Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — An Old Evil in a New Form. [ARTICLE]

An Old Evil in a New Form.

Indianapolis Journal: Many, not to say most, people seem to forget the past in their anxieties regarding the present. So they hre now saying that there never was such an omi nous- uprising as that which is known as Coxeyism. The timid are already frightened and those who laughed at it at first are now regarding the movement with seriousness. While theie has never been anything quite like Coxeyism in this country there have been demonstrations quite as serious. Tn 1878 Dennis Kearney from the sand lots of Sary Francisco visited the eastern cities preaching with vigor the heresies which Fry presents in a diluted form. It was a period of strikes, particularly of railroad strikes. Wherever Kearney appeared there were immense and enthusiastic audiences. His talk was of incendiary character and he threatened’'monopolists and the money power with violence. He demanded immense issues of greenbacks and had behind him a number of men of national reputation and popular personality. At one time it looked as if Ivearnrnobs would carry o.ut his threats. Iu several cities the militia was made ready for a call. Several states called upon the President for the assistance of federal troops. It appeared to many at one period as if Kearneyism would carry all the elections, but it gradually died out before the elections were held and was beaten pll along the line. Kearney was brought east to help the then Greenback party. Some of the same leaders are living now and are in the same continued conspiracy against the prosperity and the laws of the 1 land. . Others finding no support elsewhere have joined them. In 1878 they egged Dennis Kearney

on, they sat upon platforms while he , threatened violence to money power. They overshot the mark as they always have since. Kearneyism frightened the very people the greenback leaders expected that he would win. The paralysis of industry by Clevelandism filled-the country with idle men and brought to the front the men with unbalanced intellects who are the national promoters of calamity. Coxey is a populist as iB every leader in this foolish advance on Washington. The movement is the result of Populist teaching and heresies. The very things the leaders demand, the chief of which is an unlimited issue of fiat money, would involve the.country in a panic compared with which the present stagnation would be of no consequence. Now as in 1878, this rising of the victims of the heresies of the Populist will rebound to the injury of these leaders who seek political power by destroying the financial fabric of the nation. When Coxey ism becomes, a burden upon, half the people in the country they will have no patience with the party of Jerry ISimpson, Governors Waite and Lewellyu and their kindred.