The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-06-15
FOR HOME TRADE.
Editors and Manufacturers
Take Part in a Northwest
ern Banquet.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING.
Northwestern Publishers AS
SoCiation Soon to Be In
corporated.

OOi POt dIOA'
ST. PAUL, June 1O.-There should be
inspiration and impetus, hopefulness
and incentive to push ahead, for all
Northwestern manufacturers and !
Northwestern people, in the splendid /,
success that crowned the effort for a
home trade conference and banquet.
Originating among some Of the ed
itors Of the weekly papers Of Mime
sota the idea was adopted with en-
thusiasm and carried forward with q
vim and an unfaltering faith by the st.
Paul Commercial club.
Tables to accommodate between 200
and 800 guests had been set in the
large reception rooms of the CONNER
cial club, and there were but few vacant
seats when the gathering had been
seated. Grouped around President
Footner and Toastmaster Smalley at
the head of the room were the speakers
of the evening and prominent business
men and editors from all parts of the
state.
A Minnesota Made Bouquet.
wildering array of Minnesota-made
food products, from pickles to cakes
from butter to jelly, liquids and solids,
creams and condiments, bread cheese,
and in fact every thing that man could
crave.
At the beginning Of the speechmak.
ing President w. j. Footner said he
felt great pride in welcoming to the
hospitalities of the Commercial club
the Minnesota Publishers association
and the manufacturers.
E. V. Smalley, as toastmaker, spoke
of the return of prosperity and Of the
future it opened to the Northwest. In
the course of his remarks he said:
minnesota can be made the New
England of the West. We have far
greater natural resources in raw ma
terial for manufacturing than are pos
sessed In the New England states. We
have, like England, the pine and hard
wood timber essential for all forms OF
manufacturing in which wood enters as
An Important Act.
We have also, like New England
enormous ledges of granite, Jasper and
other building stones. We have water
powers equal to those which were
originally the foundation Of all New
Englands manufacturing activities
and we have what New England is moi
so fortunate as to possess-vast de
posits of the best quality of iron ore
especially suitable for making the stee
which has almost entirely crowded out
the cruder forms of iron from the mar
kets of the world"
Mr.. Smalley was followed by E
Vanish, who responded to the senti
ment, "Why Northwestern Peopl'
Should Buy Northwestern Goods" II,
made an early hit by the statemen
that, all things being equal. North
western people should buy and US
home made goods. He asserted tina
every man in the Northwest should b
loyal to the Northwest because it is hi
home.
Other Addresses.
John A. Willard Of Mankato toll
"Why the Northwest Should Manufae
ture for Its Own Consumption. H
held that the Northwest should manu-
facture especially those lines for whic
l we have the raw materials in abanG
i. ance and pointed out the absurdity c
. shipping raw materials to the East an
l then shipping them back as a manufat
. tured product.
E H. NJ. Knox opened his remarks wit
? the statement that ITO advertise or nc
l to advertise" is the question Of to be {
4 not to be with the Northwestern man,
, J facturers. he said that the Northwe!
. was q republic in itself. that we ca
= manufacture almost everything v
need for ourselves.
Colonel Plummer Of North Dakot
spoke of the patriotism of those WI
Q built up the Northwest. George !
e Lanphere of the Moorhead News spol
i of What Can the Press Do for Nortl
a western Manufacturers. Mr.. Day
!. the Albert Lea Standard followed wi,
s. a very strong speech on the relation
o the newspapers TO the business inte
ests of the Northwest, and Mr.. Parad
9 of the Midway News closed the pr
l. gramme with few short remarks.