The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-08-11

fcontinued from page 10

T =
light during the administrations Of
iAdr Bailinger showed conclusiVelyl
and for the first time, that we bad
to guard against monopoly In con
nectIon with the development Of
Alaska, or, to. speak more properly
the exploitation OF Alaska by q
great syndicate for the sole benefit
Of that syndicate. When the clint
nations at Eyak and Valdez Arm
were made. not a revelation as re-
CARDS the GuggenheIm Syndicate, or
any other syndicate, had been
brought to my attention. or, as far
as know. TO the attention of any
man in a responsible position around
me, and the public was wholly un-
aware OF the existence of any such
state OF things as the BaIllinger In
vestlgatfon showed to. exist.
whether Mr.. Garfield or anyone
else had been told that the Guggen-
helms were engaged in syndicate
to act in Alaska, I know not, for
never was informed: but. in any
event, it was OF no possible conse-
quence, because at that time moth
ing had evloped to show that they
had become an exploiting syndicate
tending to establish a, monopoly in
mining and transportation aside
from the fact that 1t had een
suggested, as it has since been
proved, that they were expecting TO
be the 5henaaic iaries Of what has
since beent declared to be n fraud stent
transactions The differences betSge
elimination in5 one case and in the
other seems to me to be. sufficiently
obvious,
1.-THE elimination at Eyat and
and valdez Arm have no more bear
ing upon the elimination of the Com
troller Bay tract than have the pre-
vious examinations in the Rocky
mountains states eliminated tract
mountain state eliminated tract
after tract of forest reservation to
permit of agriculture, of manufac-
ture, or the establishment Of town.
sites, and refused to make what
on the surface were similar elimina-
tions when I, became convinced
that they were really asked for the
purpose of monopolizing the water
powers.
SIN the. newspaper despatch to,
which have referred, it is limited
that acted as did because \
the law, then and still in
force, sufficiently protected the pub-i
lie Interest," Perhaps this Us meant
to be fronical It is certain that
The law did not sufficiently protect
the public interest. It is for that
reason that, as President, I repeat
eddy urged that the laws pertaining
to Alaska be amended; as still
urge that they be amended,
'In the Eastern states we have
suffered from the fact that the own.
ership OF the coal and the ownership
Of tho railways have been permitted
TO fall into the same hands. What
havoc such a combination can work
was shown when, during the anthra-
cite strike, the people of large
section of the country were threat
ened with winter coal famine
which would have caused disasters
as great as those OF the Civil war.
The effort to remedy this state Of
affairs by. government action, after
it had ben permitted to arise be-
causes pf government inaetton, was
necessarily fraught with hardships
and s1gerlng for many innocent
i holders o { ssecuritiess It is, to my
mind, the duty Of the United States
to- prevent a similar
condition arising in Alaska. do
not Believe in the policy of state
owned railways as a general thing
but am quite willing to see the
railroad owned and run by
the government, as it actually IS
and in the same way, if difficulty oc-
ours in connection with what mas
been done in Controller Bay, I feel
that it would be good thing for
the United States to build and OPP
crate the short line of ralw!ay
with Its terminals, which would
connect the bay with the coal fields.
Then, with the coal fields given over
to private developers on a leasehold
system as simple as possible, and on
such terms as to guarantee an ample
profit to those engaged in the work
of Development, the trouble in con
nection with the Alaska coal fields
would vanish. have said already
that the resources of Alaska must
he developed. advocate with all
my heart the conditions of develop