Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-10

solemn stiffness by the addition Of a fun.
nv department with Mr.. John Lincoln
BIauss as editor. Mr.. Blauss contri-
butes to the amusement Of mankind by
the publication Of an articleor Country
Bank Robbers"
A notable evolution of the socially un-
fit has taken place, Mr.. Blauss informs
US, since the Coxey movement, and that
movement has been followed up by a
Presidential campaign founded on the
theory that trampdom was the natural
state OF all mankind that has not
been admitted to the freemasonry of
the money power. In every hamlet OF
the land the disinherited, the unfoTtu-
nate, the poor saw day for salvation
and felt that the wagons and depriva-
tions justified reprisals against the
rich" Therefore the entire Democra-
tic party took to robbing country banks.
And as about one million majority of
the white people OF the United States,
representing four or five million MAORI
ty of the entire white population, voted
for Bryan, naturally great many safes
! were cracked.
But Mr.. Blauss gets in his fun when
he comes to explain things. During the
Presidential campaign many people got
into psychological morass, whatever
that may be, in which the distinction
between right and wrong, when it con-
cerned the local bank or the wealthy
land owner. was swallowed up and
crimes against these were sneakingly
condoned. But, strange as it may seem,
in certain "less.developed sections, y
meaning. OF course, the South and the
Far West, there were no bank robberies,
and this was due to the fact that bank
robbery in such community rs apt to
stir up public passions instantly fatal to
the captured victim"
Strange to say, all these less-develop'
ed sections where the populace refuses
so violently to condone the "reprisal
upon the rich" voted for Bryan. To be
consistent and to live up to the rules
laid down for them by MIR. Blauss, in
these very sections the bank robberies
should have taken place and should
have been condoned. There is another
paradox which Mr.. Blauss has pdrpose,
ly left unexplained, in order, we assume,
to be more delightfully funny. This is
that there were, according to the map
accompanying the article, one third
more bank robberles in the State OF Ohio
than i'm all the Southern States COM
bined, exclusive OF Missouri: there
were five more robberies in the State OF
Illinois alone than in all the States COM
bined which gave their ELECTORAL votes
to Mr.. Bryan.
The real explanation is that when the
Democrats take to making reprisals
upon the rich they naturally operate in
Republican States. Mr.. Blauss pub
fishes list of reprisals and the amount
reprised by the Democratic safe crack
ers. This list shows that these amounts
we're small, sometimes less than 500.
In one bank the swag, or reprisal,
amounted to only $3.50. The next fun
ny article, will deal, no doubt, with the
reprisals upon the big city banks by
some OF their own officials. There
were good many OF these, and the
amounts secured were as rule far
more liberal than the burglars got from
the country banks.
Mr.. Blauss will explain, do doubt, the
weR known fact the guilty bank officials
were all selected from the ranks of
Coxey's army or from those of the De-
mocrtic party, the line of distinction be-
tween the two not being apparant to
him.