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

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first and pie secondly.
When Will Anderson trotted
with the Halden machine he
tried his hand at public speak
ing now and then. Zone should
not be ashamed of being called
a politician" he said in one
speech. "Webster's dictionary
tells us that a politician is one
interested in the science Of poll
tics"
If Madam Anderson was pulled
and fined 500, why should not
Anna Cook be treated the same
way, for Madam Anderson and
Anna Cook are one and the same
person, engaged in identical lines
of business. This problem is most
respectfully referred to Commits
sioner Silberstein and chief Nc
Kercher.
What we call Transcription"
today is not much different from
what they called "drafting" in
the Civil war. In those days,
man saw but little difference be-
tween being called a coward and
being drafted. The good old vol
unteer custom of these United
States should be abandoned only
as last resort.
| It's remarkable the way the
rank and file eat up the Ripsaw
dope on the Courthouse King. If
this is any sign as to how people
expect to vote on county auditor
next time, King Odin will not
make as good a showing as John
Barleycorn did in the recent city
election. It's a wise man who
knows when to quit the pie-coun-
ter.
Our wet friends and their can
didates for commissioner, are
credited with spending $4,700 to
register the floaters in the ter
ritory tributory to the Saratoga
hotel-the famous courthouse
precinct. The joke of it is,
lot of those hand picked citizens
voted against old John Barley
corn when they got into their
little booth with God and a lead
pencil.
A thrifty citizen who came
over from Canada on the ice
about thirty years ago, expresses
the opinion that the Rip-saw edi-
tor should be driven out of Du-
luth. This gallant money-grab-
Der should not worry. The Rip
saw does not intend to tell about
his chicken chasing. All scaven-
ger work will be left to the Twin
City Reporter.
Those who consider the Rip
saw "vindictve" and hold up
their hands in holy horror over
the way it rips open the old dead
heads sticking in the mud of the
municipal pond, should read
Bre'r Mitchell's editorials in the
News Tribune against the Duluth
Street Railway Company. They
sound a great deal like some of
the I. W. w. fulminations on the
street corners.
The Duluth Evening Herald
and the Duluth News Tribune are
campaigning in the interests of
the dear people against the
heartless Duluth Street Railway
Company. AS these papers in
crease in virulence, note how the
advertisements of the Big Stores
uptown increase in size. These
immaculate moulders of public
opinion have methods of their
own.
EDO not tell anyone I bought a
copy" remarked Lee Willcuts as
he laid down his little nickle for
the Rip-saw. Col. Willcuts has
done things in Duluth much more
to his discredit than either buy
ing or reading the Rip-saw. And
if there had been a Rip-saw for
him to read the last year or two,
Odin Halden would not have
usurped his place as republican
boss of st. Louis county. 1t pays
to read the Rip-saw.
Some people who do not per-
sonally know Mr.. H. w. Cheadle,
fear that the Big Interests are
too close to his bosom to make
him a cafo chonhord All cuch