The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-02
Minnesota Officials Return From the
Helena Conference and Will Begin
Legal Action at Once.
Expressions of Sentiment Have Con-
WINGED Them That the People
Are So[idIy Back Of Them.

big fight
Governor Van SAINT and Attorney Gen
eral Douglas reached home this afternoon.
Both drove straight to the capitol and
went to work. There is no rest for
either.
The attorney general will henceforth be
the central figure. He leaves tomorrow
night for Washington and will institute
the states suit Monday in the federal su
preme court. His appearance Monday
will be formality. The court will set
date for the hearing, and Mr.. Douglas will
return to Minnesota. When he next goes
to Washington he will be accompanied by
George P. Wilson and M. D. Mum, his
associates in the case. Then the great
battle will be on in earnest, Minnesota
through her legal champions locking
horns with the great railway trust before
the highest tribunal in the land.
Tuesdays conference cemented the SYM
pathies and interests of Minnesota, South
ooAOIop hOAIoud, 1uouO anu w dSuluS lOu
Resolutions did not end it. There is now
perfect confidence each in ALL and in eff
feet those present are in league"to
provide for the common Defense" They
will be in continual correspondence, and
Minnesota will receive material help from
the states to the west. The cause of one
is henceforth the cause of all.
Grown Past Belittleing.
It is not a few politicians against the
railroads, playing for public sentiment.
The time for such talk is past. The eff
forts of Hill organs to be1ittle the anti
merger campaign show that they realize
how serious it is. Business men and labor
interests, each with good reason, are heart
and soul in sympathy with the governors.
At Helena and en- route, members of the
Minnesota party heard evidences on every
side. The following interview with a
Montana mine owner is justa sample OF
the general feeling:
Your governor is all right in this business.
We all know that, but we don't dare say it
in public. We ar shippers over the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific, and if
this deal goes through We will be at Hills
mercy.
We don't want to see the Northern Pacific
Great NortherniZed. We are proud of the
N. P, of it's splendid equipment and service,
and we know what Hill control means. This
Securities company is the saving of the Great
Northern, tut ii will be done at the Northern
Pacifc's expense. AS I understand it, it
gives the sbaI eholders a chance to pool their
dividends. This will give the Great North
ern a chance to repair it's roadbed and build
up it's equipment, and the Northern Pacific
will pay the dividends for both. They will
let the Northern Pacific run down and milk
it of it's earnings to put the Great Northern
on its feet.
zoe Toole is all right. He is not cerpo-
ration fighter, but he looks at this thing
just as we Go, and he knows he will have
plenty of backing, even If We don't say
very much. -~
Fear Jap Labor.
Laboring men Of Montana, both in ant
out of the unions, are cursing the Grea
Northern for employing Jap labor. o.
the Montana Central, and westward, prac
tically all the section work is done b!
sands, and are replacing white labor. The!
are under white foremen. The Japs ge
$40 month and board themselves. It il
commonly believed in Helena that tn
Japanese are to be substituted farthe
east. and that when the Northern Pacif
comes under Great Northern methods, tn
white section men on the Northern Pa
ciflc will have to walk.
White Is Ridiculed.
North Dakota has been McKenzied. Gov
ernor White has given evidence that b
is amenable to the influence of A1exande
the Foxy, Hills satrap in the flickertai
| dominions. His ignominious funk, fol
| lowed by statement in which he turne
| complete somersault, has called dow
on him ridicule and derision. All alon
! the line Of the Northern Pacific, on tn
return trip, trainmen and passengers wer
| orasting the man with the reversible con
victions. If Mckenzie has promised hir
denomination he will have the fight Q
his life to make his word good.
Governor Van SAINT called the Helen,
conference against the advice of most o
! his friends. They distrusted the sincerit,
| of his western colleagues, and feared tina
the meeting wound either be fruitless, o
that the democrats would dominate it an
force buncombe resolutions through.
1t was taking chances, but the result
justified Van SAINTS course, and vindi
Gated the western officials.
Praises for Douglas.
Much of the credit Is due to Wallace B
Douglas, Minnesota's attorney general
Clean cut, upright and tactful, he shapes
| things without dominating. Governor Val