' ' :: tTTn ADunnxf nnv TmiOM at DnOTT AMT TfTTTCHAV T?.VP!NTNfr. NOVEMBER 10. , 1908. '
C. E. S. Wood Criticises Do-Nothing Policy of
' JjJ Harriman in a Witty Speech at the Hill Banquet
Mr, President of the Chamber or Com
merce? Mr. Hill, Mr. Elliott Mr. Louts
Hill. Mr. HArrU and all the rest of
you railroad,, president and magnate
from the frosen north If I had any
sense or taot I would ear welcome and
lake my seat. - But you ask any promi
nent cltlsen and he will tell you'f liave
neither, so I am olna; to Uve up to
my reputation, and at this our of .the
rooming; when all the food tMngs town
been said and the bottlea are empty, I
' - am going- to Inflict speech, ttponOu,
, not -only a speech, but a lecture, . f r
I hate to loeo. this chance to be ad
vertised y. ' the company I keep. . I
know I ought to shut jup. but what
man. after preparing , a , Speech, lying
.awake over It, tossing over It. wffer
. Ing over it. ever had the self-denial to
refuse to utter ItT Not one. Not in
the history of man. 'There la a fatality
about . it. I know you want to p
home. I know it is an unseasonable
hour. I know the long list of -enter;
talnlng addresses we have listened to. I
know I ought to ait down, but I am
not going to do It I cannot help It. 1
am possessed of a devil and I must be
delivered. , : ' . , . , . . . v. 2..
it la not always deoirable to have
the last Word, bub I jtake Borae eonso.
latton from the facta-that I am invar;
lably the last on these after-dinner pro
arrams. For in that wider sphere where
- Mr. Hill has told us he will be looking
down upon us while ha solves new prob-,
leras in a new method ot transportation,
sportln about on red and white wings,
with no need of ever sitting down and
nothing- to sit on. -la that happier and
luster world the last Shall be first and
there as I g to take my place at the
- head I shall wave ta-ta to Mr. Hill and
the rest of you. who have outclassed
. me here. Wanderers from Boreal BL
Paul I bid - you welcome to ; arboreal
Portland and I am sorry from my soul
that for your sins yoa must hurry back
, to your, religious town. -j. - . - ,
..v''', --;- Weloome to Oregon, .
' I am sorry that It Is not'ypur good
fortune to live In some one of the. de
lightful climates of Oregon, which
rsuuro from the almond orchards and
tig groves -of Bogus River to the apple
orchards of Hood Kiver.'from the rain
loss skies of Malheur and Harney coun
ties, where the silver threading ditches
are making the desert to blossom as
the rose, to the gentle mists of Astoria,
where the salmon leaping -into the air
does not know he U out of the rlver;i
In Oregon we have bargain-counter
ell mates for every tme, " Vlrgtt Jitmself
- -would be at home lying under the wide
spreading oak trees of southern Oregon,
watching the . vine -dressers among the
-vineyard, - lletenln g to the hum, of the
bees gathering pollen In the willows
and looking, afar to , our, .mountains
where the; rains and 'the snows hide
away at the root of the solemn firs and
tufted pines td bless ua perennially In
waterfalls and rivers. .
It Is good to have you with us now,
awitlamn. In these golden days, but I
wish yon had come to us In our hpll
iiavr vnii nnhKDDT wise men of the
ieast, wner of .railways, called,, It - a
panic. - But- with lis It was "one Ion gr
hOliaay Dana TMJuaay. - M nwre -wna
nothing to be done and we did It Oc
casionally I would see a- olttaea oomkig
out of a bank and as I looked upon his
fiollday face I was reminded of Byron's
Ines to the dying gladiator: "Butchered
to make a Roman holiday."
