The morning call., 1894-08-11
FINALE OF THE INDUsTRIALs.

A dispatch from Baltimore, dated Au-
gust 8. reads as follows:
Marshal Frey dispatched forty policemen to
Hyattsvlle this morning and arrested the re-
mainder of Coxey's Army, lightweight In num-
Der, on the charge of vagraucy. They are now
in the Maryland House of Correction.
So passes away body which at one
time commanded general attention rot
only in this country but throughout the
world.
The "Industriap eruption was one Of the
incidents of the LABOR crisis resulting from
the commercial depression. When trade
was blocked and production was curtalled
a dimnution in the demand for and mar
ket value of labor naturally followed, and
the unemployed element, restless and inl-
bued with vague visions of betterment.
undertook to march some where, anywhere,
out of the scene of its fluctuations, the
general idea being that Washington would
be good place to aim at. The only new
and surprising feature in the affair was
the manner in which the demonstration
was viewed by spectators. Many Amerl-
cans took the crusade seriously and specu-
lated on the prospect that the Industrlals
might become a factor with which politl-
cal parties would have to reckon. while
foreigners saw in the movement prognoS-
tic that the long-expected failure OF demo-
cratic institutions was about to be realized.
Engishmen should have known better.
Whenever English politics grow hot the
working class in the industrial and agrl-
cultural shres have been in the habit OF
assembling in large bodies with de-
clared purpose of marching on London.
Manchester and Birmingham have more
than once been the starting point for such
crusades. In the last century, and In the
first half of this century. the usual treat
ment for such demonstrations was drastic.
Troops were sent against the crusaders,
who were almost invariably unarmed;
hundreds of them were shot, and other
hundreds hewn down in cavalry charges.
Tbs result was, of course, that order
reigned once more. In our day it has
been discovered that the same result can
be achieved without display of military
force. A body of men without money
without com missariat and without quar-
termaster's department only needs TO De
let alone to dissolve; and the larger the
body the sooner and the surer the dlsso-
luton Our Industrials begged and beat
their way from State to State; but IL was
a mere question Of time when they would
either dissolve OF fetch up. as they have
done, in some house of correction.
1t used to be said that there was no
wrong conceivable for which the law OF
England did not afford a remedy. With
more truth it may be asserted that, in this
country, there is no hardship which can
not be redressed under the forms Of law.
II did not appear, from the pronuncla-
mentos which were from time to time
given to the world by the Industrial Army,
that they were enduring any specific
hardship, or, indeed. that they knew
what they wanted. But in so far as they
may be supposed TO have had grievance
in the UNEQUAL operation OF the conditions
OF life the constitution and the laws pro-
vide an easy and simple way of curing the
grievance if it be in any measure the fruit
of bad laws. A law which is injurious
can be repealed. Those who have en-
dured the injury can make its repeal the
condition of their votes. and though they
NAV be in a minority parties will prefer to
conciliate them rather than provoke their
| hostility.
But where the hardships which rouse
men to rebellion are the fruit not of laws.
! but of the natural working of causes be-
vond legislative control, it is puerile to p
peal to Congress and to State legislatures
/ or executives for assistance. 1t is beyond
| the power of any legislative body to avert
! the suffering which results from crop
! failure. 1t is not possible for any combina-
! ton of law givers, however wise or
! humane, to prevent suffering among the
working class when in the vicissitudes oil
trade a period of stagnation follows a
period of activity. The underlying notion
of the Industrial Army movement was
that the unavoidable consequences Of the
financial crisis were in some way subject
to control by Government; and that they
might be arrested by an appeal from the
unemployed to the authorities. This wa;
on a par with the notion Of tho Kansa;
farmer who wanted the State Governor
! lmpeaehed because of the drought.