The Washington times., 1894-05-27
A WONAN'S VOICE.
For Gen. Coxey and Our Nations Many
TOilers

fOT ueu SOXey dhu OuT NatlOnS MANY
Toiiers.
THE TINES has been intrusted with letter
for delivery to Mr.. Coxey. The writer fur
nishes US with copy and requests its publi-
cation Sin the name of justice, common de-
cency, and respectful consideration of the
rights of visitors TO this city who through ig-
norance may at any moment be caught in the
meshes of cobweb law and be thrust into
prison.
The following is the letter:
Hon. J. S CoxEy, DEAR SIR: As native Of this
city, With my devoted parents and all dear 10
me buried here, desire TO be known TO Messrs.
Browne, jones' and Yourself as not being among
the number who sanctioned the indignities i'm
posed upon you or the extreme sentence passed
upon you By Judge Miller for so trivial charge,
even thought IL were true; but as followed yCu
with others from the time you LETT your carriage
till you mounted the fourth step of the Capitol
know you carried no banner, and that you did
not even step on the grass. II your imprison-
ment or that of Messrs Brown and Jones was
the result of willful transgression of an ordi-
nance it would be unquestionably Just, but 10
trump Up trivial charge of that kind upon
strangers, while 5000 residents were walking
all over the grass, shows a wanton determine
tion seemingly, on the part of the authorities
to aggravate an open breach of the peace by
you or your followers to bring your cause into
disrepute and TO destroy your widespread popu-
larity.
The vile indignities imposed upon you and
your companions and the base attempts of the
gold ring to hush your voice against the wror gs
perpetrated under the cloak Of the law is but
the adding of fdel, as it WERE TO confined flames
that are already licking the crevices from Maine
to California and from Canada to Mexico
A little more ignoring of the rights of our ma
tons toilers, little more deafness to the cries
of the poor, a little more persecution under the
name of the law, and a few more bond issues
and all will behold the bursting flames of de-
Struction-
This attempt to tarnish your good name by
imprisonment, 10 lessen you in the estimation of
the public is but adding luster 10 your sheen
Instead of intimidEtng your followers by such
a course, they are squirting them on TO that
glorious victory that must come TO all who
espouse the cause of that class who too often
forgotten-too seldom membered-the poor
Iregard 1t as an honor to be placed in bonds
for the advocacy OF principles that tend TO open
the eyes Of the downtrodden poor and rouse
them to q sense of the evil legislation that has
brought upon them idleness and distress When
the steps of our public buildings are covered
with homeless paupers, as they are in England
every afternoon and night, our artisans will be
aroused from their Iethargy and wish there
were a few more deyoted to the principles for
which You have been indirectly prosecuted and
imprisoned.
Ii must be clear to all who work at the build
ing trades that there was building boom in all
large cities till n bond issue was talked of, but
with that issue and the hope of further issues
building booms have ceased, because bonds are
free from taxation and buildings are not. and
yet, strange to say, our ripe experienced rulers
are investigating q? the cause of hard times.
Your Imprisonment when a fine would have
answered the ends of justice shows clearly how
the money lenders are bling In their boots
Therefore, instead of Offering my sympathy in
what some might term the dark hours OF your
lives, allow me to take you each by the hand
as 1t were, while congratulate you upon the
hopeful outcome OF your loyal, self-sacri1cing
devotion TO principles that have in them an liz
dispensable ring Of honesty-principles which
If carried ou;. will truly make Of our nation "a
government Of the people, by the people, for the
people" God bless YOU all
Most respectfully,
MIS-. ALBERT NJ RAYMOND,
1O6 Seventeenth street northeast