The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-28
LET THE DRY REGULATIONS
BE FULLY ENFORCED.

| BE FULLY ENFORCED.
Duluth voted out the saloons
and liquor traffic by a most sub
stantial majority. Later, St. Louis
county decided to Cd dry by vote
that was decisive.
Superior followed the example
Of Duluth and st. Louis county.
Suburban Oliver was made dry
by presidential order, under a spe-
cial law, quickly and summarily
passed.
The lowlard city across the bay,
under sturdy mayor Baxter, has
been making persistent warfare on
the hordes seeking to violate the
dry ordinance, duly adopted by
the people.
| Duluth, sneeringly termed the
City Of Virtue by range journal
lists, has been sopping wet. Streets,
alleys, houses and homes have been
swimming in booze. Lawless block
ade runners have boldly and ar
rogantly slipped thousands Of gal
Ions Of rotten booze into and
through Duluth.
A prominent liquor dealer at
Oliver solemnly stated that, when
Oliver saloons were closed, two
carloads Of strong liquors were
soaked up by Duluth, a dry city
in a dry county.
Commissioner Silberstein, re-
puted to have been converted to
the grand cause Of prohibition by
Billy Sunday, was most jealous in
drying up Oliver and he even
promised to keep an eye on Iron
River.
But commissioner Silberstein
has shown no zeal in cleaning IL
licit booze out of Duluth and put
ting the lawless dealers in the
stuff over the hurdles. Upon the
other hand, he has prattled about
how free the city was Of illicit
booze and illegal booze vendors.
Commissioner Silberstein has
made joke Of himself by such
talk. He may have been deceived
by his beloved chief Of police, the
unutterable McKercher. But Nc
Kercher now is gone and an hon
est, honorable man occupies the
high place that Duluth S notorious
wolf in sleeps clothing so sadly
debased.
Mayor Baxter is anxious for the
authorities of Superior and Duluth
to cooperate in law enforcement.
To date, he has had neither help
nor sympathy from Duluth. This
is sad state Of affairs and one
that should make Duluth's au-
thorities blush with shame.
Even Duluth's dry leaders have
not lifted a finger nor uttered a
word in support Of law enforce
ment. Mayor Magney has failed to
sound the alarm, lift up his voice,
read facts into the records and,
thereby, properly inform the peo-
pie. Even Phillips has neglected
to raise his clarion cry.
Brother Smithies, the aspiring
Young, even bone-dry Bert
Wheeler have done nothing to help
enforce the laws that they insisted
should be passed.
The Rip-saw in Duluth and
mayor Baxter in Superior have
had to assume the responsibility
of keeping the altar fires Of law
enforcement alive. They and they
alone have bene compelled to
carry the burden of unpopularity,
odium and actual work of keeping
blind pigs, boot-leggers and block
ade runners from engulfing the
head of the lakes with a tidal wave
CT rotten booze and bitter beer.
| Chief Lahti undoubtedly has
ability and desire to enforce the
laws. Mayor Silberstein should in
struct, encourage and help him to
clean the filters of blind pigs, the
gangs of boot-leggers and the
Hunnish bands Of blockade run
ners out of this city. Let the coun-
ty attorney and the sheriff wake
up and look after st. Louis county.
| So long as those dry laws are
on the statute books, they should
be observed and enforced. II they
are unjust and undesirable laws,
then let them formally and in due
course be repealed. But, so long
as they stand, they should be re-
spected.
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