The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-27
The Difference Between Tweedle-
dunn and TWeedIe-dee.

0um ana IWeeOlesuee.
The greatest sensational stories have
been published daily in the shylock city
press since Coxey and his commonweal-
ers started on their march towards Wash
ington, and other similar bodies of
marchers have sprung mp in different
parts of the country. These shylock
papers have striven to egg on the author
tiles of every town the commonwealers
were advertised to pass by, to arrest,
! hand cuff, imprison or dispetse them in
any way, no matter if they were shot
down. They were tranps, Migrants,
thieves, anarchists, &c. The people were
reported to be in the greatest consterna-
ton, and ready to abandon their homes.
The authorities of some of the towns did
attempt to deal harshly with the
armies" on the advice of these incen-
diary daily plutocratic organs, but the
people rose up in opposition to any i'll
treatment of the quiet, orderly, molten
sive people who were travelling along the
highways as they, in common with every
American citizen have perfect right to
do. The marchers are not only protected
by the people from the would-be ruffians
of the law, but are supplied with provis-
ions in abundance, and have been cheer
ed and encouraged as they passed along,
by the plain people who feel too keenly
the cause of these unusual movements,
and sy1npathise with, in place of abusing
the men who declare they will march to
Washington on foot and lay before
Congress their grievances, and the griev-
ances of millions of other men and
women whose crime is in finding no
work to do, and ask Congress to consider
measures for the relief of the suffering
people.
The police of Washington were max
ing extensive preparations to meet with
ball and bayonet the marchers on the
borders of the district and proceed to
arrest and imprison innocent men without
Judge or jury, and the plutocratic papers
were urging the police of the Capital to
Crush" this movement of ''tramps" in
the bud with strong hand.
Now mark the difference On last
Friday an advanced guard of upwards of
300 1nen and women reached Washington,
who were announced, by thse same papers,
as company of working people whose
business was to ask Congress to legislate
in the special interest of the employees
the working, but idle peop1e-ofth the man.
ufactories. This advanced guard to be
followed by an army of 1000. In place
of being met by the Capital police with
handouts, this "army' was escorted to
a hall which had been specially provided
for their reception, where speeches were
made and the object of their visit
announced.
The announced purpose of these two
"armies" is exactly the same in principle,
to solicit Congress to enact such 1egisla-
ton as would furnish the one with work
i'll the factories, the other asks, or pro-
poses to, for legislation which will fur
nish work for the idle millions of every
class, in the country.
One army represents the 1owly, and
having no means with which to pay car
fare tramp on foot to reach the Nations
Capital and law makers the other is the
army of the monopo1ists. The latter is
provided with railroad transportation by
their wealthy employers and are welcomed
by the same papers and the police of the
Capital, their expenses paid and are
treated in sumptuous manner, while the
former, who plead for consideration for
the plain, working people, are in danger
of being devoured by the minions of the
law and the paper heralds of plutocracy.
This and similar acts are gradually open.
ing the blind eyes of the people. More
and more plainly the line which is being
drawn between the classes of wealth and
luxury, and the masses of hunger and
privation are appearing. The future
political contests will not be sham battle
between two sets of politicians calling
themselves republicans and democrats,
but between the people and privileged
class of plutocrats. The Commonweal
enthusiasm is spreading like wild fire
over the country.
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