The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-28

promoting OF my projected intercontinen-
TAI raf'iFwey through the three Americas:
that nearly forty pounds avoirdupois OF
official literature upon the subject are
still but too obviously insufficient to com
prise and proclaim all the fair and essen
tial facts In the premises.
Then again consider this choice bit of
highfaluten:
Three ponderous and special objects
have ! almost constantly held in view
ever since my first conception of the in
tercontinental railway, on the both day of
November, 1866; every one of the three
ideals lthe railway as chief requiring for
it's perfect evolvement, T1t{S respectively,
prudent application Of high souled states
manship in indissoluble conjunction with
the mandates of pure ana sunnistakable
morality. z.
There being on foot al sfelonious plot,
nefarious ambition, villainous at
tempt on the part Of dissolute and dis
honest men to wrest from Hinton Rowan
Helper all his vested rights and legitimate
interests in "the uncomfortable measure,
he empl1aticaIly remarks:
At this particular time 1t may perhaps
not pc altogether necessary for me to re-
peat with renewed vigor Of language. but
with Wordsaof solemnnity and unequiVocal
protest and fullness Of purpose, the just
reprobat ton I felt it my duty to administer
to certain. evil designing and immoral
men, some Of whose furnished and un-
savory names communicated to congress
from Davidson college, North Carolina, on
the list ulti1no. 4
After calling Carnegie and others ''dep-
redators" Of the John Law money MAX
| ing type, Mr.. Helper uses up consldera
BILE public m oney telling how he was once
at law, in the following language:
Though much older than some Of the
younger hills near Pelee, In Martinique
gin, only in my life thus far in my
somewhat checkcred career have I hat
occasion to appear in court Of law, &
tribunal Of justice, and that was many
years ago, while residing in the bright
and beautiful and lovely and thrice
worthy city Of st. Louis whence hae
gone temporarilyst to the great commercial
metropolis Of New York. Having spent
two weeks, more is less, in the latter en-
porium, started back to St Louis; but
tonly few minutes forwards, while pass,
4 ing the head Of Zone of the freight
wharves, ! discovered drunken driver
a very recent and coarse and excessively
1Inn1gfant..frOIfE Europe, beating
his hitched and harnessed horse-not his
own property-almost to death with 9
cart rung, which he furiousy welded with
both his hands over the back and sides
and rump of the. four-footed beast, the
bipedal brute being by far less worthy Of
the two animals. =
! Whisky of a cheap and mean sort, the
most he could get for a. dime, and as
often as his puny purse would permit, was
the pesti1ent charm of the drunken dray-
man here cursorily described. Just at the
time I caused the arrest of the guilty and
cruel wretch I was. as already stated, in
the very act Of starting to st. Louis, but
was, in consequence of my complaint, de-
tanned four days in New York to give,
with others, the true. an touching testi-
mony that resulted in the exemplary con-
lviction and punishment of the criminal.
In conclusion, Mr.. Helper offers to &C
cept a. job as Pan American railway com
missioner at $4,000 per year and say
nothing about the $4,000 he has person.
| ally expended in twice crossing; the Andes,
six times travelling from the Atlantic ito
ltlesPacific, six tiniesNto South America,
four times to Central America, twice to
Europe once, to Africa and scores upon
scores ofs tiMeSsAo the beautiful capital
of our peerles STepu blie-3,fS- -
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