People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Page 5

Ihacksinith and Wood Repair Shop. M. L. HEMPHILL wants your trade. He is prepareo to do all kinds of Blacksmithing and Wood Repairing in a workmanlike manner and at reasonable prices. He keeps two expert horse shoers employed constantly and makes a specialty of this branch of the business ALL WORK GUARANTEED. M~T~ T . 1 *ll Brick shop on Front st., . P. li em piiill, Kohler Brick and Tile Yard!--* JOHN KOHLER, Prop’r. New machinery of the most improved pattern has been added and we are prepared to take contracts for brick and tile in any quantity We make tile in all sizes from 3 to 12 inch, and will compete in prices with any kiln in the country Call for prices. Yard located one mile west of Rensselaer. Free delivery any place in town. JOHN KOHLER.

Will Yon Par Cull Or Buy on Credtit My old friends of Jasper county can have' heir choice. They can also have a liberal •diwount.pUiQur city prices. My good forii i»«e in being connected with the B. Shoninger Co.’s'principal western house has en-. abled me to get terms that will make it your good fortune, too. Pay us cash if you can, but if you can’t, why, do the next best thing and lie enjoying one of the most appreciated of home luxuries while paying for it. Pay us a small amount down and the balance in easy monthly payments and you will soon be the owner of one of THE CELEBRATED SHOMIN6ER PIANOS. If you have an old piano or organ you ean apply it as part payment on the new. The Slionin'ger piano ranks with the very best made—there are none better atanypric?. 11 lias become famous for its sweetne» , brilliancy and evenness of tone, faultless action, easy touch, extreme durability, oer section in design, mechanism and finish. EVERY PIANO FULLY WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS. It will pay you to come to the city and tsxiimine our large stock of new and second liAnd instruments before buying. Write fd catalogue. JNO. T. Greene, With B. Shoninger Co,' IS2 & 184 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. ~ mokdecai f. chilcote, Rensselaer, Ind Attends to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office in second storv of the Makeever building. A. McCoy, Pres. T. J. McCoy, Vice Pres. E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. A. R. Hopkins. AssistantCashler. AJcCOI & Co.Sßank. Does a general banking business, Money loaned for short time at current rates. We make a specialty of on long time with privilege of partial payments.

F. J. Srahs, Pres. Val Sbib, Cashier F. L. Chilcote. Asst. Cashier. The Gitas State Bank. Capital Paid in *30,000. Undivided Profits 88,600. Organized as a State Bank Jan. 1, 1888. Does general banking business. Interest allowed on special deposits. This bank is examined quarterly by the Auditor of State. There has never been a failure of a bank organized under this law. Money loaned on short time. Exchange bought and sold on all banking points. Collections made and promtly remitted. J. C. THRAWLS, Surveyor and Engineer. Office with the County Superintendent, in Williams & Stockton’s block, Rensselaer, - - Indiana. March 23.1894. H. L. BROWN, D. D.S. Gold Fillingn, Crown and Bridge Work. TedhWithwtPlateiaSpee laity. Gas or vitillzed air administered for the painless extraction of teeth. Give me a trial. Office over Porter A Wishard's. S. Remley a Son. Cordially invite anyone wishing livery hire or feeding done to call at the former Clark & Davis barn, when at Wheatfield, Ind.

JAMES W. DOUTHIT, LAWYER, Rensselaer - Indiana New Meat Market A. C. BUSHEY, Proprietor. Shop located opposite the public square. Everything fresh and clean. Fresh and salt meats, game, poultry,etc. Please give us a call ana we wfll guarantee to give you satistWGtlon. Remember the place.

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The Story of Pullman.

