the New England states IS thl s,, eere
canal than it IL to the western si , pcSU prod-
| and European consumers OF our loU. in
! ucts II means the continuation OF the u"
| dustrial enterprises IN the area ~ The
| have mentioned 1t means me ne for " with
! Gotten factories If New England TOT VIZ
! ont Chean coal those factories must ser
| sites near the fields of productlon ol Ut ~
raw products and OF coal lhutSu, Sov+b
| factories have already moVed 10 Tue
Removal of the artificial cause OF tne
creation and growth of the trusts "ouIa
cause them to disappear rapidly ueo'aie"
Mavor Gaynor in his address. This aruh-
ciaI cause he ascrihed to faYoritlsm III
freight rates The Mayor said:
LET the great genius Of the people OF the
rstion have a free and full play IN uuh ~ =
ness. with no freight rate faVoIltls'i. Uai or
/ public highways. nor any o'n IA monopo-
/ lies will decay and disappear a nonopTJ. ~.
! cannon evist among a free people eNcept ~ ~
| some culpahle omission or corntnlsst,oh Nc
! government or government dseHcicS III 80
! way OF faVOritiSm in commerce, -. ,ba
! n we do not want trusts-namely' VI
! combination together or the corPot4 49,
engaged In a certain KING o, ,oot rHneaI
he etatutes which enable such partnerships
/ or combinations-holdi compan'ts, 30 80 oy
call them-to he formed 70 hold tne s.I,,e
, NJ any number Of corporations, ana ne 70
! make then, = business unit or monopoly -
! I rerolIect Alright il was In the very sam
wear that we passed our holding act IN NJ
| York state that we passed n naming anu
! trust act demanding penalties ON comma :
lions and n1onopolies. How farclcal tn2t
will appear to the future historian: ~ :
will have to say that our Legislature ~,
Je,,a ocypcv
We were go ignorant in economic Hdt,elS :
that we really did rot know what we were
doing
Tho wisdom Of giving the Interstate
Commerce Commission power to FIX freight
rates was questioned by Mayor Gaynor.
on THE point the Mayor said:
II was the notion If some Of us all along
but I'm time OF clamor the moderate voice
is seldom heard and strl more selno1t.
= needed that what was needed was nor INA
government should undertake the stupen-
dous lob ~ fixing freight rates, but 70 see
that every one was charged and made 10
paw the very same freight rate for the
! same service The evil I'm the past has
not been so much that rates were too high.
but that some shippers were given iavorlte
rates 10 the great wrong Of their rivals
favortism I'm freight rates which caused
individual failures and the creation OF
what we loosely call the trustS-that Is
70 say. monopolies-all over this country
II favoritism I'm rates equals or approx.
mates the wholesale profit, those favored
can destroy their rivals and drive them out
Of business and thus acquire a monopoly IN
themselves That IL how our mon polies.
or trusts, aS We mildly ana mistakenly can
them, were all created.
The Mayor strongly protested against
the present railroad rate discrimination or
dfferential against New York in favor OF
other cities. saying:
The railroads charge three cents more
the hundred pounds on ocean freight to
| New York CitE than on ocean freight 10
Baltimore. Newport News and Norfolk, and
two cents the hundred pounds more than
To Philadelphia. We see neither morality
nor economic reason in this. II is one OF
those artificial interfHrences with the nat
ural course Of commerce which always
have worked injury and mischief instead of
benefit to commerce, as vas intended.
/ In an address on the Influence Of the
Port of New York on Transportation in
North America Calvin Tomkins, Com
missioner Of the Department Of Docks and
Ferries of New York. declared that New
York is charged with a peculiar response
biity for the entire country which II must
meet. and if It fails to 40 this he predicted
that the administration of the port would
he assumed by the state or federal gov
eminent. or both. He said
Until recently the spacious harbor afford
ed opportunities for all commerce so that
the necessity for terminal organization
such as exists at the other great seaportS
Of the world has not been apparent But
the time has arrived when popular atten-
ton is being directed to the necessity OF
comprehensive port organization.
Mr.. Tomkins said the port problem OF
New York was largely one OF organizing
the railroad terminals about the harbor SO
that each snail be put to its best natural
use and made available to all railroads
His words were
The day of Individual and separate rail
road and steamship development has
passed and the city must use its power OF
control and its credit 70 organize the en-
tire port for the railroad, the steamship
the canal and river traffic The time Is
approaching when the Interstate Commerce
i Commission. the Department Of Commerce
and Labor and the several public service
! commissions Of the states must control
terminal usages and rates.
Mayor Frederick W. Donnely. of Tren
ton. y j. advocated the issuance by the
government OF bonds to furnish money fol
the construction OF the intra-coasta water
WAYS II would take twenty-five years II
their completion depended upon the appro-
nriations OF Congress he said, In urging
| that the country's waterways associations
meet Jointly i'm Washington to press the
matter upon Congress.
n. p. WHITNEYS MOOSE FOUND.