Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-10-24
ST. LOUIS AGAINST MINNIE
sofa.

On October 10th, we were publicly
informed by telegram from St. Louis,
that several prominent gentlemen
from Iowa, and others of that city, as
sembled in st. Louis and took the pre-
liminary steps for projecting railroad
from that city through central Iowa
and southwestern Minnesota, to some |
point on the Northern Pacific in Da- |
kota, and that the project met with |
much favor. We, a country newspa-
per, had the audacity over two months
ago to warn st. Paul of this identical
movement, and no more attention was
paid to it at the time, than was to our
reference to the fact, that Chicago and
Milwaukee would attempt the same
movement, connecting at or near Far
go, going around st. Paul and cutting
off it's trade. It is evident from tile
fact of location and that the wheat in
this region is wanted all the way down
to the Gulf of Mexico, that New Or
leans is interested in this road from
St. Louis and will give it such help as
its construction may require; and will
.oe fatal stab at st. Paul and Mime
sofa in general, in diverting its west
ern commerce to the South. That st.
Paul with the encouragement it could
have obtained, should have so woven
it's net of railroads as to have made
this one now contemplated an unprof-
liable investment, is to plain to talk
about. And now that its best friendly
region of trade has been thus far sur
rounded for a certain slaughter, we
shall wait to see if it will get its back
up at the eleventh hour to stop it, as
it is said it has done with the road
from Fargo south.
If the Millers' Association can so
manipulate the lines of freights as to
make it profitable to haul wheat from
the interior over roads, and send their
-four over roads east at all seasons of
the year with great profit, and undis-
Iturbed by st. Paul, it has educated st.
Louis to the extent of doing the same
thing. So little flour or wheat is al
lowed to go south by boat, it has made
up it's mind, CONNER cially speaking,
that it must get it by rail, and New
Orleans being the head and front OF
the Southern markets. it has deter
mined to reach our wheat fields
through ST. Louis and Iowa in this
manner.
AS the cotton climate of the South
is detrimental to the growth of the
best wheat, the supply demanded in
that direction from the Northwest will
in short time, be equal to chat of the
east; this being true, it will establish
competing wheat market in the in
terest of the farmer, but it will estah-
Iish it in Dakota, outside of Minneso-
| ia, and to the injury of its only lake
port at Duluth. If the wheat is stop
ped about the centre of Dakota, then
the Northern Paciic.will lose the car
rage to the lake, and Duluth its hand
ling, and this will build up in Dakota
a city to be to that territory what st.
Paul is to our own State, and Dakota
has sufficient amount of foresight to
see it, and hence it desires the Fargo
lroad south.
Now we come to the action of the
Chicago and Milwaukee roads in
reaching the Northwest 20 the west of
st. Paul, end the blame St. Paul is
casting upon them for assisting the
Fargo road, and thereby cutting off
one of it's heretofore great benefacto-
ries; but when it is seen that Chicago
and Milwaukee are not designedly
working against st. Paul, but to head
off st. Louis in the very attempts it is
now making to reach the wheat and
trade in the Northwest, it will be
found that the Lake Michigan cities
have not as much blood in their eyes
against us as we might suppose. The
prosperity of st. Paul is directly based
upon the foundations of the Northern
Pacific roads and the lake harbor al
Duluth, and any attempt to ignore
either will be to that extent an act OF
suicide, as we have plainly shown.