ys Sympathy, for Railroads. ,
Tithes' have been hard on all of us,
but we know from Mr. Harrlman's
statements that the hard times didn't
hit anybody as they did the poor rail
road men. and that Is confirmed here
tonight by Mr. Cotton-t-We know how
they've had to skin along without any-'
thing but bare necessities and-we who
are so fortunate us not to own a rail
road ought to thank our great ruler (I
i will not mention hip first name- until
after the fourth of March) that what
ever troubles we may have had we have
been spared railroads. - After hearing
these tales of -woe, my heart goes out
to the poor railroad magnates. - v
Let us sympathize with them and
, pity them and help them. Let us re-
. member that possibly It is not our own
virtues which have kept us -from own-
- ing railroads. Let us not In our pride
look down on these wretched railroad
kings, but remember that It might have'
happened that we would1 have been as
bid as they. I hate--to-see the fellow1
- who is down being kicked, especially a
s-ood fellow like Jim Hill, and so I
think I can speak for all present when
I Bay to you, Mr. HilL and your friends
but particularly to you as a hard-
working, deserving man that if you
.want to come out to Oregon and be
happy we'll help you to do It, and damn
the interstate commerce commission.
. . Boine atsn'a uok.
Gentlemen, have yott ever reflected on
the astonishing -part - which luck plays
in every man's career? One man may
be sober and industrious as I honestly
believe Mr. Hill is and yet a railroad
will fall on him. You can't ay why he
should be thus afflicted. As far as you
. can see, he is an honest, hard-working
citizen (as I believe Mr. Hill Is), de
serving a happy life, and yet he falls
- upon a railroad.
It's one of the Inscrutable acts of a
mysterious Providence. Another man
may be a miserable sinner, deserving a
Just retribution tor his wicked life and
mere are many nere tonight 1 oould
nameand he will be spared that mis
ery. As I look around me I am im
pressed with the fact that yon cannot
beat a fool for luck. But let me not
dwell on the misery of our guests. Let
us try m uu vnra icrgei li.
But try to forget it as he mav at
this festal hoard, under our balmy skies,
. and fascinated by the wiles and caresses
, of two governors and the chamber of
.commerce, ever before Mr. Hill's Inner
vision is the damning fact that sooner
or later he must return to St Paut St.
mui was naxnea I or a, gooa man. He
meant well. He was probably, until
Theodore Roosevelt assumed the throne,
the readiest letter-writer of epistles to
ioi neamen wnicn me worm naa seen;
- but he was Ignorant of human nature.
He- prohibited women-to wear their
heads covered in church, and if you
wJU go to church next Easter Sunday
you wui ee won women ininK ox St,
PauL He frowned upon marriage and
It has been on the Increase ever sin pa
' He was a cold man. and St. Paul la a
Don't Worry
About Piles
Pyramid Pile Cure Will Quickly
' Remove All the Pain, Suffer
( ing and Discomfort. ' '
prlaj . Package. By KalL Tt. -
Many people suffer the torture - of
pile necause tney nave ucue xaitn in
an ultimate relier or cure.
This condition Is-part of the terrible
maiaay caiiea plies. . euon an ariiicnon
1rfin the nerves pf men and women
(o n to the lowest depths and gives to
mankind .a feeling of despair,
l.Kn't permit yourself to become
victim or this melancholy.
' Pyramid Pile Cure is sold every
where, by all druggists. It does re
lieve piles and does this work quiokly,
r-Hlnlesjily and without apparent effort
v have thousands - of testimonial
provinir Us merits. -
Go to your druggist today and buy -a
package, or If you feel any timidity or
iiinilesijf about the matter send us fifty
cnts. the price of Pyramid Pile Cure,
and we will rend you a package , by
utMil in plain wrapper.---: --i .
ir,e or two apiaications will prove
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1 of o you send us your name and
.!iir and we wlil send you - a trial
i n- k f I'v mull in i lum wrarrr free.
j M-r Pj-T.inld Drue; Co, i$a Pyra
. 1 1- iT. .Marhall..Mlch.
cold town. It Is not as -dry as some of
me iowns in uregon, . but it is coiaer.
