The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-31
Mr.. Hills Bad Break,

Three days after it's delivery j. J. Hills
newspaper supporters got around to pub
lish in full the railway presidents ad-
dress at Crookston on Monday. By yes
terday Mr.. Hill had evidently come to the
conclusion that the speech was such a
good thing that every word Of it ought to
be put before the people.
The full text Of the speech contains
some important matter that was not no
ticed in the synopses previously pub
1ished. The speech, like most Of Mr.. Hills,
was replete with highly interesting in
formation and Illuminating details and
congratulations about transportation and
the development Of the northwest. 1t was
q speech any man could hear with profit
to himself.
Nevertheless the full text shows that it
was even more of political delverance
than was at first supposed. In one part
It gives Senator Nelson and public men
generally vicious thrust, as follows:
I want to say that while we were do
Ing this Producing transportation rates
to the orient and building ships for that
trade) we had not asked for any subsidy
for our ships-not a dollar. We asked
fair play. We asked only conditions that
ships Of other nations have. and one of
your senators from this state put a clause
in bill that we could not have it. That
Is the way we are helping you-they run
around and ask you for your votes, they
are going to do this. that, and the other
thing.
Now. I have wintered them and sum-
mered them. and T know them by their
backs. Some Of them are what T would
call hard lot, but If they have ever
done any good in the state, or in any
public place, or In any public way, r want
to give the credit for the good they have
ever done, but l want to say that my
glasses are magnifying and I read some
every day, and I have not found SEN
tence yet, not one intelligent act any,
where In any book that can be traced to
Them to help you the state they rep
resent to better market
Mr.. Hill IS entitled to his own views of
Senator Nelson and other congressmen.
and SO are the people of this state, who
thoroughly believe in the senator, even
as against Mr.. Hill. But when he saws
ne has w1ntered and summered" Sena-
tor Nelson he Is getting dangerously near
to hoelous abuse and Misrepresentation
and his implication that neither Senator
NelsOu lOT any OF the state S public men
have ever done any good in the state.
or In any public place or in any public
way is such a wild extravaganza that
we begin to suspect that Mr.. Hill has lost
his self control and that in his rage that
he should be compelled like other men to
abide by the laws is talking in the scat
tering and careless way that men usually
fall into when in that condition.
AS to the measure Senator Nelson sup
ported to Mr.. Hills great disgust it was
nothing but an amendment to the Chinese
exclusion bill, giving American seamen
the same protection against cheap COM
petition and a low standard of living that
the general provisions of that bill gave to
American labor on land. Mr.. Hill desired
to man his big new steamers with China
men, but Senator Nelson, who had voted
Tor the ship subsidy bill, could not see
his way clear to vote against protection
to American labor when he had gone on
record as favoring American capital.
This reference to Senator Nelson was,
to say the least, unfortunate for Mr.. Hill
and the democratic party In Minnesota.