People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — Hands Off. [ARTICLE]

Hands Off.

No considerate man will encourage Coxey’s wild and visionary march to the national capital, but while the better judgment of the people regards it as a waste of time and wholly impracticable as a remedial measure, there is also a deeply grounded feeling that the market must not be interfered with as long as the men are orderly. All know that for the-past thirty years money and railroad kings, manufacturing lords, thieving monopolies, perjured lawyers by the thousands, tax-eaters,land and timber thieves, lobbyists, professional pimps and professedly pious libertines, jail birds, forgerers, rogues and rascals by the hundreds of thousands, have marched on to Washington, not only without molestation, but have been received with open arms by venal congressmen and senators, and their thieving schemes given legal sanction. Yes. all their deep laid plans to rob the people, such as the destruction of their war money and the substitution of interest bearing bonds, the credit strenghtening act, that added six hundred millions in value to the holding of the rich, the demonetization of silver, the severest blow struck at productive industry since the world began, the resumption act, the wholesale stealing and turning over of our splendid public domain, the inheritance of unborn generations, to the already enormously rich, made so by government subsides. No one has interfered while all this ste&ling and rascality was going on, nor while Jay Gould rented a part of the government buildings and filled it with handsome prostitutes to get the votes of such larkees, as Breckenridge, against the government in his Pacific railroad steal.

No, no, these rascals have had a wide and unmolested field for their thievery, and the American sense of fair play will see to it that labor shall have the same right to march unmolested to our national stealing grounds that rascality has had. Yes, gentlemen, thieves have been received there with open arms, and labor would be if it carried boodle enough to satisfy congressional scoundrels. If the orderly and law abiding commonweal army, whose only offense is their poverty should be set upon and murdered by plutocracy’s hirelings no man could tell where it might end. So we say hands off, gentlemen, laborers must and shall have the same right to visit the capitol that has been accorded the organized bands of thieves.

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