The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-24
HAZEL GREEN, WOLFE COUNTY, KY. THURSDAY. M
TEXAS TLAK.
A Budget OF News From the clone STAR
state---Interesting Reading.


Owing to press of business l was un-
able to write anything last week or the
week before.
B. w. Bullocks, one of our most re-
spectacle citizens, has sixteen.month.
old Jersey heifer that has calf and is q
splendid mixer.
/ see J. II. Vest has his announcement
in THE HERALD as q candidate for JUS
tice of the peace. am acquainted with
Mr.. Vest and know him to be first class
gentleman. Success to you, uncle.
We are still having good rains in Tex.
as, and the crops are all looking we'll
Oats is now made and as fine as l ever
saw. Corn is about waist high and is
well stalked. Cotton is looking fine con-
sidering the recent heavy rains.
Some of the papers speaking of the
tramping-on-to Washington army speak
of the division from California and the
division from Texas. have seen no &C.
count of any such company organized in
Texas. The Frye army which passed
through our state were not of us. II /
am not mistaken, when it got out of this
state it was not quite as large as when
it entered at Ell Paso. Texas feels some
what the effect of the general hard times
all over the country, but there is plenty
of work to do here and no occasion for
armies of unemployed Texans to go
tramping over the country on wild
goose chase. The tone of the papers is
considerably changed in reference to the
whole matter. A spell of seriousness
seems to be coming over the country and
what the outcome of so many men with.
out money gathered at Washington will
be, can not be OWNED. The publicity
given the whole matter in the daily
press from its incipiency has no doubt
added greatly to the results. Without
the daily write-ups of the press the dis
content and the gathering of disconnected
men would not have been near so large.
What was a mole hill in the beginning
by the enterprising press in its effort to
make news has been magnified into a
mountain. To say the Coxeyites are
tramps and cranks does not remove the
serious difficulties of their course, but on
the other hand makes the matters all
the more serious. The right of petition
belongs to all classes. That can not be
denied in this free government. The
unemployed have as much right to go to
Washington and petition, or even lobby,
congress, as railroad men, or bankers, or
factory barons. But the right to petit
tion congress does not imply the right
to thrust themselves in great bodies up
on private citizens for their support. 1t
does not include the right to trespass upon
the property of others, even If the others
are rich. A wiser and more effective
course for these men to have pursued
would have been to have sent delegates
to represent them. If they are what
they claim to be-unemployd elaboring
men-they no doubt have the sympathy
of the communities where they live.
Enough money could have been raised
among their sympathizers to have sent
respectable delegations to Washington
which would have commanded the re-
spect of congress and the country. II
congress was run on any sort of business
principles 1t might have been in such
shape that it could have adjourned and
left the snipe hunters holding the bag
until such time as they seeing their folly
would scatter in real search OF labor, OF
return to their homes. But as matters
now stand 1t seems to be inevitable that
the people of Washington are soon 10 have
a great many people on their hands whom
they hardly know what to do with.
WEsTERNER.
Georgetown, Texas, May IA, 1894.