The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15
AN lNTERURBAN AUDITORIUM
With Geological Gardens Baths Fairgrounds and Other Attractions
to Be Located Between the Cities.

Is money except as 1t advances great pub
lie enterprises and Is expended for hu-
manitarian projects Carnegie said it was
a disgrace to die rich. I go a little far
ther and say it is a positive crime. Theo-
retically we pass through this life to "lay
up our treasures in heaven" but we all
know that that is a figure Of speech which
Is not lurid enough to embrace our bank
accounts. That is why style the miser-
ly boarding of money crime when there
is so much opportunity to accomplish
good with it. I sympathize with Mr.. Car
negie, who, in spite of his heroic benevo-
lence has not as yet been able to expend
his income. leaving his principal to bring
him into disgrace. -.
I am we'll aware Of the local feeling
which will make the average reader scout
this whole project. 1t is in advance of
public sentiment certainly twenty-five
years, and perhaps half a century; but If
the child born to-day will put this article
In his inside pocket, and keep the pocket,
he will be liable to live to see even a
grander development than have crudely
portrayed. 1t is manifest Destiny; why
not begin to create public sentiment now?
Singly neither city can care for big con-
vention or any other big. event, or, for
that matter do anything really gigantic
Why not be a bundle instead Of single,
weak sticks?
Columbus was little ahead Of the
times when he discovered America, but
the American people have made good
The Aztecs were rather early in Next
but they left things behind which will
make them long remembered. Every
single person now living in these two
cities will ultimately be extinct. Why not
profit by history and leave something be-
hind us to be remembered by, more noble
than that we are race of boarding misers,
convulsively clutching the air with our
last gasps as If to try to take the gold to
the coffin, which at that hour is being
tastefully trimmed for us by the under
taker.
Columns, or even pages, Of strong argu
ment could, be written in favor of this
project, or a better one, but merely
ask the Intelligent reader to take some
leisure hour and work out in his own
mind the great advantages which he can
see would inure to these communities If
a project of this kind was actually car
ried out. 1t is not wild or any 1mpos-
sibility if it can have for it's foundation
stones public spirit and public sentiment:
The former will bring the latter.
When 1 passed through Chicago forty
years ago, en- route to Minnesota, the city
was being literally lifted up eight feet
cago to-day. The man did not live who
thought at that time that Chicago would
ever need elevated railroads to transport
her people to and from business. When
l see what has happened IN my N1etlme IN
that locality, / do not believe the human
mind has the capacity to forecast the sit
uation in this locality in 1885,
Instead of throwing this aside as a fan
tastic theory never to be realized while
you are on earth, why not take it serious
ly and see if the present generation can
not have some advantages Of life instead
of leaving all the good things for poster
!, ity. Granting that posterity may not es-
tablish relations of. reciprocity with us,
| is that any reason why we should not do
something for ourselves? Perhaps pos
terity would do more for us if we left
our address, but that we cannot do. That
very inability ought to make us appre-
), ciate, to use commercial term, life "in
, transit H. P. Hall.