“In brief, the Pullman enterprise is a vast object lesson. It has demonstrated man’s capacity to improve and appreciate improvements. It has shown that success may result from corporate action which is alike free from default, foreclosure or wreckage of any sort. It has illustrated the helpful combination of capital and labor, without strife or stultification, upon lines of mutual recognition.”— The story of Pullman, 1893. The story of Pullman, as told in 1894, is a far different one. There is strife and stultification, mutual suspicion and dislike; default, foreclosure and wreckage. There are strikes and lockouts, and the inevitable violence and riot, arson and murder, resulting therefrom. There is a screw loose somewhere in Pullman, and I made an effort to find it.

From the magnificent Pullman building on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, guarded by a dozen deputy marshals in the building; and looking out upon several companies of United States infantry, artillery and cavalry upon the Lake Front opposite, it is about three-quarters of an hour to the suburb of Pullman, by the Illinois Central railroad. At Pullman there was no evidence of the late unpleasantness, except the quietness of the place, the absence of smoke from the tall chimneys, and the numerous soldiers, which gave it quite a resemblance of a Federal arsenal or navy yard. The flower beds were trim and blooming, and a gardener was busy with the geraniums. There was nothing wrong there. Was it wages? I have been looking into statistics, census reports and the like, and I found nothing wrong there. Figures cannot lie. The rate of wages at Pullman, $573.50 per annum per individual, is, lam assured, the highest paid in any similar works in the United States, and consequently in the world; and the average daily wages, $1.85, at Pullman for the first four months of 1894 were higher than the average paid in either the railroad car shops dr the private contract shops in this country. Where, then, was the trouble? It must be with the men them, selves.

A recent table of the nativity of the wage-earners at Pullman showed the following: American 1,798 Scandinavian 1’422 German.. 824 British and Canadian 796 Dutch 753 Irish 482 Latin 170 All others 161 6,334 Mr. Pullman’s story has already been given. I determined to seek out the men and learn their story from their own lips. At first, this was not easy, for there were few men about. I found, however, an intelligent German, who became my guide and introduced me, like Asmodeus, into the private apartments of every class of tenement. And here, I must say frankly, I saw much to surprise me. We left the flower beds and the green lawns behind, and went into wide, sandy streets, bordered by rows of gray brick, two-story houses. I had read: •‘The rents of houses here range range from $5 to SSO per month, the average being sl4, but there are hundreds of tenements ranging from $6 to $9 per month. These rents are considered less than for similar tenements anywhere else in Chicago.’*

The above was written several years ago, when rents were higher than they are now. Briefly, this is what I found, as verified by the rent receipts, the odd cents standing for the water rate: Flat, seVen rooms and bath, $28.56; the same in other Chicago suburbs, $lB to S2O. | Flat, five rooms, $15.60; flat, four rooms, $14.71; apartments lin “block,” a three-story tene-

ment building in the middle of the square, containing from seventeen to fifty-four families—three rooms, $9.10; two rooms, $7.60. In these tenements, as everywhere, the utmost cleanliness was observed and there was the abundance of air and light often spoken of, but abundance of water there was not, there being but one faucet for each group of three families, and this in the apartment devoted to the closets of the said families. “Yards,” front or back, there were none, except a great barren space in common. The alleys were perfectly clean, which, I think, cannot be said of any other part of Chicago.

Another class of dwellings are the “single cottages” of the brick-yards. Except that they were not of logs, and that the boiling July sun poured down on the sandy street, they reminded me of the pictures of a Siberian town. Little huts with two small windows, but no front doors. They were 16x20 feet, ceiling 7 feet, with a sitting room and two bed rooms, and a kitchen in a lean-to. There were eleven of these houses on each side of the street, and three hydrants to the twenty-two houses. Small yards gave a place for chickens, and one Italian had a melancholy little cabbage patch. These cabins could have beeen built for SIOO each, and rented for $8 per month, or $96 per annum. A better class of cottage, built two together, with four rooms in a space of 18x20 feet, and with water in the yard, rented for 110 per month. Inquiry in the neighboring town of Kensington, half a mile distant, showed that better flats or cottages, with pretty gardens, could be hired at 20 per cent. less. The men, when asked why they did not move over to Kensington, replied invariably that if they would keep a job in Pullman they must live in Pullman. As to wages, pay checks showed laborers, rated at $1.35 per day, often getting but 91 bents for seven hours’ work, and finishers or trimmers making but $13.70, or even $6.57, for two weeks’ work, out of wiiich, by terms of the leases, the rent had to be deducted. In many cases there were amounts of less than $5, and in some instances but a few cents left after paying the rent. The people, although clean, had a wan and hungry look that was painful to witness. There was a screw loose here, surely.

