The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-28
WHAT WOULD THEY DO
If Coxey's Army Should Bring
Its Things.
And Settle Down in Washington
to Stay,
THE GOOD CITIZEN S
What Would They Do Then
Poor Things.

WASHINGTON, April 2s- Especial i
Congress and the Washington public have
been for the past 10 days in much the same
condition as the patriarch job was while
the messengers of evil were arriving. First
came the news of one railroad stril1e,' and
then every morning and evening brought
additional messages on the progress of
COxey's, Kelly's, Frye's and other armies,
and then a messenger telling Of the great
railroad strike in the northwest and while
he was yet speaking there came another
telling that 120, 600 coal miners had quit
work; that there was another decline in
farm produce, and stocks in Wall street
were depressed The discussion in the SEN
ate by Nessrs. Allen, PETER Hawley and
others resulted as such things always do.
The men who aimed to speak a good word
for the invaders said moro in the heat of
the debate than they intended and are de
nounced accordingly as demagogues, dis
turbers of the peace, apologists for anarch-
lists and all the other pet names which are
used in such cases.
Omens of Trouble.
Out of the hurry burly and experience
with the first bodies to arrive caTnc very
sensible conclusion on the part of the Dis
trict government and federal authorities
that is, to do nothing, but be prepared to
do everything if necessary The capitol
police declare their ability to enforce the
rules in the building, and outside the in
vaders can do as the WorkingInen' asSO-
citation from Philadelphia did. No process
sions being allowed on the capitol grounds,
these men marched in military order to the
Peace monument in front of the Pennsyl-
vania avenue entrance, then broke ranks
and went up the steps and into the capitol
as individuals They made their protest,
had an excursion, saw good deal and pos
sibly had some fun, but the results in leg
islation were told a century before by the
poet who set forth how
The Eipc- of Franz will, forty Thousand man
Marched up the hill and then marched down
again
The workmen set q good precedent.
Coxey's army and all the others will do
the same thing and with the same results.
Residents and casual visitors have tacitly
agreed to give up the galleries and most of
the other places about the capitol to the
invaders, and it is quito likely that for
two or three days of next week those clas-
sic halls viii present a peculiar show of
notified humanity. So far good, and no
body is uneasy about that part of it, but
suppose a few thousands of them conclude
to stay here until the bounty of their
friends is exhausted and then try their
mild form of blaclzmail on the residents.
The very most that Colonel Redstone and
his colaborers will promise is that the
army will be fed by them for two days,
and COxey declares that after he has deliv
cred them at the foot of Capitol hill his
connection with them is ended. The real
WOHuer Is tniAo pfON1SAOIiS enough nave
been contributed TO feed the invaders two
days, but Colonel Redstone promises that
if their petition is not listened to and
complied with in that time they will march
right out of town again 1t appears that
they are remarkably sanguine well
a very accommodating set of reformers.
After their repulse and retreat, says Red
stone, will instantly follow a great Popu-
lar uprising which will wipe the old par
ties out of existence. pulverize corruption,
restore the reign of purity and Justice and
close the century with the opening of the
workingman's millennium. Well, worse
things might h ppen-