The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
Condemned in Advance.

. Quoted by Commissioners Carroll d.
Wright and Messrs. Herman and Wor
thington. The Times does lot know much
( of Herman and Worthington, but says
/ they are politicians who may be infu-
| enced by considerations not Immediately
| connected with the inves tigation. Wright
il condemns in advance for the reason
that as one of a special committee APP
pointed by the convention of chiefs and
commissioners of state bureaus of labor
visited Pullman and made highly eulo-
CYSTIC report Of what he saw of the town
and its protector Mr.. Pullman.
In that report Mr.. Wright said: "Mr
Pullman does not believe that a great
manufacturing concern can meet with the
highest economic and moral success where
the profit is unduly large to capital. He
has risen by the force of his own charac-
ter and genius to his present position; he
does not care to leave the world and look
back upon his action and see that he has
only offered a glass of water to the sufferer
by the wayside, but he wishes to feel that
he has furnished a desert with wells of
living water that all may come and drink
through all time. So he commenced with
the foundation idea of furnishing his
workmen with model homes and supply
ing them with abundant work and good
wages"
The Times does not believe that the
man who entertained such sentiments as
the foregoing, in respect to Mr.. Pullman
and his enterprise in 1884, is likely to
show much sympathy with Pullman
strikers in 1894. 1t assumes that he holds
the views now that he did then, and that
he will find that there is no fault to be
found with anything that Mr.. Pullman
has done.
As matter of fact, is not the Times IN
JUST MIR. Wright is now United States
commissioner of labor. He is reputed to
be Just man and to be in sympathy with
labor When he wrote the report to
which the Times refers he doubtless ex-
pressed the sentiments of all the work
men in Pullman and of the people of Chi
cago. The whole country at that time
watched the Pullman experiment, and it
was commended by all classes of people
Financial and business conditions have
brought about a change at Pullman
There is no authority for saying that Mr.
Wright will eulogize Mr.. Pullman now as
he did ten years ago. He may find rea-
sons for condemning him. If he does it is
only fair to assume that he will state
them frankly. 1t is certainly unfair to
condemn Mr.. Wright in advance.
The Agent Employs Hypnotism.
The purse of the meek and patient citi-
&c Nv
peripatetic "agent"-the party who sells
books, or gold eyeglasses, or fountain pens.
or those wonderful com bination tools with
which one may remove a grain of dust
from watch's works or repair a steam
boiler with equal facility-has turned
hypnotizer and is abroad in the land. He
uses the old stage formula of the hypnot-
izers when he has put his victims under
the influence of his spell. But it is then too
late for the victim to kick; he couldn't
kick if he would, and it never occurs to
him that anything unusual is go.
ing on until the agent" has
got his fangs in" as they say in
polite society over in Charleston when one
person has succeeded in winning another's
favor.
A hrst-class specimen of the hypnotist-
"agent" has been operating in the vicin-
ity Of Vineland, N. j. He was one of the
gold spectacles" fellows, and was an
| adept in his art. His system of operat-
ing, which probably pretty well covers
the systems of others of his class, Is
worth describing, and Farmer Dan Fits
description of his experience with the
| so rrout &c rro lDo oI,, rrood nc or,
! Farmer Fits says the spectacle man
| called on him and introduced himself as
an oculist from a Philadelphia college.
| He shook the farmers hand vigorously
while introducing himself, meanwhile
! occasionally squeezing it. The shaking
and squeezing was just bit annoying to
! the farmer at first, but then
| he thought if the city doctor
wanted to be so friendly there was no
| particular objection to it. While the
handshaking was going on the visitor OBJ
served: Friend, isn't there cataract
in your eye?" The farmer knew there
wasn't, but, without knowing why he
did so, he answered, "Well, mebbe there
| is" And you cannot see very well, now,
can your" The farmer could come as
near seeing through milestone as any
body, but he answered, No, can't"
And you need pair of nice gold trimmed
crystal glasses, don't you2" "Mebbe
| do" Aren't you sure you do; are you
not really blind at this moment" Yes. 3"
replied the farmer, well, try these"
went on the agent, placing a pair of
glasses on the farmers nose. ''Now you
see as clear as day, don't you7" Yes"
And you think $50 would be small price
for such pair of glasses, that make
blind man see as clear as day, eh2"
Eyes"
The upshot of it was that Fits gave the
fellow $50, and when the fakir had gone
found himself in possession Of a pair of
brass rims containing two ovals Of win
dow glass, while his eyes were as good a
pair as ever blinked at the sun. Half
dozen people besides Farmer Fits have
reported to the county authorities about
having been hypnotized and victimized by
a man answering the description of this
spectacle fakir.
That little word parity" in the silver
resolution of the Georgia democratic con