The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-11
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dFSO, lnaI the man UnaI mace II mas
no higher or better purpose in mind in
the administration of the great interests
intrusted to him than to rob and Cypress
the people whom his railroad serves, de-
serves pity. Everyone who knows the
man has long recognized the truth that
he is one of the great intelects, not only
of this country, but Of the age in which
he lives.
There are, of course, those whose bust
ness interests are inimical to those of
Mr.. Hill and the railroad system he rep
resents and there are those who know
nothing whatever of the man or of the
vast problems of human advancement
with which he concerns himself. Such
as they may be looked to to arouse public
ignorance and passion. But the great
mass of intelligent men, and especially.
of intelligent merchants and farmers,
know well the baseless and dishonest
character of the warfare which is now
being made on James j. Hill and his rail-
road undertakings.
If that address could be placed in the
hands of every man who can read the
English language living within the Amer
lean Northwest there would not one
month thereafter be found in that broad
realm single foe to the undertakings
which have occupied the time and mind
oF M LJiI1 oxd hi, 6,oro;oJ 90 or.ofo-
sional associates for the past few
months
The shackles which he is trying to re-
move from the internal and foreign COM
merce of this section a few intelligent
editors and politicians who have their
retainers from his enemies are trying
to fasten on that commerce. They do
deceive themselves, whoever else they
may deceive. They know better than
that it is the purpose and the only pur-
pose of James j. Hill to work hold-up
on the producers Of the American North
west by forming a consolidation of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads. But there are others who do
not know; and upon the passions and
prejudices of these the able editors and
politicians are playing with more or less
of skill.
But the crusade is coming to a close.
The talk which Mr.. Hill has made to
the farmers of North Dakota is not adj
dressed to them alone, and will not be
heard by them alone. 1t will he read today
wherever daily papers are read in this
country, and it will keep on its rounds
until it reaches into the hands of even
the occupant of the humbIest farmers
shack into which weekly paper in any
language finds it's way.
1t is not long since James J. Hill came
before the people of the United States.
To those who had heard of him before
he was merely one of the rich men of
the United States who had made his
money in railroads. Within a week he
win be known as one of the greatest
thinkers and workers that this country
has to point to among it's people It
will not be to the comparatively small
circle of Mr.. Hilps personal friends, but
to the people of the entire nation, that the
grand range of his mental vision. the mar
velous scope of his knowledge of human
affairs. or the almost superhuman ca
pacity for great undertakings which he
possesses will be known when once the
intelligent attention Of the American
people is directed toward his personality,
his mission and his undertakings. 1t
may not be till then that the miserable
ambitions of those who are now making
war on him viii be fully comprehended by
the American people.
We know the man here in st. Paul.
The farmers and producers of the Red
River Valley know him. They and we
have known him since, as young man
of towering force Of character and re-
pressed energy, he toiled his way up from
a worker on the st. Paul Ievee to being
one of the main instrumentaIfties chosen
by the guiding spirit of the times to
bring to realization the tremendous I'M
dertaking Of wrestling that section and
this from savagery, and uniting the Oc-
cident and Orient in the bonds of an en-
larged American commerce. We have no
mistaken notion about him. And neither
have these farmers. He has ALWAYS re-
manned one of the people His
work has been for the better
ment of the people whom he has
served. He differs from all the men
who ever preceded him in railroad ad-
ministration, and the work he has done
has differed from theirs, in that, without
public or private encouragement, he set
his hand to the redemption Of a wilder
ness to the uses of civilization, and he
has lived to see the contamination Of his
daring undertaking.
Such a man can well afford to await the
intelligent Judgment Of this people on the
motives which have animated him.
What wonderful and unappreciatiye
creature is that Brooklyn woman who
wants her name changed from Fitzsim-
mons, on account OF the similarity OF the