St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-17
POSITION OF GENUINE INDUS.
TRY

In the name of Hugh O'Donnell the
reading public will recognize the leader
of the Homestead strike, which created
a profound sensation throughout the
country. AT the inception of the Coxey
movement Mr.. O'Donnell attached him
self to the moving column as a news
paper correspondent aud made the
march from Massillon to Washington.
He thus prepared himself to express an
opinion, the significant portion of which
is the following:
That the movement in any way rep
resents the sentiment of the laboring
classes of the country is utter noa-
sense. There is no man in the country
VITO has the good of the labOring man
more at heart than have, and l have
made 1t my business to go into shops all
along the route on the march to Wash
inglon and see what the workingmen
really thought on the subject. Without
exception they ridlculed it, and l did
not find respectable workingman who
would have thought for an instant of
leaving ms place, however poor it might
have been, TO join in such a demOnStra-
ton.
Here is direct and consequential
refutation of the claims made by the
Republican partisan press. which has
unscrupulouSly asserted, and still maill-
tainS, that the movement was Instituted
by workingmen and given form in their
behalf, because congress. at the direc-
ton of majority of the people of the
country. had set to work to reform the
tariff by eXpunging its inequalities,
It's burdens upon consumers and its
class privileges for favored combina-
tons and monopolies.
If Mr.. ODonnell is not a compete 1T
authority upon the animus of the move
ment, then no man is qualified to de-
scribe it. Ii he may not bear truthful
witness that it is not the offspring OF
apprehension from the Wilson bill OF
whatever tariff reform and modification
shall prevail. then no man has author
lty to assume that the WOrkingmen OF
the country feel themselves injured or
in danger because it is proposed that
relief shall be afforded them against the
eXtortions Of taxation imposed under
the most shameful abuse and pretenSe
of protection to industry.
No doubt O'Donnell placed himself
upon post of observation, thinking
that the movement might mean some
good to his craft. But whether so OF
not, he denounces it as all imposition,
and declares that it is the equivalent of
crime to associate any genuine work
ingman with it. Of the men under
whose direction the array set out from
Ohio. he says that ''neither of them are
sincere in the promises they hold out to
their followers or the position they as
sumo before the public. Coxey is a
horse jockey, and Browne is mounte-
bank of the worst description. Coxey
is not the sort of a man to lead i'll any
movement. ANY plan that Coxey would
be mixed up in would mean Coxey first
and every one else afterward. All that
CoXey stands for is CoXey. and all that
Browne stands for is Browne. The men
under them stand for nothing at all. as
rule"
That is plain and dignified descrip-
ton of the impOStorS who have been
held up as heroes by servile partisans
who are bound to preserve McKinleyism
at any cost to the people. But ODOn-
nell strips off the mask. The working
men are not in the movement, nor are
they alarmed because of tariff reform.
What the real werkingmen of this land
desire. what they have PRAYED for and
hoped for even to the point of despair,
is that partisan obstruction shall cease
against the mitigation of the burdens
they have had TO bear from the heart
less, remorseless greed tostered by the
Mckinley tariff. Upon the heads of
those who are thwarting these hopes,
who are hindering true men in the dis
charge of duty, rests the responsibility
for Coxeyism. the synonym of McKin-
leyism. and the decentralization which
for the tiEie being impedes the indus
trial world.