Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-07-29
PULLMAN'S LYING EXCUSE,

in their ardent advocacy for law
and order not few journals have
had two words to say in defense of
Pullman to one for an impartial vim
dicaton of the law. They should
read what the Chicago papers have to
say about King Humbert's American
Marquis and his model town. While
they all strenuously insisted on the
maintenance of law and order they
denounced Pullman as an industrial
Car, rs greedy as he is dsspotic, and
his model town as disgrace to civil
cation. The Chicago Post says that
the time is rapidly approaching when
1t will be necessary to efface the blot
on American manhood that exists in
the town Of Pullman:
On that occasion it will be the duty
OF the Governor and Legislature of
Illinois. the Mayor and City Council
OF Chicago and the Acknowledgement
of the State to strike the blow that
has been staid too long. The So
called town of Pullman, as it stands
today, is crime against this COM
monwealth and an insult to human
ity,
This is strong language and it is
echoed by the Herald. The Legisls-
ture will be called upon to curb the
despotic powers of George Nj, Pull
man, As to Pullmans treatment of
his employees here is Il statement
from the Chicago Advance, a religi-
Gus paper disposed to be very
friendly with the millionaire, that
must be accepted as very conserva-
tive:
What the Pullman Company did
do was to cut down wages again and
again, still seeking contracts, even at
losing terms, that still it might hold
it's industrial forces together and fur
nish them possible means of liveli-
hood, till these stressful times should
be overpast. What it did not do was
to lower somewhat the rental on the
homes CT its sharply pinched en-
ployes, or, so far as has appeared,
omit its usual big dividends, or lessen
the immense salaries of it's chief
officials, or in any other way mani
fest sympathetic interest in the
straitsned condition of its working
people and their families. The COM
pany did offer to show their book in
evidence that just now it was making
cars not only without profit but at a
loss. When asked to refer the mat
ter to arbitration, the answer wa. q
sharp refusal.
Pullman has stated that he took
contracts at a very lev figure IN or
der to give the people of Pullman
employment, and that wages had to
be reduced to save the company from
loss. This is q deliberate falsehood
masquerading under the guise of
half truth. The contracts were
taken so that the laborers employed
would rent Pullman's houses trade at
Pullman's stores and burn Pullman's
gas and drink Pullman's water on all
of which profit was realized. Pull
man did not care because he made no
money on the contracts-he was
making his profit off his employees.
Having built town with water and
gas works as private investment,
his shops must be kept going to keep
the houses filled, He took contracts
lower than anybody else merely to
get rents and profits. Directly he
made no money on his contracts but
indirectly he did. All the time he
was taking contracts at such low fig
ures land striking at wages all over
the country and reducing the wages
of his employees the stock of the Pull
man Company was paying it's regular
dividends. Pullman is liar as well
as brute.