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Harrisburg, April 12.—Everywhere that ex-Postmaster General Wanama- ker goes he is greeted with crowds and His progress dur- | ing the past week has been an ovation. | tion [all | him personally and politically, and es. place Everywhere that he has spoken he has dealt sledge hammer blows at corrup- and bossism. And the point of it is that he presents facts to em- | phasize everything he says. The enemies of Mr. Wanamaker—the Andarews-Quay crowd—have assailed pecially upon what they term his ‘la- bor record.” Mr. Wanamaker has per-.| | mitted this to go unnoticed until last i Wednesday night, when, at Athens, { Pa., he replied to his traducers in the! | He | hoods all | clippings attacking him. He then said: most energetic and convineing way. denounced as unmitigating false- the stories that have been told about his so-called ‘labor record,” and revealed some facts concerning | himself and his firm that are of the greatest interest. Mr. Wanamaker prefaced his speech ! that evening by reading newspaper | “Clippings of newspapers like these I | | have just read have been sent out from | Philadelphia to | pers || ment, endeavoring to poison the work- | effort to make it appear that I had ini- [ry to law. | personally of even so much as trying | it was over. the country newspa- by the Andrews-Quay manage- ingmen of the state against me by ail ported fereign workmen, who take the | place of American laborers. To prove this charge a single case in nearly 49 years is cited where my business house, composed of John Wanamaker, Robert C. Ogden, T. B. Wanamaker and Rod- man Wanamaker, doing business un- der the name of ‘John Wanamaker,’ was fined for employing a man contra- “Let me say that I was never charged | to evade any labor or importation law. The case on which the firm of John Wanamaker was fined was during my | absence in Europe. No papers were | evdr served upon me. I was not a wit- | ness in the case; In fact, I had no | knowledge of the latter until long after I would dismiss this mat- | ter here if it was not so apparent that | | the Andrews-Quay candidate tor gov- " ernor, who dare not face you upon the | real issues of this campaign, which are | | of broken promises, unequal taxation, | machine corruption and legislative de- bauchery and dishonor, proposes to | raise this irrelevant and false and mis- | | leading question to divert your atten- wish to | | { 1 eign tion from vital issues, and because I embrace this opportunity to emphasize the position that I have con- | sistently maintained on the question of immigration for 15 years. THE ALIEN LABOR CASE. “The case in question hinged on points. First, did the head of a partment make a contract with a workman in violation of two ue- for- law? | ‘Second, had he authority from the firm | in any capacity whatsoever except by | the | troduction and recommendation to one of ing of | glishman by birth, took an interest in | country afforded such opportunities as | that he { the | the money to pay the man’s passage, | and upon his | made good his promise to assist him. | iar circumstnces to our firm our buyer l-plicant. was given the same examina- t | { | | | | | skilled laborer of a { instincts, | sulting a lady. customer. He refused | | much to their sarprise, and w holly un- | employment, not, however, until after he laking Utensils! to employ such workman? It is an in- flexible rule of the firm of John Wan- amaker that no one shall be employed head ment, of the employment depart- | and so strict is this rule that I | myself have no authority to employ any one, and cannot do so except through that medium. “The man who instituted this suit against the firm brought a letter of in- our buyers, when in London. The man asked many questions about America, about the chances of secur- employment and the possibilities | advancement. The buyer, an En- the and persuaded him that man, no did America. Our buyer told the man | could not guarantee him em- ployment, but would use his best ef- | forts to assist him if he would come to Philadelphia. Through the influence of London house, which introduced the man to our buyer, he loaned him arrival in Philadelphia “Without communicating the pecu- on his return from Lis visit to Europe instructed the man to apply. for em- ployment in the regular way. The ap- tion that all others are given, and an- swered every question satisfactorily. His name was placed upon the eligible list. Soon after an opening for such a man. was reported and he was given employment. TROUBLE was STIRRED UP. “The man recommended as a class that is un- known in America. Dut after a trial, while he proved a competent workman, he showed himself to be a man of bad and he was removed for in- the new devartment! to assigned and left our to work which he in was had attempted the worst kind of blacl:- mail—appearing in person in our gen- eral office and demanding $200 or he would bring suit against our firm for the violation of the contract alien la- bor law, claiming for the first time that he had a contract with our silk buyer, thcugh it was a year after he had entered our employ. As I learned afterward, for many weeks, our firm was threatened with prosecution by certain irresponsible lawyers, unless we paid the man several hundred dollars. Of course our firm refused. “Suit was brought, to which our at- torneys attached little significance, an | known to me, a verdict was. gives | against our firm, and not until month: | after did it dawn upon any of our pea- ple that the prosecution could have Leen inspired by politics, and that the verdict mizht not be accident, but the result of methods. FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT. “This is” viewing the case from tho ship, | and { and who are, therefore, the