The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-20
CARTER TAKEN TO TASK
John Mcguire Prepares q Few
Historical Facts.
MANY APT COMPARISONS
Conditions Which Existed in England 30
Years Ago Duplicated in the United
states-The March OF the Blank
etesrs and the Coxey Army.

lnt puDiC uhtctiub ~ an hnSepdfdDtc
adjunct Of free government.
The Coxey army was one of the fruits
OF the democratic administration
Speech of lat Thomas ii. Carter.
An entire incapacity of reasoning is
twin sister to a ready and nippant au-
has taught others. An utter impossi-
bility of understanding what men OF
wisdom through a life study and ex-
perience have become familiar with
stalks hand in hand. insolent and in
sulting. with a stupid denial of truths
which are all but s~elf-evident and are
of extreme Importance in their appli-
cation to our national welfare. An in
capacity OF reasoning. however. cannot
be applied to the senior senator" of
Montana, but IL does apply In a general
way to all the gilded golden advocates
OF the financial policy of Mark Hanna
re~publicanism.
1 have too much respect for Mr.. Car
ter's causerie and his adroitness OF tai
emit. when evasion of argument Is neces-
sary, and the facile readiness with
which, like the power of the genii of
the ring in the Arabian Nights" can
transport US in a %twinkling of an y
from the paramount issue to our hoary,
moss-grown, never-failing old mutual
friends-the lead miners of old Spain
and the poems of old Mexico, together
with cheap woolgrowers OF all foreign
countries who are now ready to invade
our shores to the imminent danger Of
Mckinley prosperity. and to revive that
terrible bugbear which is the senator's
latest addition to his political bottle of
mixed pickles. and known to current
history as the Coxey army. As Mr..
Carter has of late been muchly addict
ed to illustrating his addresses with
historical quotations, ! may on this &C.
casion be surely permitted to give such
historical facts as Will prove conclu-
sively that the Coxey army was not the
fruit of the democratic party. as Mr..
Carter alleges, and prove also that in
guessing his assertions Mr.. Carter is
liable to make numerous mistakes.
IL will be necessary for me therefore
TO take a look at England. after the
battle OF Waterloo, which ended the
many years of bloody wars in which
that country was engaged in turf with
nearly every nation I'm Europe, but
principally with France.
The people of England were taxed to
an almost ~unbearable endurance to car
ry on those wars. Their patriotism
stood the test well. Peace was de-
clared, treaties were signed; prosper
ity woul now surely reign serene i'm
the tight little island Lord Liver
pool, at the head of the government,
had fallen in with Nathan Rothschild,
contracted. silver instead of being a le-
gal tender equal to gold in its ratio,
either for purchase of goods or pay
ment OF debts, was limited in Its func-
tions OF pay or purchase. Gold was
installed supreme and chaos had come
again."
The defects and errors of the Liver
pool administration We're becoming
more and more evident. a financial pam
ic existed all over England and Ire
land. The long continental wars were
all over: Napoleon had gone down new
er to rise again. The eyes OF the En-
glish public were withdrawn from the
battlefields of armies on the continent
TO the battlefields of parties at home.
With the depreciation of the white met
al and the appreciation of the yellow
metal. conceived in the iniquitous con-
sciences of Liverpool and Castlereagh,
of cursedly notorious memory, all val
ues were demoralized. manufactures
and trades of every variety were with
h new financial system paralyzed into
idleness.
II took about only the same short
time which interviewed between the re-
peal of the sherman bilr' and the ap-
peal OF the Coxey army to Washington.
when all England was disturbed by the
thousands OF idle men traversing the
country looking for hat which could
not then be obtained-work and wage
and falling which. the industrious En-
glish mechanic and farm laborer be-
came. by rapid transitions, a pauper.
and starvation made him a criminal.
That like causes produce like results, is
aa an .fAv., xxrnn AgtaAltghA1 NJ ra.eA.
knows what produced the Coxey army
in America. The same cause.-The de-
monetization of silver-which in Eng
and gave birth to their prototypes
the Blanketites. / wish to impress
every reade OF these lines with the
historical facts | am placing before
them. the similarity OF events from the
similarity of causes In the England of
so years x and in the United States
of five years ago. The following is
from Justin McCarthy's Life of Sir
Robert Peel"
"A stormy time was now coming on
for the government. Peel had declared
himself the advocate and the champion
OF the gold standard; he insisted that
the true standard of value consisted in
a definite quantity of gold bullion. and
that a certain weight OF gold bullion
with an impression on IL denoting IL TO
be of that certain weight and OF a GER
tain hneness constituted the only true
and adequate standard OF value. The
house of acted on Peel's rec
ommendation. Peel's proposals were
embodied I'm an act of parliament" . .
The inevitable panic set in. a demon
alization of all sources OF Industry was
widecast. There was widespread dis
tress; there were riots i'm the counties
OF England arising out of the distress.
There We're riots I'm various PARTS of
London. Secre: committees Were APP
pointed by both houses Of the legisla-
ture To inquire into the alleged disaf-
lection OF part OF the people. The hab-
cas- corpus act was suspended. The
march Of the BlanketeeTs from Man
chester caused panic and CONSERVATION
through various circles in London. The
march OF the Blanketeers was a very
simple and harmless project. a large
number OF the workingmen in Manches-
ter conceived the idea of walking 10
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