New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-08-19


CITY AND COUNTY INTERESTS,
We are surprised to see F. W. John.
son, the bright young editor Of the New
Ulm Review, take the position that a
state exhibit at the worlds fair permits
OF jealousy between the country and
city people, between the agricultural
and manufacturing interests. If there
is one class of people that would be
more benefited than another by the
rapid development of manufacturing
interests in the Northwest it is the farm
ers. Bro. johnson seems to think that
the cities and private interests will look
after the exhibit, anyhow, so that the
people don't have to bother their heads
about it. That's all right, but we would
remind our young friend that like the
man in the balloon, the people can't
drop out and be in it, too. So long as
the country waits for the city and priv
ate interests to run things, the cities
and private interests will be very likely
to run things. = Midway News.
Bro. Paradis is evidently mistaken in
us. The Review has never yet taken
the ground that Minnesota should be
represented at Chicago by purely ag-
rlcultural exhibit, nor that the last leg
islature could not have doubled it's ap.
preparation for Worlds Fair purposes
as we'll as not. What it did say was
that, as it seemed impossible to secure
an extra appropriation without allowin g
the cities to spend the peoples money
without their own consent, it was use
less to holding meetings and urge extra
sessions, and thus squander time that
might be more proftably spent in rails
ing money through other means. It
then pointed out that the city, mining,
numbering and milling industries were
able to take care of themselves, and
would do soft no state help was offered.
No harm was offered in that, we trust,
for we simply stated what was fact as
to the probable action of the Legislature,
and made a suggestion as to how to
meet the emergency. 81. ~
AS to the jealousy between the city
and country, there need be none of it,
if the commissioners act with discretion.
Minnesota is above all else an agricul-
tural state, and as such should be adj
vertised at the Chicago exhibit; not to
the exclusion of other interests, but so
as to correctly place her grain and fruit
producing resources before the people
of the world. If, as the News says, the
farmers are interested in a good display
Of our manufacturing interests, SO also
are the great industrial centres to be
benefited by the development of our
producing sections. In fact we do not
believe that there is so much truth in
the former as in the latter The farmers
gain from the existence, close to them,
of manufactures and thriving business
centres, but these come largely as a
sequence TO our agricultural wealth. If
anyone therefore should be moved to
give of their abundant means for the
proper representation Of Minnesota's
resources at the Fair it is the city and
manufacturing interests. Let them pay
for their own exhibits, to be arranged
and conducted by the superintendent, of
course, while the state appropriation is
devoted to what are truly among our
natural resources. This is not asking fav-
ors for the farmers, nor offering to al.
low city and private interests to run
things. With this plan carried out we
will still be in the balloon, but not
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