New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-27
THE MISSOURI REDISTRiBUTORS.

The evpcri,ncc Of Governor stone. OF Mis-
souri with the "rc>tiyc and dissatisfied West
eru people" who held up the TAIN on which
he was a passenger and redl,t'ibutcd the wealth
il confined on "A more satisfactory basis ''oni'
to have affected him very much ~ similar
adventure did the Mayor of Mobile, who was
taken by Gulf pirates several years ago, ana
in describing wha; took pl1cc subsequently
said they stripped him and tied him To the
painmast and logged him on the bare back
ill he was perfectly Disguised" The toy
ernor according - all accounts, WIS disguised
with the whole performance. II seems, toe, 10
have been in the nature of a surprise 10 HIM;
though we do not quite understand why
should have been. For il was only on the 9th
Of April last that he told the Board OF Trade IN
this city that the Western people generally
were dissatisfied with existing economic SAS-
tens. under which they were "vIc''m' OF
hostile discrimination: that they believed
there was "somohing radically wong some
where and that "ihc money and wealth Of
the country are not fairly distributed speak
ing for the Western people. he said We
want good money, and more of it, and added
that the FESTIVE spirit Of protest was de-
vcloping into the more aggressive spirit oi
combat Why he should be surprised at run
ming ND against some Western people in whom
the aggressive spirit Of combat had fully de-
yclopcd we cannot understand, unless indeed
il was because there were only seven Of them
The impression which he gave the Board of
Trade was that all Western people were feel
ing that way.
II appears that while this redistribution Of
wealth by dynamite was going on the Coy
ernor was enjoying the toothachc. "My mind
he SAYS in the calm tone Of confident a'sllr-
ance held by men who have experienced some
thing coins on inside Of themselves which they
firmly believe TO BE- mental processes" my
mind was occupied in bathing my jaw" IT
seems to have been the prevailing misfortune
for several years Of the statesmen who repre-
sent the FESTIVE and dissatisfied Western people
that fheir minds were occupied with bathing
their laws. To make them timber, we sup
nose lis great mistake. They are too lim
Der now Better let their jaws fall into innoc-
nous desuetude for while and Timber up their
minds. If some Of these statesmen had given
their laws a rest and occupied their minds with
something besides keeping them in motion the
dissatisfied and FESTIVE Western people would
not have got the notion that existing systems
were all wrong that under them they were
victims Of hostile discrimination" and the
esprit of protest would not have developed
into "thc more aggressive spirit OF combat"
And the men who "want good money and
plenty Of it" would perhaps have been content
to work for it, as honest men have done in all
ages and all over the world, without rcSorting
~. tho 90 e. nd nd bol;vor',
process The minds of the statesmen have
been too much occupied with bathing their
jaws.
The Governors disgust was decpcned when
he cot off at the next station, which was Wash
ington, Mo-, and routed out the Marshal For
the Marshal was evidently one of the restivc
and dissatisfied who "want good money, and
plenty of it," and believe it to be the first duty
, and chief end of man TO get it, no matter how
| His first question, as he hesitatngy rubbed his
eyes when the Governor called upon him to
raise posse and pursue the seven redistributors
Of wealth, was, How much is there in it ~
Tammany Assemblyman or Alderman could
not have responded t, a request to vote for
| some measure for the protection OF life health
or property more promptly or more to the pur.
! pose. The password identified the Marshal as
one OF the Governors own political brother
! hood. 1t was as good as a Tammany badge.
But the Governor was in such frame of mind
that he openly expressed disapproval of the
Marshars attitude To the State Treasurer,
who happened to be on the same train, he ex-
pressed the opinion that the affair was "a
| terrible disgrace to the State" 1t does seem
J so to persons living at some distance, but we