The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-05
sATURDAY,... MAY 5, 1894.
OOXEY AND THE WISE MEN.

A short time ago Abram. S. Howit,
ex-mayor OF New York in a public
speech stated that the trouble with the
Southern representatives in Congress
was ignorance, just gross ignorance"
After reading what leading New York
men have to say about Coxey's Army
we come to the conclusion that they
are afflicted with the same complaint.
Henry Clews, a prominent broker of
Wall Street, tells how New York pol
icemen cause suspicious characters to
move n Joseph II. Choate, a lawyer,
tells us that stealing a train under the
control of the United States makes
men amenable to lawl Benjamin F.
Tracy, ~ex-Secretary of the Navy tells
us that "the movement of the Coxey
fellows is not worthy of consideration"
G. N. Jordan, assistant Treasurer of the
United States, thinks "the Coxey
movement will amount to nothing,
but it would be better to stop the arm
les at the start than allow them to get
Washington" Henry w. Canon, Pres
ident of the Chase National Bank,
does not think the Coxey Armies rep
resent the working men. He takes "a
hopeful view of the condition of the
country and prophesies the death of
the Populist movement. Evan
Thomas, President Of the Produce
Exchange Bank, thinks that wherever
a Coxey crowd springs up the author
tiles ought TO drive them out and dis
perse Them" We have no doubt that
these men looked wise while they were
preparing their little opinions for pub
LEGATION. But, as we in the West read
them they strike us as owlish IN
senee. From the fact that they say
as little as possible we presume they
are aware of their own ignorance. We
cannot say the same of Mr.. friedrich
r. Condert who has the reputation of
being one of the most eloquent leaders
of the New York bar. He seems to
think hal he has several pearls of wis
dom to string upon a golden thread.
To our uneducated, Wooley West, eyes
they look like clam shells. The figure
of speech is his although we think
our use of it is more appropriate than
his. He says to call the Coxey men
an army as like taking a. golden
thread and strInging upon it clam
shells and calling them pearls" He
says, "emphatically it is not an army"
They have not blue cloth coats with
brass buttons and stripes down their
trousers you know. "They are not
working men," OF no, he gives us the
legal definition of a, working man. "a
man who works." Now these men do
not work, therefore they cannot be
working 9 The carpenter, the
blacksmith and the hod carrier when
they lay down the i%mpliments Of labor
on Saturday night and on Sunday put
on their good clothes they are no
longer workmen, of course not. They
are gentlemen of leisure. When a
man gets out of a job you must not
insult him by calling him a working
man. Like the other lawyer mention
ed he thinks it "unlawful to run in the
teeth OF the law and sieze q railroad
train" It is well we have these able
lawyers to tell US this, otherwise we
might go and steal a train ourselves
and not know we were committing
any offense. But the most assinine of
all his pearls or clam shells strung on
the golden thread of his speech is his
last when he says that these men
"Have no purpose so far az l can see