The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-07-22
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY

What,S the maIGer with D
and the Ranges" says Editor Bingham
of the Duluth Herald. Editor Blng
ham has been with the Herald and
a resident of Duluth long enough TO.
known that Duluth and the ranges
have nothing in common except TO
800 it for Duluth" This would
not be so bad and would show very
commendable spirit on the part OF
Duluth providing the ranges were
not "done" in the operation. He
knows, and we know, that every time
anything pertaining to the county is
done which will rebound to the credit
of the county, Duluth did it, and that
every time some little mares nest is
discovered in county affairs, the
ranges are made the goat. A few
weeks ago some over officious office
holder in the Duluth courthouse
started something when respectable
citizens of the Zenith City were led to
believe that there was niger in the
county school fund woodpile and the
ranges were at once charged with the
act of placing this niger among the
wood. The result was that hue and
cry was raised of the extravaganza of
the ranges and Duluth organizations
began an agitation for curbing neces
sary expenditures on schools, roads:
etc., without even taking the trouble
to look into the figures and in fact
making misleading statements-he-
ing, so to speak. There seems to be
an undercurrent of feeling that
everything not directly advantageous
to Duluth and not directly benefitine
that city should be frowned upon.
Editor Bingham is right however II
stating that Duluth should get
together with the ranges and remedy
the existing conditions. Only last
Sunday, this "don't give damn" fee,
ing was shown when the ST. Louis
County Club was here on booster
trip. President Sargent informed
us that he had done everything tc
induce Duluth to join in on this get
acquainted visit but that the best he
could do was about two or three to
join the party while the range towns
were well represented, Bull ever
going so far as to send its band an6
furnish transportation for the bant
at the expense of the village. Dull
nth lost considerable opportunity
when it failed to take advantage of
this gathering to foster good fellow
ship between the farming districts
visited and the city. The Herald has
been emminently fair in most of the
matters affecting the ranges. The
Herald felt that the school aid bill
was the only hope of thousands of
children in the country districts ant
the Herald also was of the opinion
that the ranges needed roads. How
ever, right here we will state that
from Duluth comes the feeling that
everything is good enough for the
ranges but that Duluth should have
the best. This was plainly evidenced
a few years ago when the Babcock
trunk line proposition was born.
Duluth had wide streets and wide
roads leading to the city but it was
the opinion of several very infiuen-
tial men that ga fourteen foot hard
surfaced highway was good enough
on the ranges" and the County Com.
missioners were even waited upon
with this end in view. Other acts
since then have caused the people of
the ranges to take notice of this
feeling of animosity. In order to
protect themselves, well defined
movement has been begun to form the
other towns of St. Louis county out
side of Duluth into Commercial
body to offset this nagging and bicker-
ing and, edo it for ourselves" The
ranges heretofore have been working
hand in hand with Duluth to keep
this county the best in the country
and our cash and efforts have gone
for this purpose. There are some,
who see in the attitude of Duluth a
similarity between the attitude Of
the southern end of the state against
the northern end and there are rumb-
lings of county division and state
division in consequence. This feel
ing has become pronounced and to
use the advertising term of a well
known -four, Eventually, Why Not
Now"