Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-17

peller India, Buffalo, 200 tons iron, about $50
tons merchandise, and 1000 barrels salt.
Cleared: Propeller Peerless Chicago, 5000
bushels corn; barge j. r. Whiting and schoon-
er Guiding Star, L'Anse, light.
THE NORTHERN ROUTE.
An Urgent Plea for an Outlet by Rail
Through Canada.
To the Editors of the Daily Press Of iMinneap-
oils and st. Paul:
Gentlemen: A little over a year ago there
began to grow sentiment among the people of
the Northwest that the great interests which
center in these cities and ramify far away into
the forests and mines and on to the broad plain
lands demanded a through railroad route hence
north of Lake Michigan to the ocean. That
sentiment was, in no small degree, the answer
to your own clearly sounded bugle blasts call.
ing the attention of the people to their needs.
In these days the large interests of capital are
concentrated and welded by corporate organi-
cations, working with the rigidity of an army;
while the interests Of States, communities and
peoples are alone unified and organized through
your watchful activity and the tireless pricking
of the public nerve centers with trenchant pens
by the members of your profession. You are
the sentinels who occupy the watch-towers of
the whole Northern belt of the union from the
lakes to the Pacific in the interests of the peo-
pie. The daily press of no other center, nor of
all other centers combined, along this
Northern route, have such mighty in
terests to guard, such extensive yet harmonious
developments to consolidate and focalize, SO
many communities soon to develop into States,
to advise, enlighten, often to warn and many
times to arouse from the lethargy of looking
after individual and local concerns to the
weightier affairs of vast section of country as
have the daily papers of these cities.
It is because of your commanding influence
over the people and their great interests, of a
territory half q thousand miles wide
and twice thousand miles long, that desire
to call your attention To the supreme imuor-
lance of your not allowing to die out the inter-
est excited by you in all the communities of
the Northern wheat zone by your demand that
a railroad should be constructed from
this center noross Wisconsin, around the north
shores of Lake Michigan, over the Sault st.
Marie, and there to unite with the Canadian
system fast being constructed to ocean scmmer
navigation at Montreal, or there to connect
with roads to winter navigation at Portland,
Maine.
ask you, in this year of political excite
ment, not to forget the great work you have
fixing the public attention firmly on attain
ing this important outlet which will for all
time draw to and across our State, and through
these cities a large portion of the trade and
commerce of northern and central Iowa north
eastern Nebraska, and all of that of Dakota,
Montana. and Manitoba. Do not be deferred
by the cry that it takes money to build rail-
roads, and that newspaper roads are cheap.
The newspapers with their energy and activity,
have caused to be built all the railroads in the
country. for capital follows, it never leads.
Your influence can SO arouse the people that
capitalists will vie with each other to meet
their demands for the road. In short if the
s. ,,:lS 4 hof ho of in
luence; if it is lost to these cities, and to our
State, and detected to other more alert COM
munities, the people will justly hold you re-
sponsible.
have feared that you were losing sight of
the important factors in the far-reaching COM
binations that will crush all natural obstacles
to line Of transit that will, ere long be
demanded by the necessity of moving
yearly a hundred million bushels of wheat.
The combinations of men and money which
will control this vast carrying trade, will care
little for our cities, when lines and connec-
tions are crystalized away from us, NORTH
Us or south of us. This is the p~ Lug
periO d of Northern transit routes. II every
influence of city or State must kS Drought in
to and kept in vigorous activity.
During the time Of this widespread interest
aroused by you throughout the Northwest last
year, on this subject, all Canada sent you
hearty greetings of sympathy. Her parlia-
menu readily Rr8uG6Q d COuCcSSlOu 6uu LUZ
a railroad from lake Nipissing to Sault Ste.
Marie and for bridge there.
Those sterling capitalists of Canada, Presi-
dent Stevens, Vice President Angus, Director
Smith and our own contribution to the vigor-
GUS quartet General Manager Hill, it was gen.
orally understood, had opened negotiate ons
for the capital from England to build the
Canada roads as well as the connections from
the Sault from the Eastern terminus in these
cities of their fest spreading fan-like system
of roads. We can depend upon their powerful
aid to accomplish what all Minnesota hopes
for, yet you can greatly assist
then by a unity OF influence and
by an unHagging determination to keep public
attention riveted on the great work and the fu-
ture hopes of Minnesota and Dakota, until it
is accomplished. Even these powerful rail-
road men can the more easily obtain money to
build when capitalists know the people of this
State and Dakota are determined to have the
road.
The Omaha line, fast occupying Nebraska
and Southern Dakota; the Minneapolis & St.
Louis, fast spreading over Northwestern Iowa;
the St. Paul, Minneapolis d Manitoba and
Northern Pacific are all interested in and will
eventually demand q northern outlet. Why
should they not all encourage its speedy con-
struction, under the leadership of the officers
of the st. Paul, Minneapolis d Manitoba road,
who have such a hold on Canadian influence
and English capital, and thus make virtually
Cananian outlet for Manitoba, and save the
wasting of millions of money on q wholly inn
practicable route around the north shores of
Lake Superior? Over this route would roll the
wealth of Montana, Manitoba, Dakota, Mime
sofa and Northern Wisconsin and Michigan,
while over line around the north shores of
Superior there could be no hope of any but the
trade of Manitoba, and that only for the part
of the year. European kilograms show that
the Canadian parties who propose to build
around the north shores of Superior may OBJ
tain the control, and there is the more reason
why your columns should repeat and re-repeat
the arguments, well known here, in favor of
the line hence to the Sault, in order that these
European capitalists may know that an empire
is waiting to throw its trade over the line they
shall construct in Canada, if they make but
the proper connections at the Sault St. Marie.
Respectfully yours. JUDsoN N. Cross.
Minneapolis, Sept. 16.
POLITICAL MEETINGS.
Hon. 81. b. Wells, Democratic candidate for
Congress in the First Congressional district of
Minnesota, and Hon. Mortin s.. Wilkinson will