The herald., 1897-10-23
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2s. 1897
GEORGE M. PULLMAN AGAIN

The Times yesterday morning devoted
Herald on the career of George M. Pull
man. Our contemporary starts in with
the assertion that this paper went 'out
of its way" in writing the article in ques-
tion. Not a step out of our way. That
matter lay right in our daily path.
The Times own statements are al
most all unwilling Acknowledgements
that our contention is correct, or con-
tention on the other side on points not
raised by The Herald. The strike, for
example, was not under consideration
at all in our original article.
The fact is not controverted that the
town of Pullman was planned so that
those resident in 1t had no voice in the
management of it. 1t is subterfuge to
say that no man was deprived of his per-
sonal liberty for the reason that no one
Of them was compelled TO work for the
Pullman company. But let that happen
which we take issue against, and let ali
Industrial towns become Pullmans, and
then the toiler has this amount of per-
sorsal liberty-he may work under an
autocratic baron, who compels him to
live as the baron thinks best, or he may
starve. Every slave on the face of the
earth always had that much individual
freedom. 1t matters not how good Mr.
Pullman's model city was, nor how COM
paratively reasonable the rents were, it
is more in accord with American princi''
pies and better for the people at large,
as we'll as safer for the future of the re-
public, that we all should, have voice
in the way we are governed, the way We
live and the way we spend our money.
Some of US may recall the couplet placed
before us to copy when we learned 10
write:
The lark that sings so high,
Mid all the winter cold,
Would rather be at liberty
Than in a cage of gold.
AS to forcing the employees to inhabit
Pullman cottages, it is as clearly in evil
dence as any fact that those who did
live in Pullman were the last discharged
and those who did not were the frs.
That was "business," but so general a
corcentra ton of business, we conten1
is not the best for our people, nor for our
country.
The more the model town" of Pull
man is investigated, the less of modae,
town it appears to be. Pullman is sec
tiors of the city of Chicago, but the COM
pany assumes it is private property
The company pays total tax accord
ing to a recent editorial article in the
Chicago Chronicle, of $50, ,490 for the
support of the state, county, city drain
age district, park district ard the towr
Of Hyde Park.
On the other hand, the streets of Pull
man are patrolled by policemen at ar
expense 10 the city of Chicago of $1,000
a wear. For the schools of Pullman th'
city of Chicago pays 0,S00. 1t shoult
be boryxe in mir6 that the Pullman com
pany ella inns that the town of Pullman il
private property. 1t insists that tn
city of Chicago shall have no schoo
buildings of its OWN. but shall ins.ea'
rent the company's own at a rental o
10 per cent upon the value not assesse'
for taxation
Thus the city of Chicago expenGs an
! nually in the city of Pullman $50,S0(
which is nearly twice as much as til
model city, or rather the model company
pays for the support. not of the cit,
of Pullman alone. but for state. county
Drainage and park purposes.
The Pullman company, although