The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30

COXEYISM.

The daily papers have "dried ups
concerning the industrial army of
| The unemployed. CoXey was compelled
! TO withdraw his men from the soil Of
the District of Columbia to escape
persecution: and was then obliged to
shift again from Hyattville to
Bladensburg; and now the papers say
That his encampment is to be broken
up, although he is viola ting no law.
CoXey himself has been sent to prison
for walking on the grass of the Capitol
grounds, and carrying a banner in the
public streets. He ought to suffer
for such horrible offences. In the
meantime the universal unrest con-
tlnues, and the empty bellies persist
in bowling. You cannot hang your
stomach on fence and walk off and
leave it. You have got to carry your
appetite with you, and the revolutions
OF the earth on its axis simply add to
is tortureS. And the fact that an
other mans abdomen is full does not
in the least degree content your
emptiness. And 50 we read Of these
poor fellows, pale, thin, haggard, stag
gering as they walk while the well-fed
townspeople laugh at them And the
railroad companies eXult to think they
have headed the armies off. by re-,
fuSing to take them for less than full,
1are, or even to carry them in cattle
cars at cattle-rates. But still, as if by
an instinct, an unreasonable instinct,
it is true, the hungry multitude press
on to WashingtOn:-and Grover goes
hunting,-tO the Dismal Swamp!
Very appropriately, for he has made a
Dismal Swamp of this whole country;
and the starving may yet go hunting
for Grover! And the Denver Road
says:
"Our partner in business, Orlando
King, who has Just returned from
Washington, says the city is filling upl
with Coxeyites, and that before June
|, there will be an immense crowd On'
hand. The papers suppress the facts
for purpose"
We have seen millions Of grass-hop- /
pcrs all moving, on foot, or on wing, in
the same direction, by an universal in
stlnct, as if every one of the little
creatures had magnetic compass in it's
pocket. And history gives US many il
lustrations of similar instructive
movements taking possession Of great!
bodies of men. The cry ran once
ION to RichmOnd;" the cry now is
"On to Washington" And a greater
enemy of liberty is enthroned in the
District of Columbia than ever domin-
ated the capitol of Virginia. The
Confederates wanted liberty. at the
cost of breaking up geographical
unity, but the scoundrels who possess
our government want slavery, with
geographical unity, for the benefit Of
foreign and domestic mOney-Sharks.
We don't see that it viii do any
good to gather million hungry men
into Washington; but that is not the
questionable question is will they
90 there, and what will they do when
they get there? And even if they are
dispersed by armed force shot down and
Slaughtercd,--as seems Obable-wilP
that fill the empty stomachs of the
other millions, or take the desperation
out Of the hearts of men? Can you,
make a peaceful citizen, or patriot,
out Of a man with gnawing and COL
lapsed stomach? a republic is a
country where the happy people need
no standing armies. A despotism is a
country where the wretched victims
of disagreement are kept in subjec-
tiOn by rifles and cannon. Which are
we to-day? l.. ID.