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WHITTIER COXEYISM MAY LEAD.
It Is No Easy Matter to Destroy and
Obliterate a Movement which has
Become So Widespread.

Become So Widespread.
Our great thought -moulders, the
newspaper writer's, are inclined to treat
tlippantly this movement of the Com
monwealers, now that it has served it's
turn and contributed subject matter to
the press dispatches, and would will
lingly relegate it to the obscurity from
whence it sprung, now that it has out
grown it's usefulness. They seem to
| forget, however, that it is no easy mat
ter to destroy and consign to oblivion
movement which has once achieved
notoriety so widespread. If the news
papers had let it alone in the start in
stead of according it gratultous adver-
tising. the movement and it's imbecile
OriginatOrs might have died natural
death for want of the nOurishment
they craved and so cheaply obtained
at the hands of our great news makers.
Now there is just bare possibility
that what at present seems an lnslg-
niticant evil, may in time become an
all powerful one, and the despised fol
lowers of Gen. CoXey may prove but
the nucleus of just such another
rabble as gave to France her revOlu-
ton. The leader of this ragamutfin
horde has not, it must be confessed,
very imposing individuality; he is not
apparently Of the clay from which we
are told great heroes are fashioned,
! and one can safely assume that very
little of genius, either military or
| diplomatic, looks out through the
: glasses of this much despised leader OF
tramps. We must concede, however.
that Coxey is by long odds the supe-
rior in polite attainments, in education,
and in state craft of either Marat or
' RObespierre, and France can never
2 erase those OdiOus names from her his
D tory, since they inscribed their auto
: graphs with pen dipped in the bluest
r blood of the empire. The argument
e naturally arises that our country is no
. hot-bed of revOlutionists such as at
, that time peopled France; our people
e are larger principled, broader minded,
k more enlightened than were these
n fanatics, and no like danger could ever
O threaten such a nation as America,
O with it's freedom, its equality and It's
/ culture. Let me venture the query:
/ Whence comes our constant yearly in
# crease in population, so great that each
,r recurring census adds millions to the
frn1 M
l. And further: What class OF people US
-s uallv migrate from their own country,
n which contains the ashes OF their an
n cestors, to a new country OF which they
e. know nothing and to whose laws Gus
20 toms and institutions they can bear no
II love or reverence? If it be the best or
m the Wisest class it is not aSSuredly the
h most patriotic. From such accesslons
10 if might become possible at no late day
n to recruit al army Of sans culottes
n. who cOulC institute new reign OF
rv terror. twenty-five years ago such
lv conjecture would have been vain ano
FL foolish. because America had not theI
so become a refuge for foreign malcon
.r- tents: but will it be so, as many years
in hence, with each years increase-ls L
he SO even to-day, when our native bor1
H. tramps and their alien born brothers
ia the anarchists and socialists whom
ns Europe donates with each incoming
,st vessel. form so considerable as well a:
ed formidable factor ofour population
mn ABE