The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-09-30
THE MINNESOT1AN.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER %, 1884
ISLANDERS Of Jealous Mel shbors.

ISLANDERS Of Jealous Neishbors.
The St. Anthony Express is newspaper
which has been fed and pampered extensively
by the people of st. Paul. At the outset of its
existence, it had q carte blanche from all the
leading Wings Of the place to call upon them
for whatever means were needed to set the con-
Germ shoat. Where dollars were contributed
for this purpose by the people of St. Anthony
twenties and fifties were drawn from the pock-
cts of the St. Paul Wings. This was kept up
long after St. Paul had a Wing press OF her own
to help support and in fact at the time when
the proprietors of the Minnesotian were strug-
Cling in adversely to gain foothold for their
journal. the writer of this was one day visited
by Isaac Atwater, the publicly known editor OF
the Express, then and now, and informed that
he (Atwater) had determined that we must ad-
vance forthwith, as a donation to the Express,
the sum of two hundred dollars. This modest
request was accompanied by statement, pur-
porting to give the reasons why IRE should give
this sum to support and uphold the Express in
its repeated ISLANDERS upon st. Paul and her cit
izns, which statement we knew at the time to
be false, and strictly speaking should have
made the man who framed it as he did, know
ingly and wilfully, liable to criminal prosecu-
ton for attempting to extort money by threats
and false representations. Nevertheless, we
presented the Express with the two hundred
dollars, rather than have such greedy cormo-
rant screaming at our heels but never to this
day have we received anything but gross and
impcrtinent incivility for our charitable deed
in saving the concern from bankruptcy. Other
citizens of St. Paul have done much more than
we, and like us, have the satisfaction Of seeing
their beautiful city held up to contempt and RI
dicule weekly in the columns of the Express 4;
their aims and purposes vilifed and msrepre-
scented, and their property deprecated in value
BY this creature of their own creation. And,
by way of adding insult to injury, there is no
such thing as disseminating the Express. No
tice may be given again and again that the pa
per is no longer wanted by this or that st. Paul
subscriber, but it is "no CO." 1t will keep
coming, and at the end of the year along comes
the bill, which if not instantly paid, secures to
the forced subscriber round TRADE Of abuse
or an infection of pitiful whining, concerning
the "hard time'' the Express has in order to
battle its way through the world.
About one year ago, a company of adventur-
GUS citizens of st. Paul penetrated the forests
north of US to Lake Superior, aad there found
ed, as they had perfect right to do, the site of
future city. They were followed anon by
other cnterprising men of our city; and until
now our people continue to wend their way Thu
Their, and to become interested in the growth
and prosperity of the future commercial cmpo-
rum of the Great Lake. The hard earned dol
lars Of the st. Paul mechanic and day laborer
are there invested by hundreds and thousands,
as well as the capital of the St. Paul merchant
and "speculator." No man interested in St.
Pauls welfare, who views things in their pro-
per light, can fail to see that every house erect
cd, and every improvement made at Superior,
Wisconsin, adds almost as much to St. Paul's
future greatness, as though those improvements
were made within her own corporate limits.
This fact is sufficient to invoke the narrow
bitterness and jealous ire of the st. Anthony
Express and catering to the taste and feelings
Of a set of unenterprising, worthless drones,
who surround it, and gloat over its rude as
saults upon the character and capital of men of
enlarged views and energy, it weekly teens
with whole columns of the basest SANDERS upon
the cmigrants from st. Paul to Superior and
their friends at their old home. The last spcci-
men of this unjust, ungrateful and indecent
propensity of the Express, is found in the last
number, in which the hundred or two former
citizens Of st. Paul who are now interested in
building up Superior, are stigmatized as the
"fugitire colony" from St. Paul.
The Express finds in our city-to our shame
be it said-a fit receptacle for its attacks upon
the interests of st. Paul, and its abuse of her
most enterprising citizens. The columns of the
Times is the chosen sewer through which is
conveyed the filth and offal weekly cast out of
the Express Office.
Now, we have not gone into a recital Of the
above facts, and made the comments upon them
we have, for the purpose of parading our own
or any other persons private wrongs before the
public. Our object is merely to call the atten-
tlon Of the people of st. Paul, and particularly
the Uhig people, to the fact that they have
been, and still are, in great measure, respons-
lble for the existence of this viper, which is
continually attempting to strike its most dead
ly fangs into the very veins of our heart. We
have warmed the Shiny, venomous creature in
to life, and we still continue to feed and carcss
1t. Had we back the means which we have vo-
UNFAIRLY lavished to feed it, or which have
been extorted from us, one way aud another, for
the same purpose, it would not now have the
power even to attempt to spit its noxious ven
ON upon us. But it is now perhaps too late to
kill the reptile. Let us, however, do justice to
ourselves by not lending aid to further increase
Its growth, and thus give it increased power of
dong us mischief. Let us be true to ourselves
and stand by those who stand by us.
~ The deaths in Columbia, Pa, from
cholera were caused by parties who carried
sheep on the railroad having thrown their bod