most suc- | than $100,000. | are not IA free i on his street railway killed a passen- . statute i your valuable franchises. reeted legislation that the privileges of most unfavorable standpoint, to our firm. Let us take the other view; that our buyer did employ this foreigher, and that he did pay his passage to America. This fellow was recommend. ed as a skilled laborer of a class un- known to the American trade, was said to have served an aprrenticeship of many vears—unlike the American salesman, he had picked pins and wound ribbon for a year. He had la- bored a term of years in a factory, and Inew how every silk product was ¢ made. “He had learned the ladies’ tailoring business. He was able to suggest har- monious and becoming colors, and to! tell accurately the number of yards of a given width required for any style, for a person of any size. He was a skilled and artistic window dresser: in fact, it was believed that he combined the learning of the manufacturer, the knowledge and taste of the dressma- ker, the ability of the salesman and the art of the window trimmer. To attain this proficiency required a dozen years of plodding work, such as the Ameri- can salesman will not do. “But our silk buyer, believing he saw an opportunity to increase the efficien- | cy this of his department, did encourage man to make Philadelvhia his of residence and shaped things ! so that he became a salesman in his | department, believing that the smart, | learn | few | quick Yankee salesman would from the Englishman in: a months all that it had taken him years to learn, thereby giving our salesman the benefit of the Englishman's ex- perience and long term of apprentice- without the years of drudgery, making our American salesman more efficient, their services more their wage earning capacity | greater. i { “Under the alien labor law our buyer | | could have made a contract with this | man and agreed to pay his passage to | America, not as a pauper nor a com- | mon or unskilled laborer, but an artist | He did not come in any | | competition with any American work- | { man, but was really an instructor in a | in a new line. new field of work, secured for the edu- cation and betterment of every man | employed in our silk department. FIRM'S PROUD RECORD. ‘“This is the only case where we have been fined for violating the labor law in 40 years. Upon the payroll of our firm are nearly .8,000 people, whose wages range annually from $20,000 each to the boys at $250. nor a threatened strike. We are never obliged to seek workmen, but only to choose from the 5,000 people who apply to our embloyment department for work every 30 days. It would be al- surd to go abroad to hire salesmen when dozens apply daily who are ac- quainted - with Philadelphia, with the manners and customs of the people, cessful salesmen and saleswomen. “Though we sell goods made in al- most every country on the globe we have never found it necessary to em- ploy any but English speaking peo- ple. Our house has for years main- tained a pension roll for aged and wor- thy employes; a system of weekly ben- efits, absolutely controlled by the em- pleyes themselves, to be paid in case of sickness or death, has paid more Employes are allowed a discount, reducing the price of goods te. cost. Length of service is rewarded by increase of salary, other things be- ing equal. No young children are em- ployed in any service in the house. Salesmen and others at times are al- lowed dividends in addition to their salaries. “A man or woman's nativity or creed made conditions for employ- ment by our establishment, but only intelligence, integrity and capabitity. school had been kept up for years among the younger employes to give them a commercial education. AN AMUSING FALSEHOOD. “That employes are searched before leaving the store is an amusing and desperate falschood, and that they are compelled to patronize the house or its restaurant is another and ridiculous falsehood. . I believe we pay the high- est average wages paid by any large mercantile house in America, and for 36 years, since our business began, we have not defaulted an instant in the wages of our employes. “And I want to repeat what I have said many times before. The employ- ment system and wage schedule of our store are now and have always been open for investigation; we have always accorded individuals who are interest- ed in labor questions, and especially committees representing workingmen'’s organizations, the fullest privileges and facilities to examine into our methods. “I would not dignify this charge with denial but for fear some well meaning persons may be misled. It is so ridic- ulous. It would be as reasonable to say that Senator Quay was guilty of murder, because a careless motorman ger, or that the president of the Stand- ard Oil company, or a stockholder in the Pennsylvania Railroad company was responsible for the misdeeds of Senator Andrews, because he happen- ed to be in the employ of those corpora- tions. This is not a campaign of per- sonalities. I have no personal quarrel with Senator Quay er slated candidates of the machine. It is a battle against system, and if tonight I find it neces- sary to use personal names, it is be- cause names best designate the sys- valuable | tems they are responsible for and con- trol. } WHO HIS CRITICS ARE. “It is indeed strange that all these criticisms should inspired by men who never employed a dozen men at | one time, except to do political work; | and that the head of a merciless polit- ical machine, who for 20 years has caused laws to be passed that have | constantly encroached upon the rights | and decreased the wages of the work- ingman, should be able to cajole and deceive intelligent labor men, is still mere strange. “Workingmen, let us see what Sena- tor Quay has done for you