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

were a larger and more regular
attendance of meetings of the
board by patrons of the schools,
probably fewer complaints would
be the result.
Since evening sessions Of the
city council have been abolished,
entirely too few citizens and tax
payers attend the business meet
ings Of the city commissioners.
If the daily papers omit items of
business transacted or color the
reports, the citizen who depends
on such reports is handicapped
and soon gets out of touch with
the correct state of public affairs.
Duluth does not lack CONNER
cial clubs, hillside clubs and i'm
provement organizations. Every
such body should see that, regu-
larly, several members are pres
ent at business meetings Of all the
servants of the people.
It might not be a bad idea to
have anywhere from three to half
a dozen such delegates, retiring
one each month and naming a
new one, thereby giving each one
a service of several months and
enabling a maximum number of
the members of the organization
to become familiar with the
handling of public business and
the calibre of the men in charge
of it.
The board of education holds
it's regular monthly meeting next
Friday night. Start in right
then with some such plan as has
been suggested herein.
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SWAT THE BUGABOO.

Now, cross the sea is a Bugaboo;
It's Autocratic Power.
So lend a hand for Democracy
Right now has come the hour.
Now be it known that our hearts are
awake
To Freedoms call ringing clear
through the land
Asking that we for liberty's sake
Shall pledge our all in a firm
stand.
Swat the Bugaboo, autocratic power;
Let us be true to the call of the
hour.
Swat the Bugaboo, Freedom stir
anew.
Wake to the call of the Red, White
and Blue!
Now, swat the Bugaboo Autocratic
Power;
Let us be true to the call of the
hour.
Swat the Bugaboo, Freedom stirs
anew
Wake to the call of the Red, White
and Blue.
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KoNGE ODIN's ROYAL RAGE

A week ago today, a citizen
who had been doing jury duty
in the district court, was COM
PEELED to visit the county audi
tors office to secure an order on
the county treasurer for his pay.
"A gentlemanly deputy was un-
able to wait on the caller with
his usual celebrity and, as a mat
ter of politeness and convenience
asked the patron Of the office
to come inside and sit down,
even designating chair in
which to sit.
While sitting there, awaiting
the action of the office, Odin
Halden, auditor of st. Louis
county, angrily, brutally and
without due cause, ordered the
man out of the office and hurled
such epithets. as "spitton clean
err at him. Later, when meek
ly asked what cause he had for
his boorish actions, the Court
house King informed the victim
of his royal displeasure that he
would Smash him when they
got outside.
To those who best know this
man Halden it is almost need
less to say that the patron of the
auditors office thus threatened,
abused and Inundated was
cripple, a man weak with long
physical disability, a man utter
ly unable to protect himself
against any physical assaults
that this desperate official Of st.
Louis county nigh. be pleased to
inflict.
!. # Odin Halden is going to
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WHAT'S THE JOKE?

John L. Morrison, editor of the
Duluth Rip-saw, is very much an
noyed at the speed attained by a
certain Marmon car as we'll as
the breakneck pace travelled by a
certain county auditor. Have a
care, John, the speed Of county
auditor or a Marmon car pales to
insignificance when a county
sheriff shifts into high. There is
a little story in circulation con-
corning the closing of that Pike
Lake blind pig that would look
awfully, awfully funny in print
Chisholm Tribune-Herald.
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The proposed highway between
Duluth and Fargo is called "The
Black Diamond Trail" A meet
ing of the directors of the Du-
luth-Fargo Highway Association
will be held at Wadena next
Monday, October 1, at one o o'clock
D., m. Secretary John Dover asks
a heavy attendance and suggests
that as many as possible come by
automobile so that the exact con-
dition Of the roads as they now
stand may be fully known.
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FOOD HOGS ARE DULUTH'S
REAL COPPERHEADS.

