The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-09
HOW THE KELLY ARMY TRAVELS

the crowd and knows whereof he
speaks. The letter is as follows:
| Every day that a man follows this
army he loses respect for it without
/ there being any particular reason ether
+ than the whole thing continues to
dawn upon him as peice of monu-
mental folly. Every day that a man
! follows it, and every Cay he sees the
/ crowds gather around Kelly and his
/ black horse with red surcingles, he
thinks of what the great Snowman
! said, that the American people love TO
! be humbugged.
! This army is now getting down to a
purely business basis. We do not in
tend to starve, nor do we intend TO
work, and we do not intend to walk
unless we cannot help it. Our advance
agents are about twenty-four hours
ahead of us all the time, making ar
irangements for the necessary supplies
! on the contribution plan, which sup
plies shall protect us from deciding
whether or not we shall work or starve.
/ Our advance agents are growing more
and more business like in their meth
DDS. They begin to levy their contri-
buttons With some show of authority.
They are getting so they do not ask;
! they suggest.
! We are getting along so we'll that we
I have been led to wonder why this plan
of civilization had not been thought
of before. Possibly Adam had it in
! the Garden of Eden. We do not know
as to that. We are living on the fat
of the land. We are met in the streets
of every village by the multitude Fair
ladies gather to see us go by. We give
three cheers for the women of our
Ae ar NO
are obeying the laws of our country.
We are not killing anybody; we are
not setting torch to anybody's habi-
tation. We could not afford TO do
these things, as General Kelly says,
and General Kelly knows what we can
afford to do.
When we march into town we sing
Marching Through Georgia, " and that
makes good impression in every
town. We carry the Star Spangled
Banner-that pleases on-lookers. Some
times around our camp-fres some of
our excellent singers sing Nearer. NY
God, to Thee" and Jesus, Lover of
My Soul These selections take well
and impress. the honest farmers who
ARE feeding us with our good inten-
tons. We are not ordinary tramps.
III we tramped as individuals, the far
mers would set their dogs on us. So
! long as we tramp ostensibly in tho
M me- of eraat cause, with flags fly
ing and a bugler at the front, they re-
cciVe us as if we were heroes. Tt
makes some difference whether we go
singly or in droves of thousand.
Before marching into Adair yester-
day evening, our forces halted outside
and we marched in in body. We
camped in a beautiful grove Just east
tfaf 40 +,vr- .,F Il
look down the railroad deep cut, where
nineteen years ago Jesse James and
his followers shot poor Jack Rafferty,.
the engineer as he stood with his
hand on the throttle, and where they
made bullets play through the coat
tails of Billy Smith. then the conduc-
tor now long since gathered TO his
heavenly home
Jesse James men said they were
robbing the rich to give to the pnor.
The James brothers. l am compelled
to think, as l sit here on the green
sward, were not on to their job. They
did not conduct their professions with
salvation Army attachments. They
We're foolish enough TO pass for just
what they were. 1t is probably we'll
for Jesse James that he passed away
before he saw his methods so much
improved upon Blessed are the WAYS
of peace
The farmer that l rode with TODAY
told me that he owned 100 acres Of
land in western Iowa; that he had ii
all under cultivation, and that it was
pafd for. His son is a student at Ames
lie said he located in the Middle River
valley IN 90. The average wages OF
the farm hand at that time was So 10
% per month when there was any de,
mand for farm hands at all The fool.
lsh farmer told me that he had been
pegging away on that farm from tina
time until the present. He had worked
hard; he had paid his honest debts. he
had been blessed with a considerable
family of children, some of whom silent
beneath the greensward on the hillside.
lie had discharged his every dlItv m
the government; he had been a law.
abiding citizen. He had not marched
IN any procession; he had sought his
political remedies at the ballot box. He
mad shared the prosperity and the ad.
Verslty Of his country and his kind
He had not threatened any revolution.
He never had started away from home
leaving his wife and children unpro.
tected on the prairie. He had never
gone away from home without having
money to pay for his food and his
sustenance while en- route
w hen told by member of our army
whom he was hauling for nothing that
he had surrendered a job in California
OF 81 a week, our farmer friend mar
yelled. and wondered if he Eas really
getting behind the procession.
Another farmer who hauled some Of
our army offered one Of our faithful
soldiers $40 month, including board
and washing, to stop and work for the
present summer. Our gallant and
loyal soldier refused the offer and re-
mains with US
We have been glad to notice on our
entire march that we have the SYM
pathy of laboring men generally. The
trades-unions have been passing resolrI-
tions in our favor. While these large
labor organizations endorse us and
stand by US. it can readily be seen that
cTi m from the press and everybody
iSs off. We have attached ourselves
u nat large body of respectable work
inemen and women so that no one can
criticise US without criicising them.
This IS a part of our general policy.
We mean to get into good society SO
that those who desire to call us tramps
will hesitate to do SO. because infer
entialy they thereby class among us
the honest workingmen who are help
ing to support us in idleness.
Our present attitude, 1t will be seen.
especially shuts the mouths of poll
ticians who want the votes of the work
ingmen. They must nnake-speeches 10
us because of the society we are in.
We have made it so that the militia
dare not be called ont The average
American revolts at the bayonet All