The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-04-15
HARTMAN AND ROOSEVELT.

During recent months IL has become the
fashion to berate the heads Of railroads, yet IL
is certain that despite the misuse OF great priv.
ileges and the public, these same railroad mag.
mates have accomplished great and wondrous
things for the country. In recent issue OF
Opportunities Of Today" a comparison OF the
lives and accomplishments Of two great presi.
DENTS Roosevelt and Hartman. Is made, and
while that com parison Is somewhat 10 the dis
advantage OF the first named, much OF great
interest Is told Of the accomp lishments OF Har.
riman.
Hartman Is the son OF preacher, and his
schooling was limited. When boy he became
a clerk In a brokers' Office on Wall street, and
at 30 was a millionaire. At "a he was made
director and at 80 became vice president OF the
Illinois Central railroad In '97, '9e and 80 he
came to the front as head Of the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line, and
at that time these roads were little more than
strings of rusty rails and Of inadequate equip
ment. He spent O,O0O, 900 the first dash, and
in the past seven or eight years las spent
$3.50, 100000 In improving these roads The
Union Pacific Is earning &9O, 900 year now
as compared with s32, 100000 before and this
earning is made on much cheaper freight and
passenger rates.
Harriman's aid to San Francisco in that
city's distress, his mastery OF the Colorado
river when the government failed, and the
building OF the Lucin cutoff are counted as his
greatest achievements One hundred thousand
tons OF material we're used in turning the Colo.
RADIO back to Its channel, q $3.50 feet dam was
built and fifteen miles Of levee completed. An
example OF Harriman's determination Is found
insthe Lucin cutoff work. BY this cutoff 800
feet OF vertical climb and forty.three miles OF
space was annihilated AS the roadbed across
the lake was being constructed, engineers gave
up In despair at different times, but Hartman
said go ahead" They said IL was impossible.
Hartman said "Do the impossible, theD even
II you have to dump Promontory Point into
the lake" The work was finally accomplished
at cost Of s4,OO0,OOO.
OF President Roosevelt and Mr.. Hartman,
Opportunities Of Today says In part:
1T Is difficult to say which Is the more in.
teresting, the systems these men control or the
men themselves. AS men we lind much In
them that Is alike. There Is great similarity
In their motives. Mr.. Roosevelt Is supposedly
controlled by love OF power; Mr.. Hartman, by
love Of money. Both suggestions are incor.
rect.
THE personal desire to accomplish all they
can for the people seems to be the underlying
motive Of each. This motive Is seldom attrib.
uted to Mr.. Roosevelt, almost never to Mr..
Hartman.
'"rhese two presidents, SO dissmilar in
many ways, are alike when they make up their
minds to anything. They will not be turned
aside
1t Is here we find the basic motive for their
achievements.
"There are things they want to see accom-
plished. They make up their minds that these
things shall be dOne to that end their efforts
are bent.
Political preferment would not be a suf.
icient motive for President Roosevelt. Prob.
ably lie has as little USE Tor political Office pc +
Sc as anyone In politics. He uses politics as
means to an end. He wants to see things done
the way he wants them done. He wants to |
witness changes, changes made for what he re- |
CARDS as the betterment OF the race or the ma.
lion. He employs politics to accomplish his
ends, This is why he Is in politics. Probably
no one would accuse him Of sacrificing a single
or personal belief for anything that
politics could offer him
His reputation for sincerity is his strong
card. Right or wrong, the people everywhere |
look to him as man who is doing aod saying
what he believes true and best. He is a |
preacher who never seeks the wilderness for |
his sermons, but delivers them in the ear of
the people present that all men may hear him"