The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-03
sEArTLK. TUEsDAY. ArRfL
coxKY.s ARMY.

The purpose Of Coxey's army IL to make
. display before congress- and bulIdozs
that body into issuing plenty Of paper
money and guaranteeing plenty OF work
by the government at prices above the mar
kst. Coxey's army would like TO make the
same display in Washington that swift's
mob did In Boston. Every intelligent man
knows that under our form OF government
our legislature has no power to found
public workshops for tho purpose OF Civ
ing work 70 the unemployed. France tried
this policy, which operated to glut the
market. drive ont private enterprise and
increase the distress 1t was designed to
remedy.
Swift, the leader of the Boston mob, -
his intelligence by playing upon ignors ncs.
raising false hopes and interfering with
the effective and wisely directed measures
Of relief. In one of his speeches Swift
asked, "Are you In favor Of taking their
property away from the rich7" OF course
that question 10 noting but an invitation to
lawiessness and crime. Coxey protests
against the honest and bnsibess-liks
method OF paying the governments debt
by issuing interest-bearing bonds. and in
sists on the issus Of large issue OF fat
paper money which Is a forced loan and
swindIe. The third section OF one OF
Coxsy's bills 10 a. foliows:
That oil labor other than that of the
ofiice of secretary Of war, whose compen-
sations are already lxed by law, shall be
paid by the day and that the rate bs not
less than one dollar and fifty cents day
for common labor and three dollars and
fifty cents for team and labor, and that
eight hours per day shali constitute .
days labor under the provisions of the
States making application to labor shall
Be employed"
Such IN army. led BY such man, even
- It reached its destination. could accom-
plish nothing: they could have no infiu-
encs with congress, for congress cannot
legally so outside its fund smental powers
Of legislation, and when 10 does IL has 10
meet the veto Of . president and the sub
sequent legal construction OF its powers by
the supreme court Tho whole thing il
sure to he as great fixxle rs the celebrated
English Chartist procession that was ad-
vertsed te meet in ksnsington common
April 10. is&s. and march 500 900 strong %
present petition to the house of com
mons. The object was TO make such a
parade of ply steal force a. should oversws
tho legislature and the government and
demonstrate the impossihiiity of refusing
ademand backed by such an enormou,
reserve Of power. This demonstration
proved a wrc,ched failure The pro.
session was not formed; its illc-
gality was proclaimed by the government
and the petition when presented only
served to excite laughter. 1t proved the
last gasp of that abused form of English
Chartism which proposed TO settle a polli.
teal controversy by physical force and
which held that the wage receiving
classes. and they alone. are the People of
England"
OF shls last moheerstic move of Chart
lam the London Tiaes of the following
day said tina, there VAS absolutely moth.
ing TO record. nothing eIoert the blank.
est expectation, tie most miserable gan
ing. gossiptng and grumbling of disap.
pointed listeners; the standing about. the
roaming To and fro. the dispensing and The
sneaklng home OF some poor sgmpleton.
who had wandered forth in the hone OF
some miraculous crisis in their affairs"
This will To tho ultimate fate of the in
dustriai armies Of Cotsy and Fry.