The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-19
is A PART OF ST. PAUL
EDITOR PARADIs THINKS THE
MIDWAY DISTRICT SHOULD
BE SO CONSIDERED
In an Address Before the CONNER
cia Club the Midway Man Adyo-
Gates the Idea of a Closer ReIa.
ton With the City Proper.

B. A. Paradis, editor of the Midway
News, addressed the members Of the
commercial club yesterday On '"rhe
Midway District" In part, he said:
since the Midway district cheerfullv ex-
TENDS It's realty to st. Paul it feels at least
entitled to an occasional mark of narentsi
care and attention; it came unto its own hmt
us own received 1t not; it asked for the can
atoi nuliolng, Tor the harvester works, for
anu ana support in other wealth-prodtcine
enterprises, and 1t Is given assessments and
stones. was Swell
III, after fourteen years of digging and oruh-
ping, subsisting upon our own resources we
nave at last found one commercial body will
ins TO receive us, one spot ready for the seed.
leI US forget the hardships of the long main.
Iui winter of financial depression. and en-
eouraged by the prospective harvest pnsh
Forward with the good work.
AS matter of fact, there Is no Midway
district and there has not been for fourteen
years. The municipal limits of St paul and
minneapolis now adjoin so that there can he
no distinct Midway"
The educational and moral forces oe +ho
Midway district are now unequaIed in anv
otner community IN the Northwest We here
unite an sects and opinions in the broadest
as we'll as the deepest studies human incl
iect is interested in. We have ST. Paul sem
mary, st. Thomas college, Manchester col
iege, famine university, Columbia college,
the Hamllne Lutheran college, the apricnl.
tural college, and that great fortress of gen
eral knowledge. the state university, stands
at our very threshold. Preparatory for these
hlgner institutions we have six large public
schools, in charge of which you WIN And &c
aole corps of instructors as it is possible =
ma IN like institutions. We nave dozen
udu1c mes ana our pastors are always abreast
Win the best thought not only of both cities
put OF the times. We have benevolent and
1raternal societies of all the representativa
orders, and in all of them you will Midway
residents of more than local distinction. Al
social center it is simply unique.
AS political center the Midway district
certainty carries the crown of state honors.
FROM given point of observation you might
at one time have counted as residents of fhe
Midway district one ex-governor, the attor
ney general, state treasurer, state auditor.
state senator, congressman railroad commis
soner, grain inspector assistant hank ay
aminer, governors private secretary. assis-
tant librarian, deputy revenue collector conn
~ aualror, school commissioner-well, ex-
cuse me, my time is too limited to attempt
the list OF minor national, state county ana
municipal positions held by residents of the
MiaWay district. When the nation needed the
services OF patriots, as well as of oficeholders
the Midway district was no less consnicnons.
at the front. No
All this is the merest snap shot at the
the Midway district.
:, Finally, let me remind you once more that
the Midway district, so-called, is all in ST.
worth of Improvement there I adds i collars
much to the wealth of st. Paul. Every addi-
tional operative employed there adds lust
SO much to the population of ST. Paul. There
IS IS ample room there and superior facilities
Ior industries employing hundreds of thou
sands sand OF people and the great West needs
Why should we permit prehistoric prem
dlces and local jealousies to cause as To nre-
cipltate ourselves into hopeless swsmps. re-
moved both from the labor market and from
shipping facilities when prosperity invited ms
to build our homes amid the highest ,,or uI
lnnuence, the grandest educational adyan
tages, the most pleasant social relations. tbe
most most honorable political surroundings and at
ment? einpioy-
The opening Of the Midway district to the
financial resources of this city alone can give
TO greater st. Paul that proud pre-eminence
over the imperial Northwest on Tho hr;,I 80
which she now is lowering threatened by