Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-18
WORK.

something That More Than 1000 People
an Mtnneapolis As.e Looking For--- Prob
able Demands of the Spring Trade.
The first important element in the moral
ity and prosperity of a city is to have en-
ployment for it's citizens, for no saving is
more true than that San idle brain is the
devils Workshop The wonderful increase
OF tramps, and their frequent and fearful
depredations in the East, has called the at
tention of some of the Western cities to
the problem of cause and effect. Strikes,
riots, and an utter disregard of moral and
civil laws, has been an outgrowth of commu-
mites where large number of the laboring
classes have, from any cause whatever, been
thrown out of employment for any consider
able length of time. Scarcely night passes
IN the city of Minneapolis that there are not
half-a-dozen persons who seek at police
headquarters the privilege of sleeping in a
cell.
Ibis many are compelled to do from an
inability to procure work or money, whereby
they can provide themselves with more com
Portable quarters, and the importance of
looking at the welfare of the working classes
is suggested by the fact, as will be remem-
bered, that in st. Paul. within the past two
weeks, has been one suicide and one attempt
ed suicide, from the cause alone of inability
to secure work.
The above thoughts suggested to the re-
porter the propriety of ascertaining the
probable demands that would be made for
workingmen in this city during the coming
spring, and the results are not very encour-
aging to outsiders who may have intended to
flock hither with the hope of employ
ment in mills and manufactures.
The resident Minneapolis workingman
is, perhaps, more fortunate than his
brethren elsewhere. from the fact that the
liberal policy of land holders and real estate
dealers and lumbermen have enabled him in
past years to procure a home of his own.
he has been encouraged in his endeavors in
his direction, and "home'' at once throws
about him safeguard against hard times,
and gives him physical, moral and intellec-
tual strength, otherwise not so fully attain
able. 1t is to this that Minneapolis owes
her general prosperity in the years of bust
ness depression that have passed, and her
remarkable security from resulting evils.
Employ ing, as she does, more men by the
days labor than any other city in the State,
large number of a certain employed class
AAN'S
no desire above full stom-
ach and temporary lodging
have been attracted to her limits. From
this class it will be found a greater proper
ton of the local lawlessness and expressions
of dissatisfaction have arisen. Minneapo-
Lis has no work for such people and her jails
only yawn for them.
The diminution of the lumber cut by
nearly one-haf will to certain extent eff
feet the employment of large class who
annually flock to the mills for employment,
although with the stock of old logs in the
booms, there will doubtless be sufficient
work Tor resident laboring men. The forces
employed in the Touring mills, paper mills,
WOODEN mills, founderies and cooper shops
Will not be diminished, and undoubtedly not
materially increased. For good carpenters,
stone masons and brick layers there will be
the usual supply and demand.
fact of importance is that large number
of what are termed in statistics .the floating
population are going to leave the city in
the spring for the purpose Of looking up
farms north and west. This is an advan.
tage to the city and to the individuals By
becoming producers, and contributing to the
Minneapolis market, they not only bette,
their own condition, attain personal and
financial independence, but add dollars tc
the pocket of every resident of the State. A
safe rule for the prosperity of Minneapolis is
at all times for her to encourage by first civ.
ing work to those who have personal inter
ests IN the city, and second, by assisting t<
the best of her ability all others that she can.
not employ, to assume the part of produce,
for her.