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Tagt Four THE SATURDAY PRESS A. WEEKLY “WHO’S WHO AND WHY” The Northwest’s Snappiest Newspaper Business Office, 240 S. Fourth Street Two Dollars per Year in Advance On Sale on News Stands, Everywhere, Every Saturday OUR MOTTO: Laugh and the World Laughs With You Grouch, and You Grouch Alone. HOWARD A. GUILFORD J. M. NEAR (The Old Man) Editors and Owners Application for Second Class Entry pending in the Post Office at Minneapolis, Minn. Dealers and Subscription Agents wanted —Liberal Commissions FACTS, NOT THEORIES “I am a bosom friend of Mr. Olson,” snorted a gentleman of Yiddish blood, “and I want to protest against your article,” and blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. I am not taking orders from men of Barnett faith, at least right now. There have been too many men in this city and especially those in official life, who HAVE been taking orders and suggestions from JEW GANGSTERS, therefore we HAVE Jew Gangsters, practically ruling Minneapolis. It was buzzards of the Barnett stripe who shot down my buddy. It was Barnett gunmen who staged the assault on Samuel Shapiro. It is Jew thugs who have “pulled” practi cally eveiy robbery in this city. It was a member of the Barnett gang who shot down George Rubenstein (Ruby) while he stood in the shelter of Mose Barnett’s ham-cavern on Hennepin ave nue. It was Mose Barnett himself who shot down Roy Rogers on Hennepin avenue. It was at Mose Barnett’s place of “busi ness” that the “13 dollar Jew” found a refuge while the police of New York were combing the country for him. It was a gang of Jew gunmen who boasted that for five hundred dollars they would kill any man in the city. It was Mose Barnett, a Jew, who boasted that he held the chief of police of Minneapolis in his hand —had bought and paid for him. It is Jewish men and women pliant tools of the Jew gangster, Mose Barnett, who stand charged with having falsi fied the election records and returns in the Third ward. And it is Mose Barnett himself, who, indicted for his part in the Shapiro assault, is a fugitive from justice today. Practically eveiy vendor of vile hooch, every owner of a moonshine still, every snake-faced gangster and embryonic yegg in the Twin Cities is a JEW. Having these examples before me, I feel that I am justified in my refusal to take orders from a Jew who boasts that he is a “bosom friend” of Mr. Olson. I find in the mail at least twice per week, letters from gentlemen of Jewish faith who advise me against “launching an attack on the Jewish people.” These gentlemen have the cart before the horse. I am launching, nor is Mr. Guilford, no attack against any race, BUT: When I find men of a certain race banding themselves together for the purpose of preying upon Gentile or Jew; gun men, KILLERS, roaming our streets shooting down men against whom they have no personal grudge (or happen to have); defying OUR laws; corrupting OUR officials; assaulting busi ness men; beating up unarmed citizens; spreading a reign of terror through every walk of life, then I say to you in all sin cerity, that I refuse to back up a single step from that “issue” —if they choose to make it so. If the people of Jewish faith in Minneapolis wish to avoid criticism of these vermin whom I rightly call “Jews” they can easily do so BY THEMSELVES CLEANING HOUSE. Pm not out to cleanse Israel of the filth that clings to Israel's skirts. I'm out to “hew to the line, let the chips fly where they may." I simply state a fact when I say that-ninety, per cent of THE SATURDAY PRESS the crimes committed against society in this city are committed by JEW gangsters. It was a Jew who employed JEWS to shoot down Mr. Guilford. It was a Jew who employed a Jew to intimidate Mr. Shapiro and a Jew who employed JEWS to assault that gentle man when he refused to yield to their threats. It was a JEW who wheedled or employed Jews to manipulate the election records and returns in the Third ward in flagrant violation of law. It was a Jew who left two hundred dollars with another Jew to pay to our chief of police just before the last municipal election, and: It is Jew, Jew, Jew, as long as one cares to comb over the records. I am launching no attack against the Jewish people AS A RACE. I am merely calling attention to a FACT. And if the people of that race and faith wish to rid themselves of the odium and stigma THE RODENTS OF THEIR OWN RACE HAVE BROUGHT UPON THEM, they need only to step to the front and help the decent citizens of Minneapolis rid the city of these criminal Jews. Either Mr. Guilford or myself stand ready to do battle for a MAN, regardless of his race, color or creed, but neither of us will step one inch out of our chosen path to avoid a fight IF the Jews want the battle. Both of us have some mighty loyal friends among the Jew ish people but not one of them comes whining to ask that we “lay off” criticism of Jewish gangsters and none of them who comes carping to us of their “bosom friendship” for any public official now under our journalistic guns. o— — Weather forecast—Stormy, with lots of heat. o FOR FRANK’S PERUSAL Frank Brunskill wants the heat pulled off his precious self. He demands that McCormick get things “fixed up,” etc. Frank—get this through your dome. Nobody can fix anything except you. And here is what you will have to do : 1. See that every one of the thousands of dollars extorted by the Twin City Reporter is returned. 2. Return to eveiy victim the thousands of dol- * lars lost by them in the gambling house you fostered and protected at 208 13th avenue south, and 818 Hennepin. 3. Return the good name of those who stole money and lost it in your gambling hell, and went to prison for it. 4. Send out and arrest the many Yid thieves and gangsters of Big Mose’s stable who were arrested by your department in the commission of crime, and were ordered released by you. 5. Get down to your proper station in life, and crawl out of the police department for once and for all time. These, Frank Brunskill, are the terms on which every thing can be “fixed up” and the heat taken off you. You state that you will stand for anything to pull the heat. Here’s your tip. —The Half-Shot Editor. A SECOND DEFI It has been tipped off to the Press editors that an effort will be made to “knock off” Mr. Guilford before he has a chance to testify against the pair of babies now in the county, jail, charged with his shooting on September 26th. “Gil” wants it strictly understood that two Irishmen can keep him in a house all day, but a thousand of the Big Mose crowd can't keep him from shooting marbles on the sidewalk, provided none of the Yids get behind him. So step right in, gangland, before the water gets frozen. You have stopped nothing and nobody. You have engendered hate where once was contempt. You have sowed the wind. Reap the whirlwind. Your type has failed miserably. Now see what printers’ type will accom plish. This little fight is not a private argument. It is open to '• any public official who- wishes to.hop in. Saturday, Nov. 13,