Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-29
HARREMAN AND T51E PUBLIC Czar of Pacific 7a'lsoaas Cz7 Net See Where tFe pecE!e
 Come In.

Come In.
 H. Hartman seems on the WAcIe
 r1ost striking type of ali the rstil
 |. 3laenates. His power realty
 belatic have drawn the word
 sr," as applied to his personality
 from western farmers, but from
 very Wall st.eet associates. At
 mcns1J cf writing, Hill seems :n
 ascendancE, but no close observer u gthe thrilling fight can afford 10 i2 2hOTe Hartman very long. He runs ENdeep. His picture is never publ shed { in Newspapers CT magazi4es except fora rare and steathly su1psh6t talk en On the street. He does rot talk for publication. recently made an effort to talk with h m and get his ssviews On the subject of western rail. road development. He refused un sssconditionally to see me.
 s This wcpld be ] triAin@ batter Ii Fit wera nat tvaical Wall s'reet is where the spiders are-and s9iaHf5 never buzz. Hartman is good man
 -better than ceFta other aillioa- aires because taeFe is ahoat h.al nothine of the Pbafiseo His friends think of his quiet Kindness. H. bus insss associates respect and admire hiMkwith something close to awe. He isgaeeply interested in boys clubs and in eood roads. Some years ago fe organizea a scientific party and taoE it tc Alaska for stas'Y oa the around Hegis honest even about his railroad. ing, because, as have aid. he sees only the wonderfully comp1 te logic ef the structure he is buildi1&. The peo- nle, with their laws. and their federal government, seem 10 him vague. in- considerable things Therefore he is unable to sec why any mere individual or any mere periodical should meIltlle ir his private affars-thc railroads. He dces net consider it worth whila even to c0n6iliate the people. for l4e cannot see where the pcoDl come IL This control of the railroads is I mighty weapon. He nrQnoses 10 i swing il as he chooaa.-he one man Edward H. HarriH '1l-anl, if t1af blunderina public wishes to keep safe i would better get out of the WaY though he VII be very careful, and will try 10 swing economically and soundly. Least of all he sees that the l laundering public has weapon Of it's own, bigger than his, and that this public has a very heavyhanded Way no>s and then, of cutting free.
 /Fhese men think they are fighting flor different things-Hill, perhaps, to hold his own and develop that far | eastern trade he likes to talk about Gould to place the keystone on his arch so that it may not fall of it's own weight to the ground-Harriman lOl w. lldl llC CdA SCl nClG dI t OlAcI influences, too, such as the chance of immediate profit, the pride of achieve 1fent and the lust of the game. Of the three men, Hartman has the most Napoleonic mind He certainly has no inhuman wish to crush men or cities, and he probably regards the in- quiry to certain helpless communities which results from his arbitrary con- trol of rates much as Napoleon re- garded a few thousand men left in the trenches to their fate. He might feel a momentary regret, but it is nec- essary to his scheme. As man, per haps, he would hesitate; but a czar jG the world of dollars must not bother with humanity. Right or wrong, he has built up his perfectly logical structure. Whether he likes it or not he must conform to it's logic, or XII will crush him precisely as he and
 have crushed others.-Success.