St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-30
CHICAGO IL WILL BE.

The GLOBE directs the attention of
the business classes of this city to the
call for worlds fair convention which
is to be held at st. Joseph, No., next
Thursday, the Sd of October, in the
hope that steps may be taken to have
st. Paul represented in the convention.
The object of the convention is to Sc
cure the cooperation of all the Western
towns and cities in an effort to secure
the location of the Columbus centennial
exposition IN some Western city, as
against any Eastern point, and all the
towns and cities of the West have been
invited to send delegates. The eonven-
ton is not to be held in the interest of
st. Louis, Chicago or any other place,
but it is simply to give weight to the
demand of the great West that the
quadricentennial exposition shall be
held at some point west of the Ale
gheny mountains-be it st. Louis, Chi
cago, Cincinnati, Omaha, Denver, st.
Paul or Minneapolis, Accredited men,
bers of all commercial bodies, the may
ors of the various Western cities, news
paper editors or other persons delegated
by public meetings or public bodies are
invited to participate as delegates.
The wisdom of prompt and united
action on the part of Western people In
this direction is too apparent to necessi-
tate an argument in support of it. 1t
was a matter of surprise. no less than
occasion for sincere regret, among
large class of our business people, that
the Pioneer Press should have so vehe-
mently urged the claims of New Yorkin
opposition to Chicago, when the holding
of the great exposition at any Atlantic
seaboard town is liable to prove fatal to
our most vital interests. Local pride, if
no other consideration, should induce
every Western man to favor Chicago,
st. Louis. or any other Western center.
to all Eastern city. But there are other
considerations. and of the most weighty
character, to enlist our support of a
Western location. Should the coming
exposition be held on the seabcord,
millions of dollars will be expended by
the Western people in the East, just as
was done in 1876, only on much larger
scale. Reliable statisticians have shown
that the millions Of dollars taken out of
the West during the Philadelphia cen
tennial in 1876 contributed largely to
the hard times that followed in 1S77-7S.
If the millions of dollars that will be
expended in travelling expenses and in
the purchases that would be made of
New York merchants could be kept in
the West, and the millions of dollars
that would be necessary to make
worlds display could be brought to this
section, we at once see what difference
it would make to the Western peo-
pie whether the worlds fair is
held in New York or in some
Western city. Moreover, it is to the in
terest of the bondhOlderS and stOckhOld-
erS in the more than 100, 900 miles Of rail
way in the Western states that the eX-
position should be held west of the Al
leghenies. 1t is to the interest OF the
capitalists of the East who hold mort
cages on Western farms; to the insur-
ance companies of the East who have
millions of dollars invested in Western
securities; to the great manufactures
of the East whose business depends on
Western developments. If the Eastern
people are interested in having the
worlds fair held in the West, of how
much greater interest is it to us, who
need this opportunity to display to the
world our boundleSS resources, and to
encourage the improvement of our I'M
limited opportunities. More than that.
pressing stringency, if not the danger
of actual disaster, threatens every
Western city and every Western interest
in case the exposition sh ouid be located
on the seabOard.
The GLOBE has advocated ChIcago's
claims simply because we believe that
city to be the most eligible site, and has
the best show to defeat New York. We
would support st. Louis, Cincinnati or
any other Western city just as readilyif
all things else were equal. Our prime
aim is to secure the fair for the West,
and we advocate Chicago because we
believe it to be the surest winner. There
is no doubt in our mind but there is a
combine between New York and st.
Louis by which st. Louis hopes to aid
New York TO take this exposition from
the West. To crafty vindictiye feeling
against its commercial rival, st. Louis
is being betrayed into an act of treason
against its own section. We would be
exceedingly mortified to think that st.
Paul could stoop so low as that. Our
people are too brOad-gauged and too
loval to Western interests to be infiu-
enced by such paltry considerations.
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