! There is an odoriferous nest
of food hogs on Michigan street
that should be penned up in a
place and manner that will pre-
vent further malicious and need
less waste of products Of the
farm. g.
It is. bad enough when one
man controls every commission
house in Duluth and Superior,
but one, and holds stock heavily
in that. It is bad enough when
vegetables raised within twenty
miles of Duluth are refused a
market, compelling the raisers to
ship them to distant points,
thereby denying Duluth con-
sumers of some Of the best food
products raised in the entire
country. It is bad enough when
Duluth's commission houses ask
such high prices for vegetables
that retailers cannot handle
them, thereby seeing them rot
in the pens Of the food hogs.
But it is adding crime to public
injury when the food hogs send
perfectly good vegetables to the
city dump and incinerator for
wasteful destruction.
For some weeks, the Rip-saw
has been trying to pry into this
Michigan street game. Many
duties and a hard task to per-
form, resulted in slow progress
and delays. Finally, as the re-
suit of a communication, the
News Tribune prematurely
sprung the trap, flushed the
game, thereby probably prevent
ing a complete and perfect in.
vestigation of conditions. Food
hogs, once alarmed, scuttle into
the underbrush and conceal
themselves.
But enough already is known
to put the people in a ferment,
once they know the facts. Hun
dreds, If not thousands, who have
not had really full stomachs for
the past year and who are being
urged to save the waste and win
the war, will not take kindly to
some of the resent exposures. 1t
they followed the News Trib-
une's policy Of mob action, there
would be some bigger wrecks
on Michigan street than the mis-
cradle I. w. w. hall and more
good would come to the public.
Mayor Magney must be thanked
for initiating an investigation OF
these conditions. That he did
not 90 faster. and get farther is
due to the fact that his plans
were clipped off, and that the
food hogs and their friends had
a chance to seek cover.
Read the story in another col
umn of the Rip-saw and then do
what you can to swat the food
hogs. They are a million times
more dangerous and despicable
than the poor I. w. w. Swat
them. Do not delay. Do it
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A tale is going through the
town to the effect that Konge
Odin eventually will abdicate in
favor of Sen. George M. Peterson.
It is interesting if true, which the
Rip-saw seriously doubts. But, if
true, such an abdication would
seal the senator's political death
warrant. The plain people of st.
Louis county propose to have
something to say about the selec-
ton Of the next county auditor.
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THE POLITICAL POT
AS the Pie-counter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine in City, County and State, the
Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fiercely.

propose to lie down to John Mem
ing and Fred Ward. Walter
johnson proposes to make a run
for sheriff. His affiliations are
especially with ''Little Tam
many" Mr.. johnson once came
mighty near beating Odin Halden
for county auditor and, proably,
would have succeeded if some of.
the leading men in "Little Tam
many" had not been so closely
tied up with the Halden game.
Walter is a vote-getter and the
other candidates will watch him
closely.
1t is stated along the street
that Frank Magic will make an
other try for Meining's shoes.
Many personal friends of Mr..
Magic feel that he had his full
chance last time and that he
would have won out if he had not
made some serious tactical errors.
He now has q decent position and,
since there are not enough jobs
to 60 around, many Of his best
personal friends declare that he
should rest content,
Noble Sampson now lives at
New Duluth. He believes that
when the street car lines reach
that suburb, he can show the boys
race for sheriff that is a race.
He proposes to run 4 platform
pledging efficiency, no playing OF
politics in office and only one
term of office.
When it comes to state politics,
the Rip-saw will bet a dollar to a
doughnut that Charles A. Lind
bergh will run for the governor
ship of the state of Minnesota a
year hence and that he will be
endorsed, if not actually nomin-
ated, by the Non-Partizan League.
If this comes about, there will
! be some shifting and even changes
in the North Star state.
Mr.. Lindbergh is man of am
pie means. He knows the politi-
cal game like a book. He has a
large following. He is man Of
brains, ideas and firm opinions.
He is considered extremely dan
gerous to all other parties, fac
tions and aspirants.
Any talk about Townley and
other men is merely dust thrown
in the air. The chances are at
least 10 out of 20 that Charles A.
Lindberg will be on the ticket
next year.
For congress in this district,
many individuals, factions, inter-
ests and even parties are urging
Senator Richard Jones to oppose
Clarence B. Miller. 1t is pretty
we'll conceded that Mr.. Miller will
run again, it being impossible to
get the governor-generalship OF
the PHILIPPINE Islands.
If Mr.. Jones should run and his
usual good success in politics and
campaigning sticks to him, he will
be the next congressman from the
district that Charley Towne real
ly put on the map. But Mr.. Jones
sees many objections to an en-
trance into the fight. He sees
advantages in conducting a pri-
vate business or profession. But
some mighty big, wise and influ-
entail men in Minnesota politics
are urging him. There would not
be the slightest trouble in meeting
all legitimate expenses of a cam
paign if Mr.. Jones would say the
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It now looks as if the Big In
terests might throw Konge Odin
to the lions before many more
moons roll around. Many a pit
cher goes to the we'll too often.
The Big Interests also have no
use for dead ones.
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THAT MARMON CAR.

