Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-05-02
SOMETHING Is WRONG.

In the present financial trla
through which the NATHAN is passing
the present is furnishing its own
lesson. The army of the common
veal is lesson of today, full of sig
niicance, which, if needed. may save
the country from another army not SO
peaceably inclined.
Il is not IL the so called army it
self that the danger exists; it is in
the industrial status indicated by
such an uprising that trouble turks.
The idea of grand march of the I'M
employed to Washington was regard
ed as the visionary suggestion of a
crank, but it has been transformed
into most perplexing reality. The
idea took root in the minds of men
from the Alleghanies to the Pacific,
and today hundreds, if not thousands
of men are on the march to the Ma
tional Capital to demand in person
remedial legislation at the hands of
the Federal Congress. What is to be
done with these men when they get
to Washington, for get there many if
not most of them willl That is the
question which is vexing the minds
of men high in power, and the News
does not pretend to answer. Are
they u be fed and treated like hu-
man beings, and their petitions list
ened to with respect; or will they be
met with bayonets and Calling
guns!
Let it be remembered that these
men are American citizens. That
tramps and hobos and criminals have
attached themselves to the army it is
true, and under any circumstances
could hardly be prevented; but this
class is largely in the minority. 1t
was the united testimony of the Utah |
press that fully two thirds, if not !
more, of the men who composed this
army at Ogden, and which the two
Pacific roads hurried so rapidly
across the continent, were average
American workingmen whose only
crime was that they had neither
money or work.
That the idea of such an army
should ever have been suggested,
hat the suggestion should have taken
such hold on the public mind that
and thousands OF the I'M
have started on the march
nd for such purpose, indicates
hat something is radically wrong in
he industrial conditions of the
,u,,. .-v These men are out of work
Why's Their wives and children
re living Oh eharity-why! They
re ell route to the federal capitli n !
tand face to face with the lawmak-
rs of the nation -whyl Because
hey believe and believe truly that
lie legislation of the last twenty
ears has been in the interest of the
ew and against the many; that a
financial system has been inaugural
4 by which men will be robbed of
heir homes and the laboring classes
9 reduced to serfdom; and that the
honey power is SO thoroughly in
in the control of the gov
rnment that demonstration such |
5 the army will be, is necessary to
waken the representatives, of the
eople to the danger which threat
rs the republic from plutocratic
ule.
Evidently there is a deep meaning
n the march of Coxey's army, and it
hould be taken as one Of the signs of
he times. Even as breakers indi-
ate the hidden rock, and warn the
mariner t. consult his compass and
hart, so let the peaceful uprising of
he unemployed be a warning to the
nen at the helm of the ship of state
The Anglo Saxon is patient and long
but when once aroused the
yclone is as a Summer breeze com
jared to his passion, The army of
he commonweal is danger signal
which it will be wise to heed. Give
Jack to the people the money Of the
'eople, restore silver to the coinage.
heck the fall in prices which is par t.
lying all industry, and the threat
ned dangers may be averted.-Den-
'er News.
THE INDUSTRIALS.