The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-05-02
COXEYS ARMY.
II Is the Legitimate Result of Re-
publican Teachings and
Encouragement.
A Schooling Of Thirty Years of De-
ceit and Fraud Has Brought
the People to This.
THEY S0WED THE WIND.


on Washington need cause neither sur
prise nor alarm.
The demonstration is not of a charac-
ter to threaten either the peach Of the
nation or the safety of our institutions
These men say that they desire only
work; that they are willing to work
eight hours and no more for 81 80; that
they think the Government owes work
to idle men, and that they are willing to
take Government paper, either notes or
bonds
The truth is, these men are not seek
ing work at all; they are trying to live
without work. Their absurd theories
are not new; the Republicans and the
Protectonists have for generation been
proclaiming just these theories of the
relation of the Government to the citi-
zen, and the whole fabric OF protection
rests on just these assumptions.
The tariff is, we are told, imposed to
protect labor; to secure steady work for
every man at American wages.
II the Government has the right to do
this indirectly, it has the right to do it
directly. If,having the right one method
fails, then it is the duty of the Govern
ment to adopt another.
The Reed Congress voted subsidies to
ship-owners, subsidies to sugar-planters
and protection to manufacturers.
II this were right and just, then there
is nothing unreasonable in the demand
of Coxey and Kelly and their army OF
tramps.
These men are ignorant and deluded.
1t is no part of government to furnish
work to anybody or to maintain wages.
The Government can only pay wages
by taxation, that is by seizing the earn
ings of the industrious and distributing
them among others less industrious.
Taxation for any such purpose is rob-
berry, it matters not whether it is done
under protective tariff, bill granting
bounties or by Coxey's bills to build
roads simply to give employment to the
idle.
II we SOW the wink we shall reap the
whirlwine. The theories taught by
Senators Hoar and Lodge, by Reed and
Mckinley will as surely lead to such
outbreaks as those We witness to-day, as
will the sowing of wheat bring the har-
vest OF bread.
Protection has failed to give the steady
work and the high wages promised, but
why would Hoar and Reed stop with
that? Why not do for Coxey's tramps
what they promised to do for everybody
Why not do for them what was done for
sugar.planters and ship-owners, and
what Mr.. Morgan and others propose TO
do for Warner Miller's ship canal in
N 'caragua?
The danger, the sole danger, in this
outbreak is that it is entirely logical.
But the sober second thought of the
American people will right it all. They
have been tolerant Of folly, but they are
not fools. Relief is not to be found in
the way suggested by Mr.. Coxey; it is
only another wrong added to wrongs in
Vulnerable. We must turn about and
divorce Government from all business
and all industry, saying to Coxey and
Quay, to promoters of the Nicaragua
canal and service pension bills, that the
Government depends solely on the peo-
pie for all 1t has or can have; that it
cannot create work any more than it can
create money, and that the only way
man can earn bread is by the sweat Of
his brow. Every citizen must care for
himself and then for the Government,
and not look for the Government to give
him work or bounties, or subsidies Of
any kind.-Louisvill Post.