, 1890-03-14
UNMASKED.

WAGES GAChpllOu VII utaNu up ny u
Republican lawyer of this city at the re
quest of the board oil trade. While there
may be differences of opinion upon the
merits OF the bill the laudasous of the
governor by his newspaperial puppets as
the wage workers friend" strikes such
as have any knowledge of his e1ccllency's
business methods with nauseating force.
This veto was based purely and solely
upon political claptrap. He has been
so long and so widely known as the plant
instrument OF corporation greed that any,
thing, no matter how badly demagogic
in its character, which tends to throw
forth the impression that he is jealousy
guarding the interests of the poor work
ingman, is seized upon by his hencbmen
as though it were a veritable dispensation
Of Providence.
We do not propose at this time to
make any wide incursions into the gov
errors pnblic and private records as the
friend of the DOWN trodden workingman.
but will content ourselves with producing
a verbatim copy of a cutthroat agreement
which the mercantile institution, of which
the governor is the head, forces its poor
and needy customers to sign. Here it is:
f.. Il. Warren Mercantile Company,
Furniture Dealers.
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
Between F. f. WARREN MERCAN
TILE CO of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and
.........of the city of.........in........
WITNESSErH: The said .........
hereby agrees to purchase the following
described goods, chattels aud property,
viz: Here follows a list of articles pur-
chased.
And agrees to pay therefor the sum of
.........dollars in the manner following.
Here is specified the amount of cash pay
ment and the amounts aud dates OF flu.
ture monthly payments
With interest at the rate OF (onel per
cent per (month) from date. Aud it is
hereby agreed between the parties hereto
that possession of said goods, chattels and
property may be held by said .........sub
lest, however, to the terms of this agree
ment until the entire amount of SAID pur-
chase price is paid, said .........hereby
agrees not to remove said property out of
the Number OF street, without the writ
ten consent of said +. +: WARREN
MERCANTILE CO. and she further
agrees to preserve the same in good order
and repair at her own expense.
And IT Is FURTHER AGREED between
the parties hereto hat the title 10 said
goods, chattels aud property shall be and
remain IN the said F. F. WARREN
MERCANTILE co. until the entire
amount of the purchase price is paid; and
upon the failure OF said .........to pay the
sun oi.........dollars, or any instalIment
thereof, in the manner and at the time
hereiubefore specified, or in case the said
.........shall in any manner violate or at
tempt to violate any of her said agree
ments, then the said f. +. WARREN
MERCAN TILE CO., their agents
or attorneys, may, without pro-
cess OF Law, retake possession
of said property. and for that purpose
may enter any dwelling house. store
house or place where said property may
be kept, and remove the same therefrom.
And in such case any sun or sums of
money that may have been paid by virtue
OF this agreement by said ......... to said
F. f WARREN MERCANTILE CO.,
shall be retained by said F. L. WARREN
MERCANTILE CO., and shall be con-
sidered and treated as rent for the use of
said property.
Witness our hands this ...... day Of
......... A. D., 49,.
The agreement of which the foregoing
is n literal transcript from the printed
blank was signed by a poor working wo.
man. Under its provisions what neeC
has the governor for any exemption law
or any other law? The document states
that unless its provisions are literally com
piled with IF. 4. Warren Mercantile Co.
their agents or attorneys may, Uithou
process Of tIlC, y retake possession Of the
property. Under its provisions a poo
w~orkingman or woman taken sick o
thrown out OF employment, having pal,
all but the last dollar nominated in tb
bond may by the failure to pay this singl
dollar be mulcted out of the entire prop
erty which they have purchased, togethei
with every dollar which they have pal,
on it, and the furniture carted back t,
the Warren Mercantile Co. to be resol,
perhaps to another poor ~workingmau o
woman under a similar cutthroat agree
ment.
There is philanthropy for you and
tender consideration for the suffering
toiling masses whose only capital is thei1
strong right arm and their ability to us,
it. With such a document as his cut
throat agreement staring the people O
Wyoming in the face. the governor-ou
" homemade governor-may veto an,
wages exemption bill that comes befo-
him, and as justification allege whateye
specious or d~emagogical reasons that h,
may; but as he %reclines in the luxuriou
Al. r II e-n I'll