St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-07
THE MORNING AT HAND.

THE MORNING AT HAND.
The GLOBE inaugurates this morning
81. Paul with a sketch of the local boot
and shoe trade. 1t invites the earnest
attention of its readers to what it says
and what it suggests. 1t is well written
and put in simple and earnest words.
But, even If it were not. it could not
help but tell an interesting story, be-
cause the facts themselves are eloquent
beyond the need of adornment. Here
is the substance OF what has been
achieved in a single decade. In 1881
there was one boot and shoe factory
in this city, employing ninety hands.
paying annually in wages $4,000
and turning out goods to the amount of
$4,000 a year. To-day St. Paul ranks
tenth in the list of places engaged in
this industry. She has three factories,
employing LOGO men, paying out an
nuaily S750,000 in wages, and manufact-
900 worth of goods. Is not this won
derful showing? And how many of our
people knew these things until they
saw them this morning in the columns
of this paper?
The GLOBE goes further than this,
however, and reveals how what has
been achieved is only the forerunner of
amazing possibilities in the future. We
manufacture boots and shoes, but we
import the leather, the pegs and the
thread which we consume in limitless
abundance in their making. The GLOBE
not only asks why we should not have
shops of our own where such things as
these could be produced, but proves
that great profits await the men with
the enterprise and capital necessary for
their establishment and maintenance.
No deluSiOn is more foolish than the no
tlon that here in the West industries of
this sort could not be made successful.
The history of what has been done in
tie past gives the lie to those who pirate
i'll such fashion. They could not-only
be made successful, but there is cry
ing need for their presence. The trades
which would consume the out put would
be helped by their existence. and all
would grow together as the country
back of us grows, each and all contrib
uting and drawing from each and all in
an endless round of prosperity.
The GLOBE does not propose to stop
with the boot and shoe trade, but to go
on with intelligent reviews of every
other line of work which is achieving
in the midst of us. 1t will place before
its readers the tidings OF development
in the years which are gone, pictures of
what is doing to-day, and calm and hon
est accounts of the allied branches for
which there is not only room, but de-
maDd against the future. 1t hopes and
believes that a series of articles of this
character will have the most stimulat-
ing effect on our local progress. The
man who is conscious that he has
wrought well is confident of his powers
when new tasks are put upon his shout
ders. In like manner, as the men and
women who love this fair city of ours
reflect, in the light of what the GLOBE
will tell them, on the proud monuments
here standing to business courage and
ability in these directions, they will
breathe new aspirations, and realize
their strength and proves as they never
have before. AS the GLOBE enumerates
the unoccupied fields for effort, those
who are adapted for laboring in them
will come forward for the task. Every
honest mechanic who, in a small way,
perhaps in shop no larger than a
room, and with imperfect tools, pro-
duces here with stout muscles some
commodity for domestic consumption. is
public benetactor. By such as these
have the great fortunes of this and
every other city in this land been
founded. Rewards lie before the sober,
intelligent, patient, economical and
persistent worllingman now as great as
ever did in the months which are no
more-and in st. Paul and at this hour
there is a rich harvest ready to be
reaped by the capable. The moment
for awakening is at hand, and the
GLOBE blows the bugle notes announc-
ing the morning. The air is all alive
with renewed enthusiasm, hope and de-
yotion. Let US all be up and doing.