The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-29

upon you, and will come back with re.
doubled force. The eyes of the world are
upon you. and you cannot escape. Re-
member that when the American Congress
says that we will not enforce 3 law which
was passed in the interest and At the behest
of the working men of this country, but
will allow the heads of Departments to vi
olsts that law, and then turn around and
say that the working man must obey the
laws of the country, you are setting an e1-
ample that may be dangerous. You are
sowing dangerous teeth; you are sowing
the wind that will reap the whirlwind. 1
hope the Honse will reconsider their &C.
ton.
Joseph Cook, in lecture in Boston says
that if the workingmen ef this country de-
mand legal tender currency we will dis.
franchise them if it has to be done at the
end Of 9 bloody civil war.
i want to read a short extract from
Scribners Monthly Of April last. This is
from a man who claims to be Christian,
who has the control of one of the great
periodicals of the country:
1--WE cannot do what the French govern
ment once did under similar circumstances
Danish $4,000 of them 10 colonial or penal
servitude; and it is q great pity we cannot.
If we could gather the whole disgusting
multitude, wash them, put new clothes
upon them, and under military surveillance
and direction set them quarrying stone or
raising corn or cotton for ten years, we
might save some of them to decency and
responsibility, and relieve the honest peo-
pie of the country of their support. If we
cannot do this, however, there are things
that we can do. Every State in the Union
can gather these men wherever found Unto
the work houses, where they can be re-
strsined from soaring and preying upon
the community, and made to earn the
bread they eat and the clothes they
wear. 1t is necessary, of course, to throw
away all sentimentallity in connection
with them. The tramp is q man who can
be approached by no motive but pain-the
pain Of thrashing or the pain of hunger
He hates work, he has no self respect and
no shame, and by counting himself perma-
nently out of the productive and self sup
porting forces of society he counts himself
cut of his rights. He has no rights but
those which society may see fit of its grace
to bestow. He has no more rights than the
SOW that wallows in the gutter, or the lost
dogs that hover Ground the city squares
He is no more to be consulted in his wishes
or in his will in the settlement of the
question of what is to be done with him
than the bullock in the corral. Legislation
concerning this evil seems to have been in
itiated In the various States; but at this
writing we can not learn that anything ef-
feotive has been done. Itwould be we'll if
the States could work in concert in this
matter, but one great state like New York
OF Pennsylvanis, OF Ohio has only to inau-
gurate a stringent measure to drive all the
other states into measures that shall be its
equivalent. The tramp whose freedom is
imperiled in New York would fly to New
Jersey or to New England, and New Jersey
and New England would be obliged to
protect themselves. So one powerful State
can compel unanmity Of action throughout
the country. The Legislature of New
York had bill up q year ago which came
to nothing, but something must be done
somewhere very soon, If we propose to
have anything like safety and comfort in
our homes, or to relieve ourselves OF vol
untary, vicious, and even malicious pau
perism.
And that is not all. The other day my
colleague from Iowa Mr.. Gillette] made a
scholarly, able, well-tempered speech; q
speech that was complimented every where.
Now. in The Evening Telegraph, hard
money paper, published in that "loyal
city of Philadelphia, find the following
in a column notice of Mr.. Gillettee's
speech.
"Ifit were not for the cost of powder
and shot, his constituents had better take
him out to an open lot and shoot him"
Then further, speaking of our Represen-
tatives, it says;
"If there is any way to crush them, ii
should be used, and if there is no way one
should be invented"
That is the way they meet the discussion
of this question. If a man dare to ra ise
his voice for the oppressd poor, this is th'
argument he meets. Well, is this you
game? Beware. 1t makes the syndicate ant
subsidized press a. mad to see a, ,Greenback
or in Congress as it does bull to shake
red flag at him.
Mr.. Kelley. That is not the Telegraph
you hold in your hand?
Mr.. Weaver. No; but this is the lead
ing Republican paper Of Iowa, the Stat
Register, which quotes and approves tn
villainous article.
Mr.. ovnsend, of Illinois If not tht
Telegraph Republican papsr2
Mr.. Fisher. / can tell the gentleman
that it is not.
Mr.. Weaver. guess it is q Republi car
paper.
Mr.. Sopp. But here is gentleman who
says it is not.
Mr.. Weaver. No matter whether it il
or not; the Register is, and both are hard
money. You might take a magnifyins
glass that magni6es ten thousand diameterG
and you could not tell the difference be-
tween a hard-mouey Republican and a
hard-money Democrat. LauRhter.]
Mr.. Haskell. Let me ask the gentle
man question.
Mr.. Weaver. What is it?
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