People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-20
IF THIS IS A CHRISTIAN COUN-
TRY PROCLAIM 1T NOW.
One Stroke from the Christian Churches
Can Turn the Destinies OF a Nation
Let the Christians Speak Out at Once
II They VIII.

gentleman aud a scholar He would
be aided by Wall street, applauded by
the subsidized metropolitan press, ap-
proved by London gold bugs and ban
quoted by Sherman, Cleveland & Co.
If "crazy Coxey and his ragmufin
followers" were coming to ask con-
gress to pass the pending Nicaragua
canal bill, which calls for 500, 900, 900
bonds to be issued to corporation
and upon which the people would pay
the interest, they would be royal'y
welcomed by Senator Morgan and
permitted triumphal entry to the
capitol grounds.
If the gambler Coxey and the idiot
Browne" were coming to petition con-
gress to surrender to c. P Hunting
tons scheme to refund the Pacific rail-
way bonds, a scheme which would de-
fraud the government of the immense
sums due from that corporation, and
which would add prodigiously to Che
enormous privileges and gifts already
bestowed upon tiff Tramp CoxeY
were coming to ask for that, he would
be statesman, a hnancier and pa
triOt; and transportation in frst-oiaSs
coaches would be provided, with buff
fet lunches thrown in.
If Crazy Coxey were coming to lobby
for the coal trust, the whisky trust,
the sugar trust or for any of the great
combines which put money into the
pockets of those who are already I'M
whOlesOmely rich, he would be quar-
tered at the Shoreham, the Ebbit or
one of the other elegant hostelries
just as the other lobbyists
in Washington now are. But
MIR. Coxey is coming to ''lobby" open
ly and above board IN the interest of
millions of unemployed wealth pro-
ducers; he is coming to ask in peace
full manner for wise measure which
would establish justice and insure
domestic tranquility" he is coming in
the interest of measure which would
bring incalculable good to millions,
and bring no real harm to a single liv-
ing,being; he is coming to the capitol
professedly Christian nation under
the banner of the Prince of Peace,
bearing the motto of peace On Earth,
Good Will Toward Men," but because
that motto further reads Death to in
terest on bonds" he has already been
warned by the District of Columbia
chief Ofpolice that he must not venture
upon the soil that belongs to the whole
nation, or he twill be arrested as a
vagrant and welcomed with hoSpitable
hands to the District workhouse"
Mr.. Coxey is leading a company of
honest, industrious, patriotic Ameri-
can citizens whose only crime is that
they are poor, ragged and out of en-
ployment He is coming with this
careworn, footsore, i'll clad set of men
to their national capitol to petition
their public servants to do their
sworn constitutional duty to promote
the general welfare" and issue some
of the same kind of money that wise
old Abraham Lincoln ordered in an.
other time of great national disturb,
ance and peril.
The sort Of money which Citizen
Coxey will petition for will not saddle
debt Of generations upon an already
overburdened PEOPLE, it will not, like
bonds, offer place of investment fol-
supercilious idlers who live off the
toll of other men, therefore the usur
ers and gamblers have no use for it.
If Citizen Coxey's good roads bill
were to become a law, inside of thirty
DAYS after its passage every idle hanC
in the country could have work to do
The towns and cities could be emptieC
of their idle and dangerous population
Dangerous, God pity them, becaus
they have been idle so long, If tn
men now idle were at work and receiv
ing steady pay they would bu.
new clothes instead of begging oil,
ones, hence the merchants would be
come prosperous. If the men nov
hungry could buy the food they Xix
and need. the grocer would do rous
ing business. Kansas farmers woul
not be fattening hogs with whea
which gaunt, hollow-eyed chi
dren need, nor would California raj!
ms 60 into the swill trough to fatte
swine. Every branch of bushes
from ocean to ocean would revive, b
cause the wage Garner would buy tn
produce and the wares which 80 I
make up the comforts Of civilized lif,
Pass this good roads bill and it wi
set every factory wheel revolving
every spindle flying, light the fire
every factory and on every heart
stone in the land.
Mr.. Coxey and Carl Browne are tv
great-seuled men whose warm hear
beat with sympathy for the miser
the want and the woe of their feuov
men. They believe that their plan