The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-05
TO GEORGE M. PULLMAN.

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Advice.
Mr.. GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN-DEAR SIR
TO man OF your genius and mental
resources, all manner Of ideas must oc.
cur. And yet ouch is the multiplicity
Of interests that gather about you; SO
enormous have your business and ita
relations become that possibly it never
has occurred to you to call together the
discontinued men who are at present
causing you some annoyance and to say
to them something like the following:
My rothers-rhrough the skilled
and faithful labor OF yourselves and
others, have become many times
millionaire. I DO not forget, and you
have not denied, that /, myself by my
Judgment and skill. and inventive power
and business man agement. have earned
a competence. am fairly entitled to a
good living for the rest OF my days. But
| could never have become millionaire
or accumulated one-tenth OF a million
by my own unaided genius or labor.
You, and others who have labored
for me, have created my fortune.
l will now confess to you, which you
all know but too we'll, that have not
sufficiently considered this. l have
tried to do some things for you in the
way of q model town Cor rather have
permitted you to do that WORK.. But
have made money by 1t. l have made
profits out of you in the matter OF wa
ter and aas, and merchandise and house
school houses. churches, a library and
good streets, yet l have it all back
again, in the increased value OF my
property.
have not meant to be hard and self.
ish, but, putting myself in your place
and seeing myself from your point oil
view, I find that have not been true
and unselfsh brother.
ask your forgiveness. I will from
this on be your faithful servant.
l ask You to be generous and to 20 to
work again at the rate you yourselves
consider just. promise you also that
| will have made out for you full, true
and particular statement OF the whole
business under my control, and that as
fast as am able, will get the whole
concern into the hands OF q CO operative
association, OF which you, as many oil
you az choone, shall be charter mem
bsrs. In this I ask your help, with the
sole purpose of putting the entire bust
ness into your hands, upon such basis
that you shall sll be joint and equal
owners and propristors as we'll go labor
ers. end with such a constitution and
laws that no member of the association
shall be able to get more than bis equal
share, or have any OF the proceeds OF the
business except as he earns it.
We shall, perhaps, need some special
legislation. and We shall need time and
study to put it upon perfectly frater-
nal and Just basis. But ehall take the
time and shall confer with the wiaest
and best men to be found in the world,
and l bespeak your confidence and help
and good will. From this on l shall
work for you, to get into your possession
and control and that of others who have
served me in the past, the splendid
business and properties which you and
they and all OF us together have created.
Already f0reEee what such an asso-
citation can make OF the town OF Pull
man. 1t shall indeed become thing OF
beauty and joy forever, and a power in
the land for the bringing about OF q
true and inclusive national corporation.
My dear Mr.. Pullman, would not
something like that-not that, perhaps,
but something like it--give you prouder
place in American history and make you
q happier man than simply to live and
die as the great accum ulator-the mighty
millionaire?
Suppose, In some silent hour. you get
before you vision of Christ, and ask
Him what He would do?
Suppose you look forward to the ''other
side" and imagine yourself looking back
ward to the opportunity of today?
God grant that when you do, You may
look backward with unspeakable delight
"a having done the beat possible thing |!
r. NJ, WEBSTER,