The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-11-17
A FAIR EMPLOYER
GIVES HIS MEN SOME VERY GOOD
ADVICE-GOOD ARGUMENT AND
GOOD SENSE.
EX-MayOr John VI. StOweIl, of Milwau-
kee, Writes Letter That Pluto
Gratis Can Hardly Answer
Solid Facts to Digest.
(Schilling's Advance.

fall the smart Aleck" buiness manager
CT the Filler & Stowell machine works
In Milwaukee addressed a letter to the
employees of that company, urging them
to vote for the advance agent of pros
perity" and practically threatening them
with loss of work if they did not obey
the imported bulldozer. Ex-Mayor John
M. Stowell at once wrote a letter in re-
ply, literally annihilating the manager
and his impudence and telling the men
to vote as they pleased without fear Of
discharge. The letters created quite a
sensation not only in Milwaukee but
throughout the state.
Mr.. Stowell has now written letter,
which we publish below:
To the Employees of the Filler & Stowell
Company:
About year ago you were treated to
two addresses, one of them cOunseling
you how to vote and intimating that If
the party should be successful for whose
candidates you should vote, the country
would at once enter upon career of
prosperity, and that you would have
plenty of work at remunerative prices"
think this is proper time to lay
aside all prejudices and calmly consider
what the past year has done for the
country and for us individually, and
also to what causes the measure of pros
perity that has come to us, is DUE The
party for whom you were to vote did
succeed and for weary months we and
they awaited in vain for the promised
advance agent of prosperity" to make
his appearance We had almost given
up hope when an unlocked for factor
came to our relief, which was, in no
sense, a political agent" A general
shortage Of grain crops all over the
Eastern continent occurred, cofncldent
with a bountiful harvest over all our
magnificent agricultural Western ex-
panse. Our bread stuffs, Of which we
are blessed with such an abundance,
have advanced beyond any recent pre-
cedent or the expectation of the most
sanguine, and are emptying European
Golfers into our laps.
Is 1t this fact, or political legislation
that has turned the tide of prosperity
in our direction? No legislation of any
particular significance has been had ex-
cept the unfortunate and injurious Ding
ley tariff bill. Politicians would have
us believe that returning prosperity is
due to this enactment But what has
this done for u.s. Notably: Within sixty
days after its passage it put over $SO,O00,
600 eighty million dollars) into the
treasury of that octopus, the sugar trust.
This was probably in return for the
$4,000, 900, more or less, that this cor
poration contributed to- the immense
campaign fund to buy up all doubtful
or purchasable public journals and buy
votes for the Republican ticket. Pretty
prompt and liberal pay, was it not?
This vast sum, sSO,OOO,OOO, you and
and all of us are paying now whenever
we sweeten our tea or coffee or use SUI
gar in any other way. Sooner or later
we must pay it all. Who now doubts
that this election was virtually bought
when it is considered what vast sums
were used in that campaign and the
fight the Democrats made, comparative
ly without money, against such giant
odds, came SO nearly being a victory?
Do you not think the people, if not un-
duly interfered WITH would have carried
the Democratic ticket to success? What
else? They put duty of 50 cents a
ton on bituminous coal. Many fOOlishly
thought it was that they might relieve
the starving miners of that product of a
part of their heavy burden. Did they
do it? On the contrary they cut still
deeper until these poor men were driven
to desperation and to save their lives
they organized the most hopeless strike
of recent times-hopeless, but for the
help the millions of their fellow work.
men all over this land extended to them.
"Remunerative wages" forsooth!
They levied duties on steel rails, pig
iron and machinery of all kinds. Was
this for blind, or what? We were at
that time and are since shipping mil
lions of tons of these things to all the
nations Of the world, driving our Eng
lish and German competitors out of the
markets by our low prices. Vive la
humbug! This tariff seems to have been
planned as if on purpose to annoy and
excite the enmity of most European ma
tions without any adequate benefit to
ourselves.
And now, while avowedly advocating
bimetallism, this party is doing it's level
best to wipe out, as a circulating med
ium one of the metals recognized as
money for so many years by our IN
equaled constitution. BY thus degrad-
ing they are making it well nigh i'm
possible to rehabilitate it, and so we are
In imminent danger of absolute mono
metallism. thus wiping out one-half our