St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-30
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
AbattOirs.
To the Editor of the Gloh,

To the Editor of the Globe:
There can be no doubt concerning the pro-
priety and prospective profit of establishing
great slaughtering and packing houses in the
vicinity of the Twin Cities, but it deserves Sc
rious consideration on the part of the munic-
ipal authorities before they permit the loca-
ton of these industries. lest they give au-
thority for their location where they will
prove detriment to the other interests of
the public in both cities. A huge slaughter
and packing plant costs great deal of money,
and if such plant is once established in To-
cation where, in the general public interest, it
must he declared nuisance and abated, it
will be done at the expense of the taxpayers
because if the municipal authorities permit
the erection of the plant the owners must be
paid for it if obliged TO remove it, beside
which they will have large border for dam
ages.
Does any sane person, not a prospective
owner or stockholder in such plant, believe
for one moment that the grand plateau con-
shutting the present interurban space will
be devoted to slaughter and packing houses,
with all the heterogeneous population that
will crowd around them, without a
bitter struggle on the part of clean
sewer mile and half long must nnderlie a
large portion of the fairest residence and
business territory now lying between the two
cities, is an unanswerable argument against
such monstrOuS proposition. Such sewer
must have vents at every street crossing, out
of which the stencil of putrid offal will find its
way to pellute the air with intolerable odors
and disseminate germs of disease bred in
darkness and nastness; and to make the mat
ter still more intoerable, where there is not
sufficient water supply to keep the conduit
flushed. Look at the '.burton-hole bouquet
at the east end of the Milwaukee short line
bridge for meagre specimen of the grand
noSegay that awaits the citizens in the region
of slaughter-houses if they should be planted
in the midst of the feirest and most desirable
portion of the interurban territory, soon to be
occupied by splendid population In the near
vicinity of schools, colleges and other human
itary institutions. Syndcates and private
sharpers can very well be in hurry to gobble
up real estate, erect stations and packing
houses midway between the cities, and bear
one-half Of the expense of the big sewer
knowing very well that in the near future
their plant will prove and be declared nuis-
ance and abated, while they will have an un-
disputed claim for the cost of the plant with
interest, and sweeping damages for munich
pal bad faith, and the violence done to their
unsophsticated innocence. We fully appre-
ciate the comfy of the sister city in sending
a committee to ''whoop err up'' for a stink-pot
NIT the alderman from the Seventh ward to
aid them. "Pies Eye" will stand good deal
of vaporing and nonsense on the the part of
.'bulgers" aud "gophers," but proposes to
manage its own affairs, and while it will
give moral, municipal and pecuniary aid to
all legitimate efforts to establish great inter
state abattoir aud packing houses, it will
see that they are located where they will be
permitted to stay, and spread indefinitely
without retarding their own profit and use
fulness, or injuring their neighbors.
METRoPoL.