The herald., 1894-03-26
SENSIBLE ADVICE.
Senator Stewart writes a Letter to q en-
eral Coxey.

Senator Stewart Writes a Letter to disn-
sral Coxey.
WASHINGTON, March %. - Senator
Stewart of Nevada has written the fol-
lowing letter to J. 8. Coxey, commar ider
OF the Army of the Commonweal:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
March "a, 1894.
GeneralJ. S. Coxey, Massillon, Ohio,
DEAR SIR: The preservation OF life.
liberty and the pursuit OF Happiness
was entrusted to the people under the
constitution of the United States. A
free bsllot was the means by which the
foreign people could retain their rig hts
ACQUIRED by the patriots who gained the
independence and established the gov
erument of the United States. Th6re
was time when the ballot placed th 9
control of the government in Washing
toms, Jefferaon's, Jackson's and Lin.
coln's hands. Snch use OF the ballot
sent terror and dismay to tyrants, des-
pots and plundering oligarchieAi
throughout the world.
The enemies of justice and human
rightH predicted that the success of the
ballot was temporary; that man was
not capable OF seli-government. The
destruction of the ancient republics,
and the repeated failures of the people
to govern themselves, was cited in proof
of their contention that deepOtiam, op-
preston and slavery were the fate of the
human race. There have been no
Washingtons, Jefersons, Jacksons or
Lincolns elected president of the
United States in the last two decades.
A soulless despot of alien origin ia
monarch of the commercial world.
His name ia Money. His instruments
are banks and bonds. His servants are
administrative and legislative bodies.
The army you are collecting used the
ballot to put the army, navy and treas
ury department under the control of
banks and bondholdeTs and place in the
halls of congress representatives to do
the bidding OF the money changers.
The Ides of November are approach
ing. An opportunity for the people to
strike for liberty will again be presented.
The old parties. which have surren-
dered the rights of the people to the
rule OF concentrated capital, will AJAX for
q renewal OF their lease of power at the
ballot box. Every movement of the
people to obtain reliet outside the forms
of law will be denounced Ea anarchy.
The purse strings OF the nation are held
BY congress under the dictation OF the
administration, and the president is
commander-in.chief of the army and
OF q starving multitude to march toward
Washington will furnish an excuse for
using the power of the governments of
the states and OF the United States to
put down anarchy and insurrection.
The vigor with which the laws will be
executed against starving people will be
an argument in the next election for
continuing in power concentrated capi.
tai as a necessity of the maintenance of
law and order.
The sufferings of the people are the
result OF electing men 80 Office who do
the bidding of the money power which
has destroyed more than one-half of the
metallic money of the world by legisla-
tion and cornered the other half
Twenty years OF uninterrupted rule of
banks and bondholders has concentrated
the wealth of the world in the hands of
Q few, enabling them to seize the tele-
graph, the press and nearly every other
avenue through which the people can
obtain information OF the cunning de-
vices by which the parasites absorb
what the masses produce.
There Is but one battlefield where the
forces of liberty, on an equality, can
meet and overthrow the enemy of
human rights. There is not law on
the statute books authorizing the presi-
dent of the United States to march an
army against the people at the ballot
box. Every attempt to place the ballot
under the control of federal authority
has thus far been successfully resisted.
Let your army be reinforced by the mill
lions OF the unemployed and by the
wealth producers of the nation, and be
thoroughly modified for the battle in
November, when a victory for the rights
of man against the despotism of banks
and bonds is passed.
Abandon the folly of marching an un-
armed multitude of starving laborers
against the modern appliances of war
under the control of q soulless money
trust. Such folly will augment the
power of the eppressor and endanger
the safety of the ballot itself. Disorder
is ell that is required to ensure the su-
premacy of the armed forces of the
moneyed power at the polls.
The constitution of the United States
is our charter OF liberty. 1t has been
subVerted by an oligarchy OF concen-
AobO0 WOhlbAs ulbo hk0utS VI Luo p6O-
pie have betrayed the trust and brought
misery and want when abundance and
prosperity seemed assured.
Traitors to human rights have usurped
the power OF the government through
the machinery of party and the arts OF
demagogues. Hurl them from power.
Trust no man who has once deceived
you. Let the government of the
United States administer for and not
against the people. Use the ballot to
protect liberty, justice and equal rights,