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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1910. N, "Wealth CO SLJ5Q.6S JLjLlll EMPIRE BUILDER WAS PHILOSOPHER, WIT AND STUDENT AND LOVED HIS FELLOW MEN Railroad Magnate Started Career as Farm Hand and Later Obtained Work With Steamship Company; Conscientious Care in Discharging His Duties and Tireless Energy in Working for His Employer's Interests Soon Won Him Promotion and Opportunity for the Exercise of His Marvelous Talents; He Measured Wits With the Keenest Minds on Vall Street and Never Lost a Battle; He Was Scrupulously Honest and Scorned Stock Manipulation as Means of Adding to His Fortune; His Home Life Was Ideal and His Library Was His Chief Source of Pleasure When Resting From His Arduous Work in gj James J. Hill, railroad magnate known as the empire builder, as he appeared a few weeks before his death in St. Paul. fc fg j 7M, f-- V- - well-equipp- about "Jim" mil. pioneer railroad boats and then became associated with Looking After the Interests of builder of the northwest. In the Fpeak-e- r Norman W. Kittson, who was engaged the Great Northern Railroad who HEknown died the other day was a Jim IU11 lo most of u. in real name was James Jerome Hill. In tho period between September 16. when he was born and May 29. 1;S 1316 when he died he rose to control of nany million In money, a power greater" than a king's. Also was he known ts tUu "empi.e lie 'tused tho builds-.- " He was t'na fdo m. Thourtnd3 rffem northwest to or h!n. He was u r.ew rich because builder. a empire kindly generous, This was his dual personality emJim IUH; the man who pire builder and the controlled a fabulous wealth and told man the old Swedes In Minnesota anecdotes about. lie was the doublethemarvel the human sufinancial superman and He a isn't if paradox. that perman was intensely human. Stories about "Yem Hell"? Theie were thousands. It was because ne liked to mix with people because he But out and personally looked over his properties. He knew every employee tn his general offices and. It is said knew by name every man ty some, ahetrain on the road. running HIS MAHVF.I.OUS MKMORV. "On one occasion." says an old friend -Mr. a of Hill, special train on which Mr. Hill was riding stopped on a sliding in Dakota to let a freight train Mr. Hill walked forward until he Pts. of the freight engine, saw the number and said. -- No. 94; let me see I believe it is Roberts. Hello. Roberts, how is the st running now? You had her InWhat remember. I last month, shop wan the matter? It was the cylinder. ant pediments enough remained to successful operation of the road. The of control was completed in transfer 187S. By this time the grasshoppers had left Minnesota and mysteriously as they had come, farmers had returned to the abandoned farms, and there" had been grown a crop of wheat such as the Red River vallev knows how only to produce. It fell upon Mr. Hill, who assumed the operating management of the road, to move this crop to market with a few wneezy locomotives, rundown rolling stock and a cowpath of a roadbed. The crop was not moved with any get great expedition, but it did were to market and the receipts finallyabunto dant enough establish the credit of the company and facilitate the raising of money for improvements and extensions. His associates took charge of Mr. Hill, who later bethe camefinancing, a master financier as he did a master railroad man, having quite do to keep his tottering enough onto the trains track and moving. The otherssogreatly soincreased the capitalizamuch that Mr. Hill once extion, had that postulated they already let in enough water to run the Mississippi river. But the country developed even more more and rapldiy than even theproved of the asmost san'guine productive sociates had believed possible and abundant use was found for the proceeds cf all the stocks and bonds that could be marketed. In a short time a the St. Paul, Minlarger corporation, & Manitoba, had taken over neapolis the St. Paul & Pacific, and in 1S93 the entire system was turned over to the Great Northern and was stretched out well toward the Pacific coast. In 1898 the road was to the coast and the originalcompleted Investment of $283,000 fcr 500 miles of road was swelled into a capitalization of $40,000,-00- 0 in stock and $103,000,000 in bonds 5000 miles of controlling e and road. Mr. Hill was the active manager of the railroad from the and a more active manager neverstart, was seen. In the early years he was up and down the road constantly, himself inspecting the work of every employee as well as superintending operation, repairs and He was a hard equipment. for no one could keep pacetaskmaster, with him in hard work, but promotion came rapas the system developed, and this idly and example of certainty of rewardabout the industry brought ment of an extremely efficient developpersonnel. Later cn a Great Northern man