The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-29

OdCeS. Ii SLflctly was d y. NJ
Steel Corporation consolidation
an amalgamation of Duluth and
New York; a union Of the House
of York and the House Of Lam
caster, the. Hapsburgs and Hohen-
zollerns, or the Astors and Van.
derbilts, so to speak.
Although the Rip-saw editor
was not invited to don wedding
garments and be present at the
nuptials, every good wish is due
the happy young couple for long
life, health and happiness. What
the result will be in increased
wealth, permanent bliss, an heir
apparent and an endorsement of
modern marriage, the humble
commoners must await the future
for final information.
The Heir Apparent of the
News Tribune was a sort Of top
sergeant at the gladstone function
and that may have helped to in.
spire an editorial that appeared
in Duluth s great morning paper,
as follows, viz:
A VISION REALIZED.
Very few in Duluth know that the
man who made the Mesaba range
what it is is now a guest in this city.
It is not remarkable that to the most
of our people F. T. Gates is but a
name. He himself would not have
it otherwise.
But Mr.. Gates is, financially, John
D. Rockefeller. He is the man Mr..
Rockefeller picked to be his other
self financially. Years of test, years
of increasing confidence, have re-
suited in the principal almost retir-
ing in favor of his agent, until now
Mr.. Gates has, so far as possible, alb
solute authority.
The Rockefeller foundation, the
Rockefeller charities, benevolences,
investments and ventures are the
product in the larger measure of the
vision and genius of Mr.. Gates.
But of more interest to Duluth is
the fact that the opening of this min
ing region, it's development, the
railroads and ships which carry the
ore-that huge yet simple business
organization making the production
and marketing of this ore at the low
est cost in the worlds also the
product of the brain of this man.
He is back for the first time in
years and yesterday visited the
range with President w. ]. Olcott
of the Oliver Mining company: AS
an incident, Mr.. Olcott was for years
of the Rockefeller company organiza-
ton and his daughter is now the
wife of the son of Mr.. Gates.
It must have been an interesting
trip for this man to see in its full.
ness the realization of his vision, OF
whose ultimate verify he never hat
the least doubt. .
That editorial was one to make
old Boswell green with enemy OF
Cardinal Woolsey sit up in his
shroud. But there was one seri'
GUS flaw in 1.-THE writer failed
to look up his facts before writing
it. -
The Rip-saw has no desire tc
re a deaths head at a wedding
feast and handing out taffy IL
that extravagant way would not
be any business Of this neck o the
woods if it were not woeful per.
version of history, an entirely
false presentation Of facts.
Very recently, Duluth's great
morning paper threw fits because
some unused German text books
in the vicinity of the high schoo
seem to twist historical facts as
to Kaiser Wilhelm. To see sc
exacting critic twist historical
facts to make couple of Iron
Kings feel kindly towards Du
luth s morning paper is enough to
make old Herodotus, the Father
Of History, arise from the tomb
and summon the fool-killer.
For the sake of history that
closely concerns this section OF
the United States, the Rip-saH
proposes to offer some evidence
that wills t}ispseSe the -.ffaaasome
editorial and it's woeful lack Of
facts. ....
Rev. Frederick T. Gates, &C
cording to his own story Of his life
was a product of bleeding Kansas
He went to school, taught, sold
farm implements, secured 6
theological training and then en-
tered the Baptist ministry. Our
best families may be interested to
know that he eventually became
pastor of the Central Baptist
church in Minneapolis.
Away back in 1889, when out
begging for funds for some educa.
tional cause, in the name of the
Lord, Mr. Gates first met John D.
Rockefeller, From whom oil
blessings flow
Later, in 1891, John D. asked
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