Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — JAMES J. HILL [ARTICLE]

JAMES J. HILL

(By Walt Mason.)

Jim Hill is gone to his repose, out where the weeping willow growls. While on this earth he asked no rest, this empire builder of the West; through all his years he strove and fought, by night he planned, by day he wrought. Men aged to say, “Where'er he goes, he mages things blossom as the rose; along his track the cities rise, and chimneys point toward the skies, the forges blaze, the hammers' ring, and bouyant workmen smile and sing.’’ He was the captain of a host, but;

slaying men was not his boast. His armies stormed no so-t or town, and tore no famed cathedrals down, and where his mighty legions swept, no widowed women wailed and wept. It’s good to contemplate Jim Hill, the general who did not kill, now t.:a- the world is roaring mad, from Mexico to Pet’ograi One hour of Hill is better far than 50,000 year., of war. This mighty captain lies a: rest, his monument the whole Northwest.