| Show HILL AND DIMS liS I Once OIl O tho iho Magnate Met Ills His Mutch Most moat of at ua us arc aro Inclined to look Iok upon James Jaines J Hill as ae n sort of ot Colossus In thO railway and the iho wider wilder business a n man of ot many expedients c a f somebody whore whom It would Voul be ho hard to down clown on almost any prop proposition that ho he might choose to set ant him himself self Bolt upon Dut But ho hn has bas met mot his tits equal once unco at least BO the tho story stor floats In hero tram Iran Minneapolis 1 Some Somo years cars ago aso whoa when thoro thorn was n a on Hills road and antI ono labor union attar after another kept going out thus tying up trains closing con can and nn repair shops piling up freight at nt numerous points and almost paralyzing trade truda and general business alt all stung along the lines and In tho tributary tho boards of ot trade In Min Minneapolis neapolis and St Paul Faul appointed con can fa enco committees to work tor for a n settle settlement settlement ment and these were clothed with pow power er or nearly approaching of at an nr ar arbitrator rho were to sit alt as ns a n sort of at court and nUll hear both sides silles Hill 1111 ap appeared fur for the tUo railroad Interests and ant tho the strikers represented by UY Lu Eu gone Bono V Debs Dubs the tho then them labor a or lender leader Tho Thu locomotive engineers on an tho iho Hill iIII lines Were weta el still pull at work worl with overt every prospect of ot keeping out ant ot nt tho tiro entirely entirety nod and this helped materially to strength strengthen en an I III Ill hands and to glen give him tho iho nerve nOrva with which ho tacos faced tho iho situa situation float tion Ho IIo was ryas grave stubborn unyielding after ho had Ind stated staled his case Goan briefly but and an forcibly and then he ho lis Ils listened with marked to all 1111 of ot Debs Deb arguments 1 guess said eats tho iho railway magnate as nB ha hi arose attar after Dobs Dabs had hod sat ant down I guess goose Mr Debs Dabs you havo have played your our last card you returned Debs quietly I think I 1 can play pIny another It Ir necessary IDs IDo Do you mean demanded Hill 1111 rather fiercely that you can call out tho iho en cn Binders 1 Tes Yee I can call roll thom them out In five Ate min minutes minutes utes urea It If I want to Humph I muttered tho magnate I doubt It But suppose you ou cnn can Lot me mo remind you that railroad companies have havo before now won out Jut against strikers strikers ers ors oven even when whon their thole locomotive engl engi engineers tears have quit work 1 I know what you OU mean menn retorted Dubs Debs spiritedly now you OU refer to tho ton Lot mo tell you something Mr Hill and you mark every ery word I Isay say Tho Iho Burlington had n a surplus of ot with which to fight Its lis strikers engineers and all alland and they mado It upend spend every dollar of that war fund before they You Vou got rot any ans surplus Rot got any war tear fund funtI nt nil nth Theres Thores ono dif dlf difference difference ference ferance Mr hir Hill VIII Now then than thero thorn Is hardly nn In exe exo executive Guiles official of ot a tho the Burlington who WAS In the fight and amt who remains In tho the service today Did you over ever think bt that Brother Hill Now It might transpire If It you yon ou still eUll prolong this fight nod ntH thus waste your our resources and anti destroy Its business bu that Wren oven you and your cool wont Nant beIn be beIn In the tha service nervier after niter tho iho smoke of nt the tho battle clears away Stock Stockholders holders nod bondholders have a wine way of ot firing out who get Bet Into trouble with their men and antI throw 1101 the tho company money J I thank you Mr Hill ILIA for tor suggesting the iho Bur nul case cane Now to business What potato points will wll you OU yield Debs DOba be Fan rending reading tho iho formal demands of ot Hills Hili men with great grent The xhi hearing boating was rather abruptly ad adjourned and within a n week tho iho strikers ers ot got gat ot about everything they hart had naked nl ea from Hill lilli and the strike Was a de do declared deCI Glared CI r d off N Y V Commercial I 17 |
