New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-09

Considerable agitation has been
worked up against the minimum wage
law passed by the last Legislature and
the constitutionality Of the law is being
tested in the State Courts at the present
time. For the purpose Of raising the
necessary funds to fight this measure,
the Merchants and Manufactures Ad-
visory Committee of St. Paul has sent
out appeals to the employers of female
help all over the state asking contri-
buttons to the extent Of SO cents for each
female employed. W.. P. Tubbs, pro-
prietor of the Portland Inn at Henning
has his own peculiar ideas about this
business, ideas SO radically efficient from
the general run that we feel they should
not be relegated to the scrap pile until
they have been given publicity He
says in reply to the Committees appeal:
'Yours Of the 18th before me. I see
from your letter that a number Of the
misguided intend to fight the deviE'with
fire.. This I consider poor. judgment.
The devil is an expert with fire, and those
who give the devil the choice Of weapons
will get the worst of it. The courts are
the weapon of the parasite politician
who is interested only in the, votes for
me-
However, / will enter the. Simple
Simon class and send One Dollar, know
ing full well that when the next voting
time comes again you fellows will fall
over one another to vote to place some
one in position to injure or destroy your
business. It is just as good judgment to
try to catch a whale out of pail as it
is to place men in position where they
can"make rulers to regulate the business
of others. w. ~,@a
If the St. Paul Institute OF Curios"
gathered from the different parts of the
State were men of the best of intentions,
they could only injure any business they
interfered with. These so-called repre-
sentatives represent only the ignorance
of the various communities from which
they came, and l doubt if one Of them
ever had the thought enter the place
where his mind should be, that business
is governed by laws, of it's own: These
men are. what are called Reformers, :"
and the object Of their reform is to. get
me" or keep 'tMe" in Office. To think
that these men have any conscience in the
matter is to cause smile to spread over
the countenance.
You may 60 and spend my Dollar as
it pleases you. expect it will go to
maintain the legal parasite at the other
end of the Shell Game. But you fellers
make me laugh, being played for suckers
in game you assisted in putting on
yourselves.
/ Now that you have stuck your foot in
| a bear trap, if were to advise it would
be to- do as they do in most towns in
Texas where they don't want niggers.
Post notices like this: Niger don't
let the sun set on you in this town. If
! were Simple Simon enough to lend my
support to a member of the. legislature
and found out my mistake afterward,
perhaps would be in favor Of something
like this posted in every town: ,."To all
Politicians and others who are trying to
ride on the bac ks of Others NOTICE:
Vigilance Committee knows you are in
town and one Of them has gone aftera rope
The best thing for you to do is to hurry
To avoid all this, ! will do my part by
not assisting in delegating power to any
one. However, you fellers can go on and
play horse. don't care.
Yours,
W. P. TUBS.