The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-26
THE NEW ST. PAUL.

To the citizen who has walked our streets daily for
many years the changes that have to St Paul are
perhaps less striking and significant than they are to
those Who familiar with its past come to view 1t again
after the lapse of time sufficient to mark and to measure
the onward 1t is true that this progress is
not unnotcd by the community ITSELF that almost every
whom business pleasure has called elsewhere
will tell you sincerely that ST. Paul looks well to him
when he the city again and draws comparisons
between it and others, But the large and permanent
changes incident growth impress themselves more
deeply upon who gazes the and sees the
distance that has been covered.
If such one were asked to up in brief his opln-
ion of the new ST Paul. the St Paul of today he would
say that it strikes him as city that had come to stay
St Paul has arrived It will have its ard its DOWNS
and it by every particular what ats fovers
would have it. But it has out of the chrysas 1t
has achieved the real metropolitan Distinction instead
of wearing the the Indian carries cocks feather
in his cap and thinks himself civilized 1t has, above
everything else the air of soidy and of permanence
That be the distinctive feature of today the one
that appeals most powerfully the observer familiar
with its past
In the eras that belong to the last half century St
Paul has seen many and varied fortunes There have
been times when its people all too sangune OF their
future so that their present contempuously dSre-
garded There have been other times when 1t seemed
desperate struggle maintain the place lightly
won and so carelessly esteemed But in both epoehs
there was an air of impermanence. He who valued his
The foundation of things might be the everlasting rock
but had positively struck it. There was look OF
care upon the countenance of good fortune and the
CaSsandras wanted not either in booms reverses for
abundant company, f.v.a e9at9ref'
All this we think has gone by forever. There will
be prosperity and adversely in the future, but the
St Paul take advantage of the without too great
y dreadng the other affairs have been placed upon
the soldest foundation The keynote of the is
permanence. Old debts are paid old wiped out
Oft
business sure legitimate without admxture of the
ulatve the ephemeral, In company with the other
cities of the country the St Paul of the future will know
the good and the evil things of our complex business
life but its progress will be certain and continuous. We
may put away the anxious comparisons of child
hood close the book of horoscopes and study only
how enlarge the fortunes of the beautiful and
growing city that we and those who before have
buideda18 ed sss.
What is the best word for that; the word that ST.
Paul needs more than all others? The word of harmony
Of good fellowship; of work by each for the benefit of
all in the assurance that each will win its share of the
good; of united public spirit that believes in
pushing the front the whole community and Furnishes
with business and social osracsm the souls whose
highest purpose is the stream of public and civic
progress the little mill wheels of their private
pose That is what will benefit ST. Paul of all; the
rise and growth of the sngeness of purpose and the fra
ternity which have wrought all the great things of the
world wherever society has massed together and
wrought through their united wits and energies
For this the time is wholly ripe ST. Paul is beau
tu palace ready for the royal line of the future 1t is
engine perfected with such minute and painful
that it needs but that touch of vital human energy
make it achieve wonderful things. 1t is community
that has its way barriers and through
until today its hills embems of the mmovable sab
ty achieved Let the world hear of it Let St Paul become
synonym for the hearty unity of action the liberal spirit
the intensely practical devotion to the municipal dea the
utterly loyalty of each to the other and of to all
that the builders of cities of commonwealth
With charity toward all and malice toward none, shall
work together for the New and Greater ST. Paul
that the eyes of the faithful the ardent and the single
hearted will surely see?