The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

strain and risk You've got personal credit in this
town. Use it. Stand off butcher and baker and all
the rest Savve? You're drawing down something
like six hundred and sixty dollars a month. want
that cash From stand everybody of and
draw down a hundred. Ill pay you interest on the
rest till this blows over
Two weeks later, with the payroll before them it
"Matthewson, who's this bookkeeper Rogers? Your
nephew? thought so. He's pulling down eighty five
month. After this let him draw tbirty-6ve. The
forty ride with at interest"
"Impossble.' Matthewson cried. He can't make
ends meet on his salary as 1t is, and he has wife
and two kids"-
Daylight was upon him with mighty OATH
Cant! Impossible! What in hell do you think
I'm running? A home for feeble minded? Feeding
and dressing and wping the little noses Of lot of
idiots that can't take Of themselves? Not
your life. I'm hustling, and now's the time that
everybody that works for has got to hustle.
want no fair weather birds holding down my Office
chairs or anything else. This is nasty weather, damn
nasty weather. and they've got to buck into it just
like me. There ten thousand men out of work In
Oakland right now, and sixty thousand more in San
Francisco. Your nephew and everybody else your
payroll can do as l say right quit Savve? II
any Of them get stuck you 60 around yourself and
guarantee their credit with butchers and grocers
And you trim down that payroll accordingly. I've
been carrying q few thousand folks thatn have to
carry themselves for a while now, that's ALL"
You say this filters got to be replaced" he told
his chief Of the water works We'll see about it.
Let the people Of Oakland drink mud for change
ltll teach them to appreciate good water Stop work
at once. Get those men OF the payroll Cancel all
orders for material The contractors will sue? Let
'em sue and be damned. Wen be busted higher'n q
kite street before they can get Judgment"
And to Wikinson:-
Take OF that owl boat Let the public roar and
come home early to Its wife. And there's that last
car that connects with the l2:A5 boat at Twentysec
ond and Hastings. Cut 1t out can't run It for two
or three passengers Let them take an earlier boat
home or walk. This Is no time for philanthropy
And you might as well take OF few more cars in
the rush hours. Let The strap hangers pay. It's the
straphangers thatll keep us from going under"
Ard to another chief. who lroke down under the
excessive strain of retrenchmsnt-
You say can't do that and can't do this XII lust
show you few Of the latest patterns in the can-and
can't line. You'll be compelled to resign? All right,
II you think so. never saw the man yet that was
hard up for. And when any man thinks can't get
along without him just show him the latest pattern
In that line Of goods md give him his walking
papers"
And % he fought and drove and builied ana even
wheedled his way along. 1t was Gght. nght, AdAt,
and no letup from the nrst thing in The megning t
nightfau. His private oalce saw thrones svsry day.
All men came 10 zee him. or were ordsrsd to come.
Now 1t was m Optimistic opinjos on tn pauic. !
funny story serious business talk q straisht take
it-orleaveit blow fpm the shoulaer Ana thess was:
Nobody to relieve him. It was case of dfite asave
lzive. ana be aloue coull DO tie Ativink ~ IT.
Msgt = day sftef day, wtlls ~ 80 -