The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-16


l. Taking an interest IN and always speak
Ing well of your town and people.
q Taking interest in measures pro-
posed for the public good.
j. Patronizing home industry as far as
possible by buying home manufactured arti-
cles.
A. Being willing to furnish brother mer-
chant any information that would be of ben
eht to him, even IL he is in the same bust
ness yourself.
8. Using your influence to supply work to
as many persons as possible.
BY the cooperation of merchants, manu-
raeturers, producers, international fairs,
county fairs and street fairs are a pro-
nounced success financially and socially, but
are they permanent financial aid to the dis
trlct in which they heidi
BY the cooperation of the merchants In
certain cities and towns, the bargain day is
being fnaugurated; whether they prove to be
success, remains to be seen.
PURE FOOD CONGRESS.
President Mason made the announce
ment that as he had made a report
on the pure food congress. held at
Washington in January. that he was
prepared to read the same If the as
ISOLATION desired. 1t was desired, and
from the report we have the follow
ing:
The objects of this congress are to secure
suitable legislation OF national character, to
prevent adulteration of foods, drink and
drugs and to secure the enforcement OF such
laws; to secure and promote uniformity in
state legislation and the rulings of the state
departments; to create and maintain a high
public sentiment in this matter; to uphold and
sustain all public officers charged with the
enforcement OF such regulations; to pro-
mote more general intelligence concerning
the injury to health and to the business in
terests of honest producers, manufacturers,
dealers and exporters, resulting from food
adulteration and concerning the Importance
of proper food, pure and properly prepared,
to the health OF the people. And to this
end we ask the cooperation of every one in
terested In the promotion of sound public
morals and in the protection OF the public
health.
nesota has the best pure food laws of any
state In the Union. And 1 believe they are
lived up to and obeyed much better than in
any other state.
In conclusion Let us send strong reso-
luton to Washington, D. c., indorsing the
national pure food and drug bill, and let us
stand ready to indorse and push any pure
food legislation which may come up in our
own beloved state.
The morning session then adjourned
until 2 D. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
There were fully six hundred dele
gates present at the afternoon session
of the convention. Every one was en-
thusiastie and the meeting resulted in
sion thus far. Merchants were on the
qui vive to learn something new, for
it was the afternoon of general dis
cussion. when the good something" of
every one was discussed. The first part
of the afternoon was devoted to the
appointing of committees for work
during the following year. the selec-
tons being:
Legislation-G G. Dingman, Minneapolis;
H. n. Pryts, Minneapolis Alonzo Burning
ham; Franklyn; 7. ]. Anderson 81. Paul. j..
4. BergIey. MAinmneapofis; P, j. Wagner. St.
Behnke. New Ulm: G. H. Brimkow. Delano.
Constitution and By-Laws-G. L. Dingman.
Minneapolis; j. H. Tenvoorde, st. Paul; ]. H.
Pure Food Committee. B. Brower,-Auch-
er, st. Paul; H. J. Herms, Red Wing; T. ].
Anderson. Belgrade; ]. W. Cooper. St Paul;
c. M. Griffith. Superior.
HE A PHARMACIST.
The committees having been appoint
ed, the president introduced Thomas
Voegeli, of Minneapolis, who is sec
rotary of the Pharmaceutical Rssocia-
ton of Minnesota. Mr.. Voegelfs
speech, while short, was given in a
forcible manner, and his words were
we'll selected and to the point. He
said in part:
The success of the grocers' organization
has justified other business interests in or
ganizing for offensive and defensive pur-
poses. Acting On this principle, the hard
ware men have pushed to the front anu now
have an organization that has lifted, In a
measure, the darkness of despond from their
business surroundings.
Everywhere you hear Of the good that these
organizations have accomplished for their
membership AS a representative of the re-
tail druggists of Minneapolis, 1t has been NY
pleasure to hold up these organizations to
ours as worthy Of imitation, and in doing
T uytcf, TO 70 hat rf rl1-
benefting your own membership by Your
thorough organization, but you are Incl
dentally beneftting every other line Of bust
ness, for it is but natural to assume that
you are filed with a feeling of compassion
for your fellow man engaged in some other
line of business, and will seek to divert his
influence In behalf of his fellow business man
who is not fortunate to have a power
full organization to help him over has sea
of troubles.
This mutual assistance cannot be other than
beneficial to small dealers and 1 would urge
you to look upon this question from the
standpoint of broad charity towards all small
dealers. You can be Of great assistance
to the druggists, who are now struggling
through their darkest days, and 1t is in
deed great pleasure to me to bear to you
the greetings OF our association and to thank
occasion. You have planted your banner
high, you have removed every obstacle in
your path and today you stand on princi-
pie that is bound to win in the end
You have passed through the stormy sea
of troubles, and now, in the full stature Of
manhood, you are reaping a rich reward.
LOVE FEAST FOLLOWS.
A general discussion, or love feast. .
as the grocers so fondly call it, fol-
lowed. During this hour everyone is
given a chance to give vent to pent up
feeling. Grievances against corpora
items, trusts, competitors, etc, are dis
cussed, and many animated discus
SionS enSued.
Delegate Berkeley, of F'raklyn, wish
ed to have the local business mems as
seciation affiliate with the state or
CARNATIONS in protecting the home
Wholesalers He stated that in small
towns there was no trouble on that
score, but in the large cities the mer-
chants bought from the Chicago whole
sahers, this causing the cutting Of
prices-the great existing evil Of mer-
chandising.
Mr.. Cole, of Morley, answered Berke-
ley, by saying that the failure in main
tanning prices in many cases was due
to merchants not in the association.
These merchants took advantage of the
fact that the association was against
price cutting and advertised to the
world that they were entirely indie
pendent and believed in giving mer-
chandise to the consumer at prices
that would not rob them. This sort of
advertising helped them for a while
and gave them prestige over the more
legitimate merchant. He wished for
the closer union of all the merchants.
Mr.. Lawrence, OF Lake City, does not
believe in cutting prices. He says he
would rather work less and make q
reasonable profit than work hard at a
small profit.