The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-11
SHOULD BUILD RAILROAD
TO Prevent Private Control OF Coal
Lands And Transportation
Cites Conditions In East
As Dangerous.

been pursued as had been pursued
later in connection with Controlle,
Bay, Mr.. Roosevelt discusses some Of
the general phases Of Alaska develop.
ment, and adds;
The government must itself con-
troll the Development of Alaska and
adept as the guiding principle the
idea Of sharing that development IN
the aAtaaest primarily OF the, people
as a aanle. shs syndicate OF other
developing agencies thus receiving
benefit only as an incident TO confer
i ing It,
i Mr.. Roosevelt begins his article
1 with reference to an article from
/ the Washington correspondent of the
4 New York Tribune of July Is, justi-
ifyfng the withdrawal of the Controll-
er Bay lands from the Forest Re-
serves on the grounds that similar
action had been taken by Mr.. Gar
| field and Mr., Pinchot in eliminating
| certain areas at Eyak and Valdez
Arm from the Forest Reserves Mr..
Roosevelt continues:
The article assumed that was de-
ceived by Messrs. Garfield and Pin
chot 1t is hardly necessary to say
that any such assumption must be
made either with intent to be hum
orcus or with a feull knowledge OF
| its falseheod: sf5 was in peculiar
4 sense responsible for every act Of
Mr.. Pinchot and bIr, Garfield when
they held office under me. They rep
resnted 70. avery especial degree the
policies and rrinciplek which Had
especially at heart. and, ? while 2 of
course there we're necessarily many
actions | took on their recommended
ton with the details OF which 1t was
impossible for me to be acquaited,
was absolutely and entirely cogni-
zant of the principles in accordance
with which each one of these acts
was taken. aud each act faithfully
represented into effect of the princi-
pies in witch believed and which |
had laid down for the guidance Of
my administration.
I Months after he date of these
I Il
climinations Cunningham made affi-
dayM that he knew of no entrymen in
the Cunningham groupathat had any
contract with the Guggenheim Syudi-
cate; the EXAMINATIONS being made in
July and September. 1907, and the
I Cunningham affidavit in September.
! 1908. when these eliminations were
made. there was not yestige of evil
dence TO show that we should be on
| our guard to prevent such a monop-
Oily as ia now evidently threatened
incidentally. anent the assertion of
| Mr.. Ryan that he has no interest
| Whatsoever in the Guggenheimer
Syndicate. let. me point out the ex-
/ plicit character of the Cunningham
affidavit that the Guggenheims' had
no interest ip their claims; and, in
nay 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 ? very. very short
time. before Ryans road and the
Guggenheim interests are merged In
to one.
The state OF affairs brought to
light during the administration of
Mr.. Ballinger showed conclusively.
and for the first time, that we had
to guard against Monopoly in con-
Enection with development OF Alaska
or. to speak more properly, the ex-
ploitatiop OF Alaska by great syn
dictate for the sole benefit of that
syndicate. When the eliminations
at Eyak and Valdez Arm were made,
not revelation as regards the Gug-
genheim Syndicate, or any other syn
dictate had been brought to my at
tention. or, as far as | knew, to the
attention of any man In RESPONSE
BILE position around me, and pub
lie was wholly unaware of the ex-
istence of any such state of things as
the Baliinger investigation showed to
exist.
81 the Eastern States we have sui
fered from the fact that the owner
ship of the coal and the ownership
of the railways have been permitted
to fall into the same hands. VIVA,
havoc such a combination can work
. was shown when, during the anthra.
cite strike, the people of large sec.
tion Of the country we're threatened
with winter coal famine which
would have caused disasters as great
as those Of the Civil War. The eff
orts to remedy this state of affairs
by Government action, after 1t hat
been permitted to arise because Of