There they sell fish by - the . eord, milk
by the chunk and whiskey in bricks, and
(he favorite way to take them home Is
in the hat We who live in Portland
cannot imagine the fearful chill of 8t
Paul. A tierson cannot ro to the North
ern Pacific ,or Great Northern railway
offices . In St Paul without being
clothed in Arctle overshoes, - a buffalo
overcoat --and a ceonskln . cap. Icicles
would - hang from his - beard and his
breath would fall In snowballs.
' How different it is here in Portland.
Here, if we visit our genial friends
O'Brien,. Cotton A Co., In the lightest
cioming in midwinter we snau prooaoiy
sweat before we leave. I tell, you, gen
tlemen, there is nothing like hot air.
' - Bast Soad in the World.
Now that. .the North; Bank road Is
completed and we are in direct touch
with all parts of the globe, by what I
am told Is the best planned and con
structed road in the world, perhaps the
climate will ' become more and more
gracious. No more cold days or feet
in Portland. Good-bye forever to cold
weather. For It will only be a cold day
when Jim Hill gets' left I understand
they- are going to change the name St
Paul to St James or 6t. Jim. If they
do, you can bet it will be a hot town.
Mr. Hill . why do you want to hurry
awayT While you are here you don't
have to melt the gaa, , thaw out the
elsctrlo.fluld or make the furnace fire.
It may be pretty hard on you gentlemen
to have to live In a car. I know what
that is myself. The woman In front
of you asks you to hold the baby while
she hunts for her rubbers. The tall
man with chin whiskers knocks your
hat over your head while he is reaching
for his parcel. The fellow behind you
has his knees in your back and the bur
ly farmer walks over your corns as if
he thought it was an agricultural feat,
and Just as you are dropping to sleep,
tired out, the conductor punches' you
and your ticket and you begin all over
again.
Dodges Building the Tire.
-I Am sorry for you gold plated hobos
who have to live in a car. But there
la one bright spot in all this discomfort,
while you are away from homj you
don't have to make the furnace fires.
That's right, Mr. Hill, laugh, I know
you-feel good over it It makes you feel
good -to think that this morning you
won't. have to roll out of your bed Into
the -ley air and slip into your trousers
and slippers and go down into the cel
lar with your suspenders hanging down
behind and shake down the furnace, to
the accompaniment of your own teeth.
I confidently believe that these are. the
hours spoken of by Uie poet when ha
wrote:- :!W
"Let tne forget those icy hours
When she I loved shared not my fate.
Without her smile, how poor the powers.
The, -pomp and splendor of the great.''
.' Icy hours Is all right I never oould
sea any pomp or splendor In a furnace-
?rate, but I guess it would be cont
orting In those icy hours when a man
is shaking down to have her he loves
sitting beside him clothed In her smiles.
. You come out here, Mr. HilL and get
rid of that furnace Job. Ashes to
ashes and dust to dust Leave the
ashes in the. pit and shake the snow of
Bt. Paul from your fnet Tou and Mr.
Elliott and the rest of you come out to
Oregon. We don't care anything about
your past We live here by the Golden
Rule and ask no man about his record.
Great kind, motherly, forgiving Ore
gon has already given an asylum at
Felt can Bay to one undesirable cltlien
and she is ready to welcome the rest
of you, all of you. Do not think that
Pelican Bay is the only spot in this
great and ' sheltering state where the
wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at ret-
I know a lovely wilderness In the do
main of my friend over there. Bill Han
ley, that smooth-faced man, who re
sembles our - leader of the late Demo
crats party. I know a virgin wilder
ness in central Oregon where, Mr. HilL
you can hide from him who wandereth
up and down the earth seeking whom
he may devour. (Again I shall not men
tion names.) Where the railroad magnate
is as good as the cowboy and there is a
soothing solitude, you may forget that
there is such a thing on the -globe as a
? resident, a railroad, or a bank. I go
here myself. The only banks are those
of the murmurous little river. They
are starred with purple wild asters and
yellow primrose. They are fringed with
soft willows, which lean toward each
other, and year unto year whisper
peace.
Xiver Sinks la Desert.
