The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-28
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There is an idea among them that by
crowding to Washington they will be
able to awe the powers that be into
shoveling out money to them. or pro-
viding for them an easy living. Coxey
says he does not want gold or silver,
but plenty of paper money. And there
are numbers of the men ignorant
enough to think that President Cleve-
land could, if he pleased, deal out from
the national treasury money enough to
supply the wants of the army for
some time. to come.
AS a sample of the understanding
some of them have about the power
of public officials, one of the army"
here. criticizing Governor Vests action
at ogden, declared: why. he ought
TO have gone down into the treasury
and handed out thousand dollars at
least to help the army instead of try
ing to stop EN- When informed that
the Governor couldn't take money from
the treasury. and if he could he would
be liable to prosecution for misappro-
priating the public funds, the com
monwealer' was astounded.
There are d number of them who
have had city or county employment
and now are out of job, as there has
been no use for some time for labor
ers to secure their votes. And the
language they use as to the present
city authorities is more emphatic than
polite
The Detroit Tribune puts the matter
in very strong light. There has been
an uprising in that city. A number of
men who were out of work were given
employment by the city. It was found
that daily wages was not a good way
to get anything like an equiva-
lent for what was given them.
So payment for excavation by the
cubic yard was substituted. This
was followed by strike. The city
authorities suspended operations. When
the city engineer and a corps of men
went to remove the tools, a collision
ensued and blood was shed, the sheriff
was MORALLY wounded and two rioters
were killed. The Detroit Tribune makes
these comments:
Charity has run wild in Detroit for
the past six months. Beginning with
the wonderful Thanksgiving Offering of
the Chapman movement, the poor have
been deluged with gifts 1t has been a
glorious and edifying sight in many
ways, and would have oeen productive
only Of good except for the existence of
that class of people, unfortunately very
large, who are easily encouraged in the
dangerous belief that the world owes
them a living. There can be hardly a
doubt that efforts to sustain themselves
on The part of the poor have greatly
lessened. in the aggregate, as a direct
result of the bounteous charity of last
winter. Here is another evidence Of it.
LabOrers refuse to work and refuse to
let others work
This is equally true of the situation
in other places. There is also a political
side to the matter. The Detroit Tribune
says on this:
The foreign element has been made
the pampered pet of political parties.
Candidates for office have hidden
against each other foE the support of
the alien population until the latter
have been filed with grotesque and
dangerous notions of their own import
.ance. They have become the naughty
dictators of political action. They have
been encouraged, deliberately, to expect
disproportionate favoTs. They have
been taught to regard themselves as a
privileged class. The harvest is come.
AT the first pinch of the hard times
last year, the offices of the city govern
ment were surrounded by a mob. come
to seek employment which had failed
elsewhere, not IN humility, but in anger.
They came for what could only be
given them as aims. but they demanded
lit as their rightful belonging. They
StOrmed against doors and filled the
air with the direst threats They de-
clared that they knew their rights.
They knew their rights only as they
had been taught them by the deferen-
tial attitude towards them Of public
men seeking political preferment In
the city offices they found the same citi-
Zens who had truc1led for their suf-
frages They insisted upon the same
measure of consideration that they had
received in the heat of a campaign.
They got it, uniformly
Among officials there was a scramble
for work tickets, to throw to the clam
orous multitude, and feed its insane and
dangerous notions. The alderman and
commissioner got down on his knees
and the mob was further exalted. Work
was given indiscriminately to such as
brought the most pressure to bear. The
foreign voter saw himself favored
again, and his haughtiness grew. The
pampered pet of the politician was ripe
for murder and riot
This pandering to the disconnected
among the laboring elements by poll
ticians has not been without examples
in this part of the country, and its
effects are altogether evil. Legislation
should never be the result of the pres
ence or threats of a mob, and the com
monwealers will find that their massing
together and attempting to overawe the
Congress of the United States will be a
failure. The encouragement given to
them in their foolish project is wrong
and shameful. We do not mean by this
the aid given to men out of work to
return to the East, but to the fostering
of their scheme to march upon Wash
ington.
On this matter the New York Post
remarks:
Can any one imagine an honest labor
er, eager for work, with or without a
family to support, setting out on such
an expedition and steadily refusing or
avoiding employment by the farmers
all along his quite? Does any one
know of such a person? The s11ccess