The herald., 1894-04-02
Tnno. PINTHER.
Counsel who would Follow the First
Army.

Counsel who Would Follow the First
Army.
EDIroRs HERALD There should be
/ something done to convince the men
now proposing to send second expedi-
/ ton from Loa Angeles to the east that 1t
is worse than lunatic proposition. The
experience already harvested should be
something more than proof OF what
may be expected, and repetition can
only bring suffering upon those who un-
dertake 1t. as we'll az perhaps to bring
about collisions which would prove dis
astrous.
The great mass OF the sufferers from
non-em ploymens are eaat within i've or
elk days' walk of Washington. A
million OF men could present themselves
ii necessary from the great cities OF New
York, Baltimore, Pl liiRdelphia, Brook
lyn, etc. Why, therefore, should the
residents OF Los Angeles undertake an
impossihility
Washington is 5000 miles distant and
il the men are law abiding and 60 on
foot they cannot average more than 10
miles per day, and ii they persisted it
would require 200 days and they would
reaeh Washington about November 1st,
long alter all the others who propose to
I
have been disposed of.
Third-Havo 800 men the right to
impose q burden upon various COM
munities to feed them throughout 200
daye, imposing certainly an expense OF
not lees than s75 per day-a total OF
$15,000--upon strangers, aud bearing
the hostility, tho anger. the legal obsts-
Gles aud the punishments, which will
be steadily attempted against them?
In Buffalo, se eleewhers, the villainous
perversion Of Law has bean carried into
effect, in defiance of the United States
constitution, and American citizens
have been thrown into jail and pun
ished for the sin of poverty. and the
effort to Join Co1ey. In Texas the
Southern Pacific company has cast out
upon a desert and lett there, help
less and poweress, the 600 men who lett
here two weeks ago, and thereby they
have raised q storm of indignation
among the people of Texas at the afro
cious inhumanity, which that corpora
tlon will be made to repent OF. The
generous hearted Texans will not per-
NIT these men to etarve-though the
burden will be heavier because the en-
tire state has just been devastated by
the destruction of nearly all the crops
in cattle and sheep, from the past
weeks unprecedented storms and
freezes.
Fourth--In view OF these facts and
the sure suffering and death OF many in
this useless and uncalled for adventure,
will not these unemployed people re-
member "lAat it is better to bear the
i'll we have than fly to others We know
not OF ?''
VIII they consider that they are to be
favored more than others, and that
when they chafe over non-employmeut
and present poverty, that they have
fewer ills than the myriads east who
are actually on the brink OF starvation?
They know perfectly that the poor-the
Salvation army, the Holiness brethren
and others, will always take from their
scanty earnings to supply the still
poorer with something to eat.
Fifth--Is it not fact that under the
law everybody, no matter how rich and
how powerful, is entitled to dispose of
their own as they please; and that the
great railroad corporations will refuse to
grant trans ,ortation to thie body OF
men-that the forcible seizure OF trains
will be criminal, and killing of the
trespasaers will be justifabe, and kill
ing of the railroad employees will be
murder2
That the body OF men are simply, as
it were. drop in the bucket, compared
to the four or elk millions OF men sup
posed TO bs in compulsory idleness in
the states east Of the Rockies?
Sixth--Do they suppose that congress
or executive, drawing their great sal
aries, buying more than double OF
everything by enhancement of gold,
would listen to them for moment or
enter d motion OF any kind looking to
the relief of the suffering and the deati.
tute, thereby puszling the brains and
worrying the intelleets which never yet
| have had sympathy for the poor or
mercy towards the great brotherhood OF
man?
Seventh--If they have any idea of
bringing down retributlon upon those
who have brought about this un-
paralleled nisery, ruin and desolation,
! let ouch as believe in future remember
"Vengence ia Mine, saith the Lord, and
be content to know that the whitening,
| biistering curse OF Christ is still exist
ent when he proclaimed for all the
centuries, and all the peoplea precisely
what should be adjudged Then shall
he cay also unto them on the left hand,
depart from me We cursed into everlast.
ing fire prepared for the devil and his
angels. For was en- hungered and ye
gave me no meat; was thirsty and ye
gave me no drink | was stranger and
We took me not in; naked and We clothed
mo not; sick and in prison and ye visited
ne not. Verify | say unto you, mas
much as ye did it not to one OF the least
OF these ye did it not to me, aud theee
shall go away into everlasting punish
ment."
Everybody knows OF this. If they pre-
fer to hold on to the God-money-the
have the right under the law, and they
may some day realize the parable Of
Lazarus: "Remembe that thou in
thy lifetime receivedst thy good things,
and likewise Lazsrus evil things. but
now he is comiorted and thou art tor
mented."
Man is free agent-he carves out his
own destiny--and he ''reaps as he has
sowed." Yours truly,