The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-26
SENATOR STEWARDS ADVICE.
The Army Should March to the Polls
and Destroy the DespOt Money.

WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Stew
art, of Nevada, has written the following
letter to ]. S. Coxey, commander of the
army of the commonweal:
Dear Sir-The preservation of life lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness was in
ton of the United States. A free ballot
was the means by which the sovereign peo-
patriots who gained the independence and
established the government of the United
States. There was a time when the ballot
placed the control of the government in
Washingtons, Jeffersons, Jacksons and Lin
coins. Such use of the ballot sent terror
and dismay to tyrants, despots and plum
dering oligarchieS throughout the world.
The enemies of justice and human rights
predicted that the success of the ballot
was temporary, that man was not capable
of self-government. The destruction of an
cient republics and the repeated failures
OF the people to govern themselves was
cited in proof of their contention that des-
potism, oppression and slavery were the
fate of the human race.
There have been no Washingtons, Jeffer-
sons, Jacksons or Lncolns elected Pres-
dent of the United States in the last two
decades. a soullesS despot of alien origin
is monarch of the commercial world. His
name is money. His instruments of op-
preston are banks and bonds. His serv-
ants are administrative and legislative
bodies.
ballot to put the army, the navy and the
Treasury Department under the control of
banks and bondholders. and place in the
halls of Congress representatives to do the
bidding of money changers. The ides of
November are approaching. An opportun-
ity for the people to strike for liberty will
again be presented. The old parties which
have surrendered the rights Of the people
TO the rule of concentrated capital will
ask for a renewal of their lease of power
at the ballot box. Every movement of the
people to obtain relief outside of the forms
of law will be denounced as anarchy.
THE purse strings of the Nation are held
hx- ms arAo hn IN nf fIo IL
ministration, and the President is comman-
der in chief of the army and navy of the
United States. The attempt OF a starving
multitude TO march to Washington will
furnish an excuse for using the power of
the government of the United States and
of the United States TO put down an
which the laws will be executed against
starving people will be an argument in
the next election for continuing in power
concentrated capital as necessary for the
maintenance of law and order.
The sufferings of the people are the re-
suit of elscting the men to office who do
the bidding of the money powers which,
by legislation and administration, have de-
stroyed more than one half of the metallic
money of the world and cornsred the other
half. Twenty years OF uninterrupted rule
of banks and bondholders has concentrated
the TSS'n ana Si enehed them tn tene ndnas t6 o6
telegraph the press and nearly every other
avenue through which the people can OBJ
tain information of the cunning devices by
which the parasites absorb what the mass
eS produce.
There is but one battlefield where the
forces Of liberty and equality can meet
and overthrow the enemy OF human rights
There is no law now on the statute books
authorizing the President of the United
States to march an army against the peo-
pie at the ballotbox. Every attempt TO
place the ballot under the control of Fed
eral authorities has thus far been sue
cessfully resisted. Let your army be re-
inforced by the millions of the unemployed
and by the wealth producers Of the Nation,