The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-04-23


Sometimes there is an innovation so
rank, monopoly so cussed, trust
SO devilish and inhuman that if we did
not let out zip of protest we would
simply explode like a tail-end base
ball team in minor league.
There is one trust in this land of
the free and home of monopolies that
is so contemptibly contemplate, so
hideously inhuman, so dastardly un-
American that, although we have linn
tied command of five languages, En-
glish, Danish, Swedish, Hog Latin,
Base Ball and Golf, our entire vocab-
ulary does not supply US with cuss-
words enough for use to express our
opinion of it in a fitting and proper
manner We refer to the Waters
Trust"
This unholy combination is compos-
ed of a mongrel crowd Of slant-eyed
foreigners, who corral their unsus-
pecting countrymen into their tolls
and hire them out as walters, and to
their everlasting shame, large num-
Der of toniest, highest class restaur-
ants, hotels and eating houses, includ-
ing the biggest and most stylish
places in st. Paul and Minneapolis en-
ter into contract with this low down
corporation for their food servers at
so much per month, then this souless
crowd supply them, paying the men
they employ about one-half or two
thirds of what they receive for their
services and compel them to turn over
all the tips they receive to this ''Wait-
ers Trust" and to be sure they don't
"knock down" they clothe them in
tight fitting, non-pocket uniforms in
which it is impossible for them even
to conceal a postage stamp without
detection, and place Checker" or
spy in each place where they are en-
ployed to see that all the "tips" are
placed in the "tip-box" each day and
duly turned over to the Trust. In
this way the public is not only COM
PEELED to pay the walters wages but
also contribute to the fortunes of the
robbers who sit in their luxurious Of
fees in New York and Chicago and
wax rich out of the efforts Of their
pocketless slaves in wheeling tips
out of generous patrons of frst-class
institutions, and if they do not prove
to be expert whedlers, they are
promptly relegated to the scrap heap.
The clipping system" is bad, but
we have always felt if we are stop
ping at place where the waiter SER
yes us promptly and courteously, and
we bestowed upon him small
gratuity, its nobody's business but
our own, but when we find that
instead of bestowing our gift on the
courteous servitor we have dropped it
into the pocket of paunchy pluto
crat, we become so blamed mad that
we feel like lunching off ten-penny
nails.
Here is chance for our legisla-
lures to get busy; let them pass a law
requiring every person who acts as a
waiter for hire in the capacity Of a
food server in a public place be re-
quired to register with the Hotel
Commissioner and if she or he en-
tiers into contract to share her or his
"tips" with her or his employer to be
debarred from ever again acting in
walters capacity. Require every
hotel keeper, restaurant keeper, ca
terer, saloon keeper or any other per-
son who employs servants to render
personal service to guests or custom
ers to enter a bond not requiring such
servants to share their gratuities, OF
to employ such servants from agen-