Show THE WORLD ON the rho secretary of the american protective tariff league lea mue writes to tc the world protesting prot eiting against the leagues being held responsible in any wise for the armies it is probable that we ire were mis mistaken in naming the league 0 as the specific source from which the Coxey ites were receiving 0 aid nevertheless a week ago there were unmistakable feigns 0 that tile prote were lendin lending the movement aid and encouragement 0 of a substantial character just is as there are arc signs now that they dropped it when public attention was called to the earmarks of partisan manipulation and in spite of protests and disclaimers cl nothing is more obvious than that McKinley ism and coxey ism stand in the relation of caisse and effect for twenty years the protection ests have taught by speeches speecher in in congress and on the stump and through their party press that when anything goes wrong with business or even with any particular industry congress should be called upon pon to set ret things right 0 their doe doctrine trine put forward on 0 n all occasion has hag been and is that laws lawe make prosperity or bring disaster and that the fremed remedy Y for industrial ilis disasters asters is more laws or changed laws in wh what a t does this differ from Coxey ism the Coxey ites are in distress they claim to be willing milling to 0 work or 1 but unable to obtain work ard and to represent millions who are suffering privation by reason of this condition of things they follow the teachings they have heard for years and turns to washington for liell they ask congress 0 to pass laws which they claim will bring brine relief even their plan of presenting a petition in beola it is borrowed from the how ir M many a ny times during 0 the last dozen or twenty years have the capitol and washington 0 swarmed with people who had gone there to ask congress to pass laws or to levy taxes for their special benefit how long is is it since the protectionist spell snell binders and newspaper were shrieking in in chorus because the democrats 0 of house and senate refused to give hearings to bands of people from all the country who insisted upon telling congress what kind of laws and taxes they wanted for their own benefit it Is it a month since sirs mrs J ellen foster carried a thron throng of ivil rhode ode island factory girls to washington and chased senators are around ul id the committee rooms with her petition in boots does the fact that the mckinley iles had the money for had il put up for them to go to washington 0 in passenger coaches give them any rights 0 not possessed by t the lie cox concy cy ites who for lack of money must walk wak or steal rides on oil freight tr trains ains the plain truth is that Coxey ism is simply McKinley ism reduced to to an absurdity by being carried to its logical conclusion conclusion and though a burlesque in its present phase it will have one good effect meshall we shall hear less cierel hereafter after of congress arid and congress 0 ress made laws as the the acm ledy edy industrial troubles and trade depression we shall see an end made of those petitions in boots which the palace car coxey ites have been thrusting ka upon congress year in in and year out we shall see the honest american doctrine of self help put in practice I 1 nore more and more blindly and unconsciously wi with th but a nebulous idea of what lie he is doing the grote droles nue que coxey is a great reformer ills his absurd army will be turned into a circus sideshow at 25 cents admission and nd then melt away into the police stations 1 almshouses and casual freight 13 t trains rains but lie ho bai bag taught a lesson that will not be forgotten ire he has opened our oyes eyes to the extent e to which our social structure has been undermined ile he has set men to thial thinking ing and as the first and surest result of that thiu thinking king a halt bait will ill be called upon that form of state socialism known as McKinley McKinIe yiem ism |