Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-20

outer world Oy means or splendid lines OF
steel, equipped with the best modern appli-
ances for speed and comfort and carrying
freight and passengers to and fro at rates SO
low as to be beyond any reasonable cause of
complaint; companies, too, that are still
pushing their lines westward and opening
new miles of railway, all contributing to the
growth and greatness of Minnesota. What
have these companies done? Why they have
made it possible to send freight from Lon
don to St. Paul, about 4 800 miles, of which
300 are by rail from New York, for Al
cents per 100 lbs.; while Minnesota road
that has no connection with the "Chicago
anaconda" charges $1.65 for carrying from
St. Paul to Winnipeg, less than 500 niles
They have carried flour from Minneapolis
to New York so cheaply that the farmers of
Central New York have been unable to COM
pete with those of distant Minnesota. "For.
eign capital" has built thousands of miles of
railway in the State; now it has purchased q
road already built and the act is pronounced
almost criminal, and yet the company an
nounces its readiness to carry freight
at as low a rate per mile as the
roads which use it for an out
let-certainly a fair offer, for neither the
people of st. Paul nor the connecting roads
can expect the owners of the st. Paul &
Duluth to carry at Improbable rates in Or
der that the former may get goods cheaply
and the latter may be able to charge more.
The Duluth road will always command a
considerable business on account of the
high price paid for wheat halling from Du-
luth, and of it's short line to the lake. The
new owners, who will have to invest largo
amount of money to put it in proper con.
dition, will certainly not drive business from
it by excessive charges; indeed they cannot,
for the Northern Pacific stands as regu
lator, having also line between st. Paul
and Duluth.
Whatever may be the connection of the
Chicago u Northwestern and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul roads with the Duluth
road, it is enough to say that the managers
of these great corporations have long since
proved themselves too far sighted and iber-
al minded to establish oppressive rates, and
the history of Minnesota is the best assur-
ance of the policy which they will adopt in
the future. It seems almost incredible that,
with the evidence on every side of what
these great companies have done, they
should now be exposed to denunciation for a
supposed intention of extending their in
duence still farther. If the business men
of st. Paul wished to control the St. Paul &
Duluth road they only had to buy it as other
men have seen fit to do. Just at present,
when one of the companies composing what
one the papers IS pleased to call the "Chica-
60 anaconda is expanding a half million
dollars in building short line to connect
and accommodate St. Paul and Minneapolis,
and both of them are about to unite in the
construction of great union depot, it
seems especially out of taste to attack them
without cause.
Minnesota is great and growing State,
and her two principal cities are sure of a
great future, which every mile of road that
is added, and every increase of strength in
her railway systems, will make still greater
The rates of charges for transportation are
very liberal, and the people, as a whole, are
we'll aware that they have no cause for COM
plant. It is far wiser as we'll as more Just
for the press to recognize what the roads
have done and are doing, and endeavor to
cultivate friendly relations between the rail-
ways and the people, than to assume the
existence of wrongs, and declare, as one
journal does, that the great roads are devil
fish and must be cut loose. This is unrea-
soning folly.