Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-27
CHARACTER VIEW OF TWO GREAT
 CAPTAINS
Interesting Sketch of Hartman
 and Fish, Who Have Been If Public View As 0ppon- ents Over Railroad Control,
fChicago Record.lferal1E ,

I l When Edward H. Hartman Sn 9tuyyesant Fish locked horns owe the policy of the Illinois Central Raj road the financial and the rsilFoa worlds knew that it would be a ngf to finish. Wall street had good re; son to know that Hartman neve quits, never knows defeat and neve cares for quarter. Men and women too, who have taken a good look a that ponderous and welLshaped jay which makes Stuyyesant Pish { marked man wherever he goes hay, Fealied that this scion of the pilgrim fathers never knows when he i: beaten.
 Two better or more determine. fighters it would be difficult to fIuc if the world were searched. In tht present contest neither has falteres for amoment since the lines of battIs were drawn tightly, and it is certain that no thought of a compromise has ever entered the brain of either.
 It is difficult to know or to fathom the motives of Hartman and Fish Without being disrespectful to Harri man it would seem that Fish is fight ing for principle rather than for power or for personal aggrandiement Hartman may be none the less de. voted to principle, but he has, rightly or wrongly, attained the reputation of possessing a boundless ambition That ambition is, according to his antagonist, to become the master of the transportation facilities of not only the United States but of the world. This accusation brings a smile to Mir Harriman's face and gives rise to one of the first state ments made in public by him which contains the element of human sym. pathy or of sentimentalism.
 My ambition is as naught," he de clares. "I would be glad if I had never held single share of stock in the Illinois Central Road, and certain. ly would be glad if I could leave it all, and all ot this endless striving But a man cannot quit I believe that he is responsible to God for the talent that is given him and that he must use the endeaYor that is in him to the best good for his fellow men unselfishly and not for himself"
 Strange sentiment is this coming from a man whom Wall street and the railroad world declare to be in sensible to all influence except that of overpowering ambition, a man who brooks no control, either of personal sentiment or of public opinion, a man who brushes all things aside in the accomplishment of his purposes and man who counts individuals and even corporations as nothing except tlo nh I1 plish the tasks which he has set for himself
 On the other hand, this is not dis counting the sentiment that domi mates the soul of Stuyvesant Fish. He comes from the stuff from which mar | tyrs have been made in the dark ages and he is today. the railroad world believes, a martyr to principle. How much easier would it have been fo1 Fish to have subjected himself to the domination of the moneyed power oi l Wall street, if you please, but cer tainly of the power that makes and breaks men of means and creates the great railway combinations. By SC doing. and most men would have felt that they could bend without losing an iota of their manhood, he could have had additional riches pouring into his coffers, he could have had power and all that goes with playing i the game as We'll street plays it. And Wall street rewards it's friends ana never forgives it's enemies. But Fisf counted not the cost of a clash witt the most powerful railway magnate. of the age.
 He felt that he had managed tht Illinois Central Railroad for twenty years for the people, for the men ana women of the soil of more than twen | ty states in the Union; that they hat ! laid a trust upon his shoulders whici he could not shift and remain a tru' man. These men and women of tn, soil had trusted him for years. Thei utmost confidence in his integrity i illustrated by the fact that hundred of them journeyed to Chicago eacl ! year just to shake ham by the hand To Stuyyesant Fish the respect c these plain people of the farm ant of the factory was sweeter inceas. than the adultation of Wall street and their words of confidence wer' better music to his car than tlle rrs tie of paper-made dcl;ars on thu stock exchange.
 Mere sentiment. yoI eyciaim. i We'll, why not?
 Is not sentiment the greatest pow CT on the ya-Ih today?
 1 Stuyvesant Fish is Q man who be ! lieves that the railroads of this coun try should be run by the people ant in the interests of the people, as h' ] has run the Illinois Central. All thu power that, the Standard Oil compan, and the billions of money it controls could not make him betray the trus
 which he thinks the people hay' placed in him.
 It has been hinted in some quarter' that 1t Is the loss of position and th' desire to regain it that is moving Fisi to seek revenge, not justice. A gross
 CT libel upon a mans motives coui' not well be uttered. He has the couE age of his convictions and heart contempt for men of the Harrimai
 stripe. whether his contempt be vel i founded or not @I have never run this railroad from Wall street" h. ronce declared, land I shall never d