St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-26
PROSPERITY OF ST. PAUL.

PROSPERITY OF ST. PAUL.
Former citizens of st. Paul are
amazed upon their return to the city 10
note the growth and prosperity OF the
city. No one who left the locality for
remote regions a few years ago comes
back without expressing aStOniShment
at the magnitude the city las attained
during his absence.
1t is the railroad and wholesale center
OF the Northwest, and, at the rate IL is
advancing, it will soon be manufact-
uring center which will rank with the
first in the nation. There is every rea
son for announcement and nothing to
encourage the sentiment of a few
croakers who live here.
The city is all right and has nothing
to fear, except 1t be from these people.
AS railroad center it commands what
no other city short of Chicago can. The
heavy factory men who have recently
established here say that they find them
selves afforded railroad advantages
which they could not secure in any
other city short of the inter-ocean city,
and that they are better off than they
would be at Chicago. for the reasons
that they have better traekage facilities.
less expensive grounds, and are nearer
to the great mass of the consumers.
Water power no longer affords an adj
vantage to the manufacturer, and, as
steam power is so much more reliable,
it is preferable. They do notneed close
lake facilities, because their custom is
not in that direction. All they want IS
to be at the most desirable point to reach
by the cheapest means their custom.
ST. Paul is the nearest railroad center
to the vast popuIace of the Northwest.
And it is the natural locality for manu-
featuring.
There is but one argument which q
lake locality has to offer IN its favor as
against this place, and that is that the
raw material can reach the place at
cheaper rates. So the raw material can
reach st. Paul. which is $50 miles away,
cheaper than the manufactured product.
And here is just where we hold the ad
vantage. We are just that much nearer
the market, and can save the consumer
the difference between the freight rates
on the raw material and the manufact-
ured product OH that distance, which is
an immense amount.
That st. Paul is a natural center for
manufacturing is evidenced by the fact
that the Wood Harvester works, one of
the heaviest industries in the world,
and the oordage WORKS, another strong
concern, have located here. The man
ayers OF both these institutions are
old, experienced manufacturers. And
they did not locate here in haste, but
points in the entire Northwest, includ-
ing Chicago. Their experience enabled
them to judge of the fitness of points,
and they chose st. Paul out of the lot.
They are so prominently known in the
manufacturing world that every manu-
facturer respects their judgment and
knows that they have made no mistake.
Many others of equal prominence are
sure to follow.
st. Paul is prosperous now, and the
outlook for the coming summer is
the greatest in its history. Our
wholesalers are all solid, and d o.
ing the best business they have
ever done. The retail merchants are
also thriving. 1t is only necessary to
quote the comments of one retail coll
Germ to show the confidence which is
felt by these concerns in the city. The
Golden Rule, one of the heavy retail
stores, says:
We wonder if our citizens fully realize
what possibilities are in store for them. We
refer to the growth of business, factories and
the building up Of homes. st. Paul is bound
to be d large city. Nothing can stay its
progress. We need to talk St. Paul like
Chicago people do their town. Our shoe
manager says that the st. Paul ladys foot is
slim and aristocratic; yet we never see any
blow about it. while Chicago feet are a feat
ure in all newspapers, and they advertise
Chicago without knowing it. Bring up your
children to think that we are ''sum punkins'
and that, in being born naturalized in st.
Paul. they have a natural title to the best the
earth affords. We have city in this state
that you hear of simply because its citizens
speak right out IN meeting, while we say so
little about our city that it isn't at all uncom-
mon for mail or packages to be sent 10 st. Paul,
Mexico. There should be only one st. Paul,
knowneverywhere. Don't let other towns
that haven't any merit-and where it isn't
any distinction to get intoxicated. even
travel in the same class with us.
This is only one of the many express
sions of confidence felt by our mer-
chants. 1t is only the damnable spirit
of croaking that we have to contend
against. A number of our heavy capt.
tahsts, who made every dollar they are
worth here and have never expended
cent to improve the city, are among the
worst crOakers.
A contemporary several years ago
said that what st. Paul needed most
was few first-claSs funerals. And
the enterprising element is not yet
through applauding the sentiment.
But for these same drOnes st. Paul
would have begun fifteen years ago
what she put off until about three years
ago-encOuraging heavy manufacturers
to locate here. Had this been done
then, we should now be city of at least
100000 inhabitants. if not more.
Col. DRAKE, Il man of ideas, who was
successful in all the schemes which
concerned himself, was unable then,
with all his energy, to arouse the peo-
pie 10 the Importance of industries.
They argued that st. Paul was whole
sale center, and that that was enough.
But that is past, and many people
have seen the folly of their positions;
so let us now annihilate the croakers,
and continue to pull together as we
have been doing in the past three years,
and we shall come out at the top of the
heap.
MORALS OF MILE Laos.