Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-05

! VUV grMEN STAND WnlcQ tuey 30 muC
9 need, that they are facing seriou
t situation. The people Of this stat
} dc not begin to appreciate that IA
: In any proper degree. With the prope
= support tley could make It SO niue
greater and it's effect SO much NOR
fruitful that they would not recof
nize its present greatness as of muc
: consequence. Today 1t Is the bi
playground of the people of Mime
, sofa. where anybody in the state fror
the farmer down can come and get
we'll earned weeks recreation Of tn
low and bad features of such exhib
this state is that it Is clean. 1t i
the greatest thing Of ito kind unde
the sun9no other place in the Worl,
has ever been visited by as large I
crowd under like conditions and b,
that We mean conditions prohibiting
the sale of all intoxicants and pro
hibiting all forms of betting and gam
bling.
Dr. you wish to keep 1t clean? d.
you wish to keep the agriculture
school and the university and our col
leges clean? Then why place stock
yards with it's physical odor and It's
moral odor anywhere near them?
st. Paul in this scheme Is to oc
cupy a distinguished position among
cittes-sHE WILL. PROBABLY BE
THE ONLY CITY IN THE WORLD
HAVING PACKING HOUSES AND
| STOCK YARDS ON DIAMETRl
.!ALLY OPPOSITE SIDES OF HER
| CENTER. She may be able to exist
hu,t
thing will be certain, she will have to
her homes in some other direction
than toward the northwest.
We believe that this is the time to
have this discussion, to make our OBJ
jections, if possible. and the proper
time to pass such a bill as the Rowe
bill. That bill is wise and sane and
just and Minneapolis herself would
Join With us to pass it were she not
in her present ridiculous position. We
do not think it would be right, or just,
or neighborly, to wait until you have
commenced to build that plant and
then start kicking. We have been
consistent in this matter--we have
kicked from the first.
We have a plant at South St. Paul
and, if it were to be located again,
would insist upon it's being placed at
greater distance. There is no log
ical parallel between South St. Paul
and the site purchased midway be-
tween the state university and New
Brighton. The former case is very
different from the latter The South
st. Paul plant is down river and we
have no trouble with the sewage.
High bluffs to the northwest of the
plant protect a large part of our city
from the doors in a great degree.
There are no such beautiful institu-
tons fiourishing in that direction as
now exist in the Midway district like
Hamltne, Manchester, St. Thomas, the
Lutheran seminaries, St. Paul sem
mary and all the state: institutions
heretofore referred to-and no such
beautiful -environs in that direction
as st. Anthony Park, Merriam Park,
Hamline, Como park and their ad.
jacent districts. a. - .ss., =. 3ssss,z. 5sss5a
We believe that when you haYe
thought this over, SO that you fully
the situation. you will
surely Join with us in asking your
managers to move this location from
five to ten miles farther north and
will make them wait until Mr.. Ar.
mour or some other packer agrees to |
such a location. There IL nothing |
in this suggestion. They |
will tell you there is, but there Isn't !
The railways will follow that plant |
wherever it may 60. Il T., ,r...,
YOUR water supply can be tlken
above any site on the river, no mat
ter how far up it may be moved, with |
LESS expense than the building of |
sewers to take the drainage from the
old New Brighton site to point in |
the river below your falls. And we
submit that the only fair and neigh.
borIy and proper location for that
plant is some point on the river above
you, sufficiently distantsth your peo.
pie will have no fear Of the sewage !
and no fear Of the .odors. .>....a3, s,s,.
In conclusion we beg to assert that
st. Paul Is not jealous OF Minneap-
oils. We are proud of you. You have |
great natural advantages aud you are |
q great neutrality-suspicious. we are
still greater community, and together /
we are groWlng--growing and will
continue to grow as no human calcula-
ton can positively foresee. Bear that
growth In mind. How will this pro.
posed location look ten to twenty
years from now--if that plant goes
In as planned?-, We claim that what
will help one must help the other and
hat what will hurt one will hurt the
other. We believe that in this In.
stance your proposition will irretriev.
ably damage both of US. Que end Of
this great commonwealth has been
growing up toward you very rapidly
during the last decade. The automo-
bile era has come in. Distances have
been annihflated; the two commune.
lies have grown together. There Is
today greater exchange of both bust
ness and social courtesies between
the TWINS than ever before. @
Why build a packing plant at such
! location that It will effectually and
destroy that growth AND
NAY DESTROY THE GOOD FEEL.
LOWSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP WE
ARE NOW RLEST WITH.
Very respectfully, #
G. M. GRIGGS,
Chairman. Advisory Committee.
CALL For THREE PRESIDENTS
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