Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-08-31
A NOVEL PROCEDURE.


A NOVEL PROCEDURE.
Governor Altgeld's appeal for relief fol
the starving ex employees of the Pullman
Company brings into prominence condi.
ton of things which, as one of the results
of Mr.. Pullman's "model town" system, Is
indeed remarkable. II Is now made very
plainly apparent that the first pre- requisite
to the maintenance of Pullman as "model
town" is the dependence of the working
people on their employers not only for
wages, but for home room, light, water and
most other things essential 10 the well being
of the citizen. The requirement of indi-
vidua property rights is practically forbid.
den. The company rules everything acting
as wage payer, landlord and tax collector,
and even the church facilities are controlled
by Mr. Pullman and his partners, the en-.
joyment thereof going to the highest bidder.
Hence it arises that at the first breach be
tween the company and it's employees the lat
ter are left helpless, especially after protract-
ed period OF low wages, without abatement
of rent or taxes, has Slapped their resources.
And so to day 1000 families are destitute in
that "model town" while the corporation
which made them its dependents looks on
in seeming satisfaction over the complete
ness of the ruin which has overtaken them
as the penalty Of refractory conduct.
The punishment sustained by these peo-
pie through their long interval of idleness
and impovershment is surely severe enough
without adding to it an edict of hopeless
ostracism and Punishment from town
which they are too poor to leave.
As far as has been gathered from the
press dispatches, the Pullman strikers took
little or no part in the acts of violence Incl
dent 10 the A. r. u strike. The property
OF the Pullman company in the town Of
Pullman was not destroyed, and the only
real crime Of the residents appeared to con-
sist in their unanimous acceptance of the
belief that the reduction of wages without
reducing rents was unjust, and that strike
was the only remedy.
OF course MIR. Pullman has q right To
blacklist as many OF the strikers as he
peases, on the plea that their misfortune is
of their own making, but it is serious ques.
ton If by such vigor, he will not only lessen
the prospect Of restoration of affairs in
Pullman to a permanently solid basis, but
also challenge fresh access of adverse
opinion throughout the country.
The necessity of establishing charity
fund" abroad for the benefit of probably
one third of the people in Mr.. Pullman's
"mode town" is cruel aud demoralizing
one, be the legal justification for Mr. Pull,
mans position what 1t may.
The House of Representatives, on Tues
day, graced the close of the session Of Con
gress by emitting to agree TO the Senate's
proposal TO print 10000 copies Of compar
alive statement OF the the tariff rates in re
cent tariff bills on the ground that the pro
posed statement, like the Senate amend
ments to the Wilson bill, was full of crook
edness There would have been included il
the statement, AS it came from the Senate,
comparison of the Wilson bill average rat,
and the Senate bill average rate that !
grossly misleading. Sugar, for example, il
the Wilson bill was on the free list-rav
and refined whereas the Gormanized state
ment represented the Wilson bill as puttinl
considerable duty on II. This was done OF
the strength Of the retention Of duty on
few hundred pounds of imported candy
The truth lies in the fact stated by Mr.. VIII
son that 10 the Wilson bill on 1851 ,000, 90
Of imported goods the average rate of d ut
was So per cent, while the bill as it wa
completed had an average rate of over 3
per cent. on SOS, 100000 of dutiable good!
The House bill left sugar, iron ore, Goa
&c, Tree, taxing $112,000000 less than di
the Senate bill. The comparative stat
ment of the two bills, recently going tn
FUNDS Of the ring" organs of this Stat
appears to be based upon the same falls
premises as the statement repudiated by IL
House.
The Democratic convention Of Charl'
county, Md, Tuesday, In electing delegat
10 the cong ressional convention of the Fin
district, took occasion TO put itself on recol
in the most EN- phatic manner on the subje
of tariff ref orm. The resolutions adopts
congratulate the President and the House
Representatives on the brave fight made Il
true tariff reform and boldly declare th
the Senate bill is not a fulfillment of Il
pledges of the Chicago platform. The 8
preme issue of the hour, they say, is the I
demption of those promises In the spirit
which they were made, and they pledge I
Democracy Of Charles county to contin
the struggle shoulder TO shoulder with
Democracy of the rest of the State until pl
lection and monopolies shall have be
beaten. The Democrats of Charles coun
are not conservative" or Sugar Trust De-
ocrats, and they are not afraid to say WI
they think They are right in line wi
President Cleveland and the House Of Re
resentaiives. Other Democratic conve
tons will probably speak with equal eI
phasis Is the roll of the counties is called.