The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-05

JOV6TLy uIsdDDGaT,
and when war and desoIation shall be
unknown:
''When the war drum sounds no longer.
And the battle flags are furled.
In the parliament of men.
The Federation of the world"
MT. Clemens is Taken to Task.
Mr.. Clemens then made a long speech
in which he said that the time had come
for war and that the people had sub
mitted long enough to tyranny and op-
preston
A motion was made to adopt the reso-
lutIons and it received prompt second.
The resolutions were adopted without
division.
After the resolutions had been adopted
Mrs. Lease was again called for. She
at once denounced Clemens in a manner
calculated to quench the fiery spirit of
that warlike gentleman.
81 don't believe in blood and thunder
speeches nor do I believe in blood and
thunder men and l want Mr.. Clemens
to hear that. We once had a poll
tician John j. Ingalls) in Kansas who
always took occasion to talk of war; but
when his record was investigated it was
found that in all his war experience he
only managed to court martial a chicken
thief. l wonder if Mr.. Clemens record
is like that.
elf Mr.. Clemens would devote half the
intellect and talent to supporting the
true principles of the Peoples party that
he does to mouthy vaporings on the nee
essity of copious bloodshed, he would
accomplish much more for humanity and
preserve a better reputation for sanity
and decency. Oh! this espousaI of a no.
bic cause by men who see in it only an
opportunity for nOtoriety and office.
This movement is right, and we must not
make the mistake of turning it over to
traitors, towards and renegades."
The meeting then adjourned.
q. G. Clemens was next called for
and he read the following resolutions:
The Resolutions
Resolved, That the clubbing of Coxey
and his associates was not for the protec-
ton of the national capitol nor for the
purpose of enforcing a law; it was in
tended as demonstration to the prole-
taires of America that the plutOcratic
government is powerful enough and bru-
tai enough to compel the starving people
to starve and die without vigorous pro-
test. 1t was American wealth throwing
down the gauge of battle to the Ameri-
can people. The challenge was under
stood and it will be answered.
Resolved. That our present arrogant
masters at Washington and elsewhere
would do we'll TO remember that York
town came after Bunker Hill, and Apo
matox after Harper's Ferry; and that the
complete liberation of American work
people may follow yet the conflict at the
national capitol between the advance
LAS u C1O unemployed anu buO 6bdL-
spangled policemen, whose business it is
everywhere to keep men from employ
ing themselves. The people have been
driven from their capitol, but not for
ever. They will return and purge the
house and senate of the traitors to Iiber-
ty who now masquerade as representa-
tives of the people they club
For freedoms battle, once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to SON
no baff1ed oft, is ever Won.7
Resolved, That ''the people" have not
risen against law but against usurpation.
The greatest violations of the law have
been committed in the name of the law
by the governors of Utah, Iowa and Ohio
and by the authorities of the District of
Columbia. Railroads have for years
been setting the example of Selling rail-
road property and taking it from its
rightful owners. Almost every railroad
has been stolen from the people repre-
senting the industrial armies, and thieves
cannot expect sympathy if the owners
recover stolen property. And it is our
opinion that whether railroad trains
should be seized or not depends altogeth-
er on the question whether they can be
retained after seizure and whether the
armies have free transportation offered to
them to Washington.
Resolved, That we not willing to
mock men, who, with their wives and
children, are starving today. by telling
them to vote next November for CON
gress next March, to make food possible
next century. We insist that the people
have right to demand relief or abdica-
ton now. The voting can be done much
better after relief shall have been OBJ
tanned
Resolved, That deplorable as must al
ways be a conflict of arms, yet as COM
pared with the awful misery and carnage
of every day life among the poor and the
children of the poor in these times, the
bloodiest war conceivable would be a
white robed angel of peace. To talk
peace is pusillanimous when every day.
somewhere in this land, workingmen,
aye, even workingmen, are trampled be-
meath the brutal troops of power; when
police stations are armories and armories,
forts