The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo
Gives It An Opportunity to
Display Its Manifold
Resources.
LIBERAL APPROPRIATION NEEDED,
Business Men of Twin Cities In Favor
Of Spending Enough Money to
Make Creditable Showing.
Resources.

There is one matter now hanging fire
before the legislature upon which the
eyes of all state officials and all men
representing large commercial interests
in the state of Minnesota are fixed and
that is the question of an additional ap-
preparation so that this state may be
fitt;ngly represented at the Pan-American
exposition to be held at Buffalo. There is
not a mill owner or a mine owner,
buttermaker or a shipper, in fact any
one who is either producer or an employ
er of men, who does not think that at
least $50, 600 ought to be appropriated for
this exposition, which, according to opin-
ions gathered from reliable sources, viii
be, in many respects, far more import
ant to the growing Northwest than was
the Worlds Fair at Chicago 1888.
Such a statement at first reading seems
to SAVIOR of exaggeration, but it is made
and reiterated by men who know what
they are talking about. At the Buffalo
exposition, the West will be brought into
the very heart of the East. Boston and
New York and other cities in proximity
to the lake town should be given a
chance to see what the Indian country
(aS some people of the East continue to
call the NOrthwesD Is doing. If this is
done, there is no doubt that the eyes of
those who have been looking through
smoked glasses, at it were largely be-
cause of Indifference, will be opened.
There is no gainsaying the fact that, If
Minnesota can be adequately represented
at the coming exposition, it will do more
toward awakening the denizens of the
East to the pOtentalties of this young
and growing commonwealth than could
be accomplished otherwise in ten years,
and it is not at all likely that the people
of the state, whose money would pay the
necessary expense of the exhibition. and
who would be the ones to gain the most,
would have any words of censure for
their representatives if the latter should
give the commissioners the $4,000 for
which they have asked. Conversely it
follows that meager display would be
az harmful as an elaborate one would be
beneficial
There is no question as to how the
business men of the state feel about the
matter. They will be disappointed If suf-
hclent funds are not provided to enable
the commissioners to make a credItabIe
dlspIay OF the states products. A NUM-
Der OF the representative men of the Twin
Cities were yesterday interviewed bv A
representative for the Globe. and all
OF them were enthusiastically in favor
OF liberal appropriation. A few of the
many secured are given below:
STATE NEEDS ADVERTISING
H. V. Jones, editor Of Commercial
West-'I am in favor Of having S5O, ,OOO
for the Buffalo exposition for the follow
ing reasons:
THE exposition will be Of great i'm
portance from an advertising standpoint
because Of the proximity of the Eastern
and the coast cities There will he a
large attendance from all Eastern points
ana minnesota should take advantage of
the opportunity to impress upon the East
hef sure resources We cannot make
much OF an impression with anything less
than S50,OOO. The state must spend money
for advertising if it hopes to get results
The agricultural interests of this state
can we'll afford to support a measure
that will show to the East what the
heaVy advance in the prices of North
western lands has been in the last five
years. In many respects the exposition
is more important for Minnesota and the
Dakotas than was the Worlds Fair.
Gov. j. S. PillSbury, of PiIlsbury-W sh-
burn company, representing an industry
in which this state leads the world -
enthusiastic on the subject Said he YES
terday:
am not in a position to state the
exact amount needed by Minnesota for
the Buffalo exposition. but 7 am bear4tiI,,
IN favor of making q magnificent show,
Hg' ana whatever is needed ought to be
spent. Some of the industries in The
state have reached an enormous growth
of late and people in the East do not
know it. Take the shipping from and
to Duluth, for instance. Millions Of tons
of iron ore and as many bushels of
wheat are leaving that port annually, 10
say nothing Of the immense quantities
OF lumber. Do you know that the ton
mage which passes through the Sarlt
Ste. Marie canal yearly, exceeds the
tonnage in the Suez canal four times
The East never thinks of that, or of
the wheat production. or anything else.
The wheat production in Minnesota last
year was something like 100000, 900 bush
els. and it will be just as great this year.
The state leads the world In the produc-
ton Of wheat, ana in the making OF