was sure of a good position on any of the railroads of the country. Not long after the Northern Pacific was settled there was new transaction and serious trouble, trouble that on the most bitter "and costly brought fight in the history of American railroading.Mr.In 1898, the same year In Hill completed the Great which Northern through to Seattle, E. II. then a stock known in the railroad exchange as an world onlybroker, officer of the Illinois Central under Stuyvesant Fish, persuaded the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to cooperate with him in the purchase of the Union Pacific at foreclosure sale. The development of the bankrupt road under the Harrlman management was even more rapid and quite as profitable as had been the growth of the Great Northern system. It, too, traversed a rapidly growing country, and it, too, though few knew it then, was under the control of a master in the science of railroading. In 1900, only two years after Mr. Harrlman had assumed control, the of Union Pacific had increased strength in such extraordinary degree that Mr. Hill and Mr. Morgan were prompted further to in the their interests wanted one of the northwest. protect Theywhich to would granger roads, Great Northern and Northern give Pacific a Chicago outlet. Mr. Morgan thought the St. Paul best suited for their purposes and an effort was made to purchase control. But the Standard Oil it turned out, was beparty, which, as associated with Mr. coming closely Harrlman and Mr. Schiff, flatly refused to sell. Mr. Hill, who had all along made an arpreferred the secure control at a prito Burlington, rangement vate sale, and Mr. Morgan at once ratified It. The price was $200 a share, much higher than the stock sold in the open market, but Mr. Hill insisted that the road was worth it and more. SUIt PHI SB AXI COUNTER SURPRISE. The transaction was conducted quietly, to the astonishment of the Union Pacific party. Mr. Morgan went aboard one interested in the Hill and every The system. It lines felt secure. seemed, had been fortified against all assault. Rut the Union Pacific party began buying into Northern Pacific as quietly as inMr. Hill had conducted his Burlington. The Northern campaign Pacific deal was even more daring, for the open mar it involved purchase inmore ket and a great deal skill in control. Purchase of control quiring of a big system In the open market from powerful antagonists was indeed . But the unprecedented did not as much as know that party the attempt was under way until Mr. who confounded educated in similar work at the head of navigation on the Red river, and with Donald Smith, agent of the Hudson's Bay company at Winnipeg, who became Lord Strathcona. In the early seventies there sprawled over Minnesota a small railroad under the pretentious name of the St. Paul & Pacific. Its main line, 200 miles long, connected St. Paul with the Red river. It had been built with Dutch In the and had done fairly well, but capital three years beginning with 1874 Minnesota was stricken with a plague of grasshoppers which stripped the wheat fields, sent the farmers scurrying away and drove the railroad into the hands of receivers. Mr. Hill didn't believe the grasshopforever and looked on pers would stay the St. Paul & Pacific as a rare barIt constantly as he gain. InHe talked of on his office sat the levee at St. you forward, saw and farmers discouraged Paul, work for Jeeus?" you in state the lie as hundreds, leaving Ole. unemotional drawled the Naw," see the opportunity got to Smith DonaUi Ylm ban Hill." "Aye got good an by did and Donald Smith had a friend old settler he he If the Swede was yob with money and influence in George might have worked on the railroad Stephen, later Lord Mountstephen, who side by side with Jim Hill In his early was manager the Rank of Montreal, from the time with which theof Hudson's rate, days. Mr.At any reached company St. Paul, two- did business. An accidentBay Hill that of business civil war, he was em- took Mr. Stephen to St. Paul. the years before Hill and railroading managed to find a serviceable Mr. locomo filoyed fn steamhoatlng before tive and coach, took Mr. different capacities Stephen over he became a part owner in a railroad. the road and never about Hill was born In Rockwood, Ontario. the road and the quit talking until Mr, country Canada. In 1838. a few years after his as enthuiastSc over the over from and Stephen aswas parentsthecame were Hill and Smith. project same time that Ireland, son about another As soon as possible after that Mr. of Irish Immigrants. Thomas Shaneh-newj- r, see the was born In this country. Fate Stephen went to Amsterdam to of the Dutch bondholdrepresentatives took Thorn Shaughnessy across the ers long persuasion 30secured border just as It did Jim Hill, and Tom an and after on their holdings at cents option Shaughnessv became president of the the dollar. Stopping in New York