The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-20
NOTICE.
PROVO CITY. APRIL 20, 1894
THE FIRST THREAT.
We found this dispatch in the Desc
ret News of last evening:

We found this dispatch in the Desc
ret News of last evening:
PITTsBURG, April 19.-Dispatch as
sembly No. 8 of the knights of Labor,
with a membership of Is, 200, has
adopted the following manifesto to be
sent to every district assembly in the
United States, and by them sent to the
respective congressman:
"The senate and house are ever
prompt to eoncede the demands of the
money traders of Europe and America
for relief, but when the industrisls,
who made the country what it is today,
present petitions. signed by thousands
of their class, they are thrown into the
waste baskets. The citizens of the
United States have right to assemble
peaceably and present petitions and
are entitled to be heard. CoXey and
his followers represent the John
Brown movement without arms.
Liberate the wage slaves. Do not
refuse to hear and consider their de-
mands. Do not arrest too many of
them, as nine out ten industrials of
the country sympathlze with the
Coxey object. Neither will be safe.
Small uprisings are called riots; large
uprisings, revolutions, and if success
full, the inRtigators are called pa
triots."
This is the first authoritative express
sion from the industrials in the ma
ture of threat against the govern
ment. Indeed it is the first authorita-
tive expression of the leading purpose
of the "army"-that is, that it pro-
poses to present a petition which it
knows will not be needed, but behind
that stands spectre-like, the threat of
revolution. Laugh, how we may, but
we are confronting situation which
speaks loudly and threateninglY of
war. The reference to the constitu-
tional right Of assembling to present
petition is an indication that the in
dustrials are doing their best to pro-
ceed in their movement within the
pale of the law. This, at the outset,
will make them infinitely strong. But
before long the threat of proceeding to
evolution standing behind the declar-
alton of the right to petition, will i'm
press itself upon both the senate and
the house, and the senators and re-
presentatives at first will be very angry,
and while this anger is at its height
some act will be done, some word
spoken which will light the train and
an explosion will occur which will
shake the very foundation of the gov
eminent
When King George Ill was told
that unless he abrogated the tax on
tea, or the stamp act the colonies
would revolt, he laughed the statement
to scorn. Later on when he was told
that the rebels would surely beat him
and establish their independence he
became craEed with anger. The indus
trials threaten that if their petitions
are thrown into the waste basket they
will revolt. There are nine hundred
thousand Of these men enlisted. This
is a larger force than both England and
the colonies could muster at that time,
far larger indeed. The government,
but especially the gold gorged east,
affects to laugh at and despise the
"army." We fear that both will
awake to the awful significance of this
popular upheaval only after it is too late
and we have awakened some fine morn
ing to find our vaunted republic has
crumbled to ruin. We know that our
optimistic friends will deride at first,
bat we know, too, that their tears and
blood will not be able to wash away
their shame and regret that they con-
tinued to fiddle while Rome was being
reduced to ashes before their ewes.
After the first gun has exploded and
the first life has been lost in the cause
of the wretched, it will be forever too
late to seek, by peaceful means, to re
turn the sufferers to their former con-
dltion of peaceful citizens of prosper
GUS republic.
Let us act in time, with vigor and |
and also in the light of
the vast evils which are pending. Is
there no peaceful policy which can re-
turn these T to their homes changed
from filthy ana hopeless hoYels,a las they
now are, to ID prosperous, happy and
homes of the virtuous poor?
The ulaiJ Of these men is not with
out Justice Their cries of distress
have here 0fors cen disregarded,
Let congress ana senate now consentto
hear the case and Join the men in
seeking for a way ont of the labyrinth
1f woe the nation finds itself in.
8 Peace hath her viC tories, no less re-
lowned than war" Our glorious land
lath won many bloody victories. Let
t now win one in white garments over
Ter distressed but virtuous poor and
be anarchists, nihlists and commun-
SITS who have, gathered like vultures
o their banners to enjoy the feast of
lood they too surely scent from afar,
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