The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-10
NO TIPS FROM TUBBS.
How Missouri Legislatsr Proposes to
Wipe Out Time Honcred Custom.

Tipping is doomed in Missouri If DIR.
Alonzo Tubbs, GaSconade county's
representative in the Missouri state
legislature at Jefferson City, has his
way, says Kansas City (Mo.) special
dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The doctor has introduced bill making
1t a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine OF not more than $500, TO tip q
waiter, chef or steward at any hotel
cafe or restaurant"
when | go into a hotel or restau-
rant here and order a piece or two OF
pie and glass of milk I'm not con-
tracing to pay the walters wages"
says DR.. Alonzo Tubbs. "Why should
pay a hotel the price 1t asks and also
pay the wages of the employees? l
hope to see the day when every hotel
In Missouri will be graced with the
f, sign, No tipping allowed It's time
we Americans shake from ourselves
!, this oppression, this tyranny In the
form of a custom imported from the
life sapped east. Anyway, I've intro
duced bill making it a misdemeanor,
and I'm going to see it through"
| Before introducing his bill Repre-
sentative Tubbs took the precaution to
find a boarding place in a private
family and quit the Madison House for
the winter DR.. Tubbs is the typical
country doctor grown old in the prac-
tice of his profession. Night rides
through storms and hard work have
helped the years to whiten his hair and
| mustache With high ideals as legis-
| lator and a class of patients none too
| rich in the broken country In Usage and
| Gasconade counties, he has not accumu-
| lated great wealth, consequently as a
| prudent man he cannot afford to live in
| the extravagant fashion Of millionaires.
| The Madison House, where he board
ed for the first few days during the
| senatorial contest, was the headquarters
Of sundry candidates for United States
senator, their chief assistants and some
visitors. DR.. Tubbs is opposed to tip
ping on principle as well as for other
| reasons, and the walters were not long
| finding 1t out.
| The senatorial contest week was
Jefferson City's harvest The hotel
walters in those few fat days learned
to see rich senatorial candidate who
gave silver dollars as tips These same
walters learned equally fast not to see
plain, honest legislator who gave
| nothing. So the doctor was at disad-
vantage. He did not exactly blame the
walters, and in his bill he provided
that the fine of $500 and costs shall be
paid by the proprietor of the hotel, res
taurant or cafe where the tipping is
permitted. 1t also provides for pla-
| cards, "No Tipping Allowed" to be con-
| spicuously posted.
Il am really In earnest about this"
DR.. Tubbs said. Hotels and restau-
rants ought to pay their help. They
charge the public enough for what is
eaten. There are plenty of places where
| the walters get only nominal pay and
have to make their wages out of the
public / don't blame the walters. 1t is
| the proprietor who is at fault, and he Is
| the one to be punished
II can't afford to tip literally, and
don't believe it is right, so / refuse on
principle to do It." he continued "At
| the same time l know that the waiter
doesn't want to pay any attention to
| me, and he usually shows 1t by neglect
| ing the man who does not tip for the
| one who does l regard the whole sys-
| tenn as bad"