The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-02-03

| OCCu uOluS duOl1lcI STUNT at ma X
ing Duluth famous" A grand
thing for Duluth to have some.
thing to strengthen her waning
popularity.
VIRGINIA has some things she
does not need-with which she
could dispense with financial and
moral profit. But she needs some
things she has not got, one of them
being an organization of the busi-
ness people and interested citizens
for the advancement of the city.
A BILL intr oduced in the Michigan
Legislature provides that there may
be granted but one saloon license
to each 500 inhabitants of any city
or village in the state. There is no
record, however, of the introduction
| of any measure to prevent competi-
ton in any other line of business.
TAMs BlxBY is said to be in dan
ger of losing his official head as
chairman of the Dawes Indian
Commission, because of illegal en-.
tanglements with trust companies
which deal in Indian lands. If
Tams would pays his subscription
accounts we do not believe the
country brethren of Minnesota
would care whether he had an Off
cial head or any other kind.
JUDGING from the record of
"blind pig" doings in our neigh
boring city of Eveleth the past
week we think Representative
Dowling's bill for the suppression
of the vice which has become so
prevalent among mining locations
is step in the right direction, al
though some of the country editors
in the southern portion of the state
seem to think it an infringement
upon personal liberty.
THE decision of the supreme court
handed down by Justice Holmes on
Monday in the Beef Trust" case, sus-
tanning the judgment of the lower
court, would begin to look as though
the government was going back to
first principles-a government of
the people, by the people and tor
the people. And we are told by
those who lived in the olden days
that there is vast difference be-
tween such government and gov
eminent of the trusts, by the trusts
and for the trusts.
MAYOR FAY continues to be the
recipient of anonymous communi-
cations of disgusting and threaten
ing character. Such epistles are not
calculated to command the respect
of men for the writer whoever he
may be, and mark him as an arrant
coward-one who under cover of
concealment takes liberties which
his own better nature abhors and
which he would be both ashamed
and afraid to publicly acknowledge.
A man who has aught against an
other which he dare not say to an
opponents face is evidently lacking
in one of the prime principles of
our boosted American manhood
honor.
EDITOR KING finally succeeded in
landing the position of state
librarian, despite the fight made
upon him by Lieutenant Governor
Jones and some of his satellites in
the state senate. The opposition to
King was based upon articles in
his paper touching upon the re-
cord of the present lieutenant
governor in the timber trespass
deals. Don't know what Mr.. King
said, but if it was anything that
looked worse than the decree of the
courts we don't blame Mr.. Jones
for becoming angry and vacating
his seat as presiding officer tenn
porarily while the appointment was
being confirmed.
THE small-fry politician was ex-
pected to oppose the idea of an ex-
tension of the Australian ballot
system to include the nomination
of state officers, and he is living
strictly up to expectations. 1t now
remains to be seen whether the
state legislators will listen to the
| voice of popular sentiment or to
the wall of that class who fear for
their official positions through
ballot reform. That there is vast
difference between party platforms
and personal principles was fully
exemplitied in the late campaign,
and if the Republican legislators
desire to further destroy party