Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-06-29
SERMON ON PULLMAN
THE MAN A GREEDY HYPoCaiTE, THE
TOWN a HOLLOW SHAM. p.

Methodist Clergyman, Who Is Familiar
With All tho Facts, Has the Courage to
Speak His Mind and Tear the Mask From
the Face of Sir George. t&-s&
Rev W. H. Cawardine Of the Pull
man Methodist church took for his text
on Sunday evening Luke x, z, '"The
laborer> is worthy of his hire The
Chicago Herald furnishes the following
report Of the sermon:
After referring to the strike among
the workmen as the one question of the
hour Mr.. Cawardine said it was his
duty as minister Of the gospel to look
the situation squarely in the face with
out equivocation, his conscience not per-
hitting him to keep silent He wished
Rev. DR.. Oggle, who preached the Sun
day before, a pleasant journey to ''the
land where strikes are unknown and
the poor always submit to the lords of
the soil' and begged him "to think
Of us occasionally while we eat the half
loaf that is better than no bread' Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Cawardine said:
my conscience is clear. My congre-
cation has assured me of it's hearty SYM
pathy. dare not take any other posi-
ton. l cannot keep still and smother
my convictions You need not fear that
the company will retaliate upon us as a
church for anything may say. 1t dare
not in the face Of public opinion. And,
let me add, if the fears Of some of you
should ever be realized, better thou
sand times that our church be disorgan-
lied by the company than that we
truckle to them, forego the God given
and American right to free speech,
smother our convictions, muzzle our
mouths fawn beneath the smiles of any
rich man or corporation. Better to die
for the truth than be surfeited by lie
"Suffer a word regarding Mr. Pull
man himself. I have nothing to say of
him that savors Of fulsome eulogy or
nauseating praise. I will not speak of
him as philanthropist, for I have new
er seen nor heard of any evidence of
this. [ will not speak Of his services to
his age, because know of none. I will
not refer to his services to his country,
y
After referring to Mr.. Pullman's adj
nitted ability as business man, rails
ing himself from q poor boy in Il coun-
try town to his present position as head
Of a great manufacturing industry, Mr.
CaWardine said:
''ln this ago of rapidly increasing for
tunes, when men become rich in day
by speculation, rearing q fabric of sue
cess upon the ruin Of others, I am " ILL.,
ing to accord him oil honor, but when
Mr.. Pullman as o public man stands
before the world and demands of US
that we regard him as q bcncfactor to
his race, as q true philanthropist, as one
who respects his fellow men, who re-
CARDS his employees with the love of a
father for his children, and would have
us classify him with such men as
George Peabody, Peter Cooper and
George w. Childs 7 confess, as min
lister Of the gospel, delivering my mes
sage in the shadow of these deserted
shops, I fai utterly to see the point.
The facts are not in accordance with the
assertions made.
IF he is all this, then let me ask
him question Or two:
II am not fnancier, but I believe
know right from wrong. Why does not
Mr.. Pullman stand before his directors
and demand of them, upon the basis of
morality and right, that, instead Of de-
claring quarterly dividend Of per cent
in these terribly depressed times, they be
content with 1 q per cent and place the
$1l4, 900 representing the other one
half per cent to the credit of the pay
roll?
''Again, why does not MI. Pullman,
when he demands cut of 80 1-3 per
cent and more in the wages Of his en-
ployees, which on a careful investi-
cation he would have found would re-
duce them to severe hardship and many
to the verge Of starvation-why, say,
did he not also reduce the high rents
and water taxes levied upon these same
employees?
"Again, when he reduces the wages
Of his employees, why does he not re-
duce his own salary and those of all his
higher officials, the local management
and town officials, heads Of depart
ments, foremen and straw bosses? And
when he cuts the price of labor in his
great freight car shops from $14 car,
with one inspector, to 81 car and
three inspectors, why does he not get
along with two fewer inspectors and
spread their wages over. his already re-
~duced pay roll?
"Why does Mr.. Pullman, in the midst
of a hard and vigorous winter, when
the hours of work were few and the
wages at their lowest ebb; when whole
families were in want; when the
churches, burdened with their heavy
rents, were seeking to relieve the poor,
and that noble organization, the Won
ans union-which we were not allowed
to call the ''Reief'' union for fear of
hurting Mr.: Pullman's pride-was do
ing all it could to help the destitute
why was it that our cry for help was
nnheeded, and no large amount was Civ.
en- by Mr.. Pullman or by the company?