People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — A Lettes to the Editor of the Pilot. [ARTICLE]

A Lettes to the Editor of the Pilot.

Er*. Pilot: —ln the i issue of the Pilot of the 13th instyour correspondent from “across the deep,” makes some criticisms on Coxey, his followers and Uie laboring element of this country which are quite at variance with lacts. The writer tvays Coxey’s followers “are ‘mostly tramps, with some honest men.” He. no doubt, got his iufo r mat ion from one or the other old party papevs, who call all meu opposed to what they advocate, either tramps or anarchists. If he thinks those men in the overcrowded cities could get work among the farmers, let him come here and try it himself, and he will find not one fanner in fifteen or twenty has the wherewith to pay for hired help and if they had, the cost of labor would exceed the profit. To say that-Coxey’s followers were “men who did not want to Work,” or to agree to such a statement, is a slander on the honest workmen of this country. Yes, Coxey has gained “notoriety,” and also a place in the hearts of the masses of the people. A few more such statements coming from your correspondent across the deep and he will find that he too has gained notoriety, but not for veracity.

VOX POPULL.