Show How Time Has Worked Change in Gen Coxey Amon Among the guests at the New Willard Willard Wil Wil- lard hotel Washington D. D C. C is one Jacob S. S capitalist This person person per per- son occupies an entire suite on the parlor floor Now the New Willard institution is not a popular priced iced The usual run of American capitalists stop and count ten before they signup sign signup up for even a room with bath at this hotel If they had lived lived-in in such lur- lur ury earlier in life they would not have been plutocrats Indeed they would likely have landed in one of those simple rambling structures maintained maintained main main- main main- tamed by tho the county However that thai thatis is neither here nor there J. J S. S Coxey eats his morning grape rape fruit in in his private dining room and could afford to keep it up the rest of the month if he tie were so disposed But it was not always thus Time was when General Coxey for Coxey-for for il ilis it itis itis is none other pointed other pointed to hotels oi of the New Willard type as the curse of our lair fair country At the head of an army of pedestrians he marched up Pennsylvania avenue t to the very steps of the capitol to ten tell congress what he thought of the rich richand richand richand and the way they were wre pestering the working men As luck would have it ittie he tie arrived on the lawmakers lawmakers' busy day and sad was arrested with two of his advisers advisers ad ad- for walking walkin on the white house grass The fact that he claimed to represent represent represent rep rep- resent some persons did not I make the slightest difference His army irmy was blocking the street crossings crossing's crossings crossings cross cross- ings ing's Coxey himself needed a shave and the city holdover wasn't crowded anyway He and hi his lieutenants were arrested the army dispersed and the living iving breathing messa message e to congress was a failure In those days Coxey had lad the confidence of thousands of American laborers Apparently he was sincere in his efforts to better their condition According to his theory the rich were responsible for for hard bard times times' and he tried to enlist the poor to make makei a i national demonstration in Washing Washing- ton on While his army was in Maryland on the he way from Massillon 0 p. p to Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Alfred Henry Lewis who was then hen a reporter for the Star was sent to interview the the general at Fredericktown Fred Fred- where Barbara bluffed Stonewall Jackson Under the pen en name of Dan Quin Lewis described Coxey in the following manner Coxey toxey is a slim man of middle size ire He wears glasses lasses and looks a bit like the he Rev Sam Small only not so tall He le has thought and read a great deal if f not successfully He lie in no sense reminds reminds re reo re- re minds one of a crank Not even an enthusiast One is is at a loss when one considers Coxey with his mild manners man man- ners neTs and well wen kept perfectly dressed figure to tell just what Coxey is aften le lie does not threaten to be a 1 philan philan- philanthropist neither is he a working man He is a horse trader His mind is alert and keen albeit not deep It runs clear enough too As one experiments ex cx- on Coxey with questions one finds much in his method of thought to o remind one of a dog chasing his tail ail a heap of action but no progress Coxey has a buggy but does most of his ils traveling on the cars making diminutive diminutive di di- jumps as a a. sort of a advance man for his show and then waltIn waiting for fortHe tHe fife army to come comae up J But Coxey Cony had a keen kl business in sight After the failure of his ceo eco nomie demonstration dl he devoted himself to o a I. rock quarry he owned n near nar ar his homo home lome at Massillon Those of his com corn rades ades who desired labor were satisfied It t may be remarked too that the tho hours were so long the work so arduous an antho and ho tho pay so small that few remained for or a second day of it it Then Thea ho he invested invested in in- vested in gold old and silver mines Now ho he 10 is in Washington ton to ask congress to o place a duty on arsenic He owns an arsenic arsenic mine near Roanoke Va Arsenic Ar- Ar enic is on the free list Bein Being in the tho captain of industry business Coxey naturally nines pines for the of his infant industry industry that's that's the way the tho steel teel trust became wealthy Contrast this Jus attitude with feelings s of a member member memer mem- mem ber er of the tho army as described by Lewis He lie was a typo type of two thirds of Coxey's army He lie was a working nina man S sober enough h and well had become his fixed belief th laws passed by congress vord fa rich and stripped the poor He a a. a special plan to urge upon con r ss ssan ssan an instinctive ve ti-ve wa way he hI felt uk lik g to Washington and entering against what might be bl ailed called gressional purpose this purpose this bent beat tp D a athe the rich richer and the poor if this dumping all wealth in a f iv laps rather laps rather than to r which he cOl could d name Pet Pete Petea fl s sa sa a specimen of f perhaps 2 2110 0 oo of t tr sible 30 with Coxey at st Frederick Frederic They are mild as rabbits The Theto a ato to feel a wrong to them in gO goi methods They feed these cone conc us with the sight and thoughts c m negie e the Goulds the an ane c cens cens ens from similar rich coops oops The dt d analyze they don dont don't t ar argue Th Tb elude clude that that something is lS wren wron wrong I Ithe the mere fact of millionaires their idea is to go o on nim and sa say at some fashion to congress The Lord will sail provide sam middle a aged ed pilgrim who evident forgotten his toothbrush when J hi h home His tone was wa gruff and d e a mm well It sounded like a threat threat- K Lord will provide Didn't ii b hf f manna to Israel in th the tho wild rn Doesn't he be note the fall faU of a arow s a row S S S With this band of protestors protestor e c drifted on to Washington As Q Quin urn told it One R Redstone S the Washington agent of V at ar armet met them at Fred Frederick rik He lie die sp did pictures of what would n b t reception when they arrived at th ita ital All MI was welcome with iv wj Ic arms' arms at Washington to hear th thIl s i able liar tell it The men h hung ng the words of Redstone like Jike fis o hook and were vastly Istone J I stone told them that by hy May fiSl 1 w iv Kelly and Fry and all nil the other and their thelT armies had come come there would be f in line This Redstone is a small g natured crank with gray glav hal har beard which would look better fo clipping He is a big bigger er liar tha Pepper when he gets down to sta staf fact He describes Washington as asting s sting ting up nights building wreaths chaplets wherewith to welcome and ana I 1 Ithe the victorious braves bra of the weal when they got there thEOre whereas truth and in f fact ct Washington ton is d' d ding ing its militia and police and s sJ sun sunup sri n up the animals at the navy nav vard barracks the arsenal arenal and nd Fort M. M Me M with tho the sullen and to tear the limb from whenever they should attempt an lawful gymnastics what whatever eyer Plainly the men whom Cox Cox were gullible They took Isis his never questioned his motives Do Bu Buhe i he makes his plea for arsenic to a blooded congress |