The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-04
WINU.NILLS OF DULUTH.

that Superior resembled Don Quixote ii
that the intellect which controls that paper
is most aptly represented by the empty
skull, lately appearing at the head of its
columns, it is nevertheless fact that even
a blind goose may occasionally pick up a
kernel Of corn. For a similar reason the
Herald managed to stumble upon that soli-
could not have been found throughout the
entire range of human conceptions, more
perfect type of Duluth, of its spirit and
enterprise, its prospects, newspapers and
property owners, in short Of everything APP
pertaining to that village, than & windmills." :"
We were most forcib!y reminded Of the
business Of the comparison, by reading a
blood and thunder article appearing last
Wednesday in the same H}ralA That lit
tie windm,lI'' was engaged in blowing"
about an attempt made to 6 blow" up the
thing which people in Duluth are pleased
to call dixie Now We can readily mag
inc why Duluthians should feel tender about
that abortion. fit is true that our selt-love
leads us to admire all things which resem-
bic us, then Duluth must admire the dixie !;
for nothing on earth or under the earth does
so thoroughly initiate the leading quality
of Duluth.
No greater humbug than that construc-
ton can be found. Built for the ostensible
purpose of keeping the waters of the St.
Louis river in their natural channel, it ex-
tends the whole width Of the bay, a dis
tance of one and a half miles, and through
out the entire distance, the waters of the
ST. Louis are now rushing through, over,
and under the so-called dixie, and running
through the canal which has turned the
channel Of the river entirely.
In sober earnest that dixie is not any bet
ter than rail fence, and the conditions
under which the War Department at
Washington permitted Duluth to proceed
with the canal, has at no time been com
piled with. The dixie is. was. and always
has been a humbug, and Duluth being a
humbug itself has an offectionate fellow
feeling for the dixie.
But to return to the "blowing'' Of that
little Duluth ''wndmiil." The wind which
fills its sails is produced by its editor hav
ing discovered a mares nest, q diaboical
conspiracy a modern Guy Fawkes gunpow-
der plot, which he says has been hatched
out in Superior, and which consists in the
crime of high treason or sacrilege-we
don't know whicn--to try to blow up Jay
Go keno, we beg pardon, the dixie, the
sacred emblem of the worth, foundation
and ability of Duluth itself Horrid, de-
lestable, objectionable crime! Really we
don't know what is more despsable, the
depravlty which could conceive such an
act, or the folly which cou d expepd good
gunpowder in attempting to destroy a thing
which was going to pieces Of itself.
But we can assure the erudte, virtuous
and exemplary individual who has charge
of the Hera1a, that Superior had nothing
whatever to do with any secret or disguised
attempt to destroy the dixie as he calls it.
Whatever Superior does will be done
openly and above board, and through the
tribunals of justice The people Of Supe-
rior despise the silly talk, the whining
howl the talsehoodS, deceits and under
handed contrivances, which are so familiar
to the organs of Duluth, and we say plainly
and directly that the papers or public men
-'s windmills' ls''-of Duluth have never told
Il more barefaced and silly lie, than that
Superior, or any resident Of Superior, has,
or had, attempted to blow up that evidence
of Duluth folly and deceit they call a dixie,
or that it is intended to be done in any
secre. or underhanded manner. AND THEY
KNOW IT.
The HeraM makes another great "blow' -
1t says that Duluth Will spare no time or
money TO discover the perpetrators Of that
abominable crime, and intimates that their
punishment will be something AWFUL. Low
as our estimate of the intellectual calibre of
the editor of that "windml'' is, yet we can
hardly think that he is such fool as to
believe what he says. The so-called dixie
is an obstruction to the navigation of a
navigable river, solemnly declared public
highway by the laws of Congress and of
Minnesota, and every person has the clear
and undoubted legal right and privilege to
remove it, by any means he sees fit, as much
as he has the right to remove rail fence
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