Chief McKercher and even the
city's commissioners seem to say,
"the public be damned"
A fear that Chief McKercher
has received illegal favors from
a public service corporation has
resulted in demand by the
citizens Of the city that they be
shown the real facts in the mat
ter.
To date, both the Big Chief
and the commissioners are elo-
quent in their silence. They are
as dumb as the proverbial oys-
ter.
The charter of the great city
of Duluth forbids public serv-
ant to accept gifts, favors or
gratituties from a public service
corporation that are not avail
able for the general public. Vio-
lation of the charter in that re-
spect makes a public servant in
eligible for longer holding his
position.
The people have been informed
that the mammoth Marmon car
in which the Big Chief scorches
about was given him by the Du.
luth, Missabe & Northern Rail-
way Company. If that be a fact,
Chief McKercher is guilty of a
gross violation Of the city char
ter.
If Chief McKercher has bought
that big car at his own expense,
how can a man who draws sal
ary Of only $4,000 a year buy a
car that costs about $1,000 and
then keep it in gasoline? Who,
by the way, is paying for the
I gasoline that now is being burned
up by this wild raiding over St.
Louis county and even to the
Twin Cities and on to Lacrosse,
Wisconsin?
If there is anything in the shad-
owy report that the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern Railway
Company has loaned that man.
moth Marmon car to the Big
Chief, by what right has he &C.
cepted even that much Of a favor
and why9 And if that explana-
ton of matters is correct, is the
city of Duluth furnishing the
gasoline to run the car and why
There is rhyme and reason in
all things. There is every rea-
son why a public servant should
conduct himself legally and prop
erly. The public is entirely with
in it's rights when it asks an un-
derstanding Of anything that af-
| fects a servant and the quality
and quantity of his service.
Let there be an end to this fune-
real silence. Let there be a
frank, plain. complete under
standing of the situation.
If not granted what is their
right, the people, no matter how
plain they may be, still have their
Hillside clubs, the recall and even
the courts. Their culver is not
destitute of arrows.
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ATTEND THE MEETINGS OF
PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

The business meetings of the
servants of this city are entirely
too lightly and infrequently at
tended by the citizens, the tax
payers, the masters Of those serv-
ants.
The past months, complaints
have been heard about some mem.
bers and matters connected with
the board Of education. If there
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-29

John Meining's friends declare
that he is stronger with. the public
than ever before. That, if correct,
means nothing but his re-nomina-
ion and reelection. Mr.. Meining
has had his troubles in the eight
years that he has held office but
he has profited by them and, to-
day, so far as the naked eye can
see, he is constantly on the job
and impartially carrying on the
affairs Of his office.
"Little Tammany" does not
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ton neither is the Formed man
who was formed after the seven.
tn day as it reads.
And the Lord God formed
man OF the dust Of the ground
and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life. and man be-
came a living soul,
And the Lord God planted a
garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he
bad formed. "(Gen. 2-7-S)
Now here Bro. Mears and dear
readers is where your second
man comes in. He was formed
from the dust uf the ground and
not Created from nothing. rs
the first man was on tine sixth.
This Formed man was the
proganitcr of the Israelites, or
in other words the Jews. God
gave to this formed man and his
descendants a living soul, Tor
! salvation) when he formed THE
MAN ADAM" and placed him in
the garden. Here is the Two
men as plain as The nose on your
face. And lney are both sci
forth in the scriptures which we
have given you in Romans 18th
chap. also in Ephe. End. and 3rd
chapters. Read the entire l1th
chapter of Rom. and you cannot
help but see the two people and
who they are Israelites anG
Gentiles.
| AS far a. the poor Negro, he
s part of the family of the form
ed man-the Israelites. Th'
descendants Of Ham, Noah's son
The black is the curse place.
upon Canaan, Hams son
Please read the curse.
And Noah awode from his
wine and knew what bis younge
son had done unto him.
And he said. Cursed, be Cana
an; a servant of servants shal
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be be unto his brethren" (Gsn
9-24-25)
This curse was black. And
under that black curse the de.
scendants of Ham was to be ser.
wants of Japheth and Shem, And
all we have to do to prove this
point, is to read,
Il am black. but cemely 0 ye
daughters of Jerus salem. as the
tepts Of Kedar as the curtains OF
Sol mon.
Look not upon me, because l
am black. because the syn hath
looked upon me: my mother's
children we're angry with; they
made me the keeper sne vine.
yard; but mine own Vineyard
have y! not kept" "tSo! 1,-5 -6)
Solomon here tells you plainly
that he was black and that he
was a servant of servants, and
that he bad to keep the vinyard
of his mothers children but his
own vineyard he did not keep.
Sc our reader will plainly see
tuat an honest man can get wrong
unless be knows all the Biole.
So we must farther say that we
thank God that the day is near
to come when that terable
BLACK will be taken away
according to the promise OF God,
and it will no, be considered,
| As it reads;
Yea every pot in Jerusalem
! und IN Judah shall be holiness
Iunto the lord of hosts: and all
they that sacrifice shall come
and take of them and seethe
therein and in that day there
shall oe no more the Canaanite
in the house of the Lord Of host, "
Zech. l4-21.)
/ All curses gone, and every
thing will be pure in the house
of the Lord. Amen ard Amen.
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How Long Ago. Since
Gods Work Of
Creation?

