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Show "JIM" HILL UNFRIENDLY TO ROOSEVELT? It I hard for newspaper reading people who Hn sensible people, to belli be-lli vu Hie Washington tcort to tho ef f' t that Mr James J Hill, PitHiViii of th'' N rth n bei urltles Company (also the C cbssus nf the Northwest) Is in Washington nt this vtry moment organizing a movement which has for Its htef objeit the defeat of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt's nomination for the Presidency In 1M1 We say that this Is Incredible, because such a movement could not be on foot, and at the same time escap- publicity And with publicity pub-licity the very object of each a prop-oeltlon prop-oeltlon would surely be defeated Mr James J Hill does not realise and even Theodore Roosevelt may not realise, the breadth and depth of popular popu-lar feeling throughout thl countty againat the trust, so-called Now, there are good things about n truat. and people generally understand verj fairly what they ar. But theie are also bad thing, and theae the people know something about, too The trust, for Instance, re nnt to rlt too long the decrees of our courts They must not too long charge ewrbltan' prices. They must not too openly organize to defeat the nomination of an honeet public servant, Just becauae he ha been against them, for of course the real reatvm for Mr. HUP opposition to Mr Roosevelt If it exUt. le I hat the President has proceeded without fear or favor to bold the Northern Securities Se-curities Company amenable to the law, whatever the Supreme Court of the United State determine that to be. Any such movement a Mr Hill I" aid to father could only fall of It object, because anything that a up-poed up-poed great monopolist, who Is also supposed to be an unreasonable monopolist, mon-opolist, seems to want at thl particular par-ticular time Is exactly what the people will not want We ay this In no spirit clas There are no classes when a suhject of supreme moment, like thlB one Is under dlscuwlon. Tho trust, so-called, have had abundant opportunity oppor-tunity to flourish in thl country The people have been tolerant of them, having seen, with an uncommonly patient pa-tient Intelligence, as It appears to us. the benefits to be derived from their more economical operation and lower prices Rut the prices must be lower, nnd the combinations, nnd cspeclall) the monopolists, must not go too far In seeking to decide economically what the consumer shall or shall not do And they must not venture into politic pol-itic at all. If they do. they will find themselves far worse oft than before Probably Mr. James J Hill understands under-stands this Hence It Is that we say that the Washington dispatches In question are probably untruths. |