The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-02
MENACE TO LIBERTY
The Senate Frowns Upon the Com
monweal Movement.
THEY MUST OBEY THE LAW
rhev Have q Right to Visit the Capt. i
and Would Not BE MOlested II They
Come IN Good Faith.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Immediately
after the reading of the journal in the
senate, Senator Jarvis, recently APP
pointed. from North Carolina to succeed
Senator Vance, was sworn In. Senator
Aliens Coxey resolution came up and
the senator stated that there would be
no objection on the democratic side to
its passage. Senator Vest, however,
opposed it. These people should De
treated as all citizens of the United
States. If they did not violate any
laws they would not be molested, but
he deprecated the introdu :tion OF such
q resolution, because it intimated want
of confidence in the institutions and
laws of the land; their right to come
here and visit the capitol was so plain
80 evident, that any suspicion about 1t
was a reflection on the intelligence OF
the country. He was opposed to the
prea mble, however, If it meant to in
clude these men who had trampled on
the laws, injured private property and
undertaken to secure transportation to
this city by force of arms, for then
he emphatically dissented from It.
He declared that the men who were
marching to Washington would be pro-
tected in their rights, but they would
have to learn to abide by the laws of
the land, and If congress for one In.
slant compromised with them, 1t would
omen crevasse which would end in
dood of final destruction. If people
wanted to come here, whether they
were employed or unemployed, to in
spect the public buildings and visit
congress, their rights would be re-
spected, but when they seize trains to
come on, when they violated the laws
of the country and trampied on the
rights of the people, congress ought
not to treat with them.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado entered
4 vigorous protest against the passing
of the resolution. He was at loss to
understand the purpose OF the rosolu-
ton. which did not change the law In
any respect, but simply extended a
cringing invitation 10 those men calling
themselves unemployed, some OF whom
are coming by begging, some by their
overpowerirg forces and some on
stolen trains. The only excuse for
such lawless action as has been recently
enacted had been the utterances Of
men in high places holding Offices.
members of the senate who had spoken
OF the servile police force and paid
soldiery seemed to think 1t proper to
Aenounce In the senate men sworn to
do their duty. 1t was to be regretted
that the governors of certain states
mad been so unwise as to urge these
mAn to make a descent on the capitol
Of the United States. His own stare
had the misfortune to have one Of these
governors, whose antics had brought
d,.credit and d,shonor to her common
wealth and suited her name.
Senator Wolcott said he was tired OF
dealing with these methods of admins
tration. Times we're out of joint, but
what made them SO might be attributed
TO one cause or another. He believed
most of the men of Coxey's army might
be honest, but they we're led by men
who were cranks, insane and vicious.
Their method of Fighting wrongs could
resul, In no good. There should be no
man suffering for brerd in this broad
domain of the United States who was
willing to work. There was no man
who surely desired to work for the
support of himself and his family who
could not get work or bread to put
into the mouths of himself and his
little ones until work could be found.
81 am tired of this talk of national
demonstr alton, he said. Gin Colorado
TODAY, crushed and Inundated as she is
by the action of congress, velture to
saw no man is suffering because he car
fnA no work, or no willing hands to
assist in supporting him until work car
be fouxd. believe the time has come
when those In public life ought to be
gin to cultivate more regard for the
perpetuity of republican institutions
and pander less to that misled portion
of the labor vote. whose labor Is witt
their threats and never with theil
hands. 1t is time that We stood mp TO
American manhood, for the right TO
every man to work, II he wants to, !
it takes the whole army Of the Unite'
States to enable him to do so. Th'
rights Of every man Is to enjoy equa
liberty with every other man, and tina
means that he shall have such libert
a. is not inconsistent with the equa
lights Of his peighbors. the right t
hoN and enjoy property, which tn
laws OF the country enabled him t
securs. Il j. time that We had courag
TO stand together against this socia
tam. uopulism and paternalism, whic