The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-04-28

shape their business affairs to conform
to the laws of the land rather than
that few should accumulate huge
fortunes after manner that disre-
CARDS alike the law of the land and the
welfare of the people. He does not know
that the noblest men of all times have
been called demagogues by the advo-
Gates of special privileges, and that the
mental and moral progress of the human
race is in great measure due to the eff
forts of men whom he characterizes as
demagogues. He does not know that the
more powerful men become by reason
of the power, influence and example of
wealth, the more circumspect should
be their behavior towards their fellow
men because of the greater interde-
pendence of actions and relations
forced upon them by the high positions
they occupy. And when it comes to
rolling mills, he lays bare his ignorance
in way that the practical rolling mill
man is forced against his own inclina-
tions to indulge in plying SMILE
Ajax asserts that shovellng Stag is
the hottest, hardest work imaginable.
Let him make trip as fireman on
such lake steamers as the Chemung,
the Tioga, the Sauber, or some of the
"pigs," and he will repent in sweat and
Dlisters. Let him tackle certain jobs
about glass houses, and he will see
things in a different light. But he
needn't leave the rolling mill. Let him
try his hand at pudding or rolling for
awhile, and l venture to predict he
will never again call shoveliug Stag
the hottest, hardest work imaginable.
When Ajax tells us of American
born men, brought up in American
ways of living not being, as a rule,
physically able to shovel Stag, one can
not help wondering where Ajax halls
from, or what is his mental condition,
that he should be ignorant of fact
universally admitted: that the Ameri-
can la5orer can outwork any creature
that walks on two legs, the bear that
walks like man included, provided
his wages will enable him to live in a
way becoming man who knows he
hasn't his equal on earth. At $l.75
per day of eight hours the rolling mill
companies can hire, not thousands, but
hundreds of thousands of American
born Stag shovelers-men in every way
the superiors of the foreigners. About
Is per cent of the farm laborers of this
country are born Americans; there are
millions of men born in America work
ing in factories, or as common labOrers
at out of door work, earning only from
$1.25 to $1.5O per day of nine to eleven
hours. If man will work from twelve
to sixteen hours per day on a farm at
an average wage of $18 per month,
and board, or work in factory, or at
common labor, under conditions as
stated above, when he can get job
shoveling Stag at $1.75 per eight hours,
free library, free bath, free physicians
included) such man would stand in
the way of his own light, that's all!
Now. as to molten steel. The next
time Ajax travels through country
whore rolling mills flourish in all their
smutty luxuriance, let him step inside
one of them, and not merely look in
from the railroad track. do not ask,
or advise him, to work in one of them.
1t would soil his hands, and that would
be shame indeed. Just let him OBJ
serve things for awhile, and he will
soon learn that in rolling mills metals
to be subjected to the rolling process
are not reduced to state of fluidity-
molten metal cannot be rolled. He
will also learn that the metal is not
taken from the furnaces in dippers,
but is handled with tOngs suspended
on rollers that run on one or two rails,
as the case may be; that metal to be
rolled is generally taken to the crusher
first, and in conveying it from the door
of the furnace to the crusher high
wheeled iron truck, shaped to suit the
peculiar conditions it serves to fit, is
commonly used. He will learn that,
no matter what strange things are
made in rolling mills, carwheels are
not made there, for while carwheels
roll, yet they are not made in rolling
mills, but in foundries. If Ajax should
feel some lurking misgiving about the
, Concluded on page three.)