Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-14
Il SECOND BRIDGE pEM.4NDEp.

bear to see the prospect of second |!
bridgs over the river at St. Paul, because |
it viii have tendency to advance the city. |
Minneapolis has half dozen bridges con-
Meeting the two sides of the river and as
the result, the old st. Anthony
side, which was comparatively
dead, has sprung into life, and the strides
it has made in two years past. eclipse'the
work of the previous twenty. The p. p.
championed the Minneapolis bridges, and
if more were projected it would champion
them also, because it seeks, upon every
possible occasion, to advance that city and
to correspondingly decry st. Paul.
The people having voted to issue bonds
to build a second bridge, the city council
is very properly at work TO locate and con-
struct the thcroughfare. Because they are
doing this, because they are complying
witt, the public demand, they are bitterly
denounced by the Minneapolis p. P. and
held up as band Of robbers and as treacf-
erous to the public interests.
1t has long been apparent that the inter
ests Of the city demand another bridge. 1t
persons and vehicles viii not pass the pop
ulaticn of the Sixth ward, as far as bust
ness demands to. and from this side of the
city, but it does not follow from this that
they should be confined to that single ave-
nue.. 1t does not follow that for all time
all population on the West side above Wa
bashaw street should come down
to that point to cross the river, and that
all the population below Wabashaw street
should come up the river to the same
poi1-t. The West side is a potion Of the
city which can be readily developed, If
| satisfactory communication is made with
the east bank OF the river. It is the best
and most natural location for large manu-
featuring, and it is far more accessible for
residences than any portion Of the city
adapted to people with moderate means
It is because the population of the Sixth
ward is composed OF mechanics and, for
the most part. citizens of moderate means,
that the purse proud Minneapolis 2. 2. so
bitterly Genounces them and the PROPOSE
! ton to give them some business advan-
tages.
| 1t is not necessary to follow the notori-
Gus plunderers who conduct the z. p.
| through the labyrinth OF lies and
blackguardism with which they assail the
city council. These professional! black
mailers, who rank no better than common
thieves, are certainly possessed of vast
degree of assurance when they assume to
impugn the integrity Of the city council,
or any other body of reputable citizens.
They assume for instance that Assistant
City Engineer Fuller is engaged
in a corner lot real estate specula-
ton on the West side, and that his
relative, Aid. Gates A. Johnson, is part
ner in the transaction. BY accident the
GLOBE happens to know that Mr.. Fuller's
entire real estate interests on the West
side flats consists in a one-fourth owner
ship of four lots, equivalent in the aggre-
gate to one lot. Both he and Aid. johnson
are denounced by this venal sheet, which
makes merchandise OF its editorial columns.
as being engaged in gigantic real estate
transaction and proposing to saddle a
''half million" debt upon the city to en-
nance the value of one lot'
The GLOBE has not taken the trouble to
inquire relative to the tissue of lies which
this Minneapolis sheet INDUCES in, but this
one, that we happen to be aware Of, car
safely be set down as sample brick Of
the whole. 1t harps on scheme
of the city council to rob the
city of "half a million dollars
while the lying sccundrels know that the
sum proposed is two hundred thousand
dollars, and that instead of being votet
away by the council, a popular vote of thu
the city has authorized the issue Of tht
, bonds and the aldermen are simply dele
. gates to execute the popular will as de-
clared at the ballot box.
, AS TO the exact location of the new
bridge the GLOBE has no positive opinion
to express; that must be determined b,
engineering and navigation interests. I
should be so located and constructed as 10
D to interfere with navigation and made a
, moderate in cost as possible and attain
$ the desired end. That there shoul'
t be another bridge below Waba
g shaw street, we believe tn
s majority OF the citizens ad
: NIT. They have so voted, and it i
r manifestly in the interest of the who'll
: city, on both sides of the river, to have
8 second bridge. The billingsgate of con
o fessed rascals, who always have and Away
will, stand in the way of the march of i'm
provements in st. Paul, should have NJ
more effect than the idle wind. I
will be time enough to give heed tt
Z the rirtuous gasconade of tn
t Pioneer Press, when the only place afford
ed to find religious instruction is in
warm corner of Satan's dominion. A
present the public look for both virtue an
? religion in more reputable quarters.
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