Show revolution not ripe we do not believe that the time is folly ripe for the great social reforms that many are expecting will grow out of the coxey movement the trend of public opinion has steadily been toward socialism and the seeds sown by some of our foremost writers and speakers are germinating in the mind of this genf ration probably to bloom and to bear fruit in a generation or two from now but great social reforms and revolutions do not come about in a single generation it took about ahrea generations for tha french peasantry to et abou arou wd f realization of the ida a a being heaped upon theca twos nobility and duria part of this time tbt ka france could le shrewd men of rising K bea the storm clouds ly ren XVI nonchalant en jarand hofier hm would jie the burm when the storm did burst it was terncio in its fury it enst dubont as thia coxey movement nn ly tand of men starting fur tho capital but all along the line of march the people were for i each camle had its flu the howera of itie corrupt government the Marseill pa hymn found an echo in the heair of almost every in the country through which the Marseil lea men marched for all had a common grievance against a well know source of misery today no anch unanimity mity of teal ing exists there are bat comparatively few in sympathy with the demands of tha that government shall furnish work and assume a paternal charge over its subjects all the graaff majority of citizens of this republic ask is that the government give us lawa aad see that they are righteously enforced they want no speculative corporation made out of this republic they are con tant that private corporations shall manipulate our railways and telegraph lines under proper governmental restrictions of course they object to these large corporations running the government all agree that they have too much in legislation today and an uprising of the people may alleviate the evil coyita army may tend to strengthen the opinion founded on the conati aution that in this country the people shall role it may prove a warning to the moneyed kings that their citadels in thin conn try are not safeguards for their and property unless the rights of the people are properly respected but we do not believe a revolution will crow out of this movement thoro is too much love of country to permit men like and hia followers to inaugurate a revolution if they should atari lawlessness a million patriotic patri otia men if gaeds be would instantly spring to arms in defense of conr Amo institutions A few lives may be lost and a little bloodletting blood letting be required befaro the industrialists discontinue their swarming but we see no signs of a great revolution abc |