Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02
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SOLD OUI.
The Heather Chinee Game which the Min
neapolis and Iowa Christians Set Up on
shang's Three Card Monte Game Dis
counted-A Lesson for st. Panl to Learn.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
The Northwestern Park association deter
mined yesterday to locate its park at Mime
tonka. 1t would be correct, perhaps, to
say that it yesterday announced determine
ton long ago reached.
1t is painfully evident that the self-consti-
tuted managers of this affair decided at the
outset to locate the park at Minnetonka. and
by little pious deception, played off one
locality against another, and SO induced Mime
apolis to give what she otherwise would not
have done. suppose it is right for them to
sit in their offices chuckling over the promised
success OF their trick, while the st. Paul
chamber of commerce is calling special
meetings, appointing committees, who spend
days canvassing the city to the neglect of their
business, and go to White Bear, to Saltwater.
to Minneapolis in furtherance Of their object.
1t is nothing to them that gentlemen from Red
wing Lake City and .Frontenac, confiding in
their honorable Intentions, canvass their dis
trlcts to raise handsome bonus, and fly back
and forth from their homes to st. Paul and
Minneapolis!
1t may be the end justifes the means, but
Tor one, having neglected my business for nearly
a week, when 1T constantly needed my atten-
ton, and when l had no personal interest to
advance, working to secure the location at
White Bear, it is not quite pleasant to feel that
l was the dupe of Christian gentlemen in whom
contded, and that no matter what we had
done, the park, by a predetermination. was to
60 elsewhere.
Another thing before pass to the lesson.
On the committee to decide the question of
location, there five from St. Paul, five
from Minneapolis, and two from Iowa. The
appointment of five each from these two cities,
argues conscientiousness that there was a
certain antagonism of interests, and that equity
demanded an equal, fair representation Of both
on the committee
such being the case, it was, to say the least,
little singular that of the members from St.
Paul two should have had property interests at
rival points IN this controversy, and that two
OF them should have been men who had resided
but few months in st. Paul.
venture to ASSET that if this result ia sim
ply accidental, that a blind man, drawing five
names from the list of our citizens, could not,
IN ten Thousand trials, again reach the same
result. Now, to be plain, Rev. Mr.. Chaffee,
coming fresh from Minneapolis, owning prop
erty there having his interests and sympatbies
there, should not be accepted, much less sought
place on the committee to represent st. Paul.
knowing that his predetermined action would
be in opposition to the wishes and interests of
those he presumed to represent.
Mr. Miller highly respect, but D. W. Inger-
soil, A. j. Goodrich, Gen. r. W. johnson. John
Randall, Gen. Smith, D. D. Merrill, or a
score of other gentlemen, old citizens
large property holders, and identified with
Sabbath school and church work, would have
more fifty represented St. Paul. 1 was, too.
surprised to hear Mr.. Noyes say, in committee
that ne fully concurred in the report in favor
lra fhofh o1x G.o,,
netonka man, had always spent his summers
tnere and had made arrangements to spend the
next and should vote for Minnetonka." Re-
membering what had heard him say before, I
was quite astonished. and felt that I and the
chamber OF commerce, and all citizens interest
ed, and the people Of White Bear and Saltwater
had been trited with and grossly deceived, and
state my conviction here now, however dis
respectful to the com mittee, that portion of
the st. Paul committee was selected, on care
Iul examination, with special reference to their
support Of Minnetonka.
Lesson frst-Now for st. Paul.
Minneapolis was unit and ALWAYS will he
and hereafter, before we entar into competi
ton. we want to see that MINNEAPOLIS has not
appointed our part of the committee for their
purposes.
Lesson 2d-When an important object is to
be accomplished never force man on a com
mlttee OF solicitation who is averse to the work
or who will not honorabiy pledge himself to
faithfully work-for deeply interested as the
citizens may all be, they remain inactive.
trusting to the efforts of the committee. and
IT they neglect their work important interests
vitally affecting the city may be sacrificed.
Lesson 3d-And lay this to heart.
When, by an expenditure of comparatively
few thousands, a factory, a boom, a park or
anything calculated greatly to promote the
welfare OF the city can be secured, let not our
large property-holders, on all kinds of frivolous
nVpfQYfa n GRO ort kol e..
sion, excuse themselves from contributing
their fair share, in the belief that others will
carry the work forward and they, without con-
tributing will share the benefit.
One hundred dollars each from the large
property holders would, at a dozen different
times. nave secured enterprises that would,
combined, have given ten times a dozen hun
bred dollars of value to their property. If 200
men in st. Paul would have given $10O each. it
would have almost, if not quite, forced this
committee to have selected White Bear, and if
so, the whole $1,000 would have been returned
every geographically.
l admire the sagaaity, pluck and energy and
iberality of Minneapolis in this and other
matters. It deserves and wins success. Per
CONTRA think of all the hotels in St. Paul in a
matter of this Importance, when our success
would have annually put $1,000 or more into
each OF their pockets, subscribing, not each.
but a total of $50, and this by one, the Others
not giving dollar.
st. Paul is distinguished for having in her
midst large number Of men of great wealth
utterly destitute of public spirit who have be-
came so we'll known for their refusal to give to
any benevolent purpose or for the promotion of
any public interest, however much it may ben
eft them, that no committee ever thinks of
calling on them. Their illiberal, narrow spirit
blinds them to their own interests and retards
the growth and prosperity Of the city.
There is that withholds and yet wasteth;
and there is that gives and yet Iincreaseth,' or
words to that effect, and the business men and
property holders of st. Paul need to learn this
and act on it. With little less bile than when
l commenced, am yours, always for St. Paul,
81. s. FAIRCHILD