New-York tribune., 1905-03-27
'sTHEY CLAMOR TO SfGN."
Scan Get Names to Anything,
ss.Snus Man scith 4nti-I'ap Petition.

: ST don't want anything better than this' ana :
bope 81 lasts for month" said the young man
-f, en-. looI or suddenly acquired prosperity about
sf1srn As this same person had been out OF "oIh
ffor many weeks his afiuence nterestet the siI'eis
IN the Amen Corner at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL anu
Araore than one Of the Ameners wanted to Know
Ebout H. -,
syVen I'm canvassing for signatures against the
Estock Transfer bin passage in the legislature at
i.AIbany. That bill imposes tax or sz on every
Hrsnsfer Of 100 shares. and the brokers are Faiss
Cain about it downtown
IRA wing from his pocket a petition signed by a
sconuittee of prominent business men. who are
ssronsors for the movement. the young man coh-
ainued:
-sThey wont let you get names in Wall or Broad
at because they know that would be too easy,
iss,d he we get s. day. and we are supposed
to get at least hundred names 1t is pretty
knear a days work 20 get up the hundred-that is
ssf you're on the level with the job. but II deao
ieasy for some Of the men who don't care who they
get or how they get them SO long as they come
easy.
.4rhey turned me loose in the wholesale drysoods
district The way we Go is TO go to the top or the
,suIding and work down One of the first places
STRUCK was run by some Jews. When told them
what was canvassing for and showed them my
petition they said:
Dots all right, but how do we know? II you
lFet our names once. how do We know If it's al
EightT
81 couldn't do much with some of those feilers
gThey were too suspicious. Another place stroled
into to-day was the office of steam printer When
Il told him what wanted he got hot ana cut loose
Jon 70 beat the band
Gosh hang your blooming petition! said ne
~Tou amt the right tack. What do care Ior
hhe brokers? They don't do me any good Young
lsnen what YOU want TO do is to get up a peutlon
AGAINST the labor unions The labor unions are ruin
kng this country. They have been running my busi-
aess for the last dozen years, and that's JUST wat
ihey're doing all this town with other trades
81 said to him that they got good dose IN the
friya and he ol5 hotter
lever and said: Yes. but they ought to put every
zone of those in the penitentiary for hfe-every
lone Of those strikers. They've got new men in, but
hhe new men viii organize into union and then
ahere will be another strike and things will be just
rs bad as ever. l won't sign your petition unless
You bring IN against the labor unions
{ well. 1 couldn't DO any business with that old
hnan," continued the canvasser. THE next hard
saut I struck was in Office in the Broadway
lChambers When I told the what I wanted
he said:
~ No. sir; no, sirl Not your life. I'm in
flavor Of the tax What do the brokers deal in
sanyway? Nothing but hot air-hot air! They don't
produce anything. They ought to tax them for
every cent they get out of them. They don't
produce anything but hot air.
ssWeu I didn't like 10 get thrown down on an
argument like that and I told him that the coun-
zrynnen wanted the bill passed so that there would
he more money for the farmers to spend up the
State. got a raise out Of him at once.
young man. says he. 7 hadn't thought or II
tn that light. The city pays three-fourths OF the
state tax now, and they want this transfer
sTax BILL they don't have 70 pay ahyliilhS AoI III
OF The Bronx.
Yes put in again, and next they'll be taxing
you because you read daily newspapers or go to
won't leave us any liberty at ali pretty soon,
st 9saar Eli % & Hou2Ig a to sSS 6aa those
trymen sent my folks to boarding & foGse bad tbe IN
nerve to feed them canned goods with lot OF
Vegetables growing right out in the back yard,
was elin
old man, and got all his oft1ce force TO go on the
Bill? I don't know nothin' about the Transfer
Tax bill. but you don't wear diamonds and
sign petition il like the looks CT the man carry
sng it around, just to help him along no matter a
he hustled around and got about fifteen or MS
friends to sign It. because, he said, was a mar
and signing the petition would get me city job
worth 81 day. he lied at that as IN single ana
don't read a petition, anyway, and they'll sign
anything II they think 1t is going TO help man
he'll sign for anything If you tell him that you
after job / suppose they get used to that kind
my difference what the petition asks for
t'aow many men are canvassing for names
Il think there's about thirty that report where
: Go. They're getting the names, all right BY the
sgoes TO the Governor thereu be wagon load of
S5etitons and the brokers' lawyer win go up there
as one man against The Transfer Tax bill"
Are you sure the men who sign the petitions
10 not understand what they are doingF" the
sOung man was asked.
of Them said he Why, If 1 was paid s. a day.
The same now, could go out every day In the
week and get one hundred men to sign a pettion
have to do is to tell the man you ask that it will
sbe personal favor TO you ard that you are in
The names Nine out Of every will rise to that,
no matter what the petition asks Tor.