Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23

great experiment, but as you all know St. Pau
has gone ahead, and 1 trust that many her
will live to see city twice or thrice th
present number of Inhabitants.
PIONEER FARMERS
The pioneer farmers of Ramsey county-An inte
hgent, industrious. prosperous and philosophic:
glad to see 30 many of them in midst.
VIM. E. Brimhall was to have responded t
this toast, but was absent.
THE FUTURE OF ST. PAUL
The pioneer men and women of ST. Paul-Ma
they live to enjoy the full fruition of their abors til
realization of their most sanguine hopes when the
here in the faith that they to be particps
tors in the building OF city, that should take it
place among the foremost il history ancient G
modern.
MI. b. S. Fairchild responded as follows:
/ NIB. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: 1t afford
me real pleasure to respond to the toast Jus
read, for not only sympathize with it's sent
| ment, but am, as most of you know, one O
those who indulge in what many would regar,
as very sanguine anticipations as to the futur
of st. Paul, and so expect many of you t.
live to realize the hopes with which you cam
here, of seeing st. Paul a great, populous
prosperous and beautiful city. And for nv
self, after very considerable and careful
study of our geographical position. aud tn
laws governing the growth of cities, I enter
| tain no doubt whatever that St. Paul will at n,
| distant day be one of the chief commercia
cities of this continent, and that it is her DIES
tiny, and the destiny of Chicago and St
| Louis to be among the chief cities of the world
| surpassed by few in ancient or modern times
On this last branch will not dare touch in the
! ten minutes to which I have limited an0
! timed myself.
| Without taking time for argument, let me
! simply and briefly group facts, which in them.
selves are arguments.
TT is canahle of demonstrates, =, ....-+,
| asserted by the most distinguished lecturers
now on the platform, that there is not. and
never has been in the history or the world. a
republic or kingdom, or an empire, embrac-
ing 80 broad, SO productive domain as that of
the United States. There have been larger
but they embraced barran wastes. torrid des.
serts. or sterile frozen regions Nor is there.
Mr. PRESIDENT, anywhere on the globe, in Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa or America, an equal COM
pact area, capable of producing SO much that
will sustain human life. Fix this fact in your
| minds and then take this: The chief
statesman OF England-(a country which
has forged the mechanics tools,
made the table ware woven the cloths. made
exchanges and built the ships of the world
the chief statesman of England, the late
premier, Gladstone, noting the movements of
the times and scanning the near future, has
been forced to the admission thai 1.-THE far
stretched, glittering and massive scepter of
England to the United States.'' Take the fur
ther facts-that the intense social and politi-
cal agitation in the different States of Europe
the gallingly severe repressive measures of
Prussia ard Russia, the onerous. unbearable
burden of supporting royalty and immense
stano1ng armies. the dread of renewed wars,
and the maturity of new crop of men of
migratory age, have all conspired to pour uron
our shores in the next five years q tidal wave
OF immigration, and you have facts enough to
determine that the United States as 2 whole is
about to enter upon career of unexampled
prosperity.
Now for another great fact, bringing the
matter nearer home to US. The heart Of the
United States lies between the mountain ranges
that stent the Atlantic and Pacifc-in the
wonderful Mississippi valley-a vast region.
equalled nowhere in the world in the average
fertility of its soil, lying in zone that pro-
duces an Infinite variety of fruits. grains and
vegetables. and through this matches. impe-
rial garden of the world flows the kingly Mis-
sissippi, with its princely tributaries, giving
$4,000 miles of navigable waters. and at the
head of navigation of this great arterial river.
flowing through the continent and bearing on
It's bosom more commerce than ever hoated on
any other stream-sits st. Paul, the future
queen of the Northwest.
Is this merely rhetoric, a fight of fancy, or
| is it fact? fearlessly assert my faith that
there lives in st. Paul to-day those who will
live to see her city of half a million
or more habitants, with then a rapidly
and greatly growing future before her
And why not? see here tonight q robust old
him, who was in Chicago, now numbering 5OO.-
600 souls, when it had g. all told. Since then
q great broad belt of our country has become
densely populated to swell the surplus of the
East annually flowing West to contribute to
our growth. Since then Denmark, Sweden.
Norway and Russia have commenced to send
their surplus people to our shores. and they
mostly come to those districts tributary to St.
Paul. Since then multitudinous railroads have
made trade and travel easy, and, pushing be.
yond cities and even beyond settlements have
penetrated the vast wildernesses and bouudless
pralrles, reckoning population to follow in
their paths. Since then the invention Of agri-
cultural implements and machinery have made
1t possible to cultivate tenfold larger area
than we could otherwise have done. Since then
numerical supremacy, and with it the prepon-
derance of political power, has passed from the
East to the West, and that power the West will
use to improve natures grand free highway OF
commerce that flows at our feet till boats OF
five feet draft can, throughout the season, &c
from st. Paul to New Orleans escorting fleets OF
barges laden with millions of bushels of grain
at a freightage SO low as to double the average
net profit of the farmers of the Northwest
The time has passed forever vixen the great
West must with Bonded knee and bated breath
humbly accept from the East the pittances she
chooses to deal out to improve our great natu.
raj channel, Of trade, while she sees the East
annually sQuander millions on unknown and
insignificant creeks and harbors. Hencefortt
the West will demand and receive her Just dues
and the stimulus to her agricultural and com.
| mercial development will be felt through al
her borders. In a few years. gentlemen, we
shall see this improvement of the Mississippi
we shall see the rivers and canals
| connecting the great lakes widened
and deepened, SO that vessels drawing sixteen
| feet can load with our products in our OWE
harbors and sail direct for European ports, and
| come back laden with the direct importations
of St. Paurs wholesale merchants. increasing
still further the tendency of late years to
transfer the commerce that the Atlantic cities
have heretofore monopoized to the cities of the
West. In one or two more years the Northern
Pacific will tap for st. Paul the rich agricul
tural and mineral region of Montana. In
few more years it will overleap the Rocky
| Mountains reach 1.-THE continuous woods wher,
rolls the Oregon and stopping only at tn,
| Pacific ocean, there receive the wares ant
| products of China and Japan to bring to st
Paul, to distribute through the continent
Stop for one moment, Mr.. President, and TAX
| a rapid glance at what is done, and soon to b.
done, and then calculate the results to ST. Paul
and You will find the results 80 vast it will re
quire moral courage to avow the conviction
forced on your mind.
You plume yourselves on the little fact tina
you are to have boom, and as result of tn
boom, saw and -four mills and wooden factories
You think it very important matter that 70,
are arranging to concentrate here. the lumbe
trade Of the Chippewa and St. Croix, of tn
districts traversed by the West Wisconsin, tn
North Wisconsin, the st. Paul & Duluth, an,
through the boom, part of Rum river an
the upper Mississippi, 80 as to make st. Pau
the great lumber market Of the State.
You think it an important matter that yo
are to have the st. Paul & Sioux City shops
the union depot, and certain other matte,
which must not yet mention; and SO the
are important in the infancy of our city, bu
all these are utterly insignificant in compa:iso
| With he xyondarfnl com