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Show until Blato lines and Btate citizenship citi-zenship are obliterated in ac cordance with tho above prvsiden tial suggestion. This will never do. The constitution of the United iStatei rests on the confederacy of tho state: NO INCEEASB OF THE ARMY-A CHANGE IN FINANCIAL , LEGISLATION. Every soldier in the service of tbe United States costs the nation $1,500 a year, while to feed and clothe and employ a common laborer costs not j. over S0. Yet a great clamor hag arisen for an increase of the regular 1 army to 50,000 men, not for purposes j.r tl, IMflY.mu nr lodiauB, but to put down and keep down the tramps and communists. I there not a better way than this to pacify the tramps and idle laborers? Their uneasiness and violent demon-trations demon-trations may be traced to a lack ol profitable occupation. Give the working people Bomething to do at fair wages and all the trouble from this source will be ended. It would be better even for the government to turn employer and set the idle people to work than to rely upon the army to put down a mob of starving men and women. There iB perhaps no necessity ot the government launching launch-ing out in this direction. Let. con-greaB con-greaB try a more natural remedy fi st, by repealing the resumption law, cloBing out the national banks, re-monetizing re-monetizing silver, making greenbacks good for the payment of customs dues, and taxing the national bonds, wherever they may bo found. Thit may bo termed repudiation, but u would be rather financial reconsSlruc-' reconsSlruc-' tion. It might aB well be conlessed aB it will soon havo to be, that tht ennntrv has taken upon itael a load which, undei the bad management of the party in power it is unablo to carry, and thut in order to preserve tbe credit of ttie government the working people, who are the real tax payers, must be relieved re-lieved and sent to work. It will require re-quire bold aud adroit statesmanship to adjust the financial and labor problems to thepresent circu Distances of the country; but the political movements move-ments of the working classes and tht perils that would be encountered bj a repetition of the late strikes are sufficient warning to American states men that something must speedily be done to bring about tho establishment of more healthy relation! in our commercial and business interests. No increase of the Binding army can solve these difficulties and restore peace and prosperity. |