St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-28
ONE OF HILLS SCHEMES.
President Trusdale Goes Into History
Little.
A BOARD OF TRADE CARTOON.
President Hills Abiding Love for
Minneapolis According to II.
& st. L. Officials.

The Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
road, when first projected, and when
prominent Minneapolis men went from
this city to Albert Lea soliciting aid and
right of way, was to be "a purely
local enterprise. for local freight and
the control of which was never to pass
out of local hands," On the strength
of this it was built and on the same
strength this city gave it valuable
franchises, which under no clrcum-
stances could foreign corporation have
obtained. The history of the enterprise
and the fact that it is no longer local
one OF controlled locally, are too well
known to need repetition; and, now, if
the vOluminOuS reports of the board of
trade, chamber of commerce and Job
bers' association is to be relied upon,
this enterprise, which the city and its
local spirit fostered. has become the
stumbling block in the way of
Improvements for which every bust
ness interest is loudly clamoring. That
is one side of it. w. III. Truesdale, its
president, takes an entirely different
view of it. He sees the Roman hand of
j. j. Hill behind everything, and warns
the city of the selfish designs of the
Manitoba magnate. For a smile, Mr..
Truesdale used this language to Star
reporter:
DRAWS A PICTURE.
81 would represent the interior of a
circus tent, with the board of trade,
chamber of commerce and JObbers'
union as spectators. / would represent
Mr.. Hill as ringmaster with a long
whip in the act of cracking it. / would
represent John S. Pillsbury and George
A. Bracket as short-skirted, French
bare backed riders, careering around
the ring. Two of the board would hold
a banner over which Mr.. Pillsbury
would be gracefully jumping, and two
more would hold balloons through
which Mr.. Bracket would be wildly
plunging, all to the crack of Mr.. Hips
whip, while 'Bill' King would be the
clown, cracking stale jokes"
Mr.. Truesdale's idea is that Hill is de-
sirous of shutting his company up in
the center of the Manitoba right of way,
whereas the company now is on the
south side of the tracks, and there its
interests compel it to be, and the Off
Gals would be recreant to their trusts if
they permitted otherwise. He denies
very forcibly that the st. Louis company
was ever given a fair hearing, and
claims. as he says, ''the committee right
through was unfriendly to US, Mr.. Pills
bury and Mr.. King because the North
ern Pacific secured that right through
the university grounds: Mr.. Bracket
and Mr.. Gilmore because they are
staunch friends of Mr.. HIPS, and both
are interested in enterprises that de-
pend upon the Manitoba road. The
friendlinesS of some of the gentlemen
for Mr.. Hill cropped out in what almost
amounted to opposition to our EXPOSE
ton"
HILLS ANIMUs.
Mr.. Truesdale writhes with disgust
whenever Jim Hills interest in Min
neapolis" is mentioned, and says that
int rest is solely because he has profit
able plant here. The Hill idea all tends
toward Lake Superior. whenever"
says Mr.. Truesdale, ''any one interested
in Minneapolis road makes arrange
mentS for securing capital or advan-
tages, he finds Mr.. Hill has been there
before and given him a stab in the
back. Wheat doesn't come here be-
cause he wants it to, but because our
mills can grind it, and therefore our
millers must buy it. His tariffs are ar
ranged to favor Duluth, but we must
have it here and SO it comes. Some of
these days all these things will be made
plain and the citizens of Minneap-
OILS Will learn IldI we are uOG Op-
posing these improvements because we
are not interested in Minneapolis, but
because we are doing our best to keep
out of the grasp of Jim Hill and these
worthy citizens, who, in the guise of
patriotism, would throttle us. They
dance when Mr.. Hill plays. All we ask
is justice, but he pulls the wool over the
eyes of those who should be our friends,
and we are having hard time get
ting it,"
Jim Hills interest in Minneapolis
welfare" exclaimed another st. Louis
official; ''it's the purest hypocrisy in the
world. Just ask Hill if he didn't openly
assert that the supremacy of Minneapo-
lis as milling point was doomed, and
that he was glad of it. Ask him that.
This is a matter of corporate interest
all around and we are protecting our
selves -