The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-01
Copyright, 1891, by Edgar w. Nyc.l

cent dividends but the patron will hail
4 with JOY the new sleeping car COMPANY
or any rival he may have which will
j put the price of rcposc where it will
harmonize with that of other comforts.
AS a matter of fact, we are paying
4 war prices for slumber, and Mt the same
timo paying the salaries of Mr.. Pull
mans porters. No one can deny that
for one moment. Mr.. Pullman told us in
!, June that he had been building refrig-
orator cars and freight cars at loss of
i $12 to S24 per CAR and so could not af-
ford to pay fair wages, but he forgot
to state that he had made $50, 900, 900
i'll 80 years out of his snoring works,
while his whisk brooms have paid for
his rolling stock and chambermaids'
salaries.
We naturally notice first of all how
we are individually affected by any
great move, and naturally as one of the
great multitude hail with Joy the
prospect of better rates to the consum-
ers of sleep.
Sir George has rights which capital
always will have while the world
stands, but those who have paid double
prices for insomnia will not club to-
gether to buy Sir George gold headed
cane as q mark of esteem or to recoup
him for his agonized hours by tho sea-
shore this summer.
1t may be small matter-but we
are discussinga small matter when we
refer to Mr.. Pullman-but still there
is no more reason why we should fec
porter on IL Pullman car than that we
should fee the engineer or the bridge
gang. We generally ask no special serv-
ice of the porter. / don't even care
whether my head is toward the engine
or vice versa, and l wear patent leather
shoes, which | wipe off generally with
the linen buster of some wealthy passen-
ger. 1 go to bed when the porter tells
me 20 do SO and allow him to rest the
upper berth OH my high hat while he
feels around up there for gold watch.
! also allow people to die i'll the berth
above my own, and in every way try to
make the company as little trouble as
possible, and yet my shillings have
gone for 80 years to help pay the salary
of man who is just rs much Mr. P.'s
servant as his gardener or his butler.
The truth is that you and |, Phlhar-
monte are paying Sir George Pullman's
cOachman every time we ride in his car
If Mr.. Pullman sees fit to hire 10, 600
coachmen while you and I only hire
one, is that any moro reason why
George should pass the hat to pay off
those servants? Is it any reason be-
cause Pullman uses larger coach than
you or / that We should feed and clothe
that coachman? | trow not.
Regarding the people who help him
build his caravans at Pullman, Ills,
his conscience no doubt informs him ev-
cry night when he retires that while he
is putting linimcnt OH his govt q great
many Woodworking people are very hun
gry at Pullman, Ills. 1 do not say that
an American may not make million
dollars during q lifetime and do it hon
estly i'll the course OF trade, and be-
lieve that it has been done, but when it
;s made by reducing wages in order to
hold mp the size of dividends, even
through such hard times as these, the
capitalist must not ask for sympathy
from the public. He will have to buy
it when he needs any.
Mr. Pullman has succeeded during
the last 80 years, no doubt, by judi
cious use of the whisk broom, i'll knock
ing more dust ont of the public thar
most any other business man, but he
hasn't thrown so much of it into the
eyes of the American people as he may
imagine. do not want to see him come
to any harm, and I don't want to SEQ
him lose even q hand towel or the heel
tap of cake of soap, but while other
business men arc oheerfully accepting
their share of loss during these dark,
depressing times think that he is as