St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11

voice of frenzied few put into cold
type. Six months from now neither
town, nor the papers themselves, will be
held responsible for all the folly which
has found it's way into print. Municipal
greatness by no means depends upon
numbers. Pekin, China. and Philadel-
phia, Pa, are both large towns, but
only motives of philanthropy would
lead any man born elsewhere to desire
to live in either of them. Mu-
Diclpal greatness is the sum total
of the activity. nerve, capacity.
aIertneSs and moral strength of
all its citizens. Could we multiply
small shanties with families of ten. for
the care of our relief society, until our
population far Outnumbered our sister
city, such an addition would be detri-
lnent instead of benefit. Sfirewd
Eastern capitalists will not rate us
financially because we are able to swell
our enumeration by paupers and tramps,
but they will reckon the wealth-breed-
ing capacity of those who are actually
here. Credit abroad and financial
SoundnesS at home depend upon just
economic conditions. 1t is far better for
us to have population of hundred
thousand people among whom labOring
men and mechanics are we'll employed
and well paid; business houses are pru-
dent and sound; due proportion is
maintained between the producing and
the distributing activities; town i'll
which the mortgages are small; the
banking capital is adequate to the vol
ume of trade, and, above all, the busl
ness of the city is owned at home, than
by feveriSh and advertising methods to
Swell the Population
to 100000 people in a city which is sub
stantially owned in New York and Bos-
ton, and where commercial failures are
of common occurrence, where every
business man is as suspicious as he is
restless, and where catastrophe is easily
prOpheSied for the future. There is one
Steamship line plying between New
York and Liverpool which is able to in
scribe upon all its advertising matter
the legend. 1--WE have never lost a
passenger" The fact that lies behind
this inscription is worth thousands of
dollars every year to that steamship
company. For myself. [ do not care
which of the two cities is the larger, but
| propose generous rivalry with our
sister city in respect to those things that
are real elements of municipal great
ness. | would have our business
men not alone anxious for repu-
tation for business shrewdness. but
still more eager to be noted
for commercial integrity. If we Will
spend less time in scheming how to get
more people, and more time in planning
how to make those we have thrifty, con-
tented, and we'll developed, we shall do
we'll. Let us compete in generous and
manly way with our sister city in the
soundnesS of our economic conditions
and in the strength of our moral forces.
Let us remember, too, that man shall
not live by bread alone. and let us COM
pete in the cultivation of art. and of
literature. III the development of libra
ries and museums, in the upbuilding OF
schools and churches. and let us not
only compete, but let us also cooperate,
so that these two cities may be worthy
to be regarded as the capital of the
great Northwest. God has joined us to-
gether, let not man put us asunder. In
spite. therefore, of the unhappy events
OF the past few weeks, / close with the
prayer, God bless st. Paul and Mime
apoliS.