St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27

nounced his QuiXotic project-and the
newspapers did the rest. Neither he
nor his army had half as much suffering
or labor in this spring march from Mas
sillon as one army corps of the Federal
army endured in marching from Hamp-
ton up the peDsinSula to Richmond in
1S62-not a modicum of the aDject mis-
cry undergone by any single brigade of
Confederates during one day of the
Wilderness in 1861.
But, whatever of suffering they had,
they brought it upon themselves, and
hence all the good. honest, human SYM
pathy bestowed upon them is worse than
thrown away. These men, leaders or
followers, are not in any sense heroes.
They have performed no act that re-
quired courage or Self-denlal, or long
suffering either in mind, body or spirit.
What they have done is to establish a
vicious precedent merely to provoke a
sensation.
To head a successful revolution de-
mandS man possessing rare elements
of mind, body and character. He must
have intelligence. courage, fortitude,
persistency, shrewdness, honesty. and,
above all, fixed and indomitable will
and perfect faith in the righteousness
of his cause. Any man with vanity and
a voice can provoke turbulence in hours
of public distress and calamity. Any
croaking raven of evil can hurl anathe-
mas and epithets at the wrongs which
atf1ict our social system in days Of in
ddSlrial depression and financial ira
vail. No newspaper in the land more
thoroughly and generously sympathizes
with honest labor forced into unwilling
idleness than the GLOBE: and yet we
cions but vicious reasoning which would
place all the responsibility for the
current Industrial depression upon
the men popularity supposed TO
own the wealth of the country.
Within the short space of one year
values have shriveled almost one-half
throughout the entire country. Men
who considered themselves opulent only
twelve short months ago are today little
better than paupers. During the prev
alence of the panic that man was for
tunate who possessed nothing beyond
what would purchase the daily food
and necessary clothing for himself and
family. 1t was the rich who have
borne the burdens during all the period
of storm and stress. They not only saw
their wealth vanish in the cyclone of
financial disaster before their eyes, but
many of them pulled what they could
from the wreck, and gave generously
of the salvage to the poor, the sick and
the helpless. Let US be just. How
many men are today Keeping alive in
dustries at daily personal loss to them
selves, simply that honest industry may
not feel the pangS of want. Such Pc
RODS of dire distress as the country has
undergone and is undergoing always
produce the touch of nature" which
''makes the whole world KIM
Such movements as those which bear
the trademark of CoXey have within
them the seeds Of disaster and destruc-
ton to the race. They spring from the
vituperative harangue of the conscience
less and irresponsible demagogue who
depends upon pubfic turbulence for a
WI CdplLdl. uCoC lifcu w hUL
represent the people. The real people
are at home upon their farms. laboring
in such workshops as are open to them,
standing behind counters where CUSTOM
ers rarely come to underwriting for
another turn in the wheel of fate-hop-
ing, praying, helping in ever so small a
degree to kindle anew the dead fires
within q fin Of Inv j1,it
Those who are in the armies are
simply organized bodies of tramps,
nlne-tonths of whom would not work if
they could find honest employment.
1t is time to cease dealing out senti-
ment and rationS to these peripatetic
loafers, who pose before the public as
want-stricken and helpless workers.
Wherever they violate the law let them
be held responsible to the law. Amer.
lea is not yet ready to turn over the gov =
ernment 10 self-cOnstituted leaders who
pose as prophets of Christ's common
veal, and under this profane and hypo-
critical disguise urge men Oh to disorder
and anarchy. This government was
created to be the home of liberty under
law, not Of license without bounds. The
divinity of nature is discovered in the
perfect obedience of the universe to law.
God is love, hence God is order.
The arch-enemy of man. it is known,
can quote Scripture for his purposes,
and therefore it is not surprising that
the leaders of this modern crusade of
mixed idiocy and infamy try to hide
their criminal nonsense under the sacred
name of the Christ. There is no name
known among men so strong and potent
to conjure with as that of the Prince of
Peace-and for 1000 years it has been
alternately used by good man and bad
to advance their purposes. ''By their
fruits We shall know them." and the
Coxey armies-so called-are' intended
now and were meant from their incep.
ton to provoke disorder; to gather ig-