The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-08
LIVE STOCK INTERESTS
GEN. FLOWER EXPLOITS THEM Rp
FORE THE COMMERCIAL. CLUB


Gen. Mark D. Flower addressed the
Commercial club yesterday afternoon at
the noon lunch hour on st. Paul as a
nVe stock market and packing center.
III said in part:
Great as Chicago has been, great as she
rot - tSuay, tnere are, to the close observer.
pooeehntlai eIn signs that she has reached the
sh ana I'VE stock market, and that while
sne may not decline for some time to
i1me, nnner,tant mat she Will cease to increase in
grow. This will simply be a repetition
OF history. There was a time when Al
StnIy, Oany, N. T., was the most important live
f.oUa f. ~ya market OF the country, but in time
Hd Mard course of empire" and Cincinnati
became the king market, only to be SUI
Ierseoed little later by Chicago, which
1oT 1oTty years has held supremacy,
10 the discriminating observer Il is
certain that Chicago, which. from its
seogTaphiGal ee situation, will always be a
that stage where it will cease to increase
IN nv Importance. while the chances are it
otbar Wl5t ran t, to sustain its supremacy as
Sbiep SIder N markets a grow To the Eastward,
STOCK market, from limited territory
+hain Miicnigan, Indiana and Ohio either sell
Il1e rnelr lily i've stock to Indianapolis or to the
atlantic seaboard. To the South ST
Louis is asserting itself in unmistaka
P3e pc terms 10 the Southwest and West
City and ST Paul, like the i'si9' entrencbad nnGed
outposts of an invincible army, are armed
ana ana EQUIPPED and in line for the great
cGThinepclaf Ghina ea oattle that will surely deprive
Gnlcago or that heretofore undisputed
sway, winch she. has SO long enjoyed. In
eacn great packing industries with am
PIE capital, have already sprung into ex-
fFStehce, ahd are disputing with Chicago
Ior every hog, sheep or steer to the
souin and west of line, which in a semi
circle form enyirons Chicago at an ad-
erage distance of 800 miles
The situation has been apparent IN
none none more, than the astute packers of
Cnicago, the greatest of whom, while
iahhihtalaing tahiubda plants in Chicago, have es-
G;t.I 1GapIshea 91 themselves at Omaha, Sioux
CITY, Kansas City, ST. Joe, St, Iouis
and and St. Paul, in order that they may more
Iuiry ,,Iry, control the advantages which the
as the price of continued sovereignty in
the meat trade of the world
81. Paul, already a respectable and
growing packing and live stock metropo
us, is in its infancy. and st. Paul packers
already ship their cured meats to every
clVliizeq country on the globe and our
larity owing to the unexceptionaI condi
tlons OF health and climatic effects, that
piace them at premium in many cases
over those cured and packed in warmer
sections of the country This popuIa ritv
Is growing, and with 1t an Increased de-
ms For the product
giving a number of local statis-
! tics, cen. Flower continued:
The business interests of the country
especially so far as relates to CORPORA
| lions, are hedged and embarrassed by un-
wise wise ana burdensome laws, the chief pur-
pose of which is to furnish occupations
10 an army of butter inspectors, boiler
inspectors factory inspectors, milk in
spectors, and a long list of other in
spectors and licensed officials, whose
special purpose IS to draw salaries from
the public treasures or fat fees from
the unfortunate victims of their inouisi-
lions The tendencies of the times crop
out on every hand, and Objectionable laws
that political shysters advocate and enact
from the municipal legislatures to the
congress OF the United States. l do not
refer to reasonable legislation, the oh
Ject of which is to protect the Dublic
from fraud and imposition. Ny objec-
tons are addressed to the blighting and
whitening laws that embarass trade and
manufacturers and which curtail and
pa-alyze the efforts of the business world
by uepriving it of the reasonable control
OF Its own affairs