The town of Pullman is estimated to be worth $10,000,000. Everything pays rent. Even the “Greenstone” church pays $1,200, andtheMethodistchurch, in the Casino building, pays nearly SSOO. The 1,800 dwellings pay $325,000 or more. The market, the arcade, and the stores bring in a good rental besides. And the Pullman Palace Car Co. pays taxes to the city of Chicago, $15,000; or less than unimproved acre property adjpining. “Why did the men strike?” I asked this question of a Methodist minister, the Rev. W. H. Carwardine, an evidently sincere and earnest man who has gained some notoriety from the sympathy that he has shown to the strikers. After thinking a moment he said: “The weak spot in the system is its lack of humanity. The town of Pullman, with its 30,000 or 40,000 people, is but a part of a great financial scheme. Mr. Pullman expressly disclaims the idea of philanthropy. He is so much opposed to the term charity that he discouraged the idea us a relief fund. But he should have charity for these, his fellow creatures. He is his brother’s keeper. There never would have been a strike if there had been a fair reduction of rents along with the cut in wages. There never would have been a

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strike if there had been an equalization pf wages and a correction of the abuses of shop administration. These abuses, to my knowledge, were many and grevibus. It is said that the men precipitated the strike. Mistaken they were without doubt, but their provocation was great. Their request for the restoration of the wages of 1893 they were prepared to forego if they could get justice, simple justice, in other directions. Three of their committee on grievances had been ‘laid off,’ and while the officials promised an investigation, their bearing was such that it gave the men no hope. There were whispeis of a lock out, and the men who in that event would have received no help from the Railway Union, struck almost to a man. It was a rash move, I think, but workmen, like other people, are human. I counsel peace, bui what the end will be I know not.”

At the headquarters of the relief committee I leanx d that 2,500 men were on the rolls of the destitute, and that although the supplies are nearly exhausted, they are now flowing in quite generously. In money. t 12,000 has already been distributed, and a large amount of provis.ions.

What will be the end? Thesei men have been, perhaps, misguided, but they have committed no violence. They have never joined the ranks of the car burners or the train wreckers. Mr. Pullman is human, and he, too, may have made mistakes. There maybe nothing to arbitrate as between employer and employe, but yet can they not come together as Christians an 1 loyal citizens and agree to live to gether in harmony? Or is Pullman a failure?—John T. Bram'iall in Leslie’s Weekly.

Ready to Welcome the Avalanche.

New York Evening Post. The dreadful avalanche of foreign free wool is already upon us, and yet the price of domestic wool is advancing and the woolen mills are preparing for a great rush of business. What has McKinley to say to this? Does he mean, as he says, promptly to restore protection to wool and woolen manufactures and stop all this hideous prosperity? If something is not speedily done we shall actually be exporting ship loads of carpets, and how could Messrs. Lawrence and Delano survive that? Ah. but the Bradford manufacturers will soon be swamping us with their goods. But the wool and cotton reporter declares that there is nothing in this, and that American manufacturers have not been asleep all this time, but have been preparing to make goods as cheap and desirable as can be had anywhere. All they have lacked before is the wool to do it with, and now that they have got that they are ready to outsmile any Yorkshireman of them all. i

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People’s Party state Platform.

