The sun., 1910-01-09
MARCHES TO WALDORF
PROSPERITY HAS COME AND
COVERED HIM LIKE A GARMENT.
He stlII Thinks Between whIles, but Just
Now He 10 Pushing q Monopoly In
Eleven Countries O1 Running street
Cars by Turbine GasOIene En@ines.


Populism is dead. free silver is buried,
the Army OF the Commonweal is only
a memory. but Gen. Jacob S. Coxey.
original Populist and leader OF the host
that swept down upon Washington from
Massillon. Ohio, sixteen years ago next
May is marching on. and turned up yes
terday at the Waldorf. looking as pros
porous as il he were one OF those accused
bank presidents G&
He was not slow to admit that he 10
prosperous. Five years ago he was bank
rupt, for that sand plant OF his out at
MassilIoni was in the hands OF receivers
To-day. according to the pioneer" OF
Government ownership OF railroads In
this country. he has not only got the
plant back and done more business with
it in the last four months than in any
two previous years. but he owns parts
Of gold and silver mines in Nevada and
an arsenic mine in Virginia. and IL that
were not enough he is accommodating an
independent fortune in helping farmers
kill potato bugs by manufacturing paris
green in Norfolk. Va
That the famous march he led, which
ended in his serving twenty days in jail
for walking on the grass OF the Capitol
grounds. has had other results Mr.. Coxey
did not attempt to deny yesterday. In
fact he asserted that the emergency
currency bill. which was passed in the
late panic. was an embodiment OF one OF
the objects OF the march OF 1894, only
that measure contains provisions OF which
Mr.. Coxey strongly disapproves. He
holds that what put the Populist party
out OF business was not the approach OF
good times. but foul conspiracy, Of
which one William Jennings Bryan, oc-
casional candidate for the Presidency.
was the centre.
Coxey has changed in appearance. prin-
cipaly because he no longer wears a mus
tache. He is still short OF stature and
still wears glasses, but his conversational
powers have developed. He says he is an
evolutionist and not a revoiutionist. and
that all difficulties between labor and
manufacturers can be Strengthened out
by educating both the laborer and the
manufacturer and keeping the mere
capitalist from butting in.
The object of my march to Washing
ton" he said. was to petition Congress
TO enact law to enable every man physi-
cally able TO perform labor to have the
opportunity OF selling his services at re-
munerative wages in improving and
beautifying the country when there is no
demand for labor in production. One
principle OF this was engratted in the
' reeland- -Aldricn currency bill
At the time 1 advanced my theory il
was thought ridiculous that the Govern
ment should receive State. county, town.
ship aud municipal bonds as collateral for
the issue OF currency. out in the bill pa assed
by Congress is inserted the phrase other
bonds as well This is the nigger in the
woodpile. and III eXplain~w why.
james J. Hill a couple Of years ago
prophesied that It was going to take over
n billion dollars year to finance the rail-
roads OF the country for the next tive
years for equipment alone in order to
transport the country's products, and that
the country must come to the aid OF the
railroads. See the 'nigger' now Well.
whom the emergency currency bill says
and o;hor bonds. giving 60 the Secretary
OF the Treasury authority to say what
bonds may be included under that term,
why the big railroad magnates can issue
railroad bonds, take them to the big
bankers, and the latter will deposit them
with the Secretary OF the Treasury. who will
then issue currency to the face value of the
bonds, the bankers will get the money at
cost of one-half Of per cent. the cost of
issue. and will receive interest upon the
railroad bonds at the rate Of 8 per cent.
while the NJ. 900 900 other people that make
up the GoverRemnt will pay this interest
through paying high transportation
rates"
MIR. Coxey was getting into waters too
deep for a simple mind to follow, so the
reporter seized a chance to ask him what
had become of the Populist .party.
After ] got out OF Jail in Washington
/ went back to my home town OF Massillon.
I was nominated for Congress on the
Dnpttliaf tick nj md nnllQ
OF the vote" said Mr. Coxey. When |
was a candidate for Governor of Ohio
it 1896 I polled over $1,000 votes. By
1896 the Populists had become a factor
in the country. and we had several Senators
and a good number Of Representatives
in Congress. Well, the monopolists realized
this and decided that this new giant must
be destroyed. Then, by conspiracy,
William ]. Bryan was nominated FOR the
rns SeISaed G nto s6e the Belief thst srysn
was advocating the policies that were
put forth by the Populists. This de-
ception was accomplished to destroy the
Populist organization. and it did. Since
against tmonopolized greed. which has been
allowed by both the Republican and
Democratic organizations 20 safe itself
but the idea is breaking out again
was up in Boston speaking on Tuesday
night Next week they will vote there
ment to the State Constitution which
allows Boston to eradicate both parties
in municipal elections. and candidates
will be voted for who have been nominated
through petition instead OF through
primaries. Why. out In East Liverpool.
Ohio. they have just turned out the manu-
facturers who composed the City Council
and put their employees in their places.
The people OF Boston realized that the
only way to knock out graft was to put
the party convention out of business. a
We are in a stage of evolution, but we
can't evolute until we have first educated.
The seed I have sown and my march to
Washington have attracted the attention |
OF people to things that were wrong. but |
a great trouble In that the masses OF people !
don't think enough. Therefore they must |
be educated. What the Peoples party |
accomplished was simply. educational"
MFR. Coxey's remarks did not end here, |
but IL will be news that he Is president |
OF a company which is going to get out
new gas engine next month which IN
built on the turbine principle, patented
as a pure monopoly in eleven countries, |
and guaranteed. according to MIR. Corey,
to run street cars like automobiles. He
did not mention anV other line OF industry