The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-05-15
THE TRAPPING coMMoNwEAL.
Gill ARP LECTURES ON CoxEy.

,No Patience with the Vaga-
4 Army-Congress is Laughing
,klessly While the Country IL Suf-
Ing.
nta Constitution.
.'here was a time when every State
I'd y law Furnishing vagrancy and 1t
i'd that any man who was found go
about In idleness and had no yisi-
means of support should be deemed
q vagrant, and on conviction should be
Imprisoned and put to labor. don't
think that law has ever been repealed
in Georgia, but it Is q dead letter and
L reckon II ought to be in these hard
times. There are now thousands who
are idle and have no means OF support
visible or invisible. Most OF them are
willing to work, but can't get work to
do. Nevertheless this Coxey army is
cursion Of willing Migrants who would
rather plumber than work. W. have
no patience with them-no considera-
tion for them. II any OF them have
families, where are they n who Is
supporting them while the head OF the
house Is bowling over the country? II
they have no families, why don't they
scatter W the West or the South and
work for their victuals and clothes on
Gho luElIS vi LII Ulo DuluSo vi oh Wiz
railroads rather than to beg or to rob
or intimidate for o living Most OF
them are like the organ grinder who
stops under your window and grinds
out his horrid music until the lady OF
the house throws him n nickle and
says "Please pass on" "Na, na,"
he replies, me pass IN for two nickels,"
and he grinds away until she throws
him another. The good people along
the route OF this army are alarmed at
their presence and give them bread
and cities. They are looked upon as
dangerous and they are. Governor
Mckinley showed the right pluck
when he scattered the Migrants who
stole the train at Mt. Sterling. There
has got to be an example made Of
somebody, even if it takes Calling guns
to do it. II this kind Of thing is to go
on we had better change tho republic
TO a monarchy at once and be done
with it. II the people can't govern the
people we will have to have q standing
many has and England and France and
quarter troops all over the country to
preserve the peace and protect private
property These strikers are not
much better, for they won't work them
selves nor let anybody else take their
places. IT Is all q spirit OF anarchy
and violence and lawlessness. There
are demagogues who lead them and en-
courage them and seek to array tho
poor against the rich-the laborer
against the capitalist-and ride into
Office or power on the discussions and
sufferings of the people.
Now, with all this devilish spirit on
the one hand, there is on the other a
reckless, ruinous Congress that sits
there and laughs at their own Jokes
and quarrels and talks and prints their
speeches and draws their pay and
tramps over the country when they
feel like it. A late correspondent says
the average daily number of absentees
in the House is seventy, and hence it
frequently takes several days to get a
quorum. The cost of a session is said
to be half a million q day and the peo-
pie have it to pay. When will this
outrage cease? When will they pass
q tariff bill? It does not matter much
what kind of a bill it Is so they pass
one. Capital is waiting on Congress,
and labor is waiting on capital. Mil
lions are lying idle hat would be in
vested in manufactures or in mines or
railroads, II III was known what the
tariff a An Ohio man fears to build
a wooden mill because he doesn't know
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mills or not. Just so with the shoe
man and the paper mill man and tho
clothing man and the nail makers and
q hundred other things that the tariff
affects. Thore Is just as much money
in the land as there ever was, and all
the silver bills and bank tax bills will
do no good until tho tariff bill is passed
and the money turned loose and the
wheels Of industry begin to move. L
Iao,,1 N r,ar an,y t&lo,@ N,rIf 4 - 10
more money per capita" Well sup
pose there was. How am l to get my
share of it unless | work for it, and how
am / to work unless somebody employs
me, and who will employ me until con-
gress fixes the tariff? But is it possible
that Brice and others are specializing
on sugar stock and keeping the tariff
on sugar in Il n uncertain state while
they are trading la it? 1t is openly
charged that they are, and that is why
the tariff bill can't pass. They want
liver us! tell you what is the fact
whom the people ruminate over all
these things they have a tired feeling
akin to despair. / meet good old-time
democrats all over the country, and
there is no enthusiasm, no confidence,
and If there was any other respectable
party they would join it. l have heard
them say they were now willing for
the republicans to take the government
and 1t, as it would be better than
all this wrangling and delay-all this
long uncertainty, all this marching to
Washington. The democracy has had
the President Inc the House and the
Senate for two years and done nothing
for relief. How much longer will Con-
gress abuse our patience? Whom
shall we trust? Whom shall we elect
to Congress the next time? The old
set are already setting their traps and
putting bait on the triggers. TO get
back Is the big thing. There is not
enough difference in the two great par
ties to give the people much concern.
The pending tariff bill, with all it's
amendments, Is no better than the Nc
Kinley bill. Its tweedle-dum and
t~weedle-dee, but the people want it
settled so that capital can go to work.
Machine politics! Why, it is openly
charged that right here at homo In
Georgia, the State Of Toombs and
Stephens and Ben Hill and johnson
and Cobb and jenkins, whose illustri-
GUS examples are still fresh and green
In our memories, there is a court
house ring composed of nearly all the
judges and solicitors in the State, and
that this ring has q working fund of
10000 to control the Legislature and
put their slate in office. When | first
heard of this Twas indignant at the
the vile SANDER, but it keeps on com
Ing, and Is openly chargediu respect