The record-union., 1894-04-28
THE INDUSTRIAL ARMY.

Senator Wolcott speaks in Opposition
to Aliens Coxey Resolution.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-When Senator
Aliens Coxey resolution came up in the
Senate yesterday Mr.. Woleott OF Colorado
entered a vigorous protest against It's
passage. He was at a loss, he said, to
understand the purpose of the resolution,
which would not change the law in any
respect, but simply extended crInging
invitation to those men calling themselves
unemployed, some of whom were COM
ing by begging, some by their overpoWer-
ing force and some on stolen trains.
The only excuse Tor such laWleSs action
as had been recently enacted had been
the utterances of men in high places,
holding offices. Members OF the Senate
who had spoken Of a Servlle police force
and paid soldiery seemed to think 1t
proper to denounce in the Senate men
sworn to do their duty. 1t was TO oe re-
gretted that the Governors of certain
States had been so unWlse as TO urge
these men to make descent on the Cap
ital of the United States. Ills own State
had the misfortune to have one OF these
Governors, whose antics had brought
discredit and dishonor to his common
wealth and sullied her fair name.
L
ing with these methods Of the Admins
tration. The times were out of joint, but
the cause might be attributed to one
thing or another. He believed that most
of the men in CoXey'S army might be
honest, but they were led by men who
were crankS. insane or vicious. But their
methods Of righJing wrongs could result
in no good; tniS could. only come from
the natural beneficence OF mankind,
which, as the world grew better, made
men more humane and kind.
There should be no man suffering for
bread in this broad domain of the United
States who was willing to work. There
was to-day no man who sincerely desired
to work for the support of himself and
his family who could not get work, or
bread to put into the mouths of himself
and his little ones until work could be
found.
II am tired of this talk of national
demonstration" he said. sin Colorado
to-day, crushed and humiliated as she is
by the action of Congress, / venture to
say that no man is suffering because he
can find no work or no willing hands to
assist in supporting him until work can be
found for him. l believe the time has come
when those of us who are in public life
ought to begin to cultivate more regard
for the perpetuity of republican institu-
tions and to pander less to that misled
portion of the labor vote whose labor is
with their throats and never with
their hands.
at is time that we stood up for Ameri-
can manhood, for the right OF every man
to work if he wants to, if it takes the
whole army of the United States to enable
him to do so. The right of every man is
to enjoy equal liberty with every other
man. and that means that he shall have
such liberty as is not inconsistent with
the equal rights of his neighbors. the
right to hold and enjoy the property
which the laws of the country have en-
abled him to secure.
at is time we had the courage to stand
together against this socialism, populism
and paternalism which is running riotin
this country and which must END in the
destruction of the liberties which the laws
give us-Gberties which should be dearer
to US than life ITSELF"
a number of Senators took the pains to
go to Senator Wolcott after he had con-
cluded his remarks and express their ap-
probation of what he had said.