Arizona republican., 1900-09-30
Notes of the Campaign

prosperous condition than they five six years ago. Indeed, there who contend that the masses off now than they were then. It is not many moons since Bryan himself ceased his and iron- cal references to- sHcKnley prosperity fat and rap
 idly growing bank account derived from his voice and pen at last touched his conscience for even he could not fail
 to realize that except in prosperous times hardly single county fair association in the Union could afford such
 luxury fve-hundred-dOllar address from the Boy Ora
 of the Platte Six years ago Mr. Bryan chairman of subcommittee the ways and committee of the national house of representatives and he would be able to recall the fact that in that capacity he sympa thetic listener to argument submitted by General Jacob S Coxey of Ohio in favor of Good Roads Bill which provided for the printing of five hundred million dollars of money to be scattered broadcast throughout the land in payment of wages the unemployed masses, hundreds of thousands of whom with their families idle and destitute of the neceSsares of life "General
 CoXey advocated the occasion bill providing for the issue by the general government four thousand mil
 lion dollars in nOnintereat bearing bonds for the further relief and benefit of the same destitute and suffering masses Bryan, although of ardent imagination and broad ana warm sympahies, baked the latter scheme because he perceived that if should be adopted and carried out there would be need of law for the free and unlimited coinage of 50cent silver dollars Be- sides his conscience forbade him to go the whole hog
 It would permit him to go half way An interesting and instructive glimpse of the conditions which prevailed throughout the United States six years ago will be ob tained through brief reference to the Army of the Com monweal, one division of which marched into Washing ton Tn May, 1884, under the command of General Jacob B. CoXey Divisions of this army organized in nearly every sae and for weeks the story of their wanerngs and vicissitudes claimed large share of public attention The rank and file of this 'army" composed of men who had work to do and could find employment. It easy to enlist recruits who wiling with out pay and for such ratons the charity of sympathetic persons the good nature and prudence of municipal
 hortes might provide and they ccked to the Cxey dard by the and the hundreds They bent
 common purpose-to march to Washington, where in session and demand relief There need to establish recruiting offices, for they sprung if by magic in every state and it seemed probable that few weeks COXeys call for 100000 to Washington and lay their grievances before congress would be ed but dsensons arose, there lack of dicpline private charity grew weary, municipal authorities began frown, free railway transportation denied and many of the hlvsCns C tns grand dissolved, each unit thereof preferng suffer and alone than company with others miserable himself. "General" Coxcy perse- vered and early in May the first division of his army which had crossed the Aeghene through the frost and of April approached the national capital where necessary preparations had been made for its reception by putting the police the alert and locking and barring the and vaults of the national treasury which public money and securities handled The president and majority of both branches of congress democrats and they turned
 deaf to the appeals of General Coxey and his army in behalf of unemployed, destitute and helpless labor. General Coxey and two of his chief ieutenans arrested for trepasng the public grounds and Der of the privaes laid by the heels charges of vagancy The "eneTal sent to jail for brief period and the great champion of the masses' against the classes never publicly gave him substantial token of his sympathy.
 JEFFERSON AS AN EXPANsIoNIsT.-. .We. once needed possession of New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi to accommodate and protect growing southwestern and western commerce. President Jefferson got them for and with them he got all of Louisiana Territory, including what are the of Louisiana Arkansas Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota. the Dakoas Ne braska Montana daho Kansas Indian Territory and part of Colorado. He paid 00000 for the whole In the Philippines the question why not take the whole of them and pay for them following efersons example in Louisiana: The Philippine islands are an undeveoped region, rich in all the elements of wealt-a fruitful soil
 with abundance of valuable timber with beds of coal and lron with plenty of water people capable of becoming intelligent and productive in all departments of tropical labor hat field there there under good government for profitable exchange of commodities produced by temperate attitudes for things produced by them in their tropical regions. Mines to be opened mills and fac tories to be erected public highways be laid and graded railways to be built whaves and boats and ships be constructed, warehouses to be put up towns located streets opened and thousand other things to be done furnishing employment for the natives and offering work for engineers, surveyors builders and skilled worBnen of almost every class from country All things con- sderedOur duty to the Fpnos and ourselves saving nothing about indemnythe people of the United States with practical unanmity, to the conclusion that we ought to keep the islands, and it was so agreed in the treaty and ratified by both countries and we paid twenty million dollars for them The personal and property rights 10, II, l2 and 13 of the treaty The instruction of AgunadO and his followers must be completely and per manentr suppressed before civil government can be per manenty established In the meantime the president cXerng every effort to preserve order and protect all peaceably disposed persons When one sovereign power cede territory another the allegiance of the inhabitants