Daily globe., 1879-08-25
Editorial from Sunday Globe, 24th.
THF OUTRAGE OF THE MILWAUKEE
& ST PATT R0lD &

S1SAoooo ou@ioSo cE0I PoIpotI6tou Dy aus
railroad upon any city of the oommercia
Importance of St. Paul. There seems tt
have been rivalry between the Northwest
ern and the Milwaukee & St. Paul roads fel
the transportation of some soldiers from
Chicago to Fort Smelling, and the Northwest
ern carried off the prize. AS the Northwest
ern and its connecting link-the Chicago
st. Paul u Minneapolis road-do not run tt
Fort Smelling, those companies brought the
soldiers to st. Paul, intending to have the
Milwaukee d st. Paul road transport then
the intervening six miles from st. Paul tc
the Fort. As the Northwestern contract
was to deliver the soldiers at the Fort, the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road apparen tly
thought to subject that road to annoyance
and expense. At all events the soldiers ar.
rivsd in st. Paul (via the Northwestern and
@. st. P. & M. roads, about an hour in ad-
vance of the afternoon passenger train from
Chicago, on the Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
and we're held in waiting for the
train on that road to arrive.
It came and it went through the city at the
rate of twelve or fifteen miles an hour, leav-
ing the soldier train standing on the side
track, leaving the would-be passengers in
waiting at the depot, and carrying those de-
string to alight to rock-pile in the suburbs,
where they were dumped to walk back to the
city, and transport their baggage as best
they could.
st. Paul expended one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars by way of bonus to ena-
BILE this railroad TO run through this city.
In doing this the city expected that St. Paul
would be terminal point. When that de-
lusion was dlspelled our citizens supposed
that the city would at least be station on
the road. Now that this high. handed out
rage has been perpetrated it is time to make
st. Paul u terminal point on hte M6lacau-
kee and ST. Paul road.
That CAN BE DONE BY TEARING UP THE
TRACK whIoH CROSSES THE 1EvEE
Section Nine of the ordinance which gives
authority for the Milwaukee & st. Paul road
to cross the levee is as follows:
''Sec. 8. The corporation of the. city of St..
Paul hereby reserves the right to alter, modify
or repeal this ordinance at any time when it
may deem it necessary to the public interest or
public welfare.
The time has arrived when both s'public
interest and public welfare demand the
REPEAL. Mayor Dawson should call a
meeting of the city council at once, and be-
fore another afternoon train from Chicago
has time to cross the levee, the ordinance
should be repealed and the rails removed.
From the expressions of several aldermen
who were seen last evening, there is no doubt
of the feeling in favor of the repeal. st. Paul
has the power to make this terminal point,
and if the popular will is not respected by
repeating this ordinance, the people will be
justified in at least making the repeal prac-
tical by putting the rails in the river which
now adorn the levee. 1t is time to raise the
black flag against this insolent, naughty,
overbearing, piratical corporation. They
have invited war with st. Paul, and let them
have their fill.
Until the legislature meets let st. Paul in
her corporate capacity grapple with her
deadly enemy and when the opportunity ar
rives let the Legislature apply the remedy
which the Supreme Court declares valid and
which is foreshadowed with tremendous i'm
pressiveness by the new California consti-
tuition. The act is only one of long series OF
outrages perpetrated on this city by that cor
poration and forbearance ceases to .be vir-
tue.
There was but one sentiment prevalent in
the city last evening, as far as the outrage
was known, and the GLOBE does not give too
strong an expression of that sentiment in
the comment above. There can be no shift
ing of blame upon irresponsible subordi-
mates, no apologies and no explanations
None are wanted or would be believed, or re-
spected if given. An outrage, such as
was perpetrated yesterday, is such an
utter disregard of law and de.
cency that the corporation perpetrating i,
becom IS pirate, and as pirate the people
of st. Paul should consider and treat the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road. Meet the
black flag with the black flag, and let it be
determined whether OF. not the people are
slaves to insolent and overbearino corpora
tions. No compromise and no quarter.