Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson of Mississippi—When we elect a man to au office he has two things to do. One is to attend to the duties of his office, and the other is to look after his re-election, and he attends to the latter so well that he has no time to attend to the duties of his office at all. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it is the price of anything else that the public wants that is worth having. So, when a man is elected to au office the people cannot afford to go to sleep. They must keep awake and stand behind him with two sticks, sharpened at the front end. A government of the people, for the people and by the people requires the constant attention of the people to see that they get the service they pay for. Philip C. Hanna, United States Consul at Monterey, Mexico—When a man is killed in an accident in Mexico the men in charge of the train are arrested and thrown into jail. There is no action against the corporation to obtain damages for the victim’s family. It keeps us busy interceding in behalf of the unfortunate railway men. The Mexican officials, as a rule, are disposed to be friendly to the Americans, but this is an old law that must be obeyed. Our only hope is to get a special treaty, or induce the Mexican government to change the law. There are four big American railways in my district, and there are now aliout six operatives detained pending trial. Dion Geraldine of Chicago, Builder of the Chicago World's Fair Buildings—l will never again undertake a job of putting up an reposition if I can get anything else to do. It is the most soulkilling and unsatisfactory business on earth; I would do most anything in preference. An exposition is always the occasion for the bringing together of n swarm of boodiers, political leeches and cranks. They hasten to an exposition and hover over it like flies over a molasses barrel. I want no more of it. I have hnd enough of that kind of experience to last one through life. The building of the World's Fair at Chicago nml the Omaha exposition is quite sufficient. J. C. Stubbs, Third Vice-Preaident of the Southern Pacific Railway—The advisability of union depots is a mooted question. It may be a great convenience for the ]»nss<*ngers, mix] It is a nice thing for a city to point to a great depot that has cost millions to build, but it is still doubtful if there is ever a union depot that does nil that is expected of it. There are union depots, so called, that nre not so in nny real business sense of the word, and they have often proved to be anything but a blessing.