The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-10-13
INTIMIDATION OF employees.

the state know what is good for them.
INTIMIDATION OF EMPLOYEES.
Where bribery and corruption can
not succeed, the party of plutocracy
will resort to the intimidation of en-
ployes as it did in 1896. The captain
of the capitalists and trusts, Marcus
A. Hanna, is determined to win the
battle by hook or by crook. He sees
the handwriting on the wall and real
ICES the difficulty to be encountered in
getting liberty-loving Americans to en-
dorse his policy of robbing the Fill
pinos and Porto Ricans Of independ-
ence and making them the vassals of
the piratical gang he represents. The
order has gone forth that the employees
of trust concerns must be coerced into
voting for William Mckinley. The
Republican campaign managers and
their subsidized press vehemently deny
the charge, but facts are against them.
The st. Paul Globe, an anti-Bryan
organ and the mouthpiece of j. j. Hill,
contained report the other day of a
local meeting of Sound money men"
which was addressed by one Jesse
Gregg, of Nicols and Dean, firm deal
ing in trust goods. He spoke so plain
ly that even the Globe drew particular
attention to his remarks, which were
as follows:
II was in New York last week, and
passing down the street was sur
prised to observe large banner float
ing from business house upon which
was this inscription: Bryan Travel
ing Mems club In our firm we have
twenty travelling men at work and do
not know how but one of them Is going
to vote this fall, but want to say to
you gentlemen, that if any one Of these
travelling men should vote for Bryan
and knew it, would discharge him
Immediately. Don't understand me to
say that 1 would discharge him for be-.
ing a Democrat, would discharge him
for being damned fool. would pre-
sumo that any man who didn't have
better sense than to vote for Bryan
didn't have enough sense to represent
our business"
Jesse Gregg is evidently an Anglo
Saxon who believes that American cit
liens cannot vote with impunity, ac-
cording to the dictates of their own
conscience. The twenty travelling men
employed by his firm have been pub
licly notified by him that if they vote
for Bryan they will be discharged from
his service for being internal fools.
The trusts have been nurtured by Nc
Kinley, they are i'll the employ Of a
firm which handles trust goods, and
therefore they must not vote accord
ing to their convictions. or they will
lose their jobs like the $4,000 travelling
men who have been already thrown
out of employment.
Ii the twenty men in Gregg's employ
are intimidated by that threat and fail
to vote for Bryan they are destitute of
American manhood and deserve to be
DISTINGUISHED.
1t is well for them they have the
Australian ballot and that Gregg can
not enter the booth on election day to
bulldoze them into voting for McKin-
ley. Had he been in the British is
lands bn ,n;rb+ c,,onno1 in +orrorivipr
the electors to vote for the Tories, but
in this country he cannot scare Amer
lean citizens to vote for the nominee of
Mark Hanna. What Gregg ought to
do is to convince his employees by argu-
ment that they should vote for McKin-
ley in preference to Bryan. Any other
method is reprehensible in the extreme
and should not be tolerated in this re-
public.
Doubtless, many merchants in the
Northwest who will vote for Bryan
next month purchase goods from
Nicols and Dean of st. Paul. In our
opinion they should deal with some
oLllGL LII LII IL 'ISSS lCl'icScIIlS iAc SclI-
timents of his partners. A man like
Gregg should not have vote at all,
and perhaps he has not any. He is
apt to be one of the aliens from Vic
tora's realms who will not renounce
their allegiance to the 'Nlother Coun-
try" and become bona tide citizens of
the United States. Every man of
them is for Mckinley and an Anglo
American alliance. They will not sue
coed this year in thwarting the will Of
the American people by the threat OF
discharging their employees for voting
for the candidate of their choice.
Bryan will be triumphantly elected in
spite of them.
A CATHOLIC EDITORS DEATH.