The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-26
|0CESS HINGES
ON REBATES
y York Mayor Says II Com
Inon Carriers Treated All Alike
Rivals Of Trusts Would Sue
coed and Country
Benefit.

"a c n n o N ID, vA--Special.-
1SHkeroay sx.ernoOAAs sess-~-- 'ne
|Atlo@&oc deeper WalerwayaS OO.As g.
zion Kwas featured by the au-
cress& of Mayor William ,.
CANYON OF New York. and !.
Aampt&p Moore. president OF the
AtlanSlc Deeper Waterways Con
venuon- Deciaedly the feature OF the
session was the annual address or
President Moore. who presented an
exhaustive statement Of the waterway
situation as il exists, and reviewed the
successes ana setbacks OF the past
year.
every year." said the speaker, has
6oun0 growing pubic interest in the
aims OF the Atlantic Deep Waterways
Association, ana gains are to be noted
IN every state affected. Local projects
have been planned and in some places
c0nsummate0, indicating increasing
attention ia the utilization OF the navi-
gable streams OF the Atlantic Seaboard
States ana cities.
Prevention OF the loss OF lives and
OF property was emphasized, to resulI
from an inland highway composed OIL
bays and canals, opvlaung the storms
and tides of the ocean, and robbing
the sternal seas Of their annual toll
of DaOOd ana treasure.
a.aaSvr GaSnOr's Address.
= Tho .,U..l Nss % raayor Gaynor, which
treaeed OF the aileSed faNorlGsm con-
donea or pernnt,SI by the Govern
men. >~-.u when, IIe speaker declared,
is respO..slDae 1Or tnS lOrmalion ana
success OpeIauon " monopolies
which >-fOtIle INDIVIDUAL business en-
teryrlsts anu clog the wheels OF COM
merce, IS likely to arouse public at
tention, in that IL treats of the prob
lens of railroad rebates and Of trusts
and of necessary remedial legislation.
Beginning with the proposition that
the intracoastal waterway project is
so plain that its advantage to COM
merce is obvious, the Mayor advanced
TO the fight now being waged by his
city against the difIerential-called
by him illegal Northumberland
force which favors Baltimore and
Philadelphia on through shipments
from the West. This discrimination,
he asserted, is just as reprehensible
when directed against a community
as against an individual patron Of
~the railroads OF the United States.
Real Root of Trust Menace.
+. The real root of the trust menace,
he declared, is in the formation OF
holding companies for the purpose OF
controlling the stock Of other corpora
lions, and thus producing a business
unit or a monopoly. Dwelling at some
length on the abolishing OF trusts,
Mayor Gaynor said:
Let us remove the artificial cause
of their creation and growth and they
will disappear fast enough. The laws
OF commerce are as regular and re-
curing as the change OF the seasons
or the rising and setting OF the sun.
Do not let a few business men de-
stroy their rivals by faVoritism IN
freight rates and rivals Will come
along and outrival them 1ast enough.
And II we do not want trusts. why
did we pass and why do we not repeal
the statutes which enable such COM
binations of corporations to be formed {;
namely, the statutes which enable
holding companies to be formed to
hold the stock of any number Of cor
porations and thus make them a ous-
mess unit or monopoly.
PhiIadelphian Talks.
George e. Bartel, president OF the
Philadelphia bourse, and first presi-
dent of the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress, presided at the after
noon session. He had few comph-
mentary things to say about the riv-
ers and harbors body, declaring tnat
special projects, such as the intra-
coastal plan, depend for success upon
the general propaganda
Inland Waterways. he asserted,
will amount to nothing unless To-
caIities provide terminal facilities.
After assuring his hearers that nc
did not mean to be personal. the 3
speaker noted that Richmond, for
example, has no terminals vtsi-
BILE to the naked eye--nowhere
lot All NNCCSA " VIC
charge its wares.
Referring to the Chesapeake Bay
and the James, Mr.. Bartol sald that
the interest of Virginia in the inland
waterways plan was probably greater
than that of any other State. With
<sheapest coal, with the best climate
portation il would take a position
which could be assumed by no other
]. d. Riddick, Mayor OF Norfolk,
spoke on the subject Norfolk as
Waterway Center" Inland waterways
are necessary for the proper interchange
of the products of New England and
of the South, according TO Mayor James
H. Preston, of Baltimore. The manu-
facturers must come South for their
staples, and this section must supply
that part of the country with 1000
coal and largely increases the price OF
cotton. AS a result many plants come
to the South. His most special inter-
est was the widening and deepening OF
athe canal which exists between the
Delaware and the Chesapeake Bays, so
as TO carry the wheat and the coal or
Mayor of Trenton Adds His Views.
Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly, OF
Trenton, traced the success or the local
movement to his State. His own city
will build municipal terminals. The
Legislature has created ship canal
commission and has appropriated half
a million dollars for the purchase OF
rights of way. IT Is now waiting for
the engineers to complete the intra-
coastal plans, so that the route to be
bought may be determined.
Terminals, he said, should be under
State jurisdiction. perhaps to be leased
or sold like riparian rights, under re-
strictions. The railways, he argued,
should not be hampered by unjust con-
troll but should be handled In such q
way as to produce the best possible
results.
New York Dock COHm1srAOner Speaks.
Calvin Tompkins, Dock Commissioner
OF New York city, spoke Of the in