St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
MIR. VILLARDHAs SPOKEN.

Although popular expectation may
not be altogether fulfilled, it is cause
for congratulation that public suspense
has been entirely relieved by Mr.. VIZ
LARD's candid statement of his aims
and purposes with reference to the in
dustrial development of the Twin Cities.
His speech at the Commercial club ban
quet last evening, which appears in an
other column of this issue of the GLOBE,
was a frank, busineSS-like utterance, and
was duly appreciated by the highly re-
| spectacle audience, composed of the lead
| ing business elements of the Twin Cities.
| Mr.. WIZARDS investigations have
satisfied him of his inability to use the
| tage. But that has not discouraged
him from undertaking to supply the
two cities with traction power that
will be sufficient for present purposes,
and which. by processes of develop
ment, may be made to meet the grow
ing demand upon it. If he can do this
at low cost, so low as to place st. Paul
and Minneapolis on an equal footing
with competing cities, he will have
done all that a grateful people could
ask of him.
We very we'll understand that Mr..
WILLARD is not going into the business
of supplying these cities with suffi-
cient traction to meet the requirements
OF our expanding manufacturing indus
tries simply for the pleasure that is in
it, nor is it being done in a purely
philanthroplc spirit. He and those as
ISOLATED with him are going into it for
the profit they expect to derive from the
undertaking. 1t is with them simply a
calculation of how much of dividend
they can realize on the capital to be in
| vested; and that it is so is all the more
hopeful and encouraging for us. 1t
will stimulate home capital and attract
| other capital to enter the same field. 1t
| is demonstration of what the GLOBE
| has always asserted, that we had within
us the resources for our own develop
ment if we would only exercise the
| proper faith in our own ability.
Not as Moses, but more Or Operly
| a joan the Baptist, has Mr.. WILLARD
come to us. His voice has been literally
the voice of one crying in the wilder
ness, make the paths straight and pre-
pare the way for the coming of dis
| penSatiOn of prosperity such as the
world never knew" There is an old
story in a book designed for chiIdren's
reading of the quarrelSome springs.
Two springs gushed forth on mount
tain top, and each, jealous of the others
sparkling beauty, declined to mingle
| their waters, but each sought different
| path to the sea. One poured its limpid
stream down the eastern slope of the
mountain side. while the other pointed
its way down the western slope.
| After torturous course and many miles
| of winding through chaSm and dark
valley, they finally came together in a.
plain, and at the point of confluence
| they had swollen into mighty stream,
upon whose broad bosom the commerce
of the world was carried. They were
| heartily ashamed of their early quarrels,
and, mingling their waters together,
| went on their way to the ocean. resolved
| never to be parted again. Seven years
ago, when Mr.. WILLARD was in a
| Chicago hotel with st. Paul delegation
on one side of him and Minneapolis
delegation on the other, quarrelng as to
| which should have the distinction of
playing first fiddle in the grand VIZ
LARD demonstration, he was Oh the
mountain top where the springs sep
arated. Last night he had reached the
point of confluence where there was a
union of interests, and from henceforth
there will be no divisions in things per-
tanning to the material development of
these great cities.