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Show & It must have been a semi-ludicious, semi pathetic scene enacted when the common wealers were leaving Salt Lake on their tang dry march for Washing- j ton. The fear -rises in oar heart that "the army" will not hold out. It will tire,-we fear, ere it confronts the maa of stomach, the great chief at the capitol. cap-itol. What may we ask, will they say when theyome into his presence? Is the slogan to be "give us work, or giye os death?" Will they call on Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land to do the coup de grace, in the event, that tber is no work in eight. If the :.Rio-Grande Western proves a bit obstreperous on the subject of a train what will then be done? Hoofing it is bad business these days. Wa must take all this Coxeyiem as we take other general expressions of public sentiment. These are no times in which to base a policy upon mere pity pity for the dire straits in which the poor are placed. Of course they should be relieved, but ere an error is committed, or a false principle is set up, thesei distresses had better go unrelieved unre-lieved for ages, - We have a great povernment set up here. We must not raaks these distresses permanent, eim-p,y eim-p,y that a popular clamor or a popular be done away with, or quieteflj 1 : ; ' n "iimmihh mi i mm I1.I.IIIJ iiuini . iiiBimnini j i i i-uiinjmi in minimi inn mm-) Mi; iii'i'virrainrai uiwuiiun irtit 'Mr nt'i i 'n MTKiay'iM i " : : VhiIe this is all undeniably true, vet we must not discard true eympathy with the poor or the unemployed laborers la-borers of the land. One "of our local mueicianB declares that yesterday he could hear plainly the sweet strains of Sousa's baDd as it was rehearsing in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake. It is forty-five miles to that city and while the gentleman's ears are known to Ye quite capacious, yet we doubt if they can gather the strains at that vast distance. We give the statement for what it is worth, but do not vouch for its entire accuracy. ac-curacy. Tub telegraph yesterday brought us the dread news of the death of two eminent public men.Frank Hatton, ex-pestmaster ex-pestmaster general, and U, S. 8enator Stockbridge of Michigan. The dread reaper is ever at work among our brightest and best. Two stars went down when Hatton and Stockbridge died. They are now charging that the Rothschilds are fostering the socialists. social-ists. We doubt that unless it may be that that adroit far-sighted financial finan-cial combination, peering through the mists of the future, see the triumph of socialism and are getting an anchor over to windward in this way. The Herald-Democrat thinks if they would move the gold deposits of Leadyille to South Africa that uncounted thousands would roll into that gold camp, to dig the yellow metal. We've seen them ! roll into Leadville at a lively rate in the years gone by. |