Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-18
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

Especial Telegram to the Globe
NEW YoRK, Oct. 17.-Uncle Rufus Hatch
thus writes about Vanderbilt: The man
OF whom his own father, the old Commo-
dore, once said: ''William always was
fool, has been interviewed in Chicago,
We all know that as rule people here
think lightly and distrustfully of newspa-
per interviews, but if this Chicago inter-
view proves anything it proves that Com
modore Vanderbilt knew what he was talk
ing about. The talk with Sweet William
took place on Sunday. It was on the day
of rest, and he took the opportunity to
damn all the rest of the world roundly
and soundly. He was speeding away to
the West on pleasure trip with some
friends and under the influence
of the sacred Sabbath calm
he decided before he got beyond the range
of the telegraph and the printing press to
leave his benediction with the world. So
he mildly turned and looking over his
shoulder said, ''the public be damned"
The reporter said William only used the
phrase once, but it echoes with brutal in
science from behind every sentence he ut
tered. His opinion was asked about the
new Nickel Plated railway. He laughed
and pushed up his fat sensual
lip, and said it was no good;
it was a badly built, break-neck road.
and the Nickel Plate be damned. Was the
Nickel-Plated to have the right to enter the
new Michigan Central and Illinois Central
depot in Chicago? He punched himself
up Indignantly and said, 'Oh no; not
much. No rival of mine can come into
any depot of mine. My depots are not
built to oblige my competitors. My rivals
be damned"
But the reporter asked, when the new
road gets to work, do you think rates will
be cut?
20, no; think it will be taken into
what they call the pool"
''What percentage will it get?"
II don't know but it will be all it ought
to get. Gut rates be damned"
Are railroad securities looked on with as
much favor as ever by the public?
They are-at least on railways that are
well managed. I make it point to man.
age my roads for the best interests of the
stockholders. All other stockholders be
damned.
Does your limited express train pay?
Not bit of it. I run it only because
the Pennsylvania keeps its limited running.
They compel me to do it in competition
The Pennsylvania railroad be damned.
| But don't you run it in some measure to
benefit the public?
| The public be damned. What does the
public care for the railroads, only to get
as much as possible out of them. I don't
take any stock in this nonsense about
working for anybody's good but our own,
for we don't.
What do you think of the anti-monopoly
movement?
1t is inspired by a set of fools and black,
mailers. When want to buy up any poll
ticians always find anti-monopolists the
most purchasable. They don't come so
high. Anti-monpoly and all other poll
ticians be damned.
When asked if there was any ground for
the complaints of some of his railroad EN-.
ployes that they are not we'll paid, he an
swered:
There's always lot of fellows who are
spending their money in riotous living
who are ready to complain about any
thing. Ny employees be damned.
When the reporter asked his views on
railroad commissioners, the despot an
swered:
They usually have to be bought up
whenever legislation favorable to the road
is needed. They are usually ignorant per-
sons. The railroad commissioners be
damned.
Now, the inquiry must arise in every
mans mind, who is it that is to be
damned? The answer is apparent, that
everything is to be damned which opposes
or in fact does not serve this mans pri-
vate interests. But who is this man who
so defiantly hurls his anathema from his
half-palsied tongue as if to blight the land
with his curse? His father said he always
was fool. When that fatherswas dying,
death had sharper pang to him because
he was leaving his vast estate of $1OO,OOC,-
OOO to the control of son who always was
fool. After the old man died the son
who, though he always was a fool, now
damns the public, brought his fathers
body into court every day for nearly year
in contest for the money with his own
sister. She only sought to gain for herself
and brother small share of the mine of
wealth, that had fallen to William. Sooner