Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-30 | Page 7 | Hill and the Trusts

HILL AND THE TRUSTS. President of dreat Northern Railway Talks Upon Great Troblem. St. Paul. Sept. 27 In an address ot the flrant counts fair at Elbow Ijike last evening, President J, J. Hill of the Clreat Northern rnllwas nnd Northern Securities inmpans sild "Your 1 hnlrmun sal 1 that there are n grejt mans people apprehensive of the great Industrial eulerpilss which nro being cnrrled nn, nnd well they mas he. There nro so-called Industrial enterprises enter-prises whoso onls Industry Is In rutting rutt-ing ptlntlng presses lo print shares of stock I tell sou If there Is no harm In an enterprise. If there nro five or ten of them that arc good there Is no had In them, nnd when sou put them together there Is nn bad In the entire mass, Hut If the object Is to get something for nothing, to get something thtt does not belong to them, to get moncs out of nnother man's pocket, the money he has worked for and put Into their own If that In tho object. It Is all wrong, but some of these great enterpilses nre absolutely ab-solutely sound and right. ' Some people advocate, our President advocates turning overs thing over to Congress. W hat sort of n Congress would we have after a while If all the business of the country weio turned over to It7 I think they would he doing business In the hull of CongtesH hut the business they would do would not bring business to sou that sou want 1 think I should hold every man responsible re-sponsible for himself nnd his own nets If he does wrong, punish him, If he does right, protect him. When thnt Is clone those questions will take care of themselves.'