The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-23
COXEY'S NEW SCHEME
TELLS THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE a
LEGAL RIGHT TO SEIZE RAILROADS.
Tramps from New York and Brook
lynn Commanded to Rise Up and
March to Washington.

NEW YORK, July 22-Gen.. J. s. Coxey
of the army of the commonweal, at
Ridgewood Park, l.. l., to-day, where he
was rendered reception by the repre-
sentatives of the Peoples party, who were
holding a picnic there. General Coxey made
an address at the big afternoon meeting
81 represent a party" he said, that does
not want money that is redeemable in gold
exclusively. but money that is redeemable
in everything that Is used in this coun-
try"
General Coxey then unfolded the details
of his good roads scheme, which, he said,
would give employment to every workman
in this country and make the United States
the most powerful country in the world.
He then took up the railroad troubles, re-
ferring TO George NJ. Pullman as king
George w. Let the people of the United
States condemn the railroads. said he,
land compel the government to buy them.
If the railroad people can condemn your
property when they are building rail-
road on the ground that it is for the COM
mon benefit you, in turn, should condemn
their property and operate the railroads
Continuing, ne said: '~rhe only place for
you to strike is at Washington. Go through
your public. parks and marshal the tramps
and unemployed workmen; tell them the
cushions down in Washington are as soft
"a they are here, and tell them / have
plan to feed them down there L don't mind
telling my plan. When the men get down
there they will be sent TO Jail, as [ was.
The Jail in Washington can only accom-.
modate three hundred persons 1t Is full
now, so the men will have TO be put to
work building jais to imprson themselves
in. If 1 cannot get them work at one thing
L can get them work at another.
In closing, the commonWeal general again
urged on his hearers to marshal the UNI
employed of New YORK and Broo6ly l and
march In body to Congress and demand
that the good-roads plan be put into shape
for practical legislation Kew Or. EDWARD
McGlynn then addressed the assemblage,
after which the following resolutions were
''ResoIved That the time has come when
no further hope can be held of any RENE
dies for our present industrial distress
from either the Republican or the Demo-
cratic party; that they are both dominated
by the money power: that they are both
lawbreaking, but 10 make positive alliance
with capital; that they are one in the policy
impoverishment for four-tfthS of the peo-
pie; that they are one in the matter of land
monopolies, the theft of unearned incomes
on land values and refusal of State aid to
the unemployed: in fact, in all essential
questions which continue the present mis-
cradle conditions, and that they are merely
separated into two wings through the ne
cessty of waging sham battle for the di-
vision OF spOils.
RESOLVED That the one and only remedy
for the present inequality of conditions that
causes so much suffering and want is for
the industrial masses themselves to seize
the government and administer it in the
sole interests of those who produce all
wealth.
Resolved, That to this end we call on
every workman and every working class
sympa thizer to come out on the first Tues
day after the first Monday of November
next and strike the ballot box on the
programme laid down by the Peoples
party"