within the past 20 years, when he had it within his power to do much. Iie has filled the books of Pennsylvania with to the great corporations He has so di- be laws giving corporations are well Righ absolute, while their interests hav® been so well protected that an unjust proportion of taxation falls upon the people He has | been piling the load of taxes and debt | upon you, while millions of dollars of ! interest on your state money have been used to perpetuate his political machine IN THE LAST LEGISLATURE." “At the last session of the legislature his senate committee, under orders killed the anti-trust bill, that would have made unlawful the combinations between persons and corporations to re: strain trade or increase the priceof pro- duct beyond a legitimate limit. He, with a half dozen colleagues in the United States senate one year ago held un the tariff bill for the benefit of the trusts of the country, while millions ot dollars’ worth of foreign made goods were being shipped to this country, and the smokeless chimney, the silent loom | and the unemployed thousands today bear witness to their work. “His friends are the bankers of Wall street; his meeting place the private offices of the People’s bank; his con- ferences are held in the secret cham- bers of great corporations. He was forced to admit, under oath, that he i was a speculator of sugar stock while + the sugar | and was one of the six United States | i everything Spanish. Indeed, a stranger schedule was being senators who dared declare for higher | duties on sugar. “He named Leishman, of Pittsburg, as | minister protests izations, bitrary strike as “He withheld to of Switzerland all the state against the labor organ- methods in the Carnegie’s boss, Homestead while you pay interest to | banks for money to pay your teachers. “He causes the personal property tax to be withheld while your county issucs bonds. STATE TREASURY METHODS. “He plans improper and dishonest advantage a payroll for unauthorized employes. “He protects the mileage grabbers and has committees appointed on the pretense of helping starving miners, and his committees rob while on mer- cy’s mission. “He has attempted to take $1,000,000 from your public scheufs to relieve the brewers from paying their share of the taxes. “I want to be just to Senator Quay and give him all the credit due hin. He did read in the United States senate part of a large tariff speech that was prepared for him in. Philadelphia. He threatened to read more, which forced a compromise. Broken pledges to all J { except the corporatjons mark his po- We have employed | in the past 30 years more than 100,000 | | persons, and have never had a strike litical pathway, yet he still finds ways to favor corporations and to fool the workingmen. “This year he is trying a He thinks he can win your slate candidate upon the immigration bill, a copy hold in my hand. It is as honest as any claim they make, although as a matter of fact, his slated candidate is the author of only the enacting clause, consisting of 19 words, while the bill, I am reliably informed, belongs to Sena- tor Lodge, of Massachusetts.” At Royersford on Friday night last, Mr. Wanamaker held up the record of William A. Stone to a great audience. He showed how false had been William A. Stone to his constituents in the rast; how he had broken his sacred new scheme. votes for his issue of an of which 1 word in promising to vote for McKin- | It was | ley and then voting for Quay. a most startling and scathing arraign- ment of William A. Stone. maker said: MR. STONE AS A DELEGATE. “The Republican voters of Allegheny were almost a unit for McKinley, and the known relations existing between Mr. Stone and Senator Quay, who was also a candidate for the presidency, were such as to arcuse a storm of op- position to Mr. Stone. To save him- self from defeat Mr. Stone, together with his Quay colleague, signed and forwarded to the Republican county chairman of Allegheny county, and caused the same to be published in the Allegheny county papers, the following’ pledge, bearing date of March 25, 1896: ‘We pledge that we will honorably and fully represent and vote in ance with the will and pix presiddnteof a plurality of ti can voters of ‘the congre trict within which we are for delegates, whenever a plurality of those voting a prefer- ence at a primary election th he vious to the meeting of the national convention, in which we are delegates after due notice has been given by the chairman of the county commit- tee that they will have an opportunity in said primaries to express such pref- erence. Signed) accord- nee, for Republi- cnal candidates expressed dis ‘ROBERT M’AFELE. ‘W. A. STONE. “The publication of Mr. Stone's pledge ‘to vote in accordance with the will and preference of a plurality of the lepublicans in his congressional dis- trict, as expressed at the primaries,’ relieved him of all opposition and he was chosen a national delegate and in- structed by an overwhelming majority of the votes cast to support- William McKinley. But in the face of ‘his pledge and the binding instructions he had reccived for McKinley he voted for Senator Quay: and I am informed by 8 close fiiend of Mr. Stone that his moral obligation did not trouble him in the least, hut so anxious was he to know what effect it would have upon his political future, if he disobeyed in- structions, that “he went about asking the judgement &f other delegates. THE MENACE TO TAXPAYERS. “If Colonel Stone made a solemn pledge in ’96 upon a most vital ques- tion and defiantly broke it to please his | master, on a question purely of senti- | ment, as his vote coull do Mr. Quay no ' real geod, dare you as taxpayers place faith in his promises to protect your in- terests, and dare you make him the custodian of your affairs and guardian of your moneys? Can vow he- lieve that he will be less false to his promises now than to his pledge in 96? It because of this condition of things in, cur state that I am here to say to you that vou do well think before you continue the old regime. 