The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-04-10

company and the Guggenheim bro
theirs that neither should enter into
railroad building without the other
this was undoubtedly looking toward
monopoly of transportation interests
of Alaska. Later in the winter or
possibly in the spring, Mr.. Perkins
told me the Guggenheim brothers had
refused to give consent to the plan
of Morgan and company to take over
the financing of this project as
narrow gauge railroad from Seward
through the Susitna valley to the
Tanana on the ground that they re-
garded the Tanana valley as their
field. Mr.. Perkins told me at the
same time that Morgan and company
were not prepared to encourage any
railroad building in Alaska until the
government issued patents to coal
claims then pending"
Perfecting Monopoly
II asked Mr.. Perkins, do under
stand from this that If | or any
other individual or any company
should go to some other bank or
banker and raise money for building
railroad through susitna valley to
the Tanana / should meet with the
opposition of the owners of the Alas
kan syndicate" He replied.
1--WE could not allow a railroad
| to be built through the Susitna val
ley into the Tanana. There will be
no more railroad building in Alaska
until the coal fields are opened"
The witness further states, II
made this same statement within
thirty days after that interview with
Mr.. Perkins to the senate committee
on territories when Senator Beveridge
was chairman. Senator Beveridge,
Senator Kean, of New Jersey, Senator
Dick, of Ohio, were present. I asked
permission to have my statement
taken down officially SO that it might
be an official statement because legis-
lation was then proposed for the guar
antee of interest on the bonds of
thousand miles of railroad which the
Alaskan syndicate was favoring. The
committee refused to allow my state
ment to be taken by stenographer
and published in the official Record.
Senator Beveridge called Mr.. Per-
kins by phone in New York. | am in
formed, and told him the substnce
of my statement | understand that
Mr.. Perkins denied to Senator Beve-
ridge that he ever had made any re-
gotiations of any kind with me or
even had known me. If Mr.. Perkins
will come out with a public denial of
my statements | make here as to my
negotiations with him I am prepar d
to substantiate what | say"
Later on it is shown py this rec
ord that a copy Of this entire state
ment was sent to you at your address
in New York. AS it was not denied
before the committee or in public |
was lead to believe that there was
some foundation for It, If it is true,
then you were engaged with Guggen-
helm brothers as the agent of j. P.
Morgan and company to monopolize
the transportation and natural re-
sources of Alaska. If it is true, you
were again as in the days of the har-
vester trust, the steel trust and the
New York and New Haven monopoly,
exercising your remarkable genius for
the organization of those things which
the people generally believe to be
monopolies but which you seem to
think are some kind of cooperative
combinations calculated to be of great
service to mankind. 1t was the at
titude of the government toward this
kind of combinations that you de-
nounced so bitterly when your atten-
ton was called to the condition of
labor in the harvester trust shops.
II cannot at this time, Mr.. Per-
kins, go further into these matters.
have read your speeches and have
them before me and they seem to
me to be a true exposition of your
actual practice in regard to these
things. According to your view
there is not monopoly in the United
States and never could be, and acord-
ing to your view whatever they may
be, the attempt of the government to
destroy them is outrageous, and re-
suits, as | understand you, in COM
polling monopoly to pay women five
dollars a week. But | must not pro-
long this letter at this time as |
hasten to justify myself in your mind
by giving you the facts upon which
was led to what seems to you an
erroneous conclusion.
II am Just informed by telephone
that you have given your letter to