Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-05
1coNoCLASTIc EDITORIALS
Appear Simultaneously in Two Oregon Repubcan Papers on
Questions Of Labor and Capital

county spent several thousand dollars
more OF the taxpayers money in try
ing TO convict him. Looking oyer The
long list Of people who speculated and
lost with other peoples money in the
past few years, we tiod very few con-
ylctlons, and when convicted they
generally get of with light sentences
This makes us think OF an eastern
banker-the name of his residence 10
suppressed out of pity fpr the other
people who live there-who several
years ago, during the panicy times Of
a Democratic administration, pleaded
guilty to 20 indictments for embezzle-
ment. He was sentenced TO one years
Imprisonment for each count, but the
court kindly arranged IL that each
year should commence simultaneously
and trot along abreast down the cor
ridOrs Of time.
At the end OF IL months he served
out his 20 years, the portcGllls Of the
pen were lifted aud he went forth a
free man, having ''atoned' Tor his
crimes. He dug 10 wealth he had stolen
and is now living out the remaining
Of his days In peace and plenty. But
the people whom his rascalities made
poor are many of them still paupers.
Those whom he drove insane are still
incurable, and those he has killed will
stay In their grave. The fountain of
evil he has set flowing will run on and
on until the last day.
And when the poor and mayhap
hungry devil who steals 20 chickens
is hauled before the bar OF justice
she yanks him TO dungeon for o
tenn Of a month for each fowl, and
taks particular pains TO see that the
months are consecutive and not sim
ultaneous.
And yet statesmen and philosophers
wonder at those growls ana protests
which they name aud denounce
as anarchy. What Is this anarchy
IL IS abscene Ct law. Tell us, ye
statesmen and profound philosophers,
where was law when that ba nker was
sentenced?
Is not the law generally tender to
the poor and weak? Is not that an
archy varying but In degree and dl-
rection from the anarchy that once
filled the gulllotlne and the torch?
Cease TO wonder, philosophers and
statesmen, that there Is spirit OF
what you call anarchy abroad, You
have created IL, and you are nourlsh
ing and stipulating IL every day. You
have reason To be thankful that the
soil In whicn you have sown the seed
does not permit It's rank and feroclous
growth. 1t is a pallld,. degenerate
and bloodless anarchy. before which
you tremble today. IL coatents itself
with taking of the brotherhood OF
man and the common rights OF all,
with proposing tax on wealth
Instead OF work, with feeble attempts
at shortening hours Of labor, with
here and there a protest AFRAID OF the
shadow of It's own thought, affrlgntad
at operation Of Its own misery. Is
not weak and puny and despisabie
thingY
But go on cultlvatlng IL for a gen
Grafton or two; keep IN clearing alb
scondlng public ofiicials, sending dis
honest bankers TO parlors aud hungry
people TO the stcne pile; preserve law
for the poor and exempt rich; impose
taxes upon the shoulders OF labor;
swell the ranks OF the poor with en-
be2zlements and panics; give other
millions the terrible stimulus OF moth
ing TO lose-aud then you may see the
anarchy Of your dreams.