The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-08
Twin CITY Rivalry.

Twin ClJy k1Valry.
1t is years since so bitter an article
relative to twin city rivalry has APP
peared in print as that in the Pioneer
Press yesterday.
Under Minneapolis date line the
Wall Street Journal recently printed an
article on twin city growth. It was
stated that in twenty years Minneapo-
lis will swallow St. Paul, that the Great
Northern road is removing it's freight
terminals to Minneapolis, that Butler
Brothers are opening branch here,
that J. Ogden Armour recently signed
a contract providing for the construc-
ton of packing plant, that st. Paul
has made efforts to prevent the flow of
capital into Minneapolis and that the
population figures on basis of the city
directories show 297 900 for Minneapo-
lis and 100000 for st. Paul.
The Pioneer Press says there are six
lies in this summary. - :
| We may pass over the proposition
that Minneapolis will one day swallow
st. Paul.. From the Pioneers stand
point this is lie. Any one making
the positive statement in the last cam
paign that Roosevelt would be elected
president might have lied since no one
could know about it with absolute
certainty. Nevertheless Roosevelt is
president.
The population figures will probably
be fought over for years to come.
The Butler Brothers proposition may
be seen in the making, by any one
who cares to come. over from st. Paul
and lock at it.
b The Great Northern road item comes
| from the road itself. No doubt the
Great Northern knows what it is doing.
It has spent probably a million dollars
in preparing ground and has announced
that plans for forty-stall roundhouse
are being prepared. It put 100000
cubic feet of earth into one hole and
has cleared IN immense space for track
age, If there is no purpose back Of
this expenditure Of so much time and
money by a Hill, property it is very
strange indeed.
AS to the Armour plant, the contract
for the ground is signed. It is absurd
to suppose the Armour people bought
this land for playground.
| The Wall Street Journal s article is
manifestly a fair one. It gives st. Paul
credit for prominence in jobbing, as a
railroad center, livestock market, and
place Of political Importance. It cred
it's ST. Paul with progress in every way.
Only the fact is pointed out that while
st. Paul is growing at good rate, Mint
neapolis is growing at a much greater
rate. and is running away from her sis
ter CITY,, e., "a .-,
I The Pioneer takes exception to the
statement that st. Paul has tried to
prevent capital from coming into Min
neapolis and is aghast at the sugges.
ton that she wants it for herself. One
wonders what all those St. Paul men
were hanging around Armour's Chicago
office for.
If there is any disposition in Mime.
apolis on the part Of any person of
responsibility to attack st. Paul we dc
not know where it is. All that Mime
apols asks is to be let alone. The city
is growing in Importance and it is nat
ural that men of great affairs like the
Armours should see, this and think OF
getting in with the growth. St. Paul
has only to let Minneapolis alone and
all will be well, but if she is going to
jump in with opposition whenever any
big outside interest comes in here, she
must expect retaliation, nor is she in
position to enter such, contest, fol
there are comparisons greatly to hel
disadvantage that can readily be made
Thousands Of people the country over
have not yet found out the true rela
ton Of the two cities in commercial
and financial Importance, and the ole
idea of two cities Of equal size contend
ing for supremacy still remains in some
places. An occasional article indicating
how the two towns really stand may
show the outside world the inevitable
trend. -