Show STARTED BY TilE THE PRESIDENT i Ripley of the Santa Fe Gives His i Opinion of the in Wall Street StreetT T Tf os Angeles Cal aI March IS In an In Ini i iw in 10 an RU afternoon paper President F Ripley of the tUe Santa Fe who is isa a w at Santa Barbara Barbars is quoted as ay say sa g that President is responsible the present uncertain conditions in inu II u street and anti attributes the recent T r to a brush br fire lire which the ulett started Mr Ir Ripley said that aus of If the general son sen lent tiit nf nt in iii the country that the Santa Fe FeB B tr 5 s prepared to Inaugurate a policy polI of off f rt conservatism in the matter of tho the and an that many el 1 In the prop n v uld have hao to await more favorable Mr Ripley Is 18 also quoted as g ng that he believes it is la likely like that ut HarrIman of the Union Pacific i 1 from active railroad life with witha a ar Yr lr is quoted q in part as follows I 1 can lI Sf C no IW good to come from st a l llin ting lin with President Roosevelt such as RS asis is dS proposed by J P Morgan Moran if ifs L s dispatches on the subject are rrt t The Th president must be held re for tor having haYing started a brush fire Hat at n w apparently has become a contin conOrt continuation and I have always felt his lila imes in 1 U b bi bf of or the tile best to me It ap apr rs r to If be hP too late to stop the fire that r w c is r I TrEtty r ty t nearly nearl burned out Jetting etting l back ick to the subject of the ap dint hostility to railroad corpo is j no rio doubt that to this ling fling abode alII must be charged up tip the ther r irry rr in th tho New York financial district i J d I have no desire to pose as asa a as far as the Santa Ke Ioe Is con riled we ire arc prepared to draw dra In The cutoff is nearly nearl completed and will willIe wille x Ie r auy y fur all kinds of railway service about three months and the double aking of or our u At lines Jines between Chicago and andl Kansas l City will not be interrupted I leher t her er work if f importance however must at until such time as money and con conI I tinS are more propitious than they ap apa apar apr a ar r to 1 at present Take the th Harriman organization of the i ago age Alton for Instance While I IId IId Id no Im f for Ir Harriman that mat matr r r after all a II was one Ip which the public Urge hat hail no material concern It was wasal Wall W al str t affair purely government ownership Pres Pros nt RipI My personal nal holdings in railroad so se ar Ft st t very ery small that I cannot i L 1 nf having haing a material prejudice Cl 11 this tius s et I am however jy to public ownership as an w VI n io loves his country and has hasa 1 11 a t id cf of f the matter in all alt its axes abes I am convinced that government would mean tho downfall of r to S Speaking aking for Fir th odd stockholders the be Sa S tIa ia Fe I should not object to toj nt acquiring the system pro proa j it t paid a i for to the property what It is IsI rth in I h capitalization is at the rate P iI 1100 0 a mile and It could not be du uW t that figure |