| Show WHO IS responsible A contro w was is sure ta arise says BB the abo now new york nation ay a nonpartisan literary piper as to which of the two parties was responsible for the industrial armies now in the field and it has arisen aris en according to tho the republicans republican the 99 armie sare distressed and eliou thoughtful 0 ht citizens who have been thrown out of work ly bv the wilson bill and are arc coining 0 to washington 0 toil to dav lay before con congress ress their I 1 views on the existing Z financial situation this way of looking at them has bru been prominently produced by ex president harrison and was really endorsed by the thirteen republican including clawley who voted with the four populists lists last week in favor of a motion t that at a committee of nine be appointed to meet the on their arrival as a number 0 of f citizens in an all organized body coming to washington 0 for the purpose of personally presenting 0 to congress their views with respect to pending and prospective measures of legislation stronger 0 encouragement to tramps to march on oil washington in armies could not be given iven short of appropriating pria ting 0 money to feed the them in on oil the way the democratic view on the other hand is i that the Coxey ites are bands either of lazy men or of men unavoidably out of work who march to washington M because they have been taught by the republicans that ahe government ought to take care of them and that there can be no prosperity in ill this country without government aid tile the tribune naturally resents regents this theory bitterly and sti stigmatizes stigma matises secretary morton at as a reel reckless less defago demagogue 0 ve for calling tho the coxey army a 1 1 large arge kindergarten clasp clae in protect protection i on it 9 says avs tile the republican party is not responsible for the present outbreak of lawlessness social restlessness and socialistic discontent in nearly every state in the union now N 0 w if the large minded editor of tho tha paper would woul d allow it to answer questions its ils responses to the following lowin would we are sure bring outtie out the truth and the truth would be as clear a case against the republican I 1 party arty as was ever laid before a j jury u ry I 1 have you not ever since since 1805 been telling the wor cing nien all over tile the country that the amount of their wages 0 depended on oil the result of the presidential election and that in voting for 3 your our man mail they would be putting money in their pockets 2 have flave you not through every form of human expression alt alao 0 taught them that it was the most solemn duty of Coll congress 0 ress to lay a 3 such taxes and to pay 1511 such ell bounties es as would enable all sorts of business to make good profits and have you not represented to them that in default of such euch C government government aid no burkness bu could prosper r that in short the ell chief cef function or of government was to enable induk industrial trial enterprises terp rises to employ plenty of men at good wages 0 3 have you not since tho the present crisis began ascribed it wholly to the alie belief that congress would modify the I 1 mckinley McKin lcy bill thus making 0 it appear that without tile the mckinley bill tile tho country would go to the dogs 4 ilas ha not your chief cx irsai dent harrison t declared within a few weeks in one of his thoughtful speeches t that hat it waa ivas tile the of tile the government to ind find work for the tl ull unemployed employed 5 have you not also maintained for thirty Y yearn care that when a manufacture did not in america it was bt atilid not b get et enough help froni from congress and have you not always advised tho the owners owner i of such buch antei prices to go to washing n top IOP cc the committee and get tile tho prices raised were wo alleged ali elica to go before a jur jury y in support port of these charges wo we would produce such overwhelming g proof from articles and from Congress congressional ionn speeches that conviction would bo be certain Is it not therefore absurd to blame the workingmen mien or the tramps for going to to tho the place and to tho the body from which only you have always assured them comfort and prosperity could come it must not be forgotten too that this tendency of everybody who is down on his lu luck ck to go to washington for relief is ia not an american Amea ican tendency at all it never showed itself before the p period briod of hight high 0 tariffs from 1789 to 1860 we had a urge large population of pioneers along our western border undergoing extraordinary hardships but the last thing they thought of was asking anything 0 from the government except a 1 9 good title to their farms when they found their toil inadequately requited or a fit of restlessness came caine over thern jhc thc m far from marching n on oil washington ton the pa plunged tinged deeper into the western wilderness without other dependence than their rifles and their axes in truth the strong 0 individual courage anil and independence of the american was the most I 1 famous trait of the national character thirty years of protection have made him an irrational whimpering him nursling of congress and the alie depart it i ie interior we ou ought a bt not to conclude without reminding diny our readers that they will find in all the tariff re lorm form publications since 1865 warnings 1 ns of the change which tho the protective system would work in tile the popular ati altitude tude towards the government ern ment and of the intensely socialistic teachings what we are now witnessing both in the 10 populist u movement and in the coxey marches has been predicted with more inure or less clearness in them all if the people could have listened to the protectionist orators and editors for two r generations and have believed them without concluding ciudin that the government owed 0 them a living it would show that the human mind in america had undergone a great change 0 but it has undergone no change the protectionist gospel has worked worked its natu natural raland and lefiti legitimate mate results result s if it is a true 0 gospel we ought to be all in washington today loading up the he republicans with our views i |
