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Show UMESEKMG OF SYMPATHY. The Sandy Independent tells of a farmer who went to Salt Lake City to get three men to work for him a flhort time; but not a man would go into the country unless they were assured $2 per day and board and lodging. A large number num-ber of "General" Carter's army are of this class. They don't want work, but prefer to be fed and transported transport-ed across the country at the expense ex-pense of the people." When facts of this nature come to light they give poople a disgust for the Coxey movemont- which kills all sympathy. Men who would rather tramp, beg and steal trains than work for less than $2.50 ' a day have lost all manhood and ' are only fit for the chain gang. If any of them evor had wife and family they have abandoned and forgotten them in their mad zeal to assert the old chestnut that the ''world owch them a living." I For many longyears our country has been the dumping ground for - the rcfutie of the earth. Thousands of characterless paupers and social- j ists are dumped upon our shores j each year. When tho curtain ofj darkness descends over Europe, i shutting out the searching eye of Uncle Sam, John Bull rousos up and shouts across the channel to France; France, with an outward nhow of friendliness, rouses her old enemy, Germany, with a vigorous sword thrust in the ribs; smarting with pain, tier many , turns and administers a smart ! kick on tho shins of slug- j gish old Russia; and so it goes until un-til all the European powers are aroused, when they fall to, teetli and toe, to sec which can hustle tho most good-for-nothing paupers oft' to America. Every year they thus vie with each other. Consequently Consequent-ly our country is today literally alive with these lice among men. Wo fling our doovs wido open to such worthless vagabonds, hut deny de-ny tho industrious Celestial. Wo have strewn our garden with weeds and thorns; they have grown numerous and strong; we do not make thodiscovery until the eleventh eleven-th hour. Consequently the most momentous quest ion which confronts con-fronts the people of the United States today is how to suppress and rid the country (if these spreading weeds; these dangerous anarchists. |