Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-14

food Of printers ink soon began to show
its effect. Starting the Duluth Minnes0-
tsan, the ablest and most readable weekly
paper ever published in this State, the
Doctor went into the work with a will
and vigor which never fails to bring it's
reward.
Lands which were considered clear at
$40 an acre were in three short years
"bulled" up in the market to 500 per
front foot. Immigration poured lin from
all parts of the country, and printers ink
flowed 500 freely that thousands of people
were made to believe that the population
of Duluth ten years hence would be
double that of Chicagosand Milwaukee
combined.
This very general and intense excite
ment of course all resulted in bringing
about untold greenbacks to the pockets of
the original proprietors. But with
money, as is often the case, came love of
power; and some of the would-be kings
of the town grumbled low down beneath
their breast-pins that in securing the pen
and brains of DR.. Foster they had drawn
an unwieldy elephant, or in other words
they had secured lamb in the fold that
couldn't be managed.
For legitimate financial speculation
the Doctor was with them heart and soul
and would willingly perform more work
than any twenty men i'll the country but
in town matters his personal independ-
ence couldn't be bought at any price. He
had his preferences and his prejudices
He had a preference for those he believed
to be hcnest and a prejudice against
chicken thieves, licentious pimps and no.
torious gamblers.
AS be had the honesty (some called it
audacity) to freely express himself on
these and kindred subjects, he was polite
ly informed that his society was no longer
wanted in Duluth, - that i'll fact, as they
say in California. lie had better "git mp
and git"
As the DIR. didn't see it, programme
was promptly inaugurated to crush him
Advertisers and subscribers were person
ally solicited to withdraw their patron
age-jas ii the withdrawal of Il brick
would cause the building to fall All
kinds OF threats were freely circulated &;
and at last another paper was started for
the avowed purpose of /" wiping out DR..
Foster"
The new editor, socially, is II fine fell
low, but think he is not familiar with
all the foregoing fac's; at all events the
public is not, and hence this letter.
The war once commenced there was no
backing water; and only those who know
the Doctors wonderful power can mag
ine how the FIRE fi-w. The old wnr-horse
was IN 'iS. !, m..r; Witt y d"m',l,--td < I'd
sword h. ca riY'' and l-fr Fl" >l",k- OF
! thr - hc +it like ard them ~ ii mt
| Ike with ,hr mr freedom.
! In his issue of June 18th he said, -
"EWhIl- we welcome gladly the many
business men rom Oft the line OF the
Union Pacific, who are III Duluth, to
build up substantial establishments, we
understand there are lot of pasteboard
and ivory desperAdors in town from the
same locality seeking whom they may de-
vour. Perhaps they count on the sym
pathy and protection of a majority of our
citr government aud of the Ring" upon
the principle that fellow feeling makes
us wondror- kind. Ii ,h4y rnIy an this
for impunity they will find that they are
badly fooled. The MinneSOtia7l and the
plain, respectable people behind it are the
power OF this community we have al
ready made it prudent for one "tigcr'a'
den to vamose, and we propose To- burst
up any other concern of the same sort
"Be warned"
The fir-t time he was seen in the streets
after wards, he was knocked down by a
notorious gambler and desperate, who
attempted with bowie-kuife TO murder
him in cold blood. The assassination
was prevented by some gentlemen pre-
sent, and the rowdy was tried next day
for assault and battery, but was quickly
dischared by the astute justice, with the
remark, -" No cause for action "
To the great astonishment Of strangers,
clique OF apparently re Specialize persons
is trying to excu>e the attempt at assas-
sination ny saying:
:" Oh the Doctor is such an old devil of
fellow with his pen, that the man was
outrageously provoked, aud the best thing
Foster can do is to sell out and leave. II
he don't we'll make the town too hot to
hold him"
That's right gentlemen push him, wipe
him out But permit I'M old editor OF
twenty five years experience to suggest
that you are only cutting your own
throats and Fastening the day of your
dessolation. Printers ink made your town
in three years and printers ink will kill
it deader than "a door nail within the
coming twelve months. You haye only
to provoke the Doctor enough and he
will puncture the bubble with one trust
of the pen, and wipe you out in thirty
days.
Rather than be driven from the Town
by set of notorious gamblers. midnight
pimps and purse proud spectators, the
| Doctor will with one trust of his caustic
pen, sink the entire concern even if his
fortune goes with it.
I 1t will take the old hero but few
minutes to tell how Duluth was started