The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-30
BUSINESS MEN WILL
START ROUSING BOOM
Call On All Citizens to Support
Their Home Indus.
tries

attended by 100 representative mem
bers of the st. Paul professional, retail
trade manufacturing and jobbing bust
ness life at the Commercial club last
evening. 1t was meeting in which
a dozen or SO speakers directed their
remarks to the text, Get together for
st. Paul. and they arrived at the
unanimous decision that there was an
evident lack of unity in their own ef-
forts for self-advancement and an evil
dent lack of local patriotism in the peo-
pie upon whom they depend in a large
measure for their business.
1t was a notable meeting in a way,
being the most pretentious What's the
matter with St. Paul'' discussion yet
held, and calling forth opinions from
great and varied representation in the
different walks of life. Judge Oscar
Hal1am presided as POSTMASTER. The
speakers We're many, numbering among
others Congressman +. c. Stevens, AL
bert Norman, president of the North
western Manufacturers association;
Judge E. A. Jaggard of the supreme
court, President Hoffman of the Com
mercial club, Thomas Cochran, Joseph
Elsinger, president of the retailers as
ISOLATION; Frank Schlick and William
Hamm.
The sentiment of the meeting was
that ST. Paul people should use st.
Paul products in as great an extent as
they were able to; to give st. Paul
products preference and to thus not
only encourage local industries, but
bring about the growth of the city,
which various speakers showed would
be the natural sequence of such sup
sport.
Thomas Cochran asserted that were
st Paul industries to be patroniZed by
St Paul people as they should be a
growth of 100000 in the population of
this city would result. He proved his
Stevens was more conservative, but de
clared that such patronage would re-
~Sult in an increased growth of $4,000.
While no definite plans were decided
upon for the coming business revival,
numerous schemes were discussed by
the various speakers.
Consumers Must Help
"St. Paul consumers must stand by
st. Paul producers, if the growth Of
%this city is to continue unabated,' de-
clared Congressman Stevens. "St.
%Paul is blessed with a climate and a
location which is unequaled, and there
is only~one thing necessary to make
st. PAUL a great, thriving city, as it
should be, and that is a unity of eff
fort upon the part of consumers. Out
of the $40,000,000 of manufactured
goods produced annually in st. Paul,
st. Paul people should demand at
least one-fourth, or $10,000,000 worth
more for home consumption than they
are using now. If this were done the
manufacturers would have to increase
their capacities of production suffi-
GENTLY to produce $4,000, 900 worth
of goods more than they do now. That
would increase the money paid for Ia
boz by at least 100000 and would
bring 10000 more Workmen to this
city. That would mean a natural in
crease in population of 100000 All
/ EStn 10 hn ti,.sn
conducted into the charges of rate
discrimination made against the rail-
roads by the various manufacturing
centers. and it has occurred to me that
In each instance these inquiries repre-
scented the striving of great cities to
outstrip each other in manufacturing.
There is a fierce competition nova
days. and If st. Paul manufacturers
are to hold their own with the manu-
facturers of Kansas City, Omaha, Mil
Waukee and Minneapolis they must
have the encoura cement of their own
citizens"
The Artistic Side
Judge Jaggard made an eloquent ap-
peal for a greater interest in the arts
and professions in st. Paul.
St Paul should be made a great
center of science in the profession of
medicine" he said. She should be-
come renowned as a musical and an
art center. We have the German resi-
dents here in great number-naturaI
musicians. We have not the musical
center that we should have. We used
to go to Chicago or to New York to
hear grand opera. Now we go to Min
neapolis.
st Paul has the most competent
set of doctors in the state. with the
single exception of Rochester We
should bring hospitals to this city. with
Its healthful climate and its beautiful
location. We should bring colleges
here and universities. The lawyers are
doing more for st. Paul than you real
1ze We need here a general revival
Let us have it.
"Philistinism is our curse, Grass phil
istinism at that. We must first make
st Paul the best place in the world
10 i've In. Commerce is a great thing
that brings people to city, good, hon.
est people, is the encouragement on the
part of that city of all that is true,
beautiful and good
/. G. Hoffman spoke briefly on he
half of the Commercial club, explain
Ing the clubs attitude towards home
trade and his own personal attitude.
"Patronizing home industries is a good
way and sure way to bring prosper
ity to our city How many of us know
that ll6 articles of daily use are man
ufactured in our city. We should
know this fact and should know what
they are, and we should show the out-
side world our appreciation of them by
buying them and using them We
can't expect the outside world to place
higher value on articles manufac-
tured in st. Paul than we place upon
the same articles ourselves. Let us be
egotistical and blow our own horn"
Thomas Cochran presented interest
ing comparative figures showing St
-Paufs standing in the world of COM
merce and then drew from them de-
auctions of what might be expected
were the united support of ST. Paul
citizens given to St Paul products He
read number of letters which he has
received in answer to inquiries he sent
out to. ascertain the extent in which
home industries are patronized. They
We're unity in saying that the home
trade was difficult to approach and
that it amounted to very little in to-
falling up the business OF the year. One
firm placed itself on record by saying
that+it sold more of its goods annually
In Minneapolis than in st. Paul
Organized Labor's Position
E. c. Ives, superintendent of one of
the departments in the West Publish
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