Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-16
RICH ANARCHISTS.
THERE IS AN UNWRITTEN :AW
THAT ExEMPTS THEM.
They Can Do as They Please and No
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 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 the 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
inch 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-
Vioeo IN the same manner, so it is said,
ana several other prominent packing
houses In the stock yards district still
10 De neard from, with the good work
OF investigator still going on.
IL is estimated that more than a mil
non dollars in revenue has been lost
10 the city in this manner.
The Civic Federation has stirred up
unls hornets nest, and the authorities
are compelled to take some action. So
1ar, they are simply trying to stop the
Ieak-nothfng is said about prosecuting
Fnll 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 little of it to the cause
OF education and religion.
1t goes without saying that no GRIM
mai proceedings will be instituted.
AND why? Simply because the Of
lenders are so wealthy and influential
as not to be amenable to the laws which
apply to poor people. In England there
Is written law which exempts mem
bers OF the royal family from prosecu-
ton for crimes other than murder, and
there seems to be an unwritten law
In this country exempting our pluto
cratic rulers from prosecution for Of
fenses Of any kind.
Prosecute Phil Armour? The great
p1g-potentate, who refused to appear
before a United States senatorial inves-
tigating committee, and nothing was
done about it! The idea is prepos-
ferrous.
The man who makes United States
senators would not obey the bidding
OF United States senator's, much less
would he heed the summons of a Judge
whom he or his confreres have placed
on the bench.
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 fol
the offense. II the city can ''stop the
leak" it will be more than satisfied.
There don't seem to be any law in
this country which rich men are bound
to respect.
But there is a growing public senti-
ment in this country that mer
wealthy enough to defy the law ant
live unmindful of law are no less an.
archists than those who advocate the
abolition of all law-for the poor a:
well as for the rich, for the pauper a.
well as for the plutocrat
Anarchism is a dangerous doctrin,
and it's advocates, especially its practi
cal advocates, should be properly pun
ished.
The anarchist who practically advo
Gates the abolition of law so far as it ap
plies to the wealthy classes is NOR,
dangerous to society than he who car
ries red flag.
The great anarchist breeder of thi
country is the unwritten law that tn
wealthy culprit shall go scot free 70
an offense that sends poor man to tn
workhouse or penitentiary.
Now let Chicago infiict the same pun
ishment upon Phil Armour, Nelson
Morris, and the rest of the stock yards
water-stealing millionaires who hav
stolen a million, that it did upon tn
poor man who stole $28 from the cit
treasury in the same manner-pipin
around the water meter.
If Chicago does this we will TAX
back all we have said about millionair
anarchists.
That Chicago will do this, there /
Just as much prospect as that Johl
Sherman will join the populists. an
no more.