St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-15

BUXTON, Feb. Is, 1S94.-To the Read
erS of the Globe-My Dear Readers:
Allow me to congratulate you on your
wisdom in taking the GLOBE. This Is
to be our future meeting place-and a
delightful one it is, too. 1t is free from
all unpleasant odors and underbrush.
1t is to be hoped we will meet here
often, and spend many pleasant hours
together. This Is your reward for
choosing good society-for making a
wise selection OF newspaper and
friends.
All that is needed TO prosper is to
pick the right kind of friends. Many
man has failed in business, and many q
good woman has lost her good name
and gone down to ruin by not making
wise selection of friends.
\ newspaper is a travelling mirror of
the world. 1t is the circulating medium
of information. 1t is place where all
can meet without circulating them
selves.
1t is place where we can meet re-
CARELESS of dress or personal appear
ance.
There is an air of common sense, as
we'll as a delightful charm, to be able
TO circulate around in a free and easy
way and chat with friends. without hav-
ing TO study the fashion plates and buy
q whole lot of new clothes to appear in.
This is place where we can meet and
not be criticised in where it
can't be told whether we have on a
81 har ri,
robe. This place of meeting knocks out
the dry goods merchants, railroads,
merchant tailors and milliner shops
they don't have to be considered.
We can call here without having to
ring the front door bell, and after
standing around in the cold, waiting for
it TO be answered. be informed "they
are not home today" They are always
home when we call here. and the OPP
portunity is always open to cast gIances
aud smiles without restraint.
We can meet through this circulating
medium and express our thoughts On
business, the gossip of the day, or love,
and depart without being kicked out.
If the folks are not up or at home
when we call, we can lie down on the
front door steps and wait till they get
around, and it is all right.
\ newspaper, to Do thorough y COM
plete, should reflect everything in Gre
alton. There is no doubt about my
being a small part of creation-there-
fore, am reflected. That's why Pm
here.
1t is true am only an atom-only one
of many millions of millions; but the
more atoms the mirror reflects the more
complete its functions.
The more that is seen by looking in
it. the greater the menagerie for the
same price.
Great attractions at small price are
the need Of the times. The stringency
Of the times demands large menageries
at lew price. so our laboring classes
and US farmers can have amusements
and recreation within our reach.
a newspaper to be valuable must
present large variety and wide col
lection, and keep adding to it and pre-
Senting it.
a great newspaper like the GLOBE
gathers up all the interesting and i'm
portant things on the globe. and, in
stead of having to spend time and
money running around to see what is
on the globe, you sit down, fold your
hands, and the GLOBE comes TO you
bringing everything. This is a travel
ing mirror worth looking into-a re-
Hector that is a reflector.
In our reflections it is not the inten-
ton to reflect all time. Therefore we
proceed at once to observation-disclosures
of spirits, but of business.
AS North Dakota is my home, and as
il is the most natural to think Of home
first-where you love tiny first re.
Elections will be directed toward North
Dakota. A little naturalization of
business and prosperity will be APP
preciated here as much as anywhere.
North Dakota is known as a Zone
Crop" state. Its principal product is
wheat. For at least oue-third of the
year long trains of cars can be seen
daily rolling over the pra1ries, carrying
this wheat to market. The many mill
ions of bushels produced find its mar
ket principally at Minneapolis, West
Superior and Duluth. The price of
wheat this year is about the cost of
production. The long trains that bear
away the toll, hopes and disappoint-
ments Of US farmers can be seen for
many miles. because North Dakota is
practically treeless. But before reach
Ing their destination, at either st. An
thony Falls or Lake Superior, they pass
Northern Minnesota so dense and
thick, the sun in places is almost shut
out. There is wood enough rotting on
the ground in this near and adjoining
State to supply the stoves of North Da-
kota quarter of century. and fence
posts to go around every quarter sec
ton.
Raising single crop has raised US
farmers to a single condition. DIVERSE
flying is now necessity. For the rea-
son, while the crop is left the price has
departed. Without the price. raising
the crop leaves US with a fiat pocket
book. and, as like begets like" one
fiat thing begetS anOther-a fiat pocket
book puts fellow fat on his back, and
leaves him feeling pretty fiat all round :.
But, thank heaven, our backs are left to
diversity with.
But how can we diversity without
fenced fields? How can we raise cattle.
horses. sheep and hogs on farm with
out enclosures to keep them in?
If the farm WIS fenced all kinds of
stock could be turned out OIL the stubble
fields after harvest and get fat. But
most of the straw is burnt the day it is
threshed and the stock never gels into
the field after the crop is off to eat up
the scattered grain. because it is not
fenced. To build fences we must have
posts. To get posts we must go to the
woods where they grow. The forests OF
Minnesota adjoining us on the east are
nearest, i'll fact, are at our very doors.
Then whose fault is it that the farmer
raising cheap wheat should not have
cheap wood and fence posts, and plenty
of them? There is railroad between
the forests and wheat fields. The farmer
needs the wood and poCts opd ~ ,,,o,, =,