The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-22
OVlETING POTIONN

QUfETING POTIONS
THE editor of The Enterprise has
evidently changed his views on the
gambling question. Although open
gambling has been conducted in
several saloons here for several
weeks past. Mr.. Hannaford has
been conspicuously silent. Can
it be that our illustrious brother
has received quieting potion?"-
The Virginia..
Judge not. Gussie, lest ye be judg-
ed. On the same ground might we
not ask you how much Of a rake-off
you received during the early sum-
mer months for keeping your peace
while The Enterprise went after and
got the scalps of the tinhorn ele-
ment which infested Virginia dur
ing the opening period of the pres
ent administration. But we refrain
from such query for one very good
reason-that we have no cause to
believe or trust you even in matters
of lesser import. But as regards
your statement that open gambling
has been conducted in several sa-
looms here for several weeks past
we herewith call upon your god
father, Mayor Thompson, and upon
Chief of Police Wiggen, whose duty
it should be to know, as to whether
or not the statement is true. And
we further open our columns for
the publication of such reply, and
if your inkling toward the moral
upbuilding of Virginia has any
foundation in fact we shall ask you
to also publish such replies when
received.
Furthermore, we would state to
Mr.. Cuppernull that if it gives him
any special pleasure to wonder at
our course in any particular mat
ter, it is his privilege; and insofar
as the attempted Caustic hurts he
may also continue his attacks ad
libitum. We have long since ceas-
ed to mind the barking of ours.
The fact that a newspaper man
cannot be driven from a field is
again exemplified in the case OF
Bro. Atkinson, of the Hibbing
News. AS the result of personal
animosity a portion of his plant
was recently usurped by virtue of a
chattel mortgage, but with the
heading and legality and a few 9th
er accessories he continues the pub
LEGATION and prepares for putting ir
a complete new outfit, and will be
on deck two weeks hence with fa1
better outfit. Recent issues of his
paper would denote that he not on
ly continues to exist, but that his
pencil has been sharpened, if pos
sible, by circumstances attendant
upon the "driving' process. Yor
may be able to coax newspaper
man to leave community. but thu
wise man will never try to drive o.
starve him out. Too much mule ir
his makeup to permit of the frs
antidote proving effective, and too
much experience in the starving
process to be wilted in that manner
IN the regeneration of the Hib
bing News, S. H. Higgins will &C
quire an interest therein. Mr.. Hig
gins is weH-known to the newspa
per fraternity of the range as a frs
class mechanical man, able and in
dustrious, and together with Bro
Atkinson the News crew will form
hard pair to beat; and with thu
ready pencil of the latter it is safe
to wager they will not be beaten or
bluff. We welcome Mr.. Higgins
to the fraternal fold, and to the new
partnership extend our hearty wish
es that the bright sun of prosperity
may guide their journalistic barque
into the placid realm of affluence.
MARK HANNA deprecates the ide<
of local Mckinley monuments
thinking their erection will detrac
from the funds necessary for thu
national monument. The citizen:
of places where local monumen
funds are being raised will doubt
less continue in the course already
mapped out, the same as though
the dictator had kept silent.
Gov. VAN SAINT is out in an awfu
''holler" against the consolidation
of the Great Northern a md Northern
Pacific lines, and says he believes i
to be his plain duty to prevent, if il
any way possible, the consolidation
| Of these c0mDefino lines His aan(