The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-10-25
RICH ANARCHISTS.

THERE is AN UNWRlTTEN AW
THAT ExEMPTs THEM.
They Can Do as They Please and Mo-
body Dares to Prosecute Them for
Violation Of the Law-They Own the
Courts.
From Chicago Sentinel: Some two
or three years ago it was dis
covered that a comparatively poor man
had tapped a city water pipe in such
manner that he obtained all the water
he wanted without paying. OF course,
ne was duly prosecuted according to
law, just as he ought to have been.
Now h startling discovery has just
been made that the great packing
houses OF Chicago have for years been
getting water in the same way-a six
lnch pipe, tapping the water main and
conducting water around the meter, in
the case of the Nelson Morris company.
Inc Armour company has been pro-
Vlded in the same manner, so it is said,
and several other prominent packing
houses in the stock yards district still
to be heard from, with the good work
OF investigation still going on.
1t is estimated that more than a mill
non dollars in revenue has been lost
10 the city in this inner
The Civic Ea1orot;op hoo c+;,,,1 -
ohls hornets nest, and the authorities
are compelled to take some action. So
Iaf, they are simply trying to stop the
leak-nothing is said about prosecuting
Phll Armour, or Nelson Morris, or any
otner OF those highly respectable gen
tlemen of the stock yards district. who
are making so much money every year
and devoting a little of it to the cause
or education and religion.
IL goes without saying that no Grim
lnal proceedings will be instituted.
And why? Simply because the Of
tenders are so wealthy and influential
as not to be amenable to the laws which
apply to poor people. In England there
is a written law which eXempts mem
Defs. OF the royal family from prosecu-
ton Ter crimes other than murder. and
thefe seems to be an unwritten law
IN this country exempting our pluto
cratic rulers from prosecution for Of
lenses Of any kind.
prosecute Phil Armour? The great
plg-potentate, who refused to appear
before a United States senatorial inves-
tlgatlng committee, and nothing was
lone about it! The idea is prepos-
ferrous.
n man who makes United States
senators would not obey the bidding
OF United States senators, much less
would he heed the OF a Judge
whom he or his confreres have placed
on the bench.
I; Phil Armour, Nelson Morris, and
other Chicago millionaire packers, may
have stolen millions from the city Of
Chicago in evading water taxes, but
they will never be called to account for
the offense. If the city can 'stop the
leak it will be more than satisfied.
There don't seem to be n law in
this country which rich men are bound
to respect.
But there is a growing public senti-
ment in this country that men
wealthy enough to defy the law and
live unmindful Of law are no less an
archists than those who advocate the
abolition of all law-for the poor as
well as for the rich, for the pauper as
well as for the plutocrat.
Anarchism is a dangerous doctrine
and it's advocates, especially it's practi-
cal advocates, should be properly pun
ished.
The anarchist who practically advo-
Gates the abolition Of law so far as it an
plies to the wealthy classes is more
dangerous to society than he who car
ries a red flag.
The great anarchist breeder of this
country is the unwritten law that the
wealthy culprit shall go scot free for
an offense that sends a poor mar to the
workhouse or penitentiary.
Now let Chicago irdict the same pun
ishment upon Phil Armour, Nelson
Morris, and the rest Of the stock yards.
understanding millionaires who have
stolen a million, that it did upon the
poor man who stole s28 from the city
treasury in the same manner-piping
around the water meter.
/, If Chicago does this we will take
back all we have said about millionaire
anarchists.
That Chicago will do this, there is
just as much prospect as that John
Sherman will join the populis1s, and