People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-25
RICH ANARCHISTS.
AN UNWRITTEN LAW THAT
EXEMPTS THEN.
THEY OWN THE COURTS.
They Can Do as They Please and
Nobody Dares to Prosecute
Them for Violation OF
The Law.

was OlscoNelou tndt d coihP 4FaClVely
poor man had tapped city water
pipe in such manner that he obtained
all the water he wanted without pay
ing. OF course, he was duly prose
cuted according to law, just as he
ought to have been.
Now the startling discovery has
just been made that the great pack
ing houses of Chicago have for years
been getting water in the same way
"a sixteen inch pipe, tapping the
water nam and conducting the water
around the meter, in the case of the
Nelson Morris company.
The Armour company has been
provided 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.
II is estimated that more than
million dollars in revenue has been
lost to the city In this manner.
The Civic Federation has stirred
up this hornets nest, and the au-
thorities are compelled to take
some action. So far, they are simply
trying to stop the leak-nothing is
said about prosecuting Phil Armour,
or Nelson Morris, or any other of
those highly respectable gentlemen
of the stock yards district, who are
making SO much money every year
and devoting a little of it to the
cause of education and religion.
1t goes without saying that no
criminal proceedings will be insti-
tuted.
And why? Simply because the
offenders are so wealthy and inhuen
entail as not to be amenable to the
laws which apply to other people.
In England there is written law
which exc mpts members Of the royal
family from prosecution for crimes
other than murder, and there seems
to be an unwTitten law in this coun
try exempting our plutocratic rulers
from prosecution for offenses Of any
kind.
Prosecute Phil Armour The
great pig-potentate, who refused to
appear before a United States sena.
torial investigating committee, and
nothing was done about it The idea
is preposterous.
The man WHO makes United States
Senators would not obey the bidding
of United States Senators, much less
would he heed the summons Of
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 evadipg 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 cont seem to be any law in
this country which rich men are bound
to respect.
But there is growing public SEN
timent 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
we'll as for the rich, for the pauper
as we'll as for the plutoorat.
Anarchism is dangerous doctrine
and its advocates, especially its prae-
teal advocates should be properly
punished.
The anarchist who practically ad-
vocates the abolition of law so far as
it applies'to the wealthy classes is
more dangerous to society than he
who carries 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 man to
the workhouse or penitentiary.
Now let Chicago lnhiet the same
hr,o,,t ,,vor Dbil ArD,ot,. MI