Between these the sparkling river
dances on Its way to sink In the desert
scattering life in its course and in its
death making; a great marsh, where the
wateriowi una a casus or strength ana
the blackbirds oling to the spears of
the giant tule and whistle blithely to
the sunrise and the sunset careless
who is eleoted president and who .lives
or dies. ' (.
The bare mountains which guard the
"desert" and send into it the waters
of life are beautifully scarred with si
lent canyons where there is no sound
but the rustle of the aspens clustered
about a spring and the sighing of the
stone pines and Junipers rooted sure
among the rocks. In the shade of these
lie the red deer and the antelope and
there is none to oppress them or make
them afraid. The morning and the
evening come robed in flame and purple
and the skies ars as wide as the whole
world by day and as the limitless uni
verse by night They spread their ban
ners of cloud by day and their starry
jewelry by night and you shall be under
them and listen to the great silence.
Around you for hundreds of miles
will lie an empire Into which you may
drop the wheat regions of the Palouse
and the Walla Walla and they will be
lost There, veiled la the sagebrush,
and trodden only by the coyote and
the wild steer. Is an empire ready to
support millions, but there you may
watch the hawks and the magpies
against the glittering sky and be se
cure, Mr. HilL that you will never,
nev4 hear the shriek of the locomo
tives or the rumble of the iron wheels
upon the ralL It Is Mr. Harrlman's
territory. Mr. Cotton says he has been
there and in 40 miles saw only -two
lonely sheep herders. And he will see
no more until the Harriman system
realizes more truly its' duty to this
state. X have seen 60 bushels of wheat
raised there without irrigation and SO
bushels of barley to the acre. But the
railroad is the. highway of today and
until It comes, land which will raise
wheat, oats, barley, apples, onions and
sugar beets, must of necessity be left
to tne steer and tee lonely sheep herder.
Bottled TTp by Earrimaa.
What is to redeem this land
from the cowboy and the sheeoherder.
but the modern highway, the railroad.
And those who take from a territory to
build elsewhere and leave it undevel
oped majMe highwaymen but not rail
road men as I view the question. I
have listened here tonight to Mr. Cotton's-Impression
of central Oreeon. I
have hunted Indians 'there and in the
Falouso country and the V ena tehee and
I sav the difference between eastern
Oregon and eastern Washington Is only,
one ox transportation laciuues.
I have seen both regions as the sage
brush wilderness. - Z see Oregon the
Same today, Whyt- 1 have been told
y a Harriman official that .the coun
try was only fit to raise things with
hoofs to walk out on; that the Union
Pacific had it bottled up end would
develop it when It got ready and not
While 11 was xignung i"r competitive
territory that is. fighting Jim Hill.
That is not my idea of the duty of. the
public highway, to the society from
which It draws enormous revenue. Ore
gon is notindea . on ao norm oy tne
Harriman system, on the east by the
Harriman system, nd oh the west, by
the Parifle nee an. It will thus be sien
that It Is between the, devil and the deep
Ba. " .-!-----'-rr.- --r -
The highway Is the. artery of social
life and the avenue of social progress,
and the railroad Is the, highway of
imtiif. -Without hle-hwavs any country.
any section, is rude, primitive, back-
warn ana unavreiuinu, . vui
nff trnm ill that Interchange of thought
and commerce which make society and
hlch mark progress. - lou ao . not
need me- to tell you that If Horn.
munlty lives on one side 01. an. im
pairahle mountain, range and another
community, oa ine oiuw siue. tney are
as far removed as Jf they lived on
opposite sides of the planet. Even In
the days of Rome all civilisation,
thought, culture, commerce, lay on one
side of the Alps and barbarism on the
otner side.
Annihilation of Space.
It is not actual space which separates
men; it Is the difficulties of overcom
ing space. ' London is nearer to Port
land today than Boston was to Charles
ton 100 years ago. When George Wash
ington at Mount Vernon stepped into
his ooaoh for the journey to Philadel
phia, where this nation was born, he
started on a four or five days' Journey.
Today you go from New York to Wash
ington in four or five hours.
This is what the railroad has done.
