The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-08-11

Z. 'lluef new conditions, or Wnen faCtS
'erto undiscovered have been
n. known. 1t may be not only
pro- i 20 eliminate a given tract OF
land, but highly improper not to
eliminate it, and yet, if the elimina-
tiOn Of another tract of land will give
monopoly to mining company. or a
transportation company, or any 9th
er company, it may be to the last
degree improper. At the time the
eliminations at Eyak and Valdez Arm
were made, no suggestion had been
made to me from any source nor was
there any public knowledge, that
there was the slightest danger of the
Guggenheim syndicate, or any other
syndicate. obtaining control OF Alas
ka, as the developments during the
past three years have shown to be
the case, and as has been a matter
of public notoriety fol at least two
years.
Months after the date of these
eliminations Cunningham made aft
davit that ne knew of no entrymen
in the Cunningham group that had
any contract with the Guggenheim
syndicate; the eliminations being
made in July and September, 1907,
and the Cunningham affidavit in Sep
tember, 1908. When these elimina.
tions were made, there was not
vestige of evidence to show that We
should be on our guard to preven'
such q monopoly as is now evidently
threatened. incidentally, anent the
assertion of Mr. Ryan that he has no
interest whatever in the Guggenheim
plicit character OF the Cunningham
affidavit that the Guggenheims had
no interest in their claims; and, in
any event, our entire past industrial
history gives us warrant for saying
that. if the Ryan road is built as
planned. it will be but a matter of
time, and probably a very, very short
time, before Ryan's road and the
Guggenheim interests are merged
into one.
"Tne state of affairs brought to
light during the administration of
Mr.. Ballinser showed conclusively.
and for the first time. that We had
to guard against monopoly in con.
nection with the development of Alas
ka by a great syndicate for the sole
benefit OF that syndicate. When the
at Eyak and Valdez
Arm were made, not "A revelation as
regards the Guggenheim syndicate,
or any other syndicate, had been
brought to my attention. or, as far as
/ knew, or know, to the attention OF
any man in responsible position
around me, and the public was Who'll
ly unaware OF the existence of any
such state of things as the Ballinger
investigation showed to exist.
Whether Mr. Garfield or any one
else had been told that the Guggen
helms were engaged in syndicate
to act in Alaska, l know not, for
never was informed; but, in any
event, it was of no possible conse
duence, because at that time nothing
had developed TO show that they had
become an exploiting syndicate tend
ing to establish a monopoly in min
ing and transportation-aside from
the fact that it had never been sug
gested, as it has since been proved,
that they were expecting to be the
beneticiaries of what has since been
declared to be a fraudulent transac-
tion. The difference between elm
ination in one case and in the other
seems to me to be sufficiently OBJ
vious
ne at EN an anu
Valdez Arm have no more bearing
upon the elimination of the Controller
Bay tract than have the previous
in the Rocky Mountain
states. In the Rocky Mountain states
| eliminated tract after tract of for
est reservation TO permit of agricul-
ture. of manufacture, or the estab
lishment of town sites; and l re-
fused to make what on the surface
were similar eliminations when | be-
came convinced that they were really
asked for the purpose of monopoliz-
ing the water power.
In the newspaper despatch to
which | have referred it is, limited
that | acted as ! did because |
thought the law, then and still in
force, sufficiently protected the pub
lie interest. Perhaps this is meant