Show JAY GOULDS VIEWS ON FINANCIAL INTERESTS THE story of jay gould goulds a ride from omaha to chicago reads like a chapter from some oriental romance on the dinst he left the missouri river at 6 a m and arrived at clinton iowa at p m a distance of miles in seven hours and five minutes from clinton to delf dekalb alb 80 miles was made in one hour and twenty minutes just a mile a minute between dekalb and geneva runs were made over short distances equal to miles an hour the time from omaha to chicago including all stops was nine hours and forty five minutes in chicago the ubiquitous reporter was waiting for the great little man mr gould did not try to escape the knight of the pencil but graciously accorded an interview the subject reviewed was the financial condition of the united states which the magnate thinks to is better than that of any other country in the world the worst of the argentine panic is over present ol of only the normal condition of business at this thia season it will help europe now but it will come back again to buy our securities which will soon boon spring up in prices gould goulda a review of the agricultural situation is ie optimistic in the extreme the outlook for crops is unusually promising the acreage of winter wheat in kano kansas and texas was never larger special provision is being made in the way of transportation for the prospective crop old cars care are am being repaired and now new ones onee constructed the stock market in ia a good indication of what the future has in store this market la is going up and its tone is confident the operators are shrewd and they know the condition of the country better than any other class lof of men this shows shown that prosperity is in before w mr gould to is pleased that the legis latu done nothing to cripple railroad interests and as they do not meet for two years more the situation is satisfactory he thinks that the I 1 anter state commerce law has wrought some good but it has also done much harm he thinks that pooling under government supervision should be carried out as it is done in england lu in this way alone can weak railroads be protected against the rapacity of the strong ones with regard to the reported out in rates on the Miss missouri buri pacific mr gould says the rates were filed with the interstate inter inker state commissioners and the law complied with concerning the union pacific mr gould says concerning the plan for refunding the union pacific debt I 1 cannot say much the plan ian was waa partially matured when I 1 left new e york but anether it has been completed yet I 1 do not know I 1 believe the bill extending the union pacific debt to the government at 2 per cent interest will eventually bypassed be be passed the measure is perfectly fair it insures payment of the debt the union pacific has about miles of road and extensive coal properties capable of yielding a large revenue the present lien hold held by the government covers only about 1400 miles of the road we offer a lien on the entire system 11 regarding the political situation he thinks that the harrison administration is a good one and is bringing pros to the country blaine and cleveland are both good men in fact everything and everybody is good according to mr gould he is an optimist and a philosopher and well he might for he owns |