The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-19

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tain men who hold that, having said
that much, it is inconsistent on the
part of the Tribune to raise a protest
against the wholesale destruction that
the strikers brought upon the coun-
try
Then follows a lot of $waddle that
bears no relation to this charge and
which leaves the impression that it is
simply to raise a dust round some
thing which it cannot explain To
make this matter clear beyond sue
) cessful dispute, we here insert some
paragraphs from Tribune editorials in
reference to the strike.
On July the Tribune said:
I'm the strike which is now on, no
one has any sympathy for the Pull
man Car company They took adj
vantage of the fearful depression of
! last summer which affected all other
/ enterprises except theirs, to reduce the
rate of wages which they were paying
their men. At the same time their
cars in accommodating the people who
wanted to visit the Worlds Fair, were
1 loaded every day to suffocation and
/ there was no abatement in their out
rageous charges"
Take that in connection with the
annexed. which was part of an edi-
torial of the next day, July 4th:
THE truth is that the Pullman COM
pany is in a sort of partnership with
most of the various railroad companies
throughout the country, and the pro-
fits of the Pullman cars are divided
between the various railroad companies
and the Pullman company. Hence the
railroads, as a rule, and almost with
out execution are in league with the
Pullman company. and they propose
to make life intolerable to the sixty
millions of people in this country an
less those people help to put down the
strikers
Now add to that these remarks
from an editorial of the same paper of
July 5:
1T seems to us it is time for the gov
eminent to give notice to the railroad
companies throughout this country that
they must no longer continue to be a
party to the difficulty between the
Pullman Car Manufacturing company
and their employees; that their plea
that they cannot violate contract
with the Pullman company can no
longer avail, because the Pullman COM
pany itself has made it impossible for
the railroad companies to fulfill their
obligations; that the first violation of
the contract was on the part of the
Pullman company itself, and that the
interests of the millions of people in
this country will not longer permit
them to stand by that company in
their quarrel with their workingmen.
The dispatches yesterday
told US the government had at last
determined that it was time to inter
fere. time to see that the laws should
be executed. We think that was a
wise decision. At the same time we
think it only included half the case.
j It ought to have gone far enough to
make clear that one mandatory a
little outside of Chicago must not by
the help that is extended to it from all
sections of this country, wherever rail-
road tracks penetrate, cause sudde.
I cessation of traffic and the creation of
riots in twenty states. And it ought
TO have gone far enough to make a
clear reading of the truth, that while
the railroad companies would be pro-
tected in running their trains without
Pullman cars, they at the same time
would have to leave the Pullman COM
pany to adjust its own difficulties, and
that they must not become accessories
of that company in bringing misfor-
tune and trouble upon the whole peo-
pie of the United States"
Only two days after saying this,
that journalistic chameleon changed
color and came out with this COM
pletely opposite turn of opinion:
The fact that the strike was on the
Pullman works is an astonishing one
to most people. for it has been well
understood for years that no great
manufacturing establishment was ever
surrounded by so many humane ideas.
The sewerage is perfect. 1t was es-
tablished before the houses were built.
The houses were built to accommodate
the workingmen. Just their cost was
charged for them when they were sold,
and people had the opportunity of pay
ing for them in installments, and the
renos are at best but a poor interest
on the real cost of the houses. Then
we had always understood the Pullman
company was paving fair wages, and
taking especial care to secure all the
comforts for their employees. That
such an Instruction should break out
in such a place, and spread from there
all over the country with "a kind of
frenzy. is the most marvellous develop
ment of the year, and almost induces
one to believe that the stars are out
of Joint and the earth is under condi-
lions which are liable to make the I'M
expected happen at any minute.
And to cap the climax of its self
contradiction. on July it had this to
say:
AS for the railroads, there are very
few of them paying expenses. They
believe they can collect from the diff
ferent states or from the United States
full damages for all they are suffering,
and thew can bear the strain with the
philosophy which comes with the
sense of receiving an unqualified wrong.
Now if these discordant utterances
are not open to the complaint of the
persons who have taken the Tribune
to task. there is no meaning in
language. The blame was put by the
Tribune in the first place on the Pull
man company and next on the rail-
road companies, who, it stated were
in league with the Pullmans. to make
life intolerable for sixty millions of
people, unless they would help the Pull
mans and the railroad companies to put
down the strikers.
The sympathy of that paper was
with the strikers and against the cor
porations. 1t was an indirect if not a
direct encourament of the great r~volt
The strikers in this region took it as
aid and comfort. No doubt it had the
same effect wherever it went. But
mark the sudden flop! Just as in the
commonwealers' affair, our contempor-
airy turns a complete ~somersault and
lands on opposite ground.
Now the Pullmans are all right. They
have paid fair wages and are public
benefactors. The railroads have been
receiving an unqualified wrong" Has
their s'Iea g1e'' with the Pullmans haen