The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-05

Ihe reOpenlnS OIL tnlS great pIdHL "
business would be significant in any
event, but it becomes more so when the
character and business methods of tie
lessees are concerned. This is one Of
the great corporations of the country,
whose name is a guarantee of enter
prise and stability. There is nothing
uncertain or speculative in such de-
velopment. It means business, built
upon the surest foundation. On the
other side it means that these gentle
men, men of millions and of the widest
experience and shrewdest development,
have selected st. Paul as the point
where their business in the Northwest
is to be carried on. The acquisition
of this valuable property is the PLEDGE
that it will be operated to it's full ca
pacity, and that our business interests
will be supplemented and enriched by
a great industry which not only adds
to the resources and activities of
city, but extends to the building up of
a market for the whole country back
of and tributary to it.
The Swift company is known as
concern of wide views and generous
policy. Wherever they operate plant
in any part of the country they have
the reputation of conducting it with
view to building up the local market,
and not merely to make it feeder
-
it to be their interest to encourage To-
cal trade and to enlarge local deman
and supply, rather than to put it at
a disadvantage and make it a mere
contributor to Chicago. Therefore, st.
Paul may be assured that the plans
of those who have hoped most from the
establishment here of a center for the
packing house business are in a fair
way to be realized, and that all the
benefits that were expected to flow
from it, and all the addition to our
population, wealth and business are
ours in the near future. The negotia-
tions leading up to this have been un-
der way for a long time. The transac-
tion has been concluded deliberately
and it therefore marks the location
here of a business interest that will
draw in necessarily all others in COM
petition with it, We congratulate the
people Of st. Paul most heartily on this
great evidence of the new day that has
so certainly dawned for the Northwest
and especially for this, it's natural en-
porium and metropolis.
ST. PAUL AND THE PHARISEES.
There may be some sins possible for
local authorities to commit of which
the present administration of. St Paul
has not been guilty; but, if so, they
are still undiscovered. It's latest per-
formance is the encouragement and
protection of prize fighting; which.
it has been shown, can take place in
this city as freely as in Nevada. to
the great delight of our noble police
force. If any man noticed a scarcity
of blueeoats on the streets last night.
he may account for it by the fact
that there was a choice entertainment
of this sort pulled off. Though the
mayor and the chief of police were
in person, we believe, their spirits,
with halos of the latest approved Fitz-
simmons pattern, hung smilingiy over
the scene.
will Of In 1c
the charges which was used unspar-
ingly against a former administration.
one of the objectionable offenses o.
what the ''reformers'' called the
counters were held unmolested in GER
tain quarters in the Drake block in
this city. One may yet hear in COM
mon conversation the shudderfng ac-
count of the wicAedness of those days,
and the. picus thanks given because
this administration is not as others
were. Yet the difference extends no
further than to a coat of hypocrisy
laid on with a shovel. All the arrange
neents of this affair were made. weeks
ago, the invitations were sent out over
the city in ample time, and there was
not the slightest attempt at conceal
the administration furnished a large
share Of the audience.
When we remember what happened
in st. Paul not long ago, when the
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the sheriff had not stopped prepara-
tions for a fight, when we remember
that the captain Of a steamboat was
threatened with punishment for agree
ing to carry passengers to such a meet
ing away from the city and possibly
in another state above all when we
remember the SNUG and oily holiness
with which these creatures who are
meetings and knoekouts as events that
would be tolerated only by wicked
Democrats, it makes the gorge rise to
find them presiding and approving at
a series of fights right here in our
city, two Of which were to a finish. It
is Of a piece With all their other per-
formances. 1t fits in with the arrest
ing of innocent men and the clubbing
of inoffensive citizens. But it is rather
the boldest bit Of defiance of public
opinion and contempt of the law which
they are supposed to administer Of
which they have yet been guilty. For
the information Of our readers who
may not yet understand what sort of