The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-12
JERRY ON COXEY.
JerrySimpsOn Says the Country
Isn't Healthy.
The Coxey Movement is a Sign
of Disease.
LOTS OF SYMPATHY.
The People Feel Sorry for the
Poor Tramps.
LOTS OF SYMPATHY.

WASHINGTON, April 49, Especial -
Jerry Simpson, after a long siege of inter
mittent fever, is once more able to hold
down his seat and indulge in a few
marks on the war in South Carolina and
Pennsylvania considered in connection
with the present condition and eternal des-
tiny of things in general. His naturally
dark countenance has, however, taken on
asaturnine hue, and his talk, though sharp
as ever, has quite ceased to be funny
Jerry Simpsons Views
He looks on all these fights and strikes
Coxey's army and the rest of it as merely
symptoms and says: ''The fact to be not
ed is that there is SO much sympathy
among the people for this gang that is fol-
lowing Coxey. Now, if this country were
in healthy condition or even in condi-
ton half as good as it ought to be and cas-
lily could be, the country people would
never think of feeding such q gang as that.
He couIdn't get up such a gang in the first
place, but go where you viii through the
country now, and you will hear the people
saying: Let the poor fellows tramp if they
like. We know that we are not making
anything, and maybe they can gain some
thing by tram ping on
Another thirg should be noticed: A
few years ago it used to be said that, al
though the laborers in the cities might
strike and riot, yet the country people
port of tho law That is all played out
now. See how little interest the farmers
of Pennsylvania take in that fighting in
the coke region It's the same everywhere.
You will get no militia from the country
to do any shooting. The farmers are will
ing to stand back and let the strikers and
the capitalists fight it out in their own
way The minute any man proposes a
moderate reform there is a great cry of
communist, socialist, stirring up the
-
thing. Dan Voorhees, speech was no
sooner printed than that cry was heard all
over the country. All che same the labor
ers go ON raising the devil, and the CAPT
talists go on insisting that there must be
no peaceable REFORM And with these
words the feeble and bilious looking states
man sighed and took another quinine cap
sule.
Silver Men Aggravated.
His remarks about the railroad and com
merce committees, which werc entirely too
long to quote seem in a fair way to be
verified, for after throwing out promises
of combining the proposed bills into one
the com rnittoe on railroads now want to
take the Boatner resolution and make it
all over The prophecy of Mr. Simpson
agrees with that of Senator Cullom made
early in the session. fact worthy of spe-
cial note, as it is probably the only point
on which those statesmen agree. The SEN
ator said the committees were
made up that nothing whatever was to be
done during this congress and no matter
how near the committees might seem to
get to decided action correspondents might
rely on it that all railroads would continue
as they are, so far as this congress was con-
cerned- The latest proposition, and one
which senators think will be under discus
sion some time, is for the government to
sell it's claims on the Union and Central
Pacific for a lump sum.
1t required no great wisdom to foresee
that the veto of the Bland seigniorage bill
would aggravate the silver men. that it
could not be passed over the veto, that the
second defeat would aggEavate them still
more, and that they would talk very loud
and make angry threats Of radical action.
What the other fellows did not expect,
however, was that the silver men would
go to work quietly and resClutely to recon
struct their lines for another battle before
the people And yet it looks just now as
if that were TO be the outcome. There is,
so far-as known, very sharp difference of
opinion. The great majority are for fight
ing the battle out within party lines, but
a very considerable minority are for de-
claring openly against the president and
entering at once upon campaign to COM
bine the west and south Meanwhile it is
noted curious fact that appeals to the
senate from the country to hasten action
on the tariff bill have fallen off wonderful
ly, and the number Of lobbyists working
for changes in the tariff has of late rapid
ly grown less OF course two conclusions
are drawn-one that the people
satisfied that the bill is doomed, and the
other that they are satisfied it will pass
substantially as reported to the senate and
have arranged their business and gone to
work on that basis BE that it may, the
fact is that they have pretty much quit
bonn harding the senate on the subject
A Wide Range of Opinion.
After a good deal of pounding, two or
three senators have given q sort of opinion
as TO the time Of the bill in their house.
Mr.. Voorhees, still hopes that it will be-
come q law early in June, and Mr.. Sher-
man thinks it will be out of the senate as
early as the 1st of October. They allow
themselves a deal of range. These tbs
extremes Other senators, so far they
will express themselves, range over the
whole period between these two dates.
Senator Allen does not see any imperative
reason why they should ever stop the de-
bate if no rule is adopted for by the time
they get around the senate those who spoke
first have fresh speeches ready, and
thus, like Tennyson's brook, go for
ever, as this will accomplish their main
object of defeating all reform legislation
whatever Members of the house are even
moro scattering in their views Mr. VIII
son writes that he Is regaining strength
rapidly and will be able to take charge of
the bill when it is returned to the house
early in the summer Mr.. BrOokshire says
Coxey's army has driven the tariff out of
his mind, and he wants order made
for Morse of Massachusetts, and Blair of
New Hampshire TO meet said army at the
District boundary and make speeches to
it, John Allen says - Don't ask conun-
drums L have seen SO many promising
schemes come suddenly to naught (the
southern confederacy, for instance) that
long ago quit p-ophesying- no longer at
tempt to solve the insoluble or scPute the
inscrutable- -