Show I A HOT STATEMENT FROM HILL jOn j I On December 9th The Tribune gave a I bit of Inodest advice to James J Hill I I Jong president the Northern Pacific and now presldent pf the Northern Securities f Se-curities company That advice was to I jmako fi cleali breasl of the whole mat jter tell all about the great fight what it was about and thcresult He must have accepted that counsel in good part and concluded to follow it This I morning wo present his statement I Is I of the order which Is I popularly I known as nid hot I takes the public pub-lic Into his confidence completely u finds 9 t i is wen cajcuiatcu 10 CUHW IUMU < nlt I from those whom he excoriates He I tells about the f great fight of last spring and how he could hnve cleared up money by the scores of millions by 1 letting the Union Pacific forces haves a I monopoly which he < charges thY < were seeking O all the transcontinental lines from tHc Dominion bf Canada to the 1 Mexican bordeV He tells graphically l r graph-ically of that great battle of the forces i engaged and of what had to be Included In-cluded by the victors He scorches Goy Van Sant of Minnesota for waiting wait-ing six months during which the struggle strug-gle was on and thevlclors were gathering gath-ering up and consolidating their prop ertlcs before he took any action llu sheds 0 flood of light on the whole subject and incidentally on railroad aspirations management and methods Mr Hill is a man who has no reserves when he undertakes to tell all of a story he gives his version of It I to be sUe but in this case we do not behave I be-have that he has told other than a I r straight account I Is most Interesting I I i I reading too and the statement will I go into the railroad history of the country as one oC the most Important ever made by a great railroad man in the United States I It shall set a precedent from which It may become ei ert the rule for managers of great combinations combi-nations to make pubflc their doings I as recommended by PresIdent Roosevelt I Roose-velt the people will have been well served by Mr Hill In his very Illuminating 1 Illumi-nating explanation |