The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-27
sKArrLE. ruxsDAr. MARCH "a
coxrY,s INDUSTRIAL ARMY.


The proposed march OF an army OF
tramps to Washington City under the
leadership Of J. s. Coxey. of Massillen. o.,
IL project that, IL realized. can result in
nothing but private suffering and public
mischief. OF course every hobo who pre-
fers tramping to honest work would enjoy
such an expedition, which would ulti-
mstely become nero mob without order
or discipline.
The language Of Corey, who recently
said that this movement would either
mark the second coming Of Christ or il
viii, be Q total failure" 10 that of a man
who has . bee In his bonnet like Lord
George Gordon. who. in 17s0 led an anti
Popery mob through the streets Of London
up to the doors OF the house OF parliament
70 present . monster petition against the
church Of Rome. The issue of this mob
was dreadful riot, whose story 10 wildly
told In Dickens novel Of "Barnaby
Rudge." During these Gordon anti
Catholic riots the great prison Of Newgase
WAS burned and the prisoners released:
The house Of the great English Judge,
Lord Mansfield. was burned in Blooms.
bury square. and the mob committed hor-
rible excuses. They were finally dis
psrsed By the military and several Of the
rioters hanged. Lord George Gordon was
arrested and placed In the Tower on
charge OF high treason, but IL was discov-
cred that he was . man Of unarrangcd or
AeYanged brain, and was finally acquitted.
His mental malady became worse. and be-
fore his death he became imbecile.
In one OF Lord George Gordon's active
followers sketched by Dickens under the
name OF Sim Tappertit. We have the proto-
tyre OF the modern Populist agitator,
orator and crank. Although this novel
was published fifty years ago. and de-
scribes what took place ia years ago.
The speech and antics OF Sim Tappertit
stand for clever caricaturs OF the modern
American Populist.
The mob that marched under Jack Cade,
described by Shakespeare In "Henry the
Sixth" and tho Roman mob that is de-
scribed by Shakespeare in "Coriolanus" are
vociierous with the same kind of fustian
that Is talked by the average Populist
demngogue today. Jack Cade's mob is
stirred up by the Duke of York, who
boasts that he will "put sharp weapons in
. madmsn's hands," that he will reap
che harvest tho rascal, Cade. sowed. +"
Cads talks to his army OF hobos like true
modern fepuliss demagogue: be promises
his tramps that when he is king lit shall
be felony To DRINK small beer; all the
realm shall be In common: that there
shall be no money. ali shall eat aud drink
on my score; all shall wear one livery that
cher may agree like brothers" Then one
Of Cads's men says. The frs, thing We
viii do we will kali all the lawyers"
How like In spirit is this TO the absurd
exclusion Of all lawyers from the Ear
0ers' Alliance party. Cade calls "all
scholars. lawyers. eourtiers, gentlemen,
false caterpiliars and insend their death. -
That sentiment has been the cry of brutal.
malignant ignorance IN every age of the
world. and IL eliminated in the serrorists
q the French Revolution, who killed
every thing that smaeked of sristoera,ic
lineage or sympathy withou, regard "a
aec. sex or condition of life. cada saws,
ave will not leave one lord or gentleman
sraro none hat such as so in cloated shoon.
for these are thrifty and honest men -
Csde's lieutenant. the butcher of Ashford.
says; Ill we mean 10 thrive and do
good. break open the isils and let out the
a
he denounees the lawyers, SAYS:
"is not ,his a lamcntabis thing, tia. 81
the skin ot an innocent lamb Should ID
made parchment that parchment. heing
scrubbed Ger. should undo q mani Some
say the lee stiags, but | say. tits she bees
NaK; Tor dad but seal once To a thing
anu was never mine own man since.
That uttsrancs IL worthy Of modern
Kansas PorGlls;, who curses his creditors,
denognces sIl holder. ot mortgages and
sssks 10 make sntl-eredssoy laws and ray
bis debts n deprecated currency. Caae
hangs man because he can read and
write and cast accounts instead ''of max,
tnS his mark ike an honest p.ain-,ie slins
0an." ard he bshesi, Lord say because
he can speak Preach and therefore ia q
uaitor." No woader that the ksns'. ren.
sral exe!aifus, ''oh, gross aat faissrahl.
Ignorance" Csae ta!ks hse yoar TIN.
modern socialist when BE comm ard. N .,
40! the ei,y's cost the conduit ran moth.
tng sat elAres wine" he orders THAI all
she records Of the realm shall - barnns
'snv mouth shall b* t1e parliament, O;
England. and hsnceGorsa al things shall
be ia eomfnon." Lord SAy Is sent =
death charged with having corrupted
the youth Of the realm hy erecting q
grammar school, sith causing prtng}ug e
he used SAD with having bali, rayer
ns1. y We quote;
81. viii he proved TO thy face that shoa
hast men sboet thee thai usually S&lS o. .
noua aud we're. and saeh seosmlnsh.s
words IS ne Christian ear can endure ia
hear. Thea hast appointed justices "a
peace. 10 call pear rasa before tnssn aao0i
matters tceY were aaf able - answer.
Aossesss. skss &asi Pat tAsa IA asssea.