Canadian Pacific, the great railroad of on he interested John S. northwest. He was then on his return the Canadian a sturdy Scotchman and Riven a title, becoming Sir Thomas Kennedy, or the old school, who was uanKt-and laler Cord Shaugh- trustee Shaugr.ne!jy. for some of the Dutch bondnessy. Jim Hill, drifting south across holders. The upshot of the matter was the border, became master of the CJreat agreed to assist In Northern, the great rival of the Cana- that Mr. Kennedy dian Pacific. Very likely he would financing the enterprise. Robert W. have been Sir James and Sir Thomas Angus was also persuaded to nn untitled thoueh prominent citizen assoThere was then organized anScotch-Irishad both remained In the countries of h ciation of six men of Scotch or their birth. who stayed by the railMr. Hill's father died when he was descent, 14 years old. He had had a common road enterprise with all the pertinschool eduesttlon. nnd on the death of acity of the race. With the of men his father was obliged to go to work. Mr. Kittson all of these exception in all the extraordinary Many of the young men of the neighborhood had found profitable employ- businessloyally of years development ment with the Hudson's Hay company and saw the little. St. PaullaterPacific, at St. Paul, and young Hill started to the control of which they secured for them. Rut his resources' would a cash of $23.000, rounded join not permit the trip at once and he got out Intopayment Great the Northern work on a farm near Syracuse for a with Its thousands of miles ofsystem, track a and with little stake started and capitalization of many millions. year, for the then new northwest. Mr. Hill had little money to put into The young man found that the Hud- the enterprise, but he had a boundless son's Ray company post had been energy was worth more than moved from St. Paul to the Red river money. that first hard work was to and that, his friends had gone with it. persuade His the Northern to keep a but he got work In commission house its hands off the road, Pacific and this as a clerk and stayed there. St. Paul complished by turning over tohe itac-a was a small, struggling town then, with branch of the railroad north running most of its business due to Its loca" n Xnrth ' tion at the head of navigation on the to next great difficulty was to persuade Mississippi. . .... tUC ..ulillt"v.a TOOK I P STKAMflOATIXG. the franchise, which had lapsed with The steamboat business was as prof- the receivership, and this he did not of succeed In accomplishing until the last itable as any Inother, and after years Mr. of the session. various capacities dayWith employment Hill became agent for a line of river these difficulties removed im highly theorists witli his homely logic and upset finely spun arguments with plain Anglo-Saxo- n the speech forgot man who, in his own they wart "first words, a farmer, then a merchant's clerk, then a farmer, a laborer, a clerk, a builder of steamboats, a constructor of railroads, a subcontractor, and then a stockholder,of manager and owner." ten or a dozen years ago heUpward was plain Jim Hill to most of the country. In the northwest everybody from day laborer to banker had heard so much of him or knew him so Intithe story of the Swede that mately an Idea of it. at the camp only meeting gives The story dates from the days of the old shouting camp meetings, when the converted "went forward" and the revivalists made personal appeals. One of them exhorted a Swede sitting the stolidly through frenzy. come meeting'sOle? "Won't Won't r te. Early in July, 1912, Hill J- v " low-grad- f i - w. . ! With Whom He Came in Contact; He Often Locked Himself Alone in a Room While He Solved Some of the Problems With Which He Was Often Confronted; Numerous Stories Told Illustrate the Broadness ,s Jn ft-.- ' nounced His Retirement From Chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Great Northern Railroad and Designated His Son Louis to Succeed Him as Directing Head of the Great Corporation; His Mastery of Detail Was the Marvel of His Employees and Others K?;fJgXS' fay? ed . -- " 1 .- ' . - S i ' l , Vlt 4 a hotel room, the sunject would warm Mr: Hill up to the proper point about 3 o'clock in the morning, when he would doff his coat and vest and become exthe ceedinglyouteloquent, obliging to half dozeother and fagged principals one one, and when the deal beg off by was made it will be rememberfinally ed that Morgan went to Europe and Harrlman to a hospital for rest and J ,'A ' 4 z?y V-' of His Sympathy and His Keen Interest in the Welfare of His Humblest Employees W ;;,fV::Ci - LOUIS W. inLL, Successor to the late James J. Hill in the management of the great fortune left by the railroad magnate. Har-rima- n, Harrlman and Mr. Schiff gave them notice that they had secured control.asMr. Morgan, who received the sent ortounding news at Aix, atofonce$15,000,000 ders for the purchase open marNorthern