1 do not a2<k wou to take me. I do not want you cave anything for me. Save yourselves. Save your taxes, your honor, your or Quay. and the is to tO Wor, own the state, “Elec Zz AW. A. Stone Quay nd Andrews for four yeas. Breakt b- the slate now will save the Pepub’ican party, which, if it does hon- estly and honorably, isginvineible. If it does not it goes downtlike the old ‘Whig ers who blunge the party of and Grant cver tne precipice.” iss to Lincoln made, | who had not forgotten his ar- | causes your schools’ money to be | indemnity bonds to take | the Government oflicial. of | the state treasury to assist in carrying | | going to the battlefield. | time the Mr. Wana- | I going back to the | which case it is a good place for him | newspaper. "assistance of the town. the. elect ! party, and woe to the blind lead- | il ET "ALL WANTED TOFIGHT SPAIN. But Age and o~iekness Interfered When They Had a Chance to Enlist. Johnstown Tribune. A gentleman bearing credentials as a Government officer was in Johnstown the other day on business for “Uncle Sam.” It dees not matter waat the line of business, particularly, nor what the man’s name, © lle was of soldierly bear- ing, though dressed in citizen’s eloth- ing, and evidently was possessed of the qualities for gettingoff a practical joke in good style. Drifting into a crowd where the trou- ble with Spain was up for discussion, he entered heartily into it, and soon by a few remarks judiciously thrown in, he had those around him wrought up to a’ pitch where they were breathing out threatenings and slaughter against might have trembled for his safety if he had so much as a Spanish needle sticking in his clothes, and certainly an epicure who is fond of that delicious | dessert known as Spanish eream would have been excusable for supposing that he would be considered a traitor and strung up to the nearest lamp post if he ever swallowed another mouthful of his favorite dish. This was a favorable opportunity for Flashing out a big document of some kind with an imposing seal on it, he calmly stated _ that matters were serious at Washington, from which place he had just come, than was generally known, and that he and others had been sent out to enlist every able-bodied man for the conflict with Spain, and, possibly, several other of Europe, which was now inevitable. The effect was what the war corre- spondents might describe as “electrical” —that is, it knocked them all silly. Men who didn’t look it announced with the deepest regret that they were above the military age, and others whose enthusiasm had scarcely known any bounds were reminded that the physi- cians under whose care they had been for years would never permit of their In fact, by the crowd was sifted down there was scarcely more than a Corporal’s guard among the ones who had been talking so ferociously a few moments before who would give their name and address and agree to respond to a call more countries for service against Spain. SS All of which goes to prove that if a war should come we couldn’t depend much on these people who are fighting | Spain with their mouths and whipping her regularly about three.times a day. The Editor in Heaven. An Alabama editor who has suffered | from subseribers who have taken lis paper without taking the trouble to pay { for it, slaps at his delinquents in the following allegory: It is said that an editor died and went to heaven. angel was showing him around, and the An editor asked that he be allowed to look through the regions of torment before he settled down to the enjoyment of eternal His request plied with, and he was shown through the punishing rest. was come departments dévoted to Ie guide, wandered various the from wicked. became separated his about alone, and presently came to an place where the flames were bluer and the fires than any he had Looking closely he saw that the place was filled with been his delinquent subscribers, and he Lotter yet seen. those who had sat down to watch the roasting of those ‘who stood him off for subscriptions. “Presently his guide came and said: “Come, my friend, it is time we wero Paradise.” - To this the *You may go back. | This is heaven enough editor replied : am not going. for me.” ~~ Build up Your Town. The effort of any newspaper to build up a town is practically nullified unless it is backed by the business men. A stranger turns from the news columns of a paper to its advertising pages, and and if he fails to find there the business cards of the merchants and professional firms, he comes to the conclusion that publisher is not appreciated, in to steer clear of. No town ever grew without the active of its Nor can papers grow and localities without the men should realize this, and to remember in givicg support to the they are not only building up their own business, but helping to support that which is steadily working for the growth of the whole town and county.—ZF.. - — > The Right Word. Detroit Free Press. “Did you say, sir, that I was not a man of veracity?” I said you were a liar.” it is not possible for assistance build up their Business newspapers, “No, sir. “1 suppose so. Pl you to make the simplest statement of i facet in a gentlemanly manner.” corroraiicns who keep him in office will | - . o> Mary Has Mary has a billy goat, its tail is sort of bent, and that Alary goes, that goat is sure to went. He fol- which everywhere lowed lier to school one dao. made Ler hot as fire, for che had ridden on her wheel, and Billy ate the tire.— ; Fx.
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