Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-30

The Tar on Her Unjust and Damaging.
To the Editor of the Globe:
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 29.-There is, and
until st. Paul swallows Minneapolis, or
vice versa, and so makes the two one, there
will be rivalry between these cities, so near
each other, and SO nearly equal in popula-
ton, the names in the directories showing
that st. Paul is only few thousands
ahead.
But the style of warfare recently made
by the Dispatch, on the one hand, and the
Tribune on the other, is, to say the least,
unwarranted and uniusti6able. Recent
ly the Dispatch has stated that SIX
wholesale houses in Minneapolis
had burned out in twelve months, and all
were bankrupt when they burned; that one
of them doing business on a capital of
$4,000, owed SOC, 900 and was paying &c.
500 per year store rent. That HarHood,
who made fortune from nothing in st.
Paul, was tempted to go to. Minneapolis by
offer of store free of rent, ETC., and then lost
all; that Kahn & Co., wholesale matters, had
been closed by the sheriff, ETC., ETC., awak-
ening a suspicion that the merchants
of Minneapolis were in precarious con-
dition and that it was owing
to this fact and not to want of water that
the insurance companies were raising their
rates and thinking of Withdrawing their
agencies. Now against this kind of war
fare we protest. While doubtless BUSH
ness in Minneapolis real estate and other
wise is too much on the Winnipeg plan
and there is danger of serious revision
yet, there are many solid and honorable
merchants and other business men who
ouhgt not to be further embarrassed
by an air of distrust and doubt.
They are not to blame for the condition
of things among US and have to do an up
hill business at best, competing with these
exploring adventures and now have to
bear the penalty of their money by pay
ing killing rates of insurance.
What makes it worse is that while our
rates are raised % per cent. st Paul is
lowered 10 per cent, as if to emphasize
the difference and throw new difficulties IL
our way. What merchant will come here
to do business, if he has to pay 55 per cent.
more insurance and compete with lot of
adventures who, having nothing to lose,
do business in the most reckless manner
and have already brought disgrace on our
name.
AS matter of fact ST. Paul has no need
of jealousy of Minneapolis on the score of
Wholesale business. When one goes down
Third street and sees two whole squares
lined with wholesale grocers, and sees the
large number of new houses opened in the
last year and learns that near score of
other new firms are waiting for store
rooms to be completed, it strikes
enc as rather small and
decidedly ungenerous, and considering the
mount of our paper carried bySt. Paul banks
-impolitic TO make war on and embar-
rass the few wholesale houses here who own
their stores and dwellings and could not
very well if they wished remove to the
commercial CENTER" as they have to call
st. Paul.
Minneapolis is manufacturing city, st.
Paul is commercial one. Each is neces-
sary to the other, and it is high time that
better relations were established, toward
which Mayor Ames and the greater part of
our citizens are willing to work-for the
newspapers to cease strife and all will
soon go we'll. JUSTICE.