Eliza Roxcy Snow

“ I have always felt, since the burn- ing of your factory, very soriy for your misfortune, and have often thought that it would only take a few dollars from each of the many friends of home industries to make you whole. ”

“ Again, our employees are almost exclusively stockholders or members of a family whose head is a stockholder. You will see in our petition that the object of our association was to furnish employment and opportunities for learning trades and for reasonable' remuneration for labor, which, up to the present, is about all we have been able to accomplish.
Mr. Hollister will probably endearvor to prove by affida- vits, that we "pay out" our bills to other than stockholders and employees; and lie may find some such who have had our bills ”

“ From these departments we have produced but very little more than is required by the members and employees of our association, who number nearly fifteen hundred.
Before the tax law was so amended as to affect co-opera- tions, we issued to employees and .stockholders unrestricted bills, but found serious trouble by persons not interested in our institution receiving them, and requiring payment in the arti- cles that were nearest to cash, and which we could scarcely supply ourselves. ”

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least shadow of prospect, please employ those lawyers in our behalf, and on you communicating to me by letter or telegram, I will forward you a draft of two hundred dollars, forthwith; and, if they succeed in our case, will be responsible for the additional five hundred dollars.
Can you get payment of our assessment deferred till a decision is reached? And how soon shall we be obliged to pay, on receiving notice, etc.? ”

“ The secretary, superintendent and every officer and agent of the association are strictly forbidden to dispose of these Home D. bills to any other than employees and stockholders.
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or to receive them from any other party. I think this rule has been observed as to paying out, but in some isolated cases. when persons, through ignorance or misrepresentation, have been imposed upon, in taking our bills, they have been received and redeemed, but only through protest and compro- mise. ”

“ James Pett, superintendent woolen factory; Charles Kelley, superintendent boot and shoe department; I. C. Nielson, super- intendent cabinet department; O. W. Stohl, superintendent tailors' clothing department ”