TON" of H. G. Mears in q little
Pamphlet he published on The
Two Creations, we read therein
as he said.
Here we learn God made all
things In the beginning. I do
not know how long ago this was.
It may have been q million
OF years ago. But there is one
thing that l krow and that is, it
was before the food
We shall try to give the Read.
ers, the light ON this all impor.
tant point-So that it will be
known from q Biblical stand
point just how long 1t has been
since God created the heaven and
the earth, and al things therein.
Our first aim shall be to inform.
YOU that it is not for contr0.
versy. that we take this subject
up. or to be In opposition to
what Bro. Mears has said for we
must think that he is sincere in
bis belief and work, yet in a
degree sincerely wrong in some
respects,
One point that the Brother is
wrong in, and that is the main
thing, is in presenting the Negro
as.one of the two creations, The
Negro belongs to the Formation
of man as we will show later on,
The first thing that we shall
notice in this Article, is the time,
Bro. Mears says that 1t may
have been a million years. DR.,
'Talmage said when he was living
In the beginning, there you
can roll in a million years If you
want to-" No you cannot roll ir
one moment more time than thai
which God PLACED there. And
we must say that according te
Gods Word we can know The
precise time. And for this prof
we must take God at his word
For God said.
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without
form and void; and darknes'
was upon the face of the deen
And the Sririt of God moved up
on the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there b.
light; and there was light.
And God saw the light, that |
was good; and God divided th
light from the darkness.
|. And God called the light DGy
and. the darkness be calle
Night. And the evening and tn
morning we're the first day.
4Gen. 1-1-5.)
Now we have before US God
first days work, And in tn
very last part of His first day
work, be makes our day Of 2
hours, BY dividing tho ligs
from the darkness, and callin
the light day and the darkness
night, This proves Gods day
be a longer time than day
"a hours. So then we mu'
learn what length of our tim
and number OF days o! our tin
that it takes to make a day I
Gods time, And for the fir
scripture we shall ask ycu
read is this. =
But, beloved, be not ignoral
of this cne thing. that one day
with the Lord as a thousar
years, and a thousand years
one day." u Peter 3-8,)
Then we must learn that
Thousand years Of our time
one day with the Lord. But th
is not all. we shAll let you rel
,rothor toofamopu nm the san
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sight are but as yesterday when
|it is past and as a watch in the
night" (Ps 90. ~
A thousand years with the Lord
isas yesterday when past, yes
terday was a day of "a hours to
US, so is a thousand years with
the Lord. when past: makes him
a dav.
For this reason we are to know
just how long it has been since
God commenced His great work
uf Creating that is the heaven and
the earth For every one of His
days is thousand years Of our
day OF "a hours. For this reason
we can boldly say that 1t was
nearly 6 thousand years before
God created man, male and
female, for we repeat that it was
in the very last part of Gods
sixth day that he created the
first man, and then He rested
one day. the Seventh thousand
years. and then He formed 'TH E
man from the dust of the ground.
! And it has been understood
by all historians and all men
from a Biblical standpoint. that
from the tims this man was
placed in the garden up till the
advent of Christ. that 1t was 404
years. which is correct. The
wrong part that they have pre-.
sented you with in this calculation
is, they placed this Formed man
back to where the first man was
created. this is not right. BY
this they cover up a thousand
years of Gods time, that is the
day of rest. For it was just 404
years from the time of the Form
l ed man, until the coming oi
: Christ.
And now add the seven DAYS
, of Gods time to the 404 years