In general terms we endorse the prinolples and declarations of the Omaha platform, and herewith submit the platform prepared by your committee on resolutions. THE FINANCIAL ISSUE. We demand a national currency of 150 per capita, including the free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, Issued by the general government only, a full legal tender for all debts both public and private distributed-to the people direct without the Intervention of banking corporations in payment of all obligations of the government, and demand the issue of non-interest bearing treasury note 6 of small denominations. We declare our unalterable opposition, as a party, to banks of issue, state or national> We also denounce the past and continued use of the government fiat by congress to create Interest-bearing bonds. We charge that the crime of demonetizing silver in ’73, by the liepublican party, further consummated by the joint action of both the old parties at the extra session of congress in 93, has fully accomplished the purpose of the monied aristocracy of the United States and England, In placing American producers of our great staple crops on a level with the poorest paid pauper labor of the world under English control, by changing through this crime against American producers and laborers, the pricing instrument for all products and wages to the single standard of gold only. We demand a national graduate income tax on salaries or Incomes in excess of reasonable expenditures for the comforts and necessities of life. We pledge the People’s party, when given control of the government, that the gunholders, who put up life to save the Union from secession, shall be equalized with the bondholders, who speculated in human life and the blood of our people, and tltelr. pensions shall be treated as a vested right. We favor the election of United States senators and all postmasters by direct vote of the people.

STATE ISSUES. We believe the people are yet capable of self-government and home rule, and demand of the next legislature the repeal of the metropolitan police law applied to cities. We also denounce the present unfair and unjust law that, forbids minorities representation on election boards or witnesses to count of ballots, as a violation of the natural rights of the people; the entering wedge to die destruction of free government; the very essence of party tyranny and taxation without representation, laws that no honest man can defend. We demand a constitutional convention to revise our state constitution and Include -heroin reform in the methods of taxation and the initiative and referendum system of legislation, with the veto power of all the important laws in the hands of the people. We demand sucli equitable adjustment of the statute for the listing of property for taxation that Will permit the deduction of all ixm* dido Indebtedness from sum total listed. We demand a reasonable homestead law that no process of any court can touch. We demand a law taxing all Inheritances coming to citizens of Indiana, both direct and collateral, at 5 per cent, above BS.Ouo, for .he benelitof the state sinking fund. We demand that most liberal educational facilities for the masses within the power < f the state to provide, and a more efficient u< - ministration of the public school fund. We demand that convict labor shall lie taken us fur as possible away from compe - lion witli honest, fr.se labor in conduct ot u.e state prisons, recommending that counties work their convicts building and improving public roads. We demand a law at the hands of the next legislature Hint will mulct- 1L oplion,i with debtors in I hl's si ate, to pay any legal obligation in gold, silver or oilier lawful money of the United States. We demand that our state nut uraiiz.all. n laws conform to our national lawn upon up lubject. We view with alarm the Il inliuence of. the liquor I rn,fie. We hi an.;,y endorse Uro initiative mid lefeiendtim system of lepi.-.1.t----tion. believing by HH, menus the people cun suppress liii.,,.nd oilier evils moreell'i dually than by any other mode. Wedemaii , .... cavo-rzeenforcement of the lans prohibiting tlie employment of child labor. We demand that a system of arbitration 1 e established, whereby serious difficulties between employer and employes may be speedily and Impartially adjusted, before cither party resort to measures detrimental to one and to both. We favor a reduction of the working hours by law in mines and factories in conformity with the progress of industry. We demand that cities be specially empowered to assume ownership and control of public water, transportation and lighting plants, in such manner as lo operate wholly In the Interest of the people, without imposing burdensome taxation. We are against the giving out of public works under contract to the lowes, .adder, state and tlie communities should carry out such work themselves under the supervision of experienced officers. Wefavoran efficient employer’s liability law and tlie inspection of mines and factories for tile protection of life and limb of tlie workingmen; The right to vote is inherent in citizenship Irrespective of sex.

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