St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-08
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NO UNION NOW.
The Minneapolis Board of Trade

The Minneapolis Board OF Trade
Committee Makes It's Report.
The meeting of the board of trade
yesterday morning was for special
purpose. That purpose was accom-
plished. 1t was to receive the report of
the committee on union of st. Paul and
Minneapolis. The report speaks for
Itself. Here it is:
Your special committee to whom was re-
ferred the request of the chamber of COM
merce, of ST. Paul, for the appointment by this
board of n committee OF seven TO meet like
committee OF that body, to consider the sub
ject of a municipal union Of the cities, would
respectfully report:
That it is our undivided opinion [ hat the
appointment Of such committee by this board
would result in no advantage TO this city.
IL is unnecessary and inexpedicnt to attempt
any complete review of this question, but a
statement of some of the reasons for such
recommendation will be presented.
The agitation OF the question comes almost
entirely from partics engaged in land specu-
lations between the two cities, and whose
special object is 10 increase values on such
property, and cannot be taken other than as
the most biased view OF the question.
AT several times IL the past few years,
twice at least. by Ike chamber of commerce
of st. Paul, committees of this kind have
been asked for and appointed by this board.
Such committees have accomplished nothing
whatever towards the solution OF The ques-
ton, the representatives from that city hay
ing avoided, as far as possible all consider
alton of the essential point Mt Issue. and used
the time III general ana incidental discussion
The same course was pursued in all Twin
City club meetings. From this it became
apparent that all the talk of union meant
only for our citizens 10 return TO building up
the interurban territory, as they had been
doing prior 10 the time that these anxious
unionists coolly took the whole district into
their city limits.
This territory, which separates the two
cities proper by space of some five miles,
makes il practically impossible to merge the
two city governments into enc over this eX-
tended area. consisting largely of farms and
unsettled districts.
In face of all opposition MINNEAPOLIS has
grown IN little over thirty years from the
uninhabited prairie 10 the metropolis of the
Northwest. lis record in tie past ten years
has exceeded that of any other city of its
size in the history of this country. In popu-
Iation, wealth and business, ms we'll as in the
development of its educationa! and social in
stllutlons and in its jadicious management
OF its municipal affairs, il has Ear ouistrprs3
its competitors.
AT no time in the history Of this CITY hare
our manufacturing and business establish.
ments shown such increase In numbers such
grown of business and prosperity. as during
the past year Tho Indications for the pres
ent are for greater growth in the decade
upon which we have entered than that of
the Soe just closed IL in the past we could
make such progress, not only without union,
but with the loss Of considerable population
and improvements taken into st. Paul can
we not by building wholly OIL our own terTt