It has lengthened life and shortened
space, those two great limitations upon
our existence time and space. Space
has been cut down by steam and our
lives have been relatively lengthened.
It stands to reason, therefore, that for
economic reasons and soclologlo rea
sons and vital reasons the railroad is
the prime necessity of intercommuni
cation between modern men. It has
superseded all other land highways and
is to our life the only highway.
I will aBk you to remember this fact
If we consider man as a problem, we
find that he is a gregarious animaL
That Is, everywhere he has been found
in flocks or tribes. He will not live
isolated. And to this fact Is greatly
due the evolution of man, his rise, and
nrnrrefifl. Had ha lived alone, his as
pirations, his struggles, his knowledge.
WUUiU MVS U1CU W1UI liiiii, mui.
handed his aspirations and his knowl
edge from man to man and from gen
eration to generation until today he
dares to speculate upon the origin uf
that very life and intellect which en
ables him to speculate.
Society and Highways.
He has gathered between his palms
the lightning and he weighs the Stars.
w have this structure: The progress
of man resting upon society. Society ;
resting upon intercourse ana exenangs,
and intercourse resting upon highways.
It is, therefore, not too much to say
that highways control man's life and
development The first rude trails be
tween tribes was a beginning of civi
lization. Consider that-great civilisation which
was the dawn toward which we still
look In breathless admiration Greece.
It was a small country. It has no
navigable rivers, but In the most re
markable way it is indented by the sea.
so that even from the heart of the
country, among the hills, the sea is
easily and quickly reached in some di
rection. This best of all highways, the
great throbbing unmonopotlzed and pub
lic sea was ine nignway or ureece.
Communication was easy, and the civi
lization of Greece became the civiliza
tion of a greup of -wealthy seaports,
sending argosies 'to all parts of the
known world, competing with those
greatest of - navigators and traders, the
Phoenicians; sending out " wealth and
bringing back wealth. Bending- out
knowledge and bringing back knowledge.
Until upon this traffic over the beau
tiful sapphire highway of the sea arose
that brilliant civilization of Athens,
Syracuse, Rhodes, which gave us ' in
science and philosophy Aesculapius,
Pythagoras Epicurus, Socrates, Plato.
ArtBtotie. - In the drama, Sophocles and
Euripides,- In poetry the majestic odes
of Pindar, the rose-crowned odes of An
aoreon, the pulsing songs of Sapho and
the idyls of Theocritus, Blon and Mos
chus, where still we may see the happy
shepherds of happy Greece, watching
their goats and beguilltig themselves
with rural songs chanted to the low
soft musio of the panpipes and the flute.
And that great harp of Homer in
whose Bound we eaten the clash oi the
gods, waging battle, and -the sobs of
Andromache, as human as the sorrow
which we all alas must know. Anil In
art Phidias and Praxiteles, whose
dreams in marble have resisted the en
vious tooth of time and stand today
in our halls and homes to gladden us
with their beauty and teach us that a
thing ox beauty Is a lor forever.
This was the world's greatest creative
civilization ana it would nave been im
possible without the free intercommun
ication ny sea.
Borne Built Highways.
And then came the world's creat run.
structlve civilization, Rome, and Rome
never conquered a city or a province
but that she built to it a road bo
straight, so smooth that there waa no
competing against It. and so deep-founded
that the 'old Roman roads exist to
this day as our highways, not only
all through Italy but reaching up to
r ranee ana uermany ana in England.
The Romans were a nation of rnnjirnn it
ers, and If you have followed me, that
means weaitnmaicers and civilisation
makers. When Julius Caeaar was fle-httnr in
farther Gaul he got news of plotting
Btgainst him in the Roman senate, and
in three days, he stood among them and
the conspirators were as much fright
ened by his miraculous appearance aa
cowed by that master spirit which put
the world beneath his feet It is said
no man could have done this but Caesar,
but Caesar could not have done it with
out that wonderful artery leading from
the heart of Rome to the very frontier
he waa fighting for.
