The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-02-07

If he personally applied for position
Being a former service man, many
are wondering why mayor Essling does
not "Treat EN- Rough when il
comes to handling lawless booze-hounds
at Eveleth.
The boys in Proctor-on-the-Hill
Palmer does not burst Ed. Erickson s
political boom with blow from his
brutal club.
Although the U. s. Steel Corporation
savagely fights organized labor, ii
does not attempt to interfere with the
sacred Australian ballot system on the
iron ranges,
Cook has a music teacher at last
Those enterprising hinterlanders pro.
pose to have a few female attractions
besides Supt. Young's pulchritudinous
school nurses.
The Duluth teachers demand higher
salaries for next year. If they will
agree to endure Doc. Hoke without
murmuring, they undoubtedly will get
what they seek.
Entirely too many public servants
can hear the slightest whisper from a
Bank Account, but they are as deaf as
adders when one Of the plain, common
people says something.
There are fairly reliable reports that
the jungles in the old St. Croix alley
district again are teeming with dusky
Amazons who seek to prey on weak
mems purses and morals.
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Chisholm will have a spring election.
When it comes to betting on the re-
suits, probably book-maker or two
can be found much nearer to home
than Hibbing or even Bull.
For a confirmed municipal owner
ship man, mayor Magney made a sad
middle when he laid down and let
the Bell monopoly fasten it's cruel ten.
tacles onto the body polite.
If the "God and Moralityn party
would break up profiteering, instead
Of throwing mud at Wilson, the PEG.
pie would follow the "Holier Than
Thou bunch with glad acclaim.
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The national pie-counter boys are
scared stiff over the budding boomlet
for Hoover for president. The plain,
everyday people, who furnish the votes,
see much merit in the movement.
1t would be a sight for the gods and
men to see Judge Fesler and Warner
E. Whipple sitting en- banc, as the
snarling Samuelson might say, up
there on that well polished district
bench.
Chief McKinnon' elimination was
greatly due to him permitting corpo.
ration lawyers to make a tool of him
by playing on his egotism. Time will
show the veteran chief some things
clearly that he does not even suspect
today.
Commander Guy Eaton, having con-
quered the briny deep, now proposes
to sweep the Nonpartisan flag from
the political seas. Incidentally. if
some rich political loot falls to the
old sea dogs portion, he will not feel
Under the American system of gov.
eminent, a majority of the voters can
make laws and adopt new ideas to
any extent that does not conflict with
the constitution. European methods
have no place in the Land of the
American Eagle.
The people have trusted and honored
Judge Cant for many long years and
ne now responds by taking them into
MS confidence as to his political plans
and wishes. That is one reason WIN
ne holds so impregnable a position on
the district bench.
Lonesome days are ahead of "Jehu
JACK Mcdonald. He has refused ia
WORK on the Superior police force with
anyone who knows more than he does
ana MS old pal Rosenberg is playing
checkers with his nose in milwaukee,
for long stretch.
Rev. John G.. Schaibly, alias Scbai
Die. is murmuring because of lack o,
loaves and fishes in return for servino
the Lord as one of his especially an
nointed. Christ never murmured tia,
way. He merely said "Thv Will r.
Done' and took what came.
The City Fathers found it easv tt
spend thousands at teaching the bow,
and girls to play "Ring Around thu
Rosy but they went soundlv asleer
at the switch when it came to safe
guarding the peoples welfare in tele
phone control and ownership.
A citizen heard something iinol;ne
IN A. +. McManus' trousers pocket the
other day. May it not have been tn.
proceeds from the judgment that he
secured against the city, for his bette,
half, in spite of the snarling and thu
swapping of the simian samuelsona