Pacific stock in the be found. The ket or wherever it could bidding Harrlman brokers were stillcontinued for it, and the competition in for a few days until it culminated Northern Pacific the corner and panic of May 9, 1901, whena $1000 Northern Pacific sold up to the share. Both the Morgan andmore Harthan rlman brokers had bought the could be delivered and half of were houses on the stock exchange threatened with ruin. of Mr. Nothing showed the influence their assoHill and Mr. Morgan over the loyalty ciates more clearly than them at that stood by with which they flattertime. Every one of them had n Harri-mahis stock from the ing offers forbut none of them would party,, sell a share. Of the six original assoPacific, ciates in the little St. Paul and John S. had retired. at once only Mr. Kitson Kennedv, who wasat abroad, Mr. Morgan's displaced his proxies posal. Lord Strathcona, Lord Mountstephen they had though and Robert W. Angus,even mote heavily become bv this time Canadian Pacific than interested in the refused for an instant in the Hill lines, holdings. to consider sale of D.their Willis James were Equally stanch and George F. Baker and all their associates in this city. Few such large financial groups have so held together in strenuous times." The upshot of the fight was a compromise. . While the Union Pacific was disposstock holdings in the Hill ing ofMr.Its Hill was ripening a melon lines long cultivated forthe Great Northern stockholders. By acquisition of a lumber road running from the Mesaba In Minnesota to Duluth he had range ownersecured for the Great Northern of a large tract of the valuable ship ore lands on the Mesaba range and iron had largely added to the tract by subAfter long negotiasequentMr.purchases. Hill leased the lands in 1J06 tions. to the United States Steel corporation and distributed certificates represent- well-remember- ed ing income under the lease to Great Northern stockholders. The certificates have sold as high as 81 in the open market and dividends have been paid upon them. annually In the early part of 1907 Mr. Hill reas of the Great Northtired ern and president his son, Louis W. Hill, suc-N. ceeded him. Another son, James Hill, had previously been elected of the Northern Pacific. In April, 1907, Mr. Hill became chairman of the Great Northern directors. was His retirement from the presidency he kept nominal in the respect that himself in a position to assume con-a that he work. gave up trol, but actualofin routine His great amount was shown when "one of the authority of the Great steamships big Pacificwas lost. It was one of a Northern fleet of the heaviest cargo carriers up to that time built for the Oriental not to retrade, but Mr. Hill decided the railroad that place it. He insisted rate legislation had taken all the profit from the trade as far as American lines were concerned. Mr. Hill also directed& in 1908 the purchase of the Colorado which gave his system an Southern, outlet to the Gulf of Mexico. RETIRED AS CHAIRMAN IS 1012. On July 1, 1912, Mr. Hill announced his retirement from the chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Great Northern m a valedictory letter to the stockholders. His son, Louis W. Hill, who succeeded him in 1907 ns president of the road, stepped again into bis father's place and became chairman of the board. Tho elder Hill, however, could not got entirely out of harness, and became chairman cf the executive committee. This shows how Hill built his emhow he fought his financial batpire how implacable he could be and tles, how resourceful. Eut thro. I. h it all runs the human-nts- s of the man. As when he asKed a clerk the tariff on smokestacks cor-to Helena, Mcnt., got a prompt and rect answer, and then promoted the clerk rapidly through the various stages to the position of general freight agent. Or when, on his way to the Pacific Coast in his private car, he stopped at a small station in Montana. He made a detour of the premises, rushed Into the car, and dictated a message as Falls. follows: "Superintendent, Great I find at this station three men enin digging ,a well, two- men on gagedsurface the bossing the Job, one man down in the hole digging. Have dismen and am sending charged these them west on No. 3. You will please come here and dig the well yourself. J, J. K." Ireland once said that he Archbishop considered James J. Hill the possessor of one of the most active minds, if not the greatest mind, of modern times. This fact has impressed every one who has had any business or social intercourse with Hill, and many have doubtovercome in his less felt the menpresence, because of his his powerful interviewer upon focussing tality, with a rapid-fir- e questioning which always is surprising, both to the eld emcaller. ployee or the casual, his Several years ago physician decided that Mr. Hill's health was in such a state that it would be dangerous for him to leave