The Washington times., 1894-04-24
WHAT CAUSES COXEYS.

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rison.
0ohhhsfo oNphNr This is the way everybody
OF THE feels about Coxey-at least
cy,c,co rvrs almost everybody. Cleve-
land, from the deep. august
seclusion OF the minor recesses Of the White
House, sends word to inquiring souls who
stop at She barbican for information that he
will be blind, deaf and dumb to Coxey. That
he will not permit himself to be aroused to
Coxoy under any presidential circumstances
unless the local control pierces him with
some Macedonian cry for help aud declares a
local inability to cope with the doughty Coxey.
Cleveland at this crisis OF Coxey ought to
send for Willard and John Sherman and
Bankers Fairchild and Cannon, as well as
Jackal Benedict. He ought to convene his
back-stairs cabinet. 1t is with their sage and
disinterested aid and counsel that Cleveland
demonetized silver and embarked in his bond
swindles And it is just such maltreatment
of public right, just such public blood letting
as bond swindles and the death of silver
which among other evils produce crop of
Coxeys. Sow and seed down your land with
protection robberies, national banks, and
bond swindles, and you will reap a mob of
Coxeys, a little ring of millionaires, and n
thunderburst of strikes and labor upheavals.
Such a thing as Coxey is a result Such
conspiracies as Cleveland. Wall Street & Co.
are the everyday causes. Cleveland violated
law last Summer when he and Carlisle per-
mitted the New York banks to remain open
contrary to law. These banks were below
their reserves. They were refusing to pay de-
posters. They issued clearinghouse GER
tiflcates' and made depositors pay per cent.
premium to draw their own money. Yet de-
spite all this violation and breaking of plain
law and all this admitted insolvency Cleve-
land permitted them to remain at large in
criminal possession Of the street. Cleveland
against law, against the expressed will of
Congress, dug into and diverted to unlawful
purposes s30,o0O.0O0 of the gold reserve of the
government. Cleveland sold to Wall street
criminal issue of $50 ,OOO, 900 of bonds II was
a crime without public cause or excuse. 1t
had its sole emanation in the private greed of
Cleyeland, Wall street & Co. Cleveland sent
the tariff bill in Charge of Assistant Treasurer
Hamlin to New York to be paved over and
mouthed and mumbled by the New York
chamber of commerce to see if its every item
was to the worshipful gush and taste of these
wolves.
Cleveland is law-breaker In forty sorts:
he ought to be a little patient with such
trifiing criminal as Coxey, whose most helm
Gus ofTense so far has been to '.run'' toll
gate. and whose darkest caper is to live by
the roadside like a vagrant. Coxey says he
wants to lobby a scheme or two through
Congress. man like Cleveland. who all
through the extra session stood with bribe
in one hand and White House bludgeon in
the other. compelling and coercing House and
Senate to return verdict of death to silver,
ought to sympathize with his fellow-lobbyist
from Massilon. Cleveland should reflect
that every law breaker can't become Presi-
dent, and so rejecting avoid becoming coarse
and cruel with Coxey just because he (Cleve-
land) is in the White House and Coxey is not.
1t is a rotten state of economics which pro-
duces a Cleveland, Wall Street & Co., or a
Coxey and his army. But of the two evils I
think tie latter is the lesser. They both
prove public blood poisoning.
ALFRED Il. LEWIS.