St. Paul daily globe., 1894-07-16
PULLMANAkY PArERNALIsM.

Like causes produce like effects. The
orbit of the earth is not computed by
actual measurements, but by ascertain
ing segnents of the circle and project
Ing the lines. Grain cargoes are not
bought by inspection of the whole. but
by sample The inventor does not con-
struct his finished machine. but makes
miniature model, knowing that the
large machine will work as the
smaller one does. The naturalist takes
single bone of an extinct race and
constructs from it the complete frame
of the animal. The farmer knows tina t
when he sows wheat it will not produce.
barley. The student of economics
knows that what is true OF one man is
true of 6o,0J0,000 men. Sheep do not
produce hair, nor goats wool.
Pullinanism is the microeosm OF pa.
ternaliSm. 1t is the experiment made
il the laboratory of politics which dem.
onstrates what paternaiism of the,nai
tioR would be. 1t is the experimental
farm where the seed is grown aud its
fruit tested. What we find there we
would find were it made national. 1t is
the great object lesson of the century.
There we can see the dreams Of the So
cialist, the paternaIist, the altruist, and
there we see the awakening, Expand
it till it eucircies the nation and what we
have had and now have at Pullman we
would have in the nation. Begun in
philanthropy it ends in greed: begun in
a Wish to eXalt it ends in repression
begun in kindness it ends In harShnesS
begun in love it ends in hate. It's peace
turns to strife; its content to discomfort;
its gentleness ends in tyranny. And
all because men arc men; because senti-
ment cannot direct the natural laws Of
our being; because mankind has not yet
reached that point in its slow upward
progress where the selt-interest Is sub
ordinated to the all-interest. In its in
ception it stood for the beautiful aspir-
ations Of our race; in its END it rep
resents the common weakness of hui
manity.
1t was the application of ideal pater-
nalism to the industries of men in its
birth. Pullman was the wise and puis.
SAINT government. He undertook the care
of his work people. He built the shops
for them to work in and their houses to
live in and their stores to buy in and
their churches to worship in and their
schools to educate their children in. He
owned and administered it all. He
selected'tIe teachers and doctors and
the tradesmen; no one lived there but
by his grace; his police protected his
people. He furnished them houses and
fixed the rents: he supplied them with
water and apportloned the rates. Who
does not recall the peans sung to Pull
man? Who has not read the articles
in the magazines descriptive of the
''model town." Sentiment clasped its
hands in placid content and said: Here,
at last. we have our ideal in miniature
of what society will some time come to
be as whole.
Pullman was the ''iIttle father" Of the
community. He made the laws and by
laws. directed all efforts. cared for all;
they were his children. He told then,
what they should and what they should
not do; he guarded them from the lures
of the great city safely beyond whose
border the model town lay. How idyllic
soft winds blew. But in the divine
economy the sun does not shine continu-
ously nor do the breezes always blow
softly. Cyclones come TO scatter de-
vastation and the lightning bolt smites
church and barn and men regardIessly
In the same divine and inscrutable
economy disaster disturbs the serenity
of the affairs of men. Death, accident,
fires. failures, panics, wars, pestilence
and famine come to bring out the i'm
pulse Of self-preservation in men and
develop it into action. And under their
stress sentiment vanisheS. the lea!
floats away in the ewigkeit, and prmevaI
man faces his neighbors intent OIL his
own selfish desires or needs or preser-
vatiou.
What Pullmanism Is under stress.
what national Pullmanism will lneyita-
bly, be under like strain should it be-
come national. Pullman is today the
demonstration. Capital. pressed by a
necessity which knows no law-the in.
vestor's greed for returns-cutling
wages. Labor. under sterner neces
sity. the demand of Stomach, resis. ing
+, revolt. The peace is become war.
The plIilanthroplst is the tyrant; the
laborer is the anarchist. Capital writes
one order reducing wages and another
denying reduction of rents and
charges. Labor protests against this
iuiustice to deaf ears Labor saws this
is unjust; let us leave it to just men tu
arbitrate; and Capital says sternly. we
have nothing to arbitrate. The stern