Life — July 26, 1894 — page 11: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

-LIFE: 59 knows that you are autocratic, and money is pow- erful to protect you by way of purchasing legisla- tion, legal decisions, and a good many newspapers, but there is one thing that you cannot purchase.” “What's that?” “The might of public opinion. The result of this strike is not to show that you must put more elaborate wood carving, smaller pillows and less fresh air into your sleeping cars for the present price per berth, but that capital saved its neck this time because public opinion is against violence and because it didn’t know the truth. When capital is again attacked by Misery the public may not. be so easily fooled, and it may stop to ask whether Misery is not justified in violence when millionaire riches shut off peaceful redress through our courts - and legislatures. LIFE is no raven, Mr. Pullman, to prophesy evil, but it can read hand-writing on the wall. Can you?” “T haven't time. I have to sign the checks for the F next quarterly dividend of the Pullman Company.” THe Caprure. Metcalfe. which made every good citizen prompt in approval of the government's action at the critical moment, the movement might have gained such headway as to have brought on civil war?” “IT have my doubts about that.” “Ttis true just the same, But do you know that in calmer moments the public is becoming aware that your people, the people of Pullman, had griev- ances, grievances which your statements, skillfully worded, and which the stupid Debs and his, if possible, more stupid associates, failed to bring to the notice of the public?” “Tam not aware that they had any grievance except that they wanted to dictate their own rate of pay, and that to a corporation which was operating ata loss to keep its men in work.” “ But how about that corporation as a greedy and grasping landlord, which in the face of its own plea for charity on the score of hard times, would not lower its rents one penny ?” “That is an entirely different branch of our business.” “But when you were employer, landlord, water company LABORERS IN MODERN VINEYARDS. and gas company all combined, we do not see how you St PETER: Tue PrRoor, Minister, were you? I don’t see many souls to your credit. NEW ARRIVAL: Didn't have time to save souls, St. Peter. I was too busy raising mortgages. could then, in the eyes of your workmen, nor how you can now in the eyes of the public, separate your obligations. What you seem to have done was to cut the pay of your dependent workingmen to the point where it would just pay for their rent, gas and water, at good times prices, and then left them to solve the problem of where they were to AT THE REVIVAL. find food for their starving wives and children.” HE DEACON (Co the cowboy, who has just dropped in “I don’t see what this had to do with the strike.” to see what a revival was like): Young man, have “Of course not. That's where you and a lot of other you made your peace with your Creator ? clever millionaires are not so clever as you imagine. LIFE Tue Cowsoy: I ain't never had no trouble with him, comicbooks.com