The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-01-16

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THE DAILY GABsQUIRT PEEvED
The Daily Virginian is peeved.
It is peeved because the Virginia Enterprise
submitted the low bid for the city printing and for
the furnishing of job printing supplies to the var
GUS departments of the city of Virginia.
The Virginia Enterprise is not the kind of
newspaper that the Daily Virginian is It has no
ambition to be that kind Of a newspaper, for it
will not stoop to the tactics that are just now MAX
ing the Daily Virginian stencil in the nostrils
of every fair-minded citizen of this city. The
Virgnan has for some time pastpresented an awe
inspiring spectacle Since the opening of the
present bitter political campaign it has turned
handsprings in all directions with surprising
alacrity.
Monday it is the friend of S. A. Nelson, Tues
day it is not the friend of S. A. Nelson, but it is
strong for justice, Wednesday it lambasts Mayor
Murphy, Thursday it apologies to him, Friday it
falls by evil ways and gives all hands around
thorough rimracking and Saturday it is meek of
spirit and contrite Of heart and the only simon
pure friend of the people of this town. A generous
Providence saves them Sunday. Every night at the
few homes in this city which it reach
es-after clothespin has been firmly affixed to
the nose-the Virgnan is gathered up with
broom and dustpan and carefully deposited in the
alley ash heap and already the various candid
ates for city offices advocating better gar
bage disposal during the winter months. If the
Virginian continues it's present tactics this plank
Of all the platforms will become the burning issue
of this campaign.
This newspaper is the tool of no clique or fac
ton. It is but slightly interested in this campaign
and it refuses to get it's bowels in an uproar where
there are no issues beyond the personally of
three worthy citizens who are candidates for
mayor. Some few irresponsible gabsquirts, of
which the Daily Virginian is a perfect type, are
busy about this city magning this newspaper.
They are the least of this newspapers troubles
and as usual have so little business of their own
that they cannot leave that of other people un-
molested
No man more deplores the cut-throat competi-
ton that exists between the printers of this town
than does the Enterprise. The Enterprise is
jealous of neither Of it's competitors. It has moth
ing to be jealous of. It has the best equipped
newspaper and job printing plant in northern
Minnesota and if in field of open competition it
gets and holds it's share of the business that cir
cumstance is one of the best evidences of the fact
that it gives it's patrons fair treatment and sat-
isfactory results.
The Enterprise has not been awarded the city
printing and if there is virtue in the contention
of certain of the Virginian's henchmen that they
have four aldermen 'fixed' The Enterprise So
called pirate prices" will not be accepted. The
Enterprise has never mentioned the printing con-
tract To off no cit,1
will it. If the printing contract were as big as
that of New York city, and it lost it it would not
peeve as has the Daily Gabsquirt over this trif1ing
affair.
Incidently the Enterprise will install cost
system tomorrow and live up to it if it's local COM
petitors will do as much.
Scientific forestry as applied to the conserva-
ton of the forestry of the United States is opposed
by T. B. Walker and other lumbermen on the