Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-24
MANIFEST DESTINY.
One Great City to be Built mp from St
Paul and Minneapolis.

One Great City to be Built mp from St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
Having returned from rather extended
tour through the state, an account of
which you kindly presented to your read
ers in the three articles contributed by
me, l now desire to say, with your ap-
proval, a werd about st. Paul and Min
neapolis. l couple these two places to-
gether, for they are practically one and
lndivisible.
The prosperity of either is the pros
perity of both. Neither one can suffer a
reverse without Its effects being trans
mitted to the other. To all intents and
purposes we are enc city, and narrow
minded persons who strive to keep up
jealousies and rivalries must soon pass
away, or be left in tho rear by the onward
march of the people Of the two cities on
the line of their destiny.
There is leaven in the minds of ma
tioLs and of men which must in time
yield to the dictates of reason and the
voice of common sense, and exalt them
above the base appeals of passion and
prejudice into the pure upper air of
principle and of truth Shall we delay
"fraternal relations" and lose all that is
implied thereby, or shall we not cast aside
envy and all uncharitableness and meet
half way, and then once united ON basis
alike creditable to both cities, press for
ward In common to build up a
large and populous city, which shall en-
brace within its boundary Bassett creek
on the northwest and the historic Pigs
Eye on the southeast?
If we are too stiff necked to yield to
the pointings of Providence, it is to be
hoped that our children will be sufficient
y broad guaged to decline to follow our
narrow, illiberal and tortuous trail.
In all the wide expanse of our country
no two cities possess anything like the
advantages of Saint Paul and Minneapo-
lis. They have attained such size and such
Importance that temporary reverses can :
not undo them, though they may be felt
in remote degree. Together they have
an empire tributary to them.
The iron fingers of our railway system
reach out towards the outer boundary of
this empire and seize and bring to mar
ket the surplus products of this immense
region, returning freighted with dry
goods, groceries, machinery, furniture,
lumber and every other article manufac-
tured in excess of the wants of our own
people.
Who can tell to what extent this trade
will grow? 1t will continue to increase
with each succeeding year until the west
ern tide of emigration reaches the Pacific
ocean and when all the vallies and hill
sides in this vast area shall echo with the
sound OF the reaper and the busy fail of
activity, enterprise and industry shall be
heard on every quarter section from the
Missouri to the ocean.
The Northern Pacific as it pushes out
through Montana and to the west,
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani
toba moving onward to the
accomplishment of the great object in
view, the Omaha with her southwestern
connections, are extending this area and
quietly working out the future destiny of
the great city to result from the union of
all of our moral and material forces.
AS the trade of this vast empire is trib-
utary to these two cities, who can est1-
mate its value when the country shall be
peopled by millions?
Let us be satisfied that this trade will
not come to us unless we encourage it.
Are our business men awake to the i'm
portance of it? Are the people of the
two cities ready to strike hands and make
common cause of it, or are they so
blind, so obtuse that either would prefer
to lose the entire business rather than the
other should participate in it? If this
is the feeling and it IS persisted IN Chi
cago, ever on the alert, will cut us off
and we will become way stations
for the vast trains from the distant West,
which we will see carry by our very
doors the wealth of this immense region
to be dumped in the Chicago warehouses
to enrich her already prosperous mer-
chants. If we propose to hold this coun-
try tributary to us, our business men
must act in unison and act'promptly.
In closing these articles l desire to say
that return home more deeply impressed
than ever, with the natural beauty of our
state, the fertility of the soil, and more
firmly convinced than ever that with CO.
operation on the part of our people, the
''Etoile du Nord" will become the bright
est star in the constellation r. ~.