Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-20


tiple used OF, measured by the number
of dwellings erected and occupied, we have
$4,000 people in our city. At the close of
1888 we are certain to have the full round
100000, and have now dared confidently to
predict that in 1890 we would have 100000
people in the municipal bounds of ST.
Paul.
Ihave been in the habit, gentlemen, for
years when talking to strangers to impose
upon myself restraint and not express
fully my convictions that I might main
tain character for sobriety of Judgment
and not be regarded as visionary, but the
time has come for US all to be true to our
convictions, land first acquainting ourselves
with the laws of growth of cities and the
vast almost boundless extent of territory
made by nature irrevocably tributary to
st. paul and its unparalleled productive
capacity, the centrality of our position to
and from which continental railroad
system radiates and at the head of naviga-
ton of the mightiest river of the CONT
nent, destined at very early day to be-
come a most important factor
in our growth and pros
perity to confidently assert the just claims
of st. Paul as one of the great continental
would ask the young members of the pro-
fession to take down the map of North
America. Look at the territory included
in line drawn from Lake Erie through
PENNSYLVANIA, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Alabama, thence crossing the
Mississippi, enclosing Louisiana, Florida,
Missouri Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin,
!, of+ hui
tanned by this territory-Cleveland Cincin-
natl, Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, New Orleans,
etc. Now draw 8 line enclosing northern
Iowa, western Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mon
tana British America, to the northwest
of US. and all the territories this side and
beyond the Rocky mountain, tributary by
the eternal DEGREES of fate to st. Paul, and
you have territory equal in extent and
productive capacity to that which sustains
all the cities named, and which must build
here city, not equal to, but far greater
than Cincinnati-not equal to, but far
greater than st. Louis, and if not equal in
the future to the wonderful city on the
south shore of Lake Michigan, will yet as
sumo to sit next her as great financial
commercial center.
John Penden, member of the British
parliament, president of the cable COM
pany, and an able and sagacious man, was
right, gentlemen spoke the simple truth
and voiced the convictions of all who had
studied our geographical position when he
said that after passing through our tribu-
tary country that he could see it in no
other light than that st. Paul was to be
the financial center of all this Northwest
| to the Pacific ocean, and destined at no
distant day to take rank next to New York
and Chicago as financial and commercial
center.
The truth is, gentlemen, we are
living in day of wonders.
Ancient fables are become present
realities. The North Pacific is building
from west to east and from east to west.
Next summer or fall you will some night,
gentlemen, lay your heads on your pillows
to sleep, and in the morning wake to find
the silver spike driven that unites in the
middle the two ends, and instantly, as if
by magic-as if Aladdin had rubbed his
ring and summoned his genii to do the
work-the connection is made and the tide
of transcontinental trade and travel begins
to pour through and into your city, taxing
beyond the utmost capacity every depart
ment of trade.
said we lived in an age of wonders;
that ancient fables and myths were the
realities of to-day.
You have read in ancient myths of
Argus with his hundred eyes and old
Briarius with his hundred arms, and in
later days of Victor Hugo's Devil Fish.
Well, look at Willard and jim Hill. What
are they but Argus and Briariu5 and the
Devil Fish-all combined?
| OThey look out upon the boundless, bill
lowy western plains. waving with golden
grain, and with cleaning eyes they strike
| out their iron arms and gather it up and
bring and lay it in the lap of st. Paul;
| they glance at Montana, and with their
wizard eyes see the mines of wealth stored
in her bosom, and out 60 their iron
arms to gather and bring it to st. Paul;
they see the hundreds of thousands of cat
tie unsuspectingly grazing on the mountain
sides and the valleys of Montana, and
with their iron arms they encircle tbs
herds, and bring them too to st. Paul.
| There is nothing in the way of wealth
hidden in field or forest or mine that their
| Argus eyes do not discern-nothing that
in their iron arms they lail to bring into
| this favored child of destiny-this grand
central city of the continent.
| Nature has raised in vain the mighty
range of mountains to protect against their
rapacity the Pacific coast. Willard bursts
with his road through the Rocky noun
| tains and laughs with glee as he sees the val
liable salmon fisheries and all the wealth
| of field and forest and mine on that seem
ingly secure coast, and out go his mighty
arms to gather them up for st. Paul.
And now behold Willard as he stands on
| the summit of this mountain
range. Somewhere-in book strictly
dented to history and science Arabian
Nights, written, I think, by an Arab of the
name of Donnelly; I have read of fish
erman who drew out of the sea cop
per vessel sealed with lead, and sealed
with the great seal of Solomon, and on it
stamped the name of the everlasting God.
He unsealed it and finding it empty in his
despair he threw it on the ground, when
out of it came a smoke which rose to the
heavens. and spread into great mist,
then assumed bodily form and cried to
Solomon for pardon. So l see Willard
take that spirit rising up in height to the
heavens till he overlooks the interposing
curved surface of the ocean and suddenly
his eyes cleaning with Unsuitable ambi
ton he exclaims, o, America, my mother
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