! anil then you will bave the exac'
! time, from the Creation of the
! world. which would make il
l eleven thousand and four years
t up to the birth of Christ. AnG
! then place the time since his
D birth to that time, and you have
Q nearly thirteen thousand years
4 since the Creation OF rhe beaver
aud the earth. With those plair
Bible facts do not say I do no
i know, thas it might have been {
million years ago.
t No. No. do not say this for tn
g benefit of disbe'ievtrs. Leaving
!, these truths with YOU we turn t.
y what Bro. Mears calls the ,w
Creations. And give him th
q truth again. Now there is NJ
mistake but what Bro. Near
II are right On there being tw
Q men. But he claims that bot
Fof them were Created and b
7, claims that the Negro was on
d of those creations, this again
e a mistake, which we shall sho'
later on. Rut for the prekant W
shall show up those two mer
q one created and the other form
,e ed. For as it reads. God on .th
IS sixth day created man male an
"a female. Please read.
At And God said, Let US max
q man in our image. after our lik'
a ness; and let them have domi,
to ion over the fish OF the sea. an
of over the fowl OF the air, and owe
It the cattle, and over all the eartl
,e and uver every creeping thin
ne that creepeth upon the earth.
of So God created man in his ow
image, in the image ofGod cres
s' ed he bin; male and fema
to created he them" (Gen. l.;
-27.)
NJ Now here is the first Create
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Gentiles, for to provoke them to
jealousy from. II I'll
Before this time the created
people were called apeople that
was not a people. Please read.
(which in time past were not
a people. but are now the people
of God; which hal not obtained
mercy, but now have obtained
mercy" Il Peter 2-10
This was mystery kept bid
from the beginning of the world
that is that the people. who
originated from The first Ccea
tion Vt man. Spoken of in (Gen.
1 26 ~ was called a people that
were not a people, and At this
timeof Cnrist's resurrection had
to be Created, anew, Please read,
For we are bis workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath be-
fore ordained that We should
walk in them.
Wherefore remember, that We
being in time past Gentiles in
the flesh. who are called Uncir.
cumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the
flesh made by hands;
That at that time ye we're
without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of 1sra'
el, and strangers from the
covenants Of promise, having no
hope. and without God In the
world:
But nov. in Christ Jesus, ye
who sometime were far off are
made nigh BY the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace. who hath
made both one. and hath broken
down the middle wall of parti'
tion between US:
Having abolished in his flesh
the enmity. even the law OF
commandments contained ir
ordinances; for to make in him
self of twain ole new man SC
making peace:
And that he might reconcile
both unto cod in one body by
the cross, having slain the enmi
ty thereby:
And came and preached peace
to you which were afar off, ano
, TO them that were nigh.
For through him we both have
J access by one Spirit unto thu
I Father.
, Now therefore ye are no more
, strangers and foreigners, bu
3 fellow citizens with the saints
!, and of the household Of God;
) And are built upon the founda
D tion of the apostles and prophets
b Jesus Christ himself being tn
g chief corner stone:
e In whom Pill the building ftl.
s framed together groweth unto
' holy :emple in the Lord:
e In whom We also. ere builde'
!, together for a habita,ion of GO
!. through the spirit" tEphe. z
e 10 to 22.)
u Also.
And to make all men sc
q what is the fellowship of tn
} mystery, which from the uegir
l. ming of the world hath heen hi
q in God, who created all thing
'r by Jesus Christ" (Ephes. 80
y Read again.
= Which in other ages was nj
made known unto the sons
q men, as it is now revealed uni
q bis holy apostles and prophet
,6 by the Spirit;
That the Genti|es should |
n fellow beirs. and of the san