Over these roads went not only the
legions of conquest, but the wagons and
caravans of commerce. The Roman civ
ilization was the civilization of one
great dominant city founded upon com
merce and conquest and. this founded
upon her highways, ana all roads led to
Aome. -me wona is still governed by
that code of Roman laws known as
equity.
Season por Her Greatness.
Commerce still uses her letters of
credit and bills of exchange, and to
Rome must be attributed the origin of
invse ociopi, ine corporation and the
trust. And so I could point to you that
England's greatness, as 'that of Greece,
rests urjon the hlirhwnv nf tv, '
and France and Germany, like that of
n.ome. upon me nignway Dy land; and
Russia, the barbarian trlant. ha. mb
to the fact that roads are the very
arteries of life. It Is good roads which
xnocK aown mountain ranges and abolish
distance.
But gentlemen, the roads upon which
human society hag rested uptil now
have had one fundamental and vital
distinction from the railroad. They
have been open to all men; to all
competition. The seas and the rivers
are any man's highway. They belong
to .the poorest as well as to the wealth
iest; and so, indeed, in a lesser degree,
the king's highway, the turnpikes and
the toll-roads. They were open to any
body and everybody, upon the same
terms and conditions.
But the steam highway, from the very
necessity of the case, must be under
one management and control and In
that sense must be monopolistic. But
in fact the steam highway ought not
to be and cannot be any more monopo
listic, personal or discriminating than
the river, the sea, or the open king's
highway. It Is true men have put
their private funds Into the construc
tion of the railroad, but It la also true
that thev have been given authority
by society to condemn and take prop
erty, j
Zn Trust for the People.
- They have been granted perpetual
franchises because as supplanting the
river and the king's highway it is un
derstood they become public highways,
to be operated in trust for the people,
as completely and fairly as the river
and the turnpike which they supplant
But even if private men with thalr
private . runas were to nuy every foot
of the right of way and terminals; if
they owned and operated the road as
a partnership, the same conditions would
obtain from the necessities of the case.
Society would never permit a highway
whkh made the hlghwftv of th rlvor
and of the road useless and out- otA
date wnicn mereuy put society com
pletely in its power, to be owned and
oDerated wholly in , private interests
and by an arbitrary private will. All
property ngnts are aetermined by the
will of Boeiety. Even the right to live
is determined-by society.
" One hundred and fifty years ago in
England they , would hang a man for
what is today Only petty larceny. They
would hanar the burglar who broke a. !
window, or the highwayman who robbed
a coach. Thus you may say we only i
live bv leave of socletv. ' So that In 1
the last analysis, when this stupid thins;
we CSU society (and I tblnk it is very
tunlri and verr slow to '-move) ffnallv I
asserts Itself,, all else must yield, and
it is my Judgment that unless the rail
roads -honestly and in good faith rec
ognize that thev have merely taken the
rlaoe of the people's highways, the sea,
he rivers and the turnpike; . unless
they - cease to combine and cease to
make non-competitive rates, unless rates
are based - only on a fair return for
the services performed considering
cost; unless they give absolutely qual
and impartial treatment in all respects
to the humblest as to the most power
ful shipper: unlesa thev give over this
effort at making towns or unmaking
towns and making men or unmaking
men, society will eventually condemn
their properties and take them out of
their hands. .
Forced by BaHroads.
Does any on here believe that any
such thing as this malformed and half
abortive Interstate commerce commis
sion would have been In exlatenoe ex
cept that the railroads forced it to
exist T Does any one here believe that
there would have been rate legislation
except as the railroads invited, ItT L
for one, am anti-Socialistic I am the
purest individualist 1 am -"Opposed to
government intermeddling in tne affairs
of individuals or in the commerce of
the country. I look with regret and
with fear at our elective republic tak
ing over the actual ownership and
management of the railroad. But It is
sure to come. (And the' time of the
coming is not .important
What is time in the evolution of
man? as that tomorrow will follow
tonight unless the railroads recognise
that they are -a common highway, to
give the public, without discrimination,
passage for goods and persons at the
lowest practicable rates based upon cost
of service. They -must recognise that
they are open to competition, the com
petition of society, and when society
suspects that the railroads are taking
advantage of the naturally monopolistic
position they are in, society will exert,
its competition ana tans ueranroaaB
into its own bands.
