Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-22
IVES TAKES A HAND.
The President Of the B. c. r. & N.
Ry. Tries Intimidation.

The President Of the B. c. r. & N.
Ry. Tries Intimidation.
Cedar Rapids, Aug. 81. This city is
in state of intense political excite
ment due to a circular mailed to each
employe with his pay check by Presi
dent Ives of the B. g. r. & N, rail-
way. The republicans are indignant
and the free silver, committee are hav-
ing the circular printed by thousands
to send out to the farmers. The cir
cular is as follows:
Burlington, Cedar Rapids g. North
ern Railway. Office of the President.
To the employees of the B. q. II. &
N. Ry.-Is not this money good
enough for you?
Why should any man, and especial
ly railroad man, want money which
will purchase but half as much as
this.
The amount paid you in 1895 was
$1,617, 1899. One million, six hun
dred and seventeen thousand, one
hundred and nineteen dollars and
thirty-nine cents.
II the doctrines OF the silver party
are true, the products of the farm are
to bring higher price.
Do you wish to vote to increase the
price of the sack of flour or the meat
that you buy2 If this doctrine is true
all articles brought from foreign
countries will be doubled in price,
such as coffee, tea and sugar. Do
you wish to pay more?
The rates of freight and for pas
sengers on railways are fixed by law
and cannot be raised. The railway
company must pay you in the money
it receives and cannot pay you more
than now, for the reason that it will
receive no more than now, notwith.
standing the fact that it will be only
half as good.
If Mr.. Bryan is our next president
the money of the country will be
silver or silver notes on silver basis.
This railway company has to pay the
interest on its bonds in gold, $s11, 1000
and it has to pay premium to get
it and thereby the interest account is
increased, there will be no way to
meet it except by reducing expenses
and while the pay may not be reduc.
ed the number of men employed must
be reduced. Do you wish to take the
chance of its being you who will be
out of place? Yours truly,
G. j. IVES.
LABORER! Do you know that
when the farmer (producer) is pros.
porous the laborer is prosperous ALSO
Do you know that when the
farmers or producers suffer the la
borer and all other industries suffer:
Do you know that you meyer saw a
tramp in this country during the free
coinage period from 1899 to 1873?
Are you going to be slaves and al
low any corporation to dictate to
you how to vote?
FARMERS! Are you going to vote
in the interest of England, Wall
street and the millionaires for their
gold and for low prices for their pro-
duce? Don't every gold bug paper
and republican orator from John
Sherman down, admit that produce
will he higher with free silver?
Do you know that the cry of fifty
cent dollar" is all rot2
Do you know that we had free
coinage of gold and silver in this
country for more than eighty years
and during that time silver dollar
was worth as much as gold dollar
in any market of the world?
Do you know that John Sherman
in his opening campaign speech said
that the best dollar was the one that
would purchase the most food.
Do you know that VIM. ]. Bryan
stands for free coinage of both gold
and silver same as we had previous
to 1878?
Are you going to vote for the re-
publican party and gold standard
and lower the price of your products
Do you know that the one thing
that will bring prosperity to this
country is more money?
Do you know that you cannot bring
prosperity to nation by increasing
their taxes by additional tariff OF
any other mode of taxation?
B. A. PLUMMER.
There runs through the whole OF
President Ives letter a subtle intimi-
dation. For such we give below the
statutory law of Iowa:
ANY person. or corporation who
shall refuse to an employe the privi-
lege hereby inferred, or shall subject
an employe to penalty or deduction
of wages because of the exercise of
such privilege. or who shall in any
manner attempt to influence or con-
troll such voter as to how he shall
vote, by Offering any reward or by
threatening his discharge from em.
ployment, or otherwise intimidating
him from full and free exercise of
his right to vote, or shall directly or
indirectly, violate the provisions of
this section, shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor and be fined in any sum
not less than five dollars or more
than one hundred dollars