The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1902-01-16
water at half their distance.

terested in the development of
Northern Minnesota. 1t wishes
both the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern to build exten-
sions into Beltrami and ltasca
counties. 1t wishes them TO
build with American money. LIZ
wishes them to build out OF the
profits of the lines already ~
operation, so that no foreign
bondholder shall have any OF the
revenues of the new lines. Profits
Into betterments, is the law, and
should be the law, of American
enterprise. Liberal profits mean
large extensions and extensive
betterments mean new railways
| in Northern Minnesota, North
Dakota, Montana, Idaho and
new and gigantic steamships on
the Pacific coast to 'sgo alter the
oriental trade. Profits are better
than bonds for new enterprise.
We should be past the period OF
bonding to foreigners, # we have
reached that superb trade posi-
ton which we so much exploit
!. in our newspapers. But il we
curtail our profits, how shall we
avoid bonding?
jim Hills habits OF getting
close to and acting in sympathy
with the people OF Northern
Minnesota will render it more
difficult each day for the governor
and the Times to stir up any con
siderable following in the inter-
est Of Hartman, or Washburne,
or Tom Lowry. There has never
vet been time when any county
man of Minnesota, Dakotaor ~ on
tana was abashed in the presence
Of Jim Hill if he went to him with
the needs Of his section OF the
state in a railroad way When
the independent mine owners OF
the Western Mesabi became
alarmed over the absorption OF
the Duluth, Missabe q North
ern by the Steel Trust, did the
governoror the Times go crazy
over that proposition? Did they
go and build a competing line for
the independents Not at all.
Did they begin proceedings TO
protect the Independents? Not
lat ali. Who did, jim Hill He
lat once paralleled the Steel Trust
line for fifty miles and gave the
independents a chance for their
Lives. Ofcourse this was clearly
an illegal act, and usurping OF the
rights Of the people, on the part
of jim Hill, but the governor and
the Times said nothing.
And what of ST. Paul? Yes,
land of Minneapolis? Will the
Substantial and foresighted bust
ness men of the two cities fall
down" in this matter and fail to
see the trend of Jim Hills work
in their interest?
To be honest, why should Amer
leans go chasing one another in
this manner, just as the whole
nation is congratulating itself
that it is on the eve Of a career
beside which that of England
under Fox and Pitt will fall into
poverty and contempt? Under
the elder Pitt there were twenty
years of uninterrupted wealth
and glory making under the Eng
lish flag. Under Mckinley,
Roosevelt, Morgan, Hill, and
other like rampant Americans,
associates in the world of affairs,
the United States should discern
lahead Of them, with fair sobri-
ETY. of hope, an even longer
period of prosperity, building
up for the people homes I'M
dreamed of heretofore, and com
mercial houses vaster than any
the world has ever known, with
headquarters in New York, Chi
cago and ST. Paul or Minneapolis,
if Minnesota makes no backward
movement. Jim Hill, according
to all the rules Of history, is what
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