The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-25

Chicago, Oct A-The Pullman COM
pany has applied for a change of venue
from Judge Gibbons in the quo war
ranto case brought by Attorney-Gen-
eral Maloney.
The ground alleged for the change
was prejudice on the part of the court.
Defendants stated that Judge Gibbons
had written a book on the ownership
of land by corporations, and his views
as set forth therein would make an i'm
partial hearing impossible. The appli-
cation for the change was resisted by
Acknowledgement Maloney. Long ar
gumentS followed.
In the course of his argument Mr..
Maloney said the man who signed the
affidavit committed both a moral and
legal perjury. Judge Gibbons affirmed
it was evident, ON reading the affidavit,
the father of it had not read his work,
as not a word from cover to cover OPP
posed legitimate corpora tons. This
decision was practically a substantial
ton of Maloney'S accusation, for affiant
needed to have read the book before he
could affix his name tC the information.
The affidavit was signed by $. Werr-
heimer, secretary Of the defendant
company.
decision RESERVED.
The court announced he would re-
serve his decision and arguments would
be continued tomorrow.
The book written by Judge Gibbons,
which was the cause of all the argu-
ment, was published in 1888, before ne
was on the bench, and is entitled Zen
ure and Toll" A number of references
are made in it in regard to Pullman,
and the following quotation is but one
in which the Putnam company bases
its application:
1.-THE idea of a h3me-that idea the
incarnation of wnicn in mans life is
happiness-fndS no association with
the name of Pullman. The i-eople dwell
in houses not their own ana their ten
ure is subject to termination at ten
days notice, a condition embodied in
the lease. the corporation reservi1.g the
right to cancel that lease even though
the rent may have pesn paid in aG-
vance for a longer period than The time
of notice stipulated. Is not this in con-
traventiop with law fixing and main
tanning the relative right of landio; d
and tenant? The rent may be paid in
the forenoon of the first day of the
month; in the afternoon 4 decree may
be promulgated that notice he issued
TO tenants to vacate in ten days. In
this connection we must not forget that
about 30 per cent. of the laborers were
troll of its petty kingdom and all the
others are employed in establishments
which are under its influence.
Extinction of Indivuality.
Such an absolute extinction OF in
and such an utter Absorb
ton of that individuality by a capital |
site organization is not approached or
paralleled in the history of any other
modern civilized community In many
respects the power of the Russian car
oales into utter insignificance in COM
oarison with the power of the close cor
ooration which rules at Pullman. Can
It be said that power is always right |
fully exercised? Man is not perfect, |
though his Golfers De filled with sheck-
els and he be knighted by the King of |
Italy. That power is there; the only
escape from it is by emigration. Within |
The limits of this ideal Social and in |
1ustriaD real escape from all the per-
vading influences of the corporation is |
Many grievances exist, |
many acts of injustice occur. but no |
me dare utter cry for help or redress
The laborers at Pullman believe that |
spotters-paid eavesdroppers of the
with them to catch |
md report ITO their masters any sign or
word, expression of disapproval or crit
cism of the actions of the authorities !
Without Nespaper.
Pullman is the only community of |
5000 people in the United States that |
las not a newspaper published within |
is limits. The freedom of the press
lere would be limited to the promul-
cation and approval of the DEGREES and |
logmas of the powers that be.
What a spectacle! Ten thousand
people in utter subsection to the avari-
,ious cupidfty and limitless power of a
lozen men, organized and cooperating
Is one man who own a pseudo city ex-
.mpt from municipal burdens and re-
possibilities. Not a single man of all
hose 10000 dare express an opinion
bout the affairs of the community in
which he dwells. These conditions of
Existence beget servility little less
han slavery, a dependence that is NOR
i weakness and mental degradation.
here is a culpable lack of attention in
he meagre provisions for religious in
truction; the seating capacity of halls
5 insufficient for the accommodation
f the people, and the rental demanded
3 so high that it is with difficulty that
ny religious denomination can paw it.
'he company, with an eye single to it's
Wn selfish purposes, provided shelter
nd meat for the body, but maketh no
revision for the soul. The soul cannot
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