The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
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WASHINGTON, D. G AnSamRl
The latest news in arm 1p5I ciI, "a.
mat a division of Kelly's i rL5olss is
army from the West, on blnouStrial
JOIN COxey, have captured p a way way to
IorEy cars at Council Bluff, Iowa. wan Of
Will ride on the way to Wasb i"a' and
Another telegram, from Omabsa'
mat two thousand men, with bnns says
OF flags, have just marched ont 0nafeds
city, and they will be Joined Nv VI That
employeesof the Pacific Raj road ah a0y
The main division of Coxev,s ~nOps'
still IN West Virginia, pulling aS.. Is
for Washington as fast as thew % auead
The Senators are about to roo U@
on their dignity. Some of them % Iack
this demonstration of laborino
asking for immediate and subston uel
relief legislation, is an insult ~
dignity of the Senate. Yesterday So sue
tor Hawley, of Connecticut, said. ''H''
81 think that there is not q con.
that there is not a sensible citizan
the United States who does No.
foundly sympathize with the tto O
sands, and I may say millions, Of W.
pie suffering in the present extraorS;
nary financial and business crisis w;.t
expressions of Impotence or raoont
ment, every kind and thoughtful man
will be very patient indeed, nor doo,
any man In the world think of restroin
ing or overruling the right of the moo.
pie in the language of the constitutions
to "peaceably assemble and petition Fl,
a redress Of grievances" But tboro
have been circumstances arising in tho
last month or two that do not como
precisely within that category. All the
world is informed from day to dav that
bodies OF men are assembling, as if nv
concert, IN widely separated sections
OF the country and are marching tn.
ward the capitol of the United States
with the purpose of assembling on Or
about the first Of May, to make some
sort of political demonstration. bv
gathering, as they threaten, in front of
the capitol building in a multitude to
be addressed by their orators, and de-.
handing also that they shall, by their
representatives, march bodily into this
chamber to be heard. I need not say
that that is an extraordinary course Of
proceeding which is without precedent
In the United States or anywhere, IN.
less it be found id the Colonial days in
New Hampshire, when a body Of men
took possession Of the Legislature, or to
go farther back, when the Gauls
marched into the Roman Senate and
shook the venerable heads of the Sen,
ators.
1.-THE right of the people to assemble,
the right, if you choose, however mis-
judged the movement may be, to come
here and assemble, I am not question
ing; but I wish simply to suggest re-
spectfully that the Senate of the United
States owes something to its own ira
ditiOns and dignity-the House of Rep
resentatives will take care of itself and
that what we say or do in this matter,
in this chamber, in this first precedent
which may possibly be followed, should
bedone thoughtfully and carefully. It's
quite possible to manage this business
gently and firmly and have it pass
away, and it is quite possible to 80
manage it that it may become a habit
to make pilgrimages annually to domi
nate Congress and endeavor odomlna@
Congress by the physical presence Oh
the people. The men coming here say
they ale ''the people" and the Senator
from Nebraska speaks of them as tine
people," He says the people want TO
do this; the people have a right "
come here, and have a right to ill tn0
galleries, and all that. They may have
and they may not. Sir, we have more
authoritative advice and imperative
commands from the people OF tn0
United States than Mr.. Coxey can
possibly bring. We have had our az,
vice given us for a hundred years IL
Constitution, in the statutes Oh 'n9
States, in the laws of the DISTRICT .,
Columbia, and in the traditions anI
rules of the Senate. The VIII y
the people is here carefully Sl'0a
out by a most complex and um
versal system of selection, by the Vo':0
of the people, by the action OF 'I The
representatives, by the action o. 'n os
men who from personal intereSsS' eT.
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