New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-27
uv0,,yvE ANTI UONDpOJIST

# strikes Us that Senator Bcckwth. the
state man who by appointment of the Governor
represents the State of Wyoming in the United
States Senate. is getting just trfe overheated
on the silver question. The State of Wyoming
is itself rather young to be swapping the whip
over the heads of the forty three other men,
bers of the Union into whose society it has
latcly been admitted. and as for Mr.. Beck
with. the method Of his appointment would
seem 70 invest him with the authority to speak
for ONLY one man-the Governor-iather than
the whole State. But Mr.. Beckwith has, not
wiihstanding these facts, taken it upon himself
70 settle the financial question ont of hand in
an interview which was published in Chicago
dispatch to TIE TRIBUNE on Tuesday. lie
not only settles it. but adds thereto that if his
view of the situation Is not accepted " the Con-
gressmen and Senator's from the South and
West will arise a. one and wipe Wall street
AID all the ;oadyism and forms of finance bred
for the few into the sea- Considering the
ncwnes, of Wyoming in the Union, the circum-
stances OF Mr.. Beckwith'S appointment, the fact
that he has not yet been admitted to the Senate
and the possibility that he may not be, the
language of this statesman seems uncommony
vigorous.
He is reputcl 20 be the wcalthicSt man IN
Wyoming. and seems 10 be an Anti-MonopoIi>t
It i, noteworthy that many Of the leaders OF
the Anti MonOpOli>t, are men OF large wealth
Ex-senator Van Wyck. who is the leader Of
that raity in Nebraska. is rcputed TO be one OF
the ich, Il men in that state. What troubles
them is /" the toady>m and forms Of finance
which, according 10 senator BcckWith clear
and convincing statement, are " bied for the
few and which they propose TO wipe INTO
the sea" Naturally the question arises under
what pant cular forms of finance these mill
ion1ilc Anti Monopoli>s and champions Of the
oppressed poor accumulated their own enor-
nous fortunes. Have they always been cp-
posed ~ m nopoits? Has the Wall street no.
ton of requiring the payment Of honest debts
in honest money always been 80 shocking to
them? Have they always been champions OF
labor: always insisted cn paving the highest
wages to their own employees always sold goods
to them at the lowest prices, giving them long
credits and taken pay in any sort OF doubtful
not.s or deprecated currency the creditors
offered?
Let Ms see some eight years ago There was
a bloody not n Rock springs. Il little coal
mining town III Wyoming on the mon Pa
cihc road. The whto miners rose up against
the Chinese employed III the mines shot and
killed a considerable number of them, drove
the rest out into tho desert 70 starve, burned
their dwellings and cleaned on; the entire
Chinese settlement 80 that the United States
Government had 10 send troops there 10 re-
establish order and prevent further bloodshcd.
In the investigation which followed the white
citizens Of Rock Springs defended their action
on the ground that the railroad company which
owned the mines had contracted with a mer
oaLte firm doing large business and having
branch houses in various parts OF the Territory
10 furnish laborcrs for the mines and that this
firm had under that contract imported cheap
Chinese laborerS 10 the prejudice and exclusion
Of white citizens They said that this firm had
Il monopoly III the employment of labor, and
pclledy the laborers To trade with The firm
whereby they bad monopoly of mercantile
business in the mining section. And this state
of things they said had eyaSpelated the white |
miner, ard ciiz,n> to such degree that they |
had risen up in desperation against il. II was
a poor excuse for wholesale murder and riot |
bat the facts were not denied.
TIE nome If the firm was Bekwith. Quinn |
& Co. The head of the firm was tho states |
man who is now proposing 10 wipe Wall |
Street ard all the toadyiSm and forms of finance |
bred for the few into the sea