St. Tammany farmer., 1906-12-22

like the famous Krupp," remarked tn!
hat manufacturer.
well. we have few" remarked +;
gentleman who had kept quiet unit
this time. Il chance to represent f:
Chicago firm that does business O.
forty to fifty million dollars year
The head of that establishment is still
living. Nearly SO years ago, he too
was a man who worked for his daily
wage as steam filter. You never
heard of strike in his estab
lishment. His men love him as the
Essen workmen loved Krupp. Why
last Christmas he didn't send to each
OF his workmen razor breasted tur-
key-not much! He distributed among
them quarter of a million dollars in
cash!
ut SO happened that l, myself, was
the one first called upon, many years
ago, to pass around. the checks when
the head of this plant first concluded
to make this distribution of share
of his profits. When l handed the
checks to the first few they wanted to
know what they were for. I said,
Well, boys, it's just present from
the old gentleman. You've been good
and faithful during the last year and
he appreciates it and wishes you to
have this for a Christmas present.
do you know couldn't go down the
line very far. simply had to quit.
Why, that whole factory force sudden
~ became as solemn as If attending
funeral. I want to tell you that when
men weep there is something doing.
Yes, sir; there were scores of men. that
day, who actually cried when they re-
ceived those checks and knew they
were free gifts. You can bet there
isn't any strike in that establishment
because every man feels like the estab-
lishment is his own"
You bet he pursues the proper pol
Icy" spoke up man travelling for
Boston extract house. There's Tom
Walsh out in Colorado you've all
heard Of him-he's living down in
Washington now in the finest residence
in the city and entertaining all the
cream of aristocracy that drifts over
this way. Why. that fellow is one Of
the biggest hearted men in the world
and one of the broadest gagged.
Stood by Old Acquaintance.
why, do you know, one day the po-
lice arrested an old man in Denver
who was drunk and half delirious.
When they put him in the jug, he kept
saying to the jailer. Just tell Tom
Walsh that Dime in here and Tomll
get ME out all right The jailer
thought his prisoner was only pipe
dreaming, but as the old man insisted
On it so strongly, he took his name and
sent telegram down to Mr.. Walsh in
Washington. Back came reply at
once and one of Walsh's friends in
Denver went down to the calaboose
and got the old man out.
"And the funny thing about this, too,
was that the old man had trunk
away down in Texas somewhere that |
contained lot of ore samples. He
had worked for Walsh 20 years be-
fore. The ore was rich, and If I mis-
take not, Walsh is developing one of
those mines right now and will make
the old man rich again before he dies.
But that's not what was going to
say. Walsh treats his miners better
than any man in the world. When all
Of this strike trouble was going on In
Colorado year or two ago, you didn't
hear of the men at the Camp Bird GO
Ing out, did you? Camp Bird, you
know, is the Walsh property.
II happened to be up at the Camp
Bird one day and the foreman told me
how the men acted when the question
was up as to whether or not they
should go out on strike. Every
Mothers son of them went down six
niles to Ouray where the meeting was
o be held. One or two agitators had
t up their sleeve to get the men out,
,ut they themselves took hold of the
meeting and decided that they would
lot go out on Tom
Mems Comforts Considered.
You just ought to go into the store
DOM of that boarding house up at the
nine. There you would see stacks and
tacks of the very best food that can be
fought. The kitchen is kept as clean
s a new tin pan. The miners don't
leep in dirty hunks but they have
omfortable BEDS In the boarding
ouses there are plenty of bath rooms .
nd when the men come out of the
1ines, Walsh has other men take their
Id wet clothes and hand them their
ry ones. / once heard him say, Why, ,
vhen my men come from their wolk :
nd go to dinner. want them to go :
ceiling like gentlemen :
"That sounds all very nice," half t
aeered the maker OF shoddy cloth, @
but I don't believe 1t will work. I t
ont see how one can afford to look
fter his workmen and pay them these
Ugh wages you're talking about. That's
Il visionary" This manufacturer was U
most making himself an unwelcome .
lest in this little party and the hat u
blurted out to him, "Ah! =
our views are entirely too narrow.
mt blame you bit, though, for II u
,nfess had a great deal to learn >
hen l went into my fathers factory. =
hadn't been there great while when -
lere was strike threatened My fa- =
Ter thought of course that the men .,
ould go out as they had done many y