, Things Move Slowly. , j
I think we are too aot to think the '
world will end with us; too, apt to
measure time by a political administra
tion. We forget the millions of aeona
it has taken to make a man. The tens
of. thousands of years civilisation has
been crawling upward since written
language began. I think we are apt to
use that animal instinct of self preser
vation; to grab right and left whatever
we can, rorgetiui or uie iact mat arti
ficial social condition has given to
some men great power and opportunity
and to others none. Too apt to forget
that every power vested in one man or
a few men over the welfare of another,
or of society, has been the ruin of the
powerful unless it has been exerclsd
witli exact Justice.
Mr. Cotton has asked shall not the
railroad values increase as city lot
values have? Shall the railroads not
get a fair return on those values as
buildings bring increased rent? I Bay
no. There are vital distinctions. The
building is selling spaoe for occupancy
the railroad is offering to haul goods
from place to place. The measure for
rents Is the value of the space. The
measure - for the transportation rate is
the cost of service into wbloh the ar
bitrary addition of increased values of
right of way or real estate ought not
to enter. The railroad gets its increased
profit from the growth of society in
the increased Volume of business.
Servants ef Society.
But which I wish to emphasise la
that highways are essentially the ser
vants of society not soolety the serfs
and tribute payers to highways. That
the railroad is the only possible econo
mic highway in modern land trafflq
aha no interior region can hope to mar
ket products unless it has such nigh
way. That railroad owners are trustees
for society and there is a -moral duty
for every railroad to expand into and
develon the country which It has at
tached itself to and from which it
uraws its revenues.
If the railroads do not recognize- that
they exist to serve society, not soolety
to serve them, society will soon wake
up to that truth and no man can pre
dict the results. I wish to say that
I believe our eldest guest has been
wise enough to recognize this truth. I
once tried to sell him an Oregon land
?xant He replied: "It is out of my
erritory, far out of it and J owe all
mv energies and all my money to de
velop the territory dependent on my
lines and on which they are dependent'"
Mr. Hill has nought .to make money
for his stockholders. He has been
moved by motives of self Interest as
we ail are, hut I believe he has been
wise enougn, as x nave -said, to see
that his larger self interest and moral
duty were one and the same in requir
ing him to develop often at a loss for
aome years the .territory bound to him
ana to wnicn ne was bouna. to this
constructive faculty and sense of jus
tice and duty I attribute - his ' success
as the empire builder of our time. I
do not believe society wlahea to own
or Derate railroads and if It aver does
come it will be from a feeling of aelf
preservation ana oeoause-ine rauroaas
by their blind and arbitrary position
as overlords and tax gatherers and
tribute takers, have forced it On their
heads be it.
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tpots or ape floating or dancing before
her eyes, haytna wing distress or hesvy
lull feeling ui Itomacb, faint spells, drvg-Klng-downTclIng
In lower abdominal or
pelvic reafon, easily startled or excited,
Invgultr or painful periods, with or with
out pHvtc catarrh. Is suffering from
wealcnttys antUJerangements thalihould
have eajrty attention. Not -all of above
ymptotM likely to be present In any
caaeatonei'me.
KealecteA or badlv treated and such
ca9es5ftn run Into maladies which do
nan Uie '.urgoon'8 knife If they do not
restunatauy.
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known to medical science for the ev
gredienU
e cure of
woman's peculiar ailments enter Into Its
composition. No alcohol, harmful, or
habit-forminff drntr is to be found In tha
list or its ingredients printed -on eerh
bottle-wranper and attested under oath.
, In any condition of the female system,
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription can do
only good never barm. Its whole effect
is to strengthen. Invigorate and regulate
the whole female system and especially
toe peine organs, vvnen inese are de
ranged in function or affected by disease,
the stomach and other organs of digestion
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