Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-05-19

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army of tramps and Migrants they are
none the less representatives in charac.
ter, and if the government crucible has
forced them to paurerism and vaga-
bondage those representing the major
! ity must and shall b heard"
The governor of Kansas, who talks
this stuff, represents democracy and
populism. He was elected by fusion
in 1892 by few thousand majority.
He was democratic demagogue when
he went into the fusion and he now en-
bodies the worst ideas of both parties.
He is of opinion that Coxey represents
"a spontaneous uprising of the people"
An uprising against what? Accredit-
ing it with dignity of this kind and
then searching for its sources, there can
be but one result of the search. As the
Tribune has shown over and over again
this uprising, if it be an uprising, is
against the misery and hard times caused
by democratic and populist policies
embodied in the Wilson bill which both
democrats and populists support. Had
the republican party remained in power
there would have been no panic, with
idle workingmen tramping as ''armies"
over the country and marching on to
Washington for relief and sustenance.
These miserable conditions are the di-
rect outcome of the policies and doc
trines preached by Lewelling and dem
agogues of his kind in the west and
south.
Lewelling says congress should pro-
vide food and shelter for these ''tramp-
ing industrialists." 1t would be in
finitely wiser and better for congress
to strike out the enacting clause of the
Wilson bill, pass resolution declaring
against the low tariff, low wage policy
of the democrats and populists, then
pass the remaining appropriation bills,
and adjourn. After doing that the in
dustrial tramping armies of the Coxeys,
Kellys, Fryes, ct al, would find plenty
OF employment at good wages at their
respective former homes. That is the
remedy for the present artificial and evil
state of things. for loss of employment,
depression, and hard times, and the in
dustrial tramps ought to be able to see
1t. 1t they cannot see it of themselves
it should be shown to them and ex-
planned to them clearly and patiently
until the last man of them comprehends
it. When they reach Washington what
they should demand" of congress is.
not the issue of 5OO,O00,000 of federal
scrip with which to water and debase
the currency and to set them at road
making, but that congress should stop
its free trade or low protection course,
retrace its steps, readopt an American
policy, and thereby restore public con-
fidence, good times, liberal wages, and
abundance of employment for all the in
dustrials who want to work. After max
ing this request then those of the tramp
ers who are genuine workingmen should
cut loose from the leadership of such
humbugs and fakirs as Coxey, Brown,
Kelly, Frye, and others, who are only
seeking for notoriety, and listen no
onger to the counsels of such dema-
5ogues as Lewelling of Kansas. The
,ause of the workingmen will never adj
7ance under the leadership of fakirs and
political charlatans. Will they ever
'pen their eyes to the real character of
hese demagogues who are using them
or their own purposes?