The Tomahawk., 1904-03-10
A VERY HOT OLD HEN.
Bernard Of the Cass Lake VOICE Gets
Undesirable Advertising and Is Mad.

It does not require an unusual
stretch of the Imagination to pic
ture the ohagrin and aggravation
that filled our old friend of the
Cass Lake Voice attectionately
known hereabouts as tho Moose
when he read that letter written
by him to Editor Cobb, late of the
Magnet, and which was published
in the Herald Review and the Cass
Lake Times. The Moose isawfal
mad at Judge Ives of the Times
if we may Judge from the column
comment on the incident in the
last issue of the Voice. The Voice
intimates that the jndge acted dis
honorably in printing the letter
and says that in consequence of
the publication every high-minded
citizen of the reservation hangs
his head down with the feeling
that the whole cummunity has
been irreparably disgrced. The
Moose is mistaken in this. We
know the people of Cass Lake
pretty well, and the fact is, those
fellows are laughing up their
undcrshirt sleeves ut the Moose's
ludicrous predicament. 1t was
simply case of where the Herald
Review and the Times caught the
old fellow at one of his dirty,
underhanded tricks and showed
him up to the public. No wonder
he's mad. Butthe Herald-Review
must speak in defence Of Judge
Ives. The judge was handed a
copy of the letter with satisfactory
evidence that it was true copy,
and it was unnecessary for him to
resort to any disreputablc tactics
to secure it. Its publication was
entirely in keeping with the legit-
innate and honorable newspaper
work. The Herald-Review came
into possession OF the letter in
the same manner and published it
as a matter of news, just. as the
Times did. We have noapologies
to offer, and it will be noticed
that the Moose was very careful
not to charge the Herald-Review
with doing anything contrary to
newspaper ethics. Tie lsnowa us
and knows the editor Of this paper
would scorn to do a dishonorable
act. The Moose has had contro-
versies heretofore with the Her
ald-Review and he no doubt had
the editor hereof in mind when he
wrote last week as follows: We
found our contemporaries to be
gentlenen--brave, fearless, manly
men who would scorn to commit
an act that would reflect to the
discrcdit of themselves or the
noble calling they were engaged
IN" That's right, Moosic. old
boy, you have US sized up correct
ly. We see our manly face pict-
ured by your pen, and it is GER
tainly true to life, but we are no
more deserving of such praise
than is the venerable gentleman
who presjdcs over the Cass Lake
Times. The Herald-Revicw is in
formed that the Moose says he
will pay three hundred dollars for
information that will acquaint him
with the circumstances that placed
the famous letter in the hands Of
his enemies. The editor of the
Herald-Revicw has scheme
whereby the Moose and himself
| can make $4,000 each. Well
cut the three hundred dollars in
two with kim and divulge the
whole secret. He can, t make $50.
90 any easier than that. BY the
way, why should the Moose so
| seriously object to having his mail
inspected. He's had it done on
one or two former occasions and
we'll venture to assert that he
didn't enter a kick. If he had
he'd been reduced to bread and
water, besides lOOslng good time.
Again, the Moose is unreasonable
and unappreciative. He wrote
that letter to Editor Cobb for the
purpose of having it published in
the Grand Rapids Magnet. Mr..
iCobb had left the Magnet and the
next best thing was to publish it
| in the Herald Review. We accom-
modated him to the best of our
ability, and what more can he
reasonably expect! Judge Ives
thought he'd help the good work
along by giving it the benefit OF
the Times circulation: For one
engaged in the business he appears
to have a very poor appreciation