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Show SOMETHING- NEW. Surely it ib something new to see a vaet crowd of men present in Washington Washing-ton presenting a petition for any purpose pur-pose whatever or npon any pretext. The simple presence of such a force as the commonweal in the capitol of the nation is a threat. It iB ominous of change, of upheaval, of dissatisfaction, of distress and before we are quit of it all, vast changes will have occurred. In the affair in the senate yesterday nothing was done giving the hope of any sort of settlement soon, and what we have most to fear is the long delay ahead of us which will feed the fester until the physical arm of the covern-. covern-. ment will be so weakened that it cannot can-not if it would deal with the matter only by a weak submission to the demands de-mands of the restless, whether right or wrong.This great government Bhould be careful not to do this. It must deal with it independently if it would preserve its vantage ground. It is ill treating with the enemy after he has placed a halter securely about your neck. 2s ow we would not call that paternalism paternal-ism were the government in defference to the distresses of the poor, to devise Borne policy which would furnish work and waee for the laborer, and we think Senator Wolcott wen a little too far in his denunciation. But while this is true we can easily see how the advocates advo-cates of the laborers may just as easily go too far in pressing their claims from a humanitarian standpoint and contravene the law from an opposite direction. It is one of these questions upon which much is to be said on both sides. However, it will hurt no party in intereet to cast away prejudice or political feelings and deal wijh the whole matter from the broad stand-a stand-a point of humanity. Men have the rig htto petition in person. T hat presupposes pre-supposes their presence in person at the eeat of government, in an orderly decent de-cent manner. If they choose to act in any way outside of these plain rules they become lawless and the government govern-ment will deal with them, nor stop to count noses. Mr. Wolcott does not seem to be talking from the stand-point of sym-1 sym-1 . pat by with the poor- He isonly deal ing with the matter from a legal point of observation. He can do nothing helpful in this situation unless he looks at it honestly and fairly from both sides. While men starve they must do so according to law, is Mr. Wolcott'e idea, but he does not stop to ask if there isn't something better thanetarv ing. A government for the people ought to be able to devise something to tide us over the tioublous limes. Tell Mr.Wolcctt that the passage of the Wilson Wil-son bill would help out, but his partisanship partis-anship would force him to reject the j suggestion. Tell the gold bug senators that a free coinage bill would help out in the work of restoring the healthy old conditions prevailing before this uprising up-rising took place, and they would torn up their noses, ThiB being the case what are the people to do? The public necessity neces-sity is great, it presses and something must be done at once. What? Plainly, we think, remonetization and tariff reform. |