his Summit avenue mansion in St. Paul for at least a day or two, and prescribed, among other things, that the magnate shoold lie in bed much wrapped up, to ward off the influenza. After threatening attack of con the patient much pro and argument was prevailed upon to take to his bed, which he did most reluctantly. When his secretary arrived in the to sobmit tome matters tc his evening chief lie found the latter sitting up in about his head, bed, with a large shawl in front of him four books open lying on the bed, each booking treating on different subjects, such as philosophy, imprisoned Although some fiction, theology. little physically, he was finding outlet for the working of the mind. vice-preside- nt It? Is she working all right now?" He shook hands heartily with the engineer. The man said to me, 'Did you ever see the like? I was four years on the Hock Island and I didn't even know the name of the president certainly never taw him and here is Mr. Hill, who not only remembers my name and that I am running 94. but has kept track of her and recollected that shs was In the repair shop and rhy? I tell vou, that Is the kind of a man to work for. " Another story of the same kind Is told by Albert R. Ledoux of New York, a former associate of Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill and I had driven across the latns in Montana and reached the railroad at 2 o'clock one morning," said Mr. Ledoux. "As we drove up a frelgr.t train came rushing 1own hill with two boxes blazing. It stopped and journal the crew began carrying water, when Mr. Hill drove up. The following conversation took place: "What Is the number of this train?' "'Number 40, answered a brakeman. Let me see. Norris is the conductor. Is he not? Is he there?' "A man stood up and said. Yes, I am Norris: who the devil are you? "Mr. Hill said. "How fast were you coming down that hill?'e miles an "Trobably twenty-fivhour; but what business Is that of yours? 'Doesn't this road hare some rules the speed of trains? governing do not know what business It Is "'I of yours, but we are supposed to run twelve miles ordinarily and twenty-fou- r miles In emergencies, or if we carry live stock "Have you any live stock on board? 'No. said Mr. Hill. "Norris, my Then," name is Hill; 1 am the president of this road. You have shown that you know and knowingly violated them. the rules You were running at least thirty-fiv- e miles an hour down that grade; that accounts for vour hot boxes. Take that train Into Chinook, turn your papers and over to the division superintendent consider yourself discharged.' " Mr. Hill was going out In his private over the work on a car one day to look fi- The superintendent of the r.w branch. new was branch the which division in v'V.OVJ i. being laid boarded the car to greet "the ?4 . . old man." The first question Mr. Hill '17' i. .Wwa. tTj: fired at him was: "How many ties have you shipped ... ' 7 in tr. the branch?' 4 The superintendent knew how many tie had been ordered, but he knew I the number that had been nothing of He believed that his time delivered. was worth too much to the road to be in counting ties but he did not spent M HIS MASTERY OF DETAIL,. tell that to Mr. Hill. So he made a and answered calculation mental tuick His wonderful mastery of detail al'ssi. h9 though he had the figures at his was a marvel to his employees ways command. who had occasion to observe others and -This morning 140.000 had been of his business life. He this feature men with questions covering shipped." his -plied ot besran worry. Then the "super all the minute details of the big Great t ft. should Inquire the "old man" Northern system, and seemed to reSuppose about arthe matter when he further member them well. Of course, it might new scene work. of the rived at the be said that in systematizing the salthe At the next station he clipped fromconlist on vhe road he has, without reary instructions to the train and wired to geographical location, required gard struction chief: of a office boy in Seatthe that salary ties many Jf you are asked how be $15 should tle per month, the same have ?en delivered, sayhe140.000." in St. Paul or Havre, Mont. This rule r4V J4:-- i Arf' the He felt easier when rejoined car. covered the entire clerical forces of in the president's private . " t r I party the Great Northern in all departments. 1 sure the first y' and enough question And this plan was extended to an eastlie saw 5 Hill Mr. when the asked by ern road in which Mr. Hill had a conwas: chief interest for several years. trolling have received?" you t ... ".