The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-07

outside of Duluth has few Offices,
but they could all be counted upon
the fingers of one hand, and of the
federal and state places which are
given out by the federal and state
powers that be, the range and the
rest of the eighth district have
scarcely anything.
Speaking of St. Louis county,
there are twenty Offices, elective and
aPpointive, and out of this number
there is one from the range. These
twenty officers have SO lucrative ap-
pointments to give out and of these
the range has the magnificent num-
Der of two to it's credit; or of the to.
tai of 70 offices and appointments,
the range has grand total of three.
Turning to state appointments,
we find that there is total of thir-
teen, such as deputy grain inspect.
or, surveyor general of logs, etc,
and the lucrative appointments
these thirteen have to give out num-
Der 13O. Of the thirteen direct ap-
pointments the range is represented
by cipher, and of 100 others, add
another cipher.
In the matter of federal positions,
such as customs receiver, land office,
U. S. court, etc., we find there are IL
Offices and "a appointees. Of the
the twelve officers the register of
of the land Office comes from Wright
county and none are from the
range. There are IS appointees
selected by these officers and every
one of them lives in Duluth; or of
the 46 federal places, only one comes
from section outside of Duluth.
The United States government
has life saving station at Duluth,
light house, fish hatchery, and
other departments, and the officers
connected with these number. Z.
The assistants needed for these in
situations number 81, and they are
appointed. Ask them all where
they belong and the mystic word
"Duluth" will drop in soft cadence
upon your ear. Thirty-five mail
clerks, government appointees, rum
ming out of Duluth have also been
appointed from that city. In addi-
ton to all the above, Duluth has a
federal judge, civil service commits
sioner at Washington, minister to
Norway and Sweden, several people
in the government printing office at
Washington, with the other depart
ments to be heard from.
Of the 179 federal positions, in
Guiding the 50 railway mail clerks,
46 in the government building and
SO in the other parts of the govern
ment service about Duluth, the
range has nothing and the rest of
the district has a deputy internal
revenue inspector and register of
the. land Office.
The. statistics given above we're
compiled some little time ago, and
are from what the Republican con-
siders an authentic source, and they
completely substantiate an obser-
walton made in these columns two
weeks ago to the effect that the Du-
luth politician has had his feet in
the trough 80 long that he imagines
he has vested right, and no rank
outsider is expected to apply for
Anything. Il
Duluth we believe to be destined
to be great city. It is the metro.
polls of Northern Minnesota and it's
two newspapers-the News Tribune
and Herald, which would be credit
to city of twice the size of Duluth
-are doing great work in cultivat-
ing the friendly interest of the rural
population and in developing the
tributary territory; but as long as
the Duluth politicians manifest a
disposition to "hog" everything the
newspapers will be seriously handi;
capped in their work. Duluthis en-.
titled to her share of everything
that is going, but it should not have
the whole cheese, and when, the
country wakes up to the situation
and finds that it's political influence
has been and is being used to land
fat Offices for the Zenith City poll
ticians, it will demand and get what,
is coming toit.-Aitkin Republican,.