New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
TIE TRAMP OUTBREAKS.

Tho resources Of law and order have at last
heen brought TO bear against social turbulence
and demagogism The mob of train-stcalrrs
and lawbrcakers. which has been making an
organized raid on railway property In Montana
and Offering armed resistance to United states
marShals. has been surprised. captured ana diS-
armed by Il detachment Of infantry from Fort
Keogh. This action was taken not moment
foo soou. for the bands Of despcradocs ana
tr0mps forming in Oregon and Washington
were planning the capture OF trains, ana al 'he
mobs ON the march between Montana and the
Coxey advance guard in Maryland were losing
selfrestraint and breaking away from the con
troll of their leaders The campaigning of these
tramp armies had reached n stage where con-
TEMPT for law was instigatng defiant revolt
against authority and open warfare against
law and order The first lawess outbreak in
Montana, if it had not been promptly sup
pressed might have enkindled general con
fagraton throughout the West
Happlly, there have been decisive military
measures by direct order Of the war Depart
ment. Colonel Page with his strong force OF
regulars has surrounded the outlaws ard their
battaOns Of tramps. The Leaders VIII o'
turned over 70 the courts for prosecution. ana
II there be prompt employment of Inc re-
sources of criminal law against them, the turDu-
lent forces now parading East and West under
the leadership Of hOrsc-tradcrS. loafelS. phrrho-
logical crankS fanatics and Anarchists Will De
disbandcd The Montana dcnagogu"s can De
indicted for conspiracy against railway cor
poration robbery Of engines ana r0lllngS'oCh,
contompt of court In resisting processes OF law
and assault with intent 10 Kill depuy-narShaIs
armed with the authority Of the United States
Government If there be laxity In the enforce
ment of law against these dcsperadocS the
hottolions of disorder will bc heavily recruited.
With action against them by the courts as sharp
and decisive as that Of the garrison OF Fort
| Kooch. the reign OF order and reason may be
restored East aud West.
We observe that one Of the members of Prcsl'
dent Clevelands Cabinet has been so indiscrcct
as 70 make a partisan use Of the tramp move
ucnt on Washington. Secretary Morton has
ventured TO describe the CoXoy army as "a
large kindergarten class in Protection. The
wacc.ealncrs Of the West according 10 this
view. have adopted after years Of Mckinley
ism The methods of Protection" and are now
demanding as a class direct support from the
Government. This is a base partisan TRADE
which stamps Secretary Morton as reckless
demagopue He knows well enough that the
methods Of Protection involved employment of
American wOrkmcn in thousands Of branches
Of industry. and tended TO promote their con
tentmcnt and welfare The Republican party
is not responsible for the present outbreak of
lawlcssncss. social rcslcSsncss and Socialist
discomfort in nearly every State OF ihc Union
The dragons teeth from which these tramp
armies are sprngng up East and West have
! been sown by demagogucs of Secretary Nor
toms own party and their Populist allies. The
scenes Of tumult and disorder now enacted from
| MARYLAND TO Montana are the natural sequences
Of the campaign OF 1892. when the Democratic
| and Populist coalition declared war upon the
! uacifc prosperity of the Nation. aroused social
discomfort by impassiOned appeals to class feel
ing. and openly proclaimed its sympathy will
every vagary OF Western Socialism.
II is not necessary to attribute the enlistment
of tramp armies 10 the prevailing conditions OF
| business depression and industrial paralysis
/ The unemployed are not marching Eastward Il
/ obtain work. trampng when the distances are
comparatively short, and taking violent pos
session Of freight trains when the routes tt
Washington stretch across the continent. They
are making these lawlcss raids because politica
leaders have taught them 10 deSplsc law, anC
beca,lsc they believe that their Socialist de
mands can be forced upon Congress and III,
Government 10y organized Populist agitation
The signals for CoXey mob rule were RAISED
when the Governor of Illinois pardOncd th'
Anarchist mlIrdercrs: when the Governors al
coIorodo Kansas and South Carolina usurpc1
authority and rose dchanty above law: ans
Whom the Democratic leaders In Washington
made the Populst cause their own. VIII
dcmagogism rampant In the West ana III WASH
ington the roadside mobs have bceh recruited
| and can now only be kept under restraint by
the Regular Army. The Democratic'fopuiis