&. "How many ties jrg On occasions when a large deal was "1 have received notice of 140.000," to out be it was the custom of X thought .V wa the reply. ,i - ; Mr. Hill to lock himself in his room - ; Mr. Hill smiled In his curious way, , and remain there for days in seclusion, men never knew whether or 4.y. and hissaw ; A4 permitting no one to see or talk with not he through the deception. him upon any subject, whatsoever; and 4V HAT THi: SW'KDK TIIOLCHIT. when, upon the occasion of the great veral years ago, Morgan, In hl later years Hill was so well merger of al. were holding protractet one Harriman known as a philosopher ofandtheeconomist This the of cia in of the first this of Turkish the the fall shows one Trebizond, of the showing picture, country arriving captured by Russians, ed meetings with Mr. Hill in a-- downund as the hist, pries ceased common ancient Turkish forts and guns' whirh capitulated to the army of Grand Duke Nicholas. A Russian sentry is guarding the guns. town office in New York City and at a sense cult that people talking ed e 1 "' -- " .. Hill-Morg- an FIRST PICTURE OF FALL OF TREBIZOND - Tist-lve- s . - ,v . 1 . ." " 1 "'. , v-- X - - ijfA tsh" v V4f . W&'- An- .4 A4' : Mr. Hill came home and recuperation. took up his usual work. For many years MaJ. A. W. Edwards, after United States consul general at and edited papers Montreal, published N. at Fargo, D., and was one of the solidest citizens of that flickertail town. He weighed 340 pounds. One he appeared at the Great Northerndaygeneral offices in St. with a delegation of Fargoites atPaul his back. They had a grievance. Thev the road wasn't all it thought should for Fargo. 'They'd doing have It out with Jim Hill, even if they swung for Some of them had never seen and were dumfounded when they him, encountered an amiable, courteous gentleman instead of the ogre their prejudiced fancy had generated. Hill passed cigars and was almost pathetic in the assurance of the heavenly dewhich surged through his soul light because of this chance to make the acof the North Dakotans. quaintance Then Hill began to talk. ,He discussed the greatness of the and prospective, and northwest, present especially of Fargo. Finally he turned loose n his of Chinese hobby trade development. When he did that he was iresistible. An hour passed. Then two hours. His listeners were more than spellbound were They hypnotized. Then he looked at his watch. sorry, gentlemen, out I have an "Very important 1 for o'clock, and it's that engagement now. Never comb to St. Paul without looking in on me. Good day."' There were handshakes all and the North Dakotans filedaround, out, every one of them prepared to swear by Jim Hill from that time on, and not a man of them had whispered of the grievance that had impelled him to travel clear across the state of Minnesota. Everybody about his office knew that he was likely sometimes to be upset by little things, though rarely by big ones. It was when he was meeting the big emergencies, however, that he was prone to break loose over a trivial matter. Then his expressions were picturesque, and sometimes fresh and sharp enough to be quoted months after their utterance. Sometimes they meant nothing serious, serving only to let off the extra steam. Once he was deeply perturbed over some vexatious and rather difficult problem. He didn't feel pleasant. His eye chanced to light on the head of his Immigration department, and the relief of a momentary diversion was too tempting to resist. "What are you doing now?" ho demanded. "Oh," came the reply, "wo are getting as many people Into Montana and beyond as we can." "Getting them Into Montana? Why don't you get them Into Minnesota? You must get them Into Minnesota." "Yes Mr. Hill, but " "I say, get them into Minnesota. Oh, you immigration fellows are all nine spots. Nine spots? You are nine's with the talis cut off. You are zero. Zero." Then he returned to th poser in hand with a clarified mind. Why Border Residents Want Intervention (Continued From Preceding Page.) ed secret instructions from Washington to play the Scriptural game of "turning the other cheek " to the enemy. This fact, I am told, is causing more or less ill feeling between the soldiers and the United States government. The Columbus raid taught a lesson, and the guard has been redoubled and the border is comparatively safe at that point, but the lesson has not been plain enough, as witness the raid in the Big Bend region of Texas about 100 miles east of here. But until the United States plays the Big Brother and goes into tlie country. Texas, New Mexico and Arizona will never be safe. The country must be policed from one end to the other with American soldiers and it must be kept so until the big Mexican industries are started again and thespirit of revolution quieted. There is enough in Mexico to merit such an intervention, and assuredly this coun- try would be recompensed. Then perhaps a man big enough for Mexico will come along, take up the reins of gov- ernment with the sanction of the people, or most of them and Mexico will again see peace. These are sentiments of 80 per cent of the people of Texas and would be the sentiments of the United States, if they knew the facts as well as Tex-an- s, - - |