People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-27

being crazy crank, he would be
gentleman and a scholar. He would
be aided by Wall street, applauded by
the subsidized metropolitan press, ap-
proved by London gold bugs and ban
quoted by Sherman, Cleveland & Co.
If "crazy Coxey and his rdgmufin
followers" were coming to ask con-
gress to pass the pending Nicaragua
canal bill, which calls Tor SlOO 900, 900
bonds to be issued to corporation
and upon which the people would pay
the interest, they would be royalty
welcomed by Senator Morgan and
permitted a triumphal entry to the
capitol grounds.
If the gambler Coxey and the idiot
Browne" were coming to petition con-
gress to surrender to C. P. Hunting
tons scheme to refund the Pacific rail-
way bonds, scheme which would de-
fraud the government of the immense
sums due from that corporation, and
which would add prodigiously to she
enormous privileges and gifts already
bestowed upon tiff Tramp CoxeY
were coming to ask for that, he would
be statesman, fnancier and pa
triot; and transportation in frst-Glass
coaches would be provided, with buff
fet lunches thrown in.
If Crazy Coxey were coming to lobby
for the coal trust, the whisky trust,
the sugar trust or for any of the great
combines which put money into the
pockets OF those who are already I'M
wholesomely rich. he would be quar-
tered at the Shoreham, the Ebbit or
one of the other elegant hostelries
just as the other lobbyists
in Washington now are. But
MIR. CoXey IS coming to lobby" open
ly and above board IN the interest of
millions of unemployed wealth pro-
ducers; he is coming to ask in peace
full manner for a wise measure which
would establish justice and insure
domestic tranquility" he is coming in
the interest of a measure which would
bring incalculable good to millions,
and bring no real harm to a single liv-
ing.being; he is coming to the capitolo
professedly Christian nation under
the banner of the Prince of Peace,
bearing the motto of peace On Earth,
Good viii Toward Men," but because
that motto further reads death to in
terest on bonds, he has already been
warned by the District of Columbia
chief ofpolice that he must not venture
upon the soil that belongs to the whole
nation or he will be arrested as 4
.vagrant and welcomed with hoSpitable
hands to the District workhouse."
Mr.. CoXey is leading a company Of
honest, industrious, patriotic Ameri-
can citizens whose only crime is that
they are poor, ragged and out OF en-
ployment He is coming with this
careworn, footsore, i'll clad set of men
to their national capitol to petition
their public servants to do their
sworn constitutional duty to promote
the general welfare" and issue some
of the same kind of money that wise
old Abraham Lincoln ordered in an
other time of great national disturb
ance and peril.
The sort of money which Citizen
Coxey will petition for will not saddle
a debt of generations upon an already
overburdened people, it will not, like
bonds, offer place of investment for
supercilious idlers who live off the
toll of other men, therefore the usur-
ers and gamblers have no use for it.
If Citizen Coxey's good roads bill
were to become a law, inside of thirty
days after its passage every idle hand
in the country could have work to do.
The towns and cities could be emptied
of their idle and dangerous population.
Dangerous, God pity them, because
they have been idle so long, If the
men now idle were al work aud receiv-
ing steady pay they would buy
new clothes instead of begging old
ones. hence the merchants would be-
come prosperous. If the men now
hungry could buy the food they like
and need. the grocer would do rous-
ing business Kansas farmers would
not be fattening hogs with wheat
which gaunt, hollow-eyed chill
dren need, nor would California rails
ms go into the swill trough TO fatten
swine. Every branch of business
from ocean to ocean would revive, be-
cause the wage Garner would buy the
produce and the wares which go to
make up the comforts of civilized life.
Pass this good roads bill and it will
set every factory wheel revolving,
every spindle flying, light the fire in
every factory and on every hearth
stone in the land.
Mr.. Coxey and Carl Browne are two
great-soulel men whose warm hearts
beat with sympathy for the misery,
the want and the woe of their fellow