The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24

the hands of one Of its most con-
sistent members.
If Mason M. Forbes were as greedy
for public office as his absent chief,
he probably would grab the county
attorneys job and claim it by right
Of adverse possession.
julius H. Barnes recognizes organ
lied labor at his shipyards and gives
it helping hand. The MARSHALL
Wells interests give union men a
swift kick in the rear:
IT former prime minister Walker
would read the Rip-saw regularly and
carefully, he would cure his agra
waited case of brain starvation and
gain strength to avoid certain lapses.
The day Of industrial feudalism
has disappeared from the map of the
United States. A few remote corners
have failed to hear the proclamation
Of emancipation, but they soon will.
There are quite a few old-fash-
toned folks in town who consider it
very bad manners for a patriot to
reach for piece of political pie when
he already has another piece in his
hand.
Chief of police Murphy either
must be very modest fellow or else
he does not stand in with the daily
papers. So far, his picture has not
appeared daily in the kept press of
the city.
A citizen of Gordon, Wis, wants
to know where the Garden of Eden
was located. Where it originally
was may be question but, today,
it seems to be located in Hotel Su-
perior.
The scarcity of coin with many
people might be ameliorated if Wood
row Wilson would summon A. C.
Weiss to again test the nations coins
and then leave the vault door open
after he completes the task.
Some of Superior's policemen are
credited with not having been faith
full over few things, therefore they
now stand poor show of longer
walking their beats and sticking
their fingers into many things.
Freedom is alleged to have
shrieked when Kosciusko fell and
there are those who believe that Mu-
nicipal Ownership in Duluth was
stabbed in the vitals when Bert Fes-
Ter first was appointed district judge.
New York's Big Tammany has
made such a mess Of democratic ma
tional conventions that manipula-
tions in the next one probably will
be turned over to the fine Italian
hands of Duluth's Little Tammany.
Noah A. Young is credited with
having so many employees in the
county superintendent office that
he contemplates the opening of a
business college at the West End
next autumn to take care of the
overflow.
It is stated that chief of police
Murphy strenuously supported G. b.
Miller for congress last fall, there
fore he failed to secure his recent
appointment until congressman Carss
was pacifed, Stranger things have
happened.
It's about time for some autocrat
of the school board to spring new
stunt in separating school ma'ams
from their savings. Wildcat stocks
and high-priced church dinners may
not prove to be a permanent and ef-
fective bait.
Hon. Page Morris was city attor-
ney, district Judge, congressman and
then federal judge. Hon. W. A. Cant
is credited with possessing an ambi-
ton to walk in Mr.. Morris foot
steps. He has. made half the dis
lance, already.
When that concrete bridge at
Fond du Lac is completed, Duluth
will be a few miles nearer good gar
den products at Wrenshall. Go there
for things to, eat, thereby saving a
couple of profits to the non-produe-
tive middleman.
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certain eastern steel plants are re-
ported to be working at 70 per cent
capacity. Duluth's $20,OO0,000 steel
plant seems hard pressed to run at
20 per cent of it's capacity. Duluth
ever was a shining mark for the man
with a brickbat.
Many logical mind firmly holds
that Duluth's Commercial club is re-
miss in not conducting an aggressive
campaign for visitors from the corn
belt regions. When it is delightfully."-
cool in Duluth, it is distressingly hot
in the corn belt.
William L. Carss now is on duty
at Washington, where he is con-
gressman in fact as we'll as name.
Many voters are waiting to see
whether he will prove to be states
man or merely a messenger boy for
Little Tamma4y's pie-counter.