The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-04-21

"got religion in corporation
and municipal affairs. AS a
leader in the public affairs COM
mittee Of the Duluth CONNER
cial Club, he recently pronounced
ringing Bill of Rights against
the Jim Hill railways that de-
serves to 60 ringing down the
corridors of time with the i'm
mortal Declaration Of Thomas
jefferson.
Brother Hartley, with zeal and
courage, also proposes to put an
end to the practice of the Du-
luth Street Railway Company of
charging 10 cents for a street
car ride to Morgan Park from
other parts Of the city, unless
you live in West Duluth. which
is not the case with Mr.. Hartley
and the editor Of his paper, the
News Tribune.
The following special dispatch
from Mr.. Hartley was printed in
the Duluth Evening Herald Last
week, viz:
Long before the Morgan Park line
was built, when 10-cent fare was
first suggested, representing many
property owners, ! visited the COM
pany's president in Minneapolis and
notified him that property owners in
bring suit, if necessary, to enforce
single fare and equal rates to all
parts of the city. I notified the COM
pany's local counsel to the same eff
feet. 1 also notified the local vice
president and the only local director
of the company, that property own
ers would net tolerate this unfair
discrimination of two fares against
certain parts of the city.
G. G. HARTLEY.
Cass Lake, April II.
How like our unique Teddy
that sounds. Brother Hartley
certainly is entitled to- the desig-
nation, "The Theodore Roosevelt
of Duluth.
Duluth now expectantly awaits
salvation at the hands of a once
erring brother who, in the past,
so nearly sent her to perdition.
He's a grand speciment Of a
once sinful citizen, industrially
speaking, and all should pray
that he win a place in Abra-
hams bosom.
Owing to early indiscretions
of youth in a business way,
brother Hartley sowed tares that
sprang up and jolly near choked
a number of beautiful municipal
flowers in Duluth. He grabbed
real estate, interstate bridges,
the street railway system, banks,
and other desirable assets. He
even may have gathered where
he had not sown and muzzled
the OK that treaded the masters
corn. He certainly was consid-
cred very sinful in his selfish
ness.
Now, when in the sunset of an
active and distinguished career,
If the brother feels that a 1O-cent
fare from the East End to Nor
gan Park is intolerable, he
knows better how the Duluth
Street Railway employees felt in
the fall of 1898 when they went
on strike for living wages.
If you wish the details of that
time, ask E. R. Ribenack, John
G. Ross, Mike Gleason, Edwin R.
Cobb and other substantial citi-
zens who then toiled for Mr..
Hartley's street railway inter-
eSts.
10 win that strike, it not only
took the cunning grounding Of
the wires by Jack Hays but a
mass meeting Of citizens, on the
open ground where now stands
the Duluth Commercial Club
building. There fiery speeches
were delivered by Col. A. A.
Harris, Page Morris and John A.
Reyes. A committee Of promi-
nent citizens was appointed to
labor with Messrs. Hartley and
Mendenhall. That committee,
aided by the prayers Of sanity
DIR. c. G. Salter, finally induced
Mr.. Hartley to bend his stiff
neck and soften his hard heart.
The men got the raise and the
cars duly resumed their running.
When good brother Hartley
complains that the present street
railway system is owned by his
boyhood neighbors in. Canada
and accuses them Of caring moth
ing further for Duluth than divi-
oends on watered assets, he
ought to feel like putting on
sackcloth and ashes and doing
works meet for repentance.
MIR. Hart1av In nonoh moocnra