The advocate., 1894-05-09

pereQ, me must not annoy me now,
while | feel as / do toward him; it
would not be safe. If Mr.. Cotterell
should oh, he must nOtl Go, Aunt
Halle, gOl before l hate you, too. You
are like the rest. You have money,
position; he is a blacksmith; | am of
your "class." But l shall die with him
if he-No, he shall not! Go! Do gop
Lena Sprsng up, but Mrs. DelOrme
pulled her back, put her arm tenderly
around the agitated girl, pressed to her
bosom the throbbing head, and said
softly:
"No, Lena, | am not like the rest.
Although l did not then suspect to
what consequences it might lead, did
not | tell you once to marry the man
you loved? say so now. / have not
hitherto spoken for myself-yOu know
my unhappy position. l must say
something to your father when l re-
turn. But do not doubt my love for
you, nor my readiness to dare for you,
under any circumstances. | shall be
obliged to go now, but l shall see you
soon again"
pardon me, Aunt Halle! l have
wronged you in my frenzy. | remem-
ber when you said it; it was that very
night when he had looked so noble, and
good, and handsomel and loved him
so dearly, even then. Now he is-Oh!
Mason coming up, the conversation
was interrupted. He and Mrs. De-
lorme drove slowly back to town, for it
behooved them, as Mason observed, to
"adopt a plan of campaign" before
reaching home. They finally agreed,
that, as it must come to that sooner or
later, it would be better to tell the
truth; only, as Mason suggested, they
must "Select what particular truths to
tell"
Mr.. Graham was furious, and pro-
posed to have the police go and fOrcibly
bring his daughter away. Do you ask
-"By what authority could the police
drag home young lady of legal age, Of
sound mind, and guilty of no violation
of the laws? Reader, you astonish
mel Are you really so unfamiliar with
the workings of our glorious republi-
can institutions? DO you not know
that, save only where the Peoples
party has lately come into power, the
entire organized violence of the states
and of the municipalities is at the in
slant, unquestiOning disposal of rail
road managers? That at their bidding
the whole machinery Of force, from a
single policeman to the national guard
or the federal army, will be lmmedl-
ately called into service to accomplish
any end-laWful or otherwise? And
that, whether policemen or soldiers,
the states men of violence are, on such
occasions, commanded from railroad,
not from state nor governmental, head
quarters? But General Manager Gra-
ham did not need to put forth this
power to accomplish so trilling a pur-
pose as the seizure and coercion OF
single citizen. Our accommodating
police authorities, at the request OF
railroad officials, appoint policemen to
be paid and directed by railroad com
panies, and every railroad company in
Kansas carries upon its pay rolls po-
licemen who, at the bidding OF their
corporate masters, are ready to do any
deed of unlawful Violence-in the name
of the SO0ereign peOpIei Thus, over
the private standing armies of these
corporations the state throws the pro-
lection of its own abdicated soVer-
eighty, and commands, on pain Of pun
ishment for treason, unhesitating
obedience and submission to the armed
mercenary retainers of private corpo-
rations! These especial policemen
without pay" as they are euphemistic-
ally called, exist in every city of Kan
saS, and statute expressly authorizes
their appointment. They are not con-
trolled nor directed, as are other police
men, by the city authorities; they rec
ognize no superior but a railroad
official. Is it not time for people
wishing to be free to begin to look into
such things? Previous to 1889, the