St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-30

| WOulu IL nave upon the cities! MI.
HodgSon spoke regretfully Of the aboli-
ton entirely of the board of emigration
that had operated here few years ago
and he suggested that the cities of st
Paul ami Minneapolis unite in an or
ganization and spend $4,000 year TO
encourage emigration, and he explained
that he knew it would prove the best
money they had ever invested; that it
would produce better and richer har-
vest than any seed ever Sown. If this
be done, there will not be 4 vacant store
nor vacant house in st. Paul or Mime
apolls. He said that the people in the
East are going toward the South and
Southwest, and these same people
could have been induced to have cast
their lots in Minnesota by little effort.
This country is increasing at rate of
million and half every year. The
| cities are growing the most rapidly, but
| the time is soon coming when they will
| have crossed the line. The people want
| TO go away from the cities now. Min
nesota had met the claim that the farm
erS here are not making any too much
money, and that it is not bad to raise
too much agricultural produce. But, if
they do not come to Minnesota to raise
crops they go to Kansas and to Texas,
and the produce goes into the common
market just the same. They do not
avoid the volume in the least. Ii they
came here they would
Help Pay the Taxes
and bring down the freights. Mr..
| HOdgSon believed that by increasing
the amount Of the traffic is the only pos
| slb]e way or reducing freight rates
| The more people there are on the farms,
also, the more supplies will be market
able St Panl and ha re
would give employment to more men,
| and there would be few indeed who
need to be idle. But he wanted to point
particularly to the other natural re-
sources that should be developed. for
he considered agriculture subordinate
III Importance to the mineral and manu-
featuring opportunities, and the III
Vulnerable water powers throughout the
state that are running to waste.
Col. w. 7. Clough took different
view of the case. He did not appreci-
ate the necessity of stimulating emigra-
ton, for the reason that the tide in this
direction had already set in.
''What We want" said he, lis mill
ion more farmers. No matter how
much any particular calling seems to
be overdone. locally there is no diff
ference. The production goes on
somewhere. 1t is in the end a matter
of general competition with our present
shipping and transportation facilities,
everything in every market is in sight.
Ii men do not grow wheat in Minnesota
they will grow it somewhere else. 1t
matters nothing whether it is in Mime
sofa or in Texas or in the Dakotas, it
finds the same ultimate effect upon the
markets OF the world. Men will be
farmers somewhere else if not here.
and they will grow wheat and raise
cattle, and in addition they will be help
ing others. They will aid in the build
OF great commercial lcenterSp
Col. ClOugh cOntraSted the difference
between the fertile and easily titled soil
of this state and the fiinty and refractory
exhausted soil of Pennsylvania, where
they are compelled t. get fertilizers
from thousands of miles distant in or
der to grow anything. Again, he said,
the value of the Pennsylvania and New
York farms is 5000 ~ an acre,
and they should be induced to
sell out and invest the proceeds in
Minnesota lands at S25 an acre. They
get no higher prices for their product
than do the farmers here. This he
thought the proper text to act upon,
and the one that will have the most eff
feet with the farmers of the East Col
Clough did not think, however. that
there is any great need Of particular
effort on the part of the cities to Stimu-
late immigration, but he cautioned them
against doing anything that will check
the immigration, and he here intimated
that precisely this thing has been done
by the citizens of st. Paul.
he average man, strange as it NAV
seem. had rather go naked and 90 hun
cry than to encounter the fear of get
ting his toes cold. / don't know as they
are so much to blame on the whole for
fearing the Minnesota climate. They do
not understand the
Facilities We Have
here for keeping comfortable during the
winter months. want to say that men
suffer more in Richmond, Va. than they
do in Minnesota from the cold When
you talk to a Richmond man about a
zero temperature he has no conception
except of zerosof Richmond weather,
and that would be terrible. He
is appalled,. The only thing that
is necessary to do now is to
overcame this impression. The next
ten years there will be $4,000. 900 more
people in this country. New York
state has only one-third of that number,
| and Pennsylvania only one-fourtll. This
increase is going to take territory to &C
commOdate them, and they are going TO
come here if you don't do anything to
brighten them away. A few years ago
| something was done here, and all in
| good faith, l grant, that cost this state
| l0O,000.000, and the city of st. Paul
suffered loss of $4,000, 900 of it. 1t is
true there is an arctic belt lying north of
| us, but there is no fear here. Another
thing. Omaha is not far from the same
latitude, and there are PIT more miles
| of fertile lands in the rear OF ST. Paul,
on the Manitoba line. than there is in
| the rear of Omaha. Both of the Twin
| Cities are already crowded with pala-
! tial mercantile houses. and the facilities
are vastly greater than the business Of
| fered. There are not enough custom
| erS. but they are coming, if YOU don't
brighten them away"
Russell Dorr had a number of ques-
| tons TO PROFOUND to Col. ClOugh Mr..
Dorr was surprised that the efforts were
held so lightly, but the gallant colonel
was armed with data and he made
good case. The Great Northern line,
he said, is in position to know that Its
lanuS are in greater demand than ever
before, and MIR. Clough punctuated his
remarks by declaring that with better
cultivation and better handling the
farms can be made to produce twice as
HUGH " tic dCIc 10 NOW.
Col. Clough'S position was looked
upon with distrust by Mr.. Phelps. He
stuck manfully by the ground he had
assumed that it is absolutely necessary
that concise compilation of facts be
made.
Col. Groat favored active work. He
felt that emigration can be greatly
facilitated thereby, and proffered every
assistance to the movement that lays in
his power. Ee promised that the rail-
way companies will unite in the effort.
Mr.. iiodgson, after remarking that
| one man now means fifteen more in
fifteen years, read motion that he
asked TO introduce, namely, that the
chair appoint committee of twenty to
| carry out the work by establishing
bureau of emigration, and. if feasible,
TO raise money. 1t was finally amended
| to committee of fifteen, with instruc-
tinnc fD nrt of 10 l,n hnlh