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RICH ANARCHISTS. THERE IS AN UNWRITTEN “AW THAT EXEMPTS THEM. They t »n Do hn Tli**y I’Icbnii nn<l No¬ body to I’mierulo Thom tor Violation of tlie I.aiv They Own the Court*. 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 ail the water he wanted without paying. Of course, he 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. The Armour company has been pro vided in the same manner, so it is said, and several other prominent packing houses in the stock yards district still to be hoard from, with the good work of investigation still going on. It. Is estimated that more than a mil lion dollars In revenue has been lost to the city in this manner. The Civic Federation has stirred up this hornet’s nest, and tlie authorities arc 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 gen tlemen 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. It goes without saying that no crim¬ inal proceedings will be instituted. And why? Simply because the of fenders are so wealthy and influential as not to be amenable to the laws which apply to poor people, fn England there Is a written law which exempts mem bees of the royal family from prosecu noil for crimes other than murder, and there seems to be an unwritten law in this country exempting our pluto cratie rulers from prosecution for of fenses of any kiiul. Prosecute Phil Armour? The great pig-potentate, who refused to appear before a United States senatorial inves tigatiug committee, and nothing was done about It! The idea Is prepos te roils. The man who makes United States senators would not obey the bidding of United States senators, much loss would lie heed t he summons of a 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 lie called to account for the offense. If the city can "stop the leak” it will he 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 men wealthy enough to defy ttie law and live unmindful of law are no less an¬ archists than those who advocate the abolition of all law- for tlie poor ns well as for the rich, for tlie pauper as well as for the plutocrat. Anarchism is a dangerous doctrine and its advocates, especially its practi¬ cal advocates, should be properly pun¬ ished. The anarchist who practically advo cates tin* abolition of law so far as it ap¬ plies to the wealthy classes is more dangerous to society than ho 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 man to the workhouse or penitentiary. Now let Chicago inflict the same pun¬ ishment upon Phil Armour, Nelson Morris, and the rest of tlie stock yards, water-stealing millionaires who have stolen a million, that it did upon the poor man who stole $28 from the city treasury in the same manner piping around the water meter. if Chicago does this we will take back all we nave said about millionaire an arehist Thai (’ liUago wilt do this, there is jusi as much prospect as that John Sherman will join the populists, and no more. Henry Vincent is making Coxev’s “Sound Money" hum. it is among the best reform papers of the day—if, in¬ deed, it does not lead them all. Bro. Vincent is a broad visaged journalist and is thoroughly schooled in the various branches of tlie reform move¬ ment. In him Bro. Coxey has an ex¬ cellent coadjutor, the people an editor who is forever wedded to the cause of right. “Sound Money" is doing grand vork all over the country as well as in Ohio. It may not succeed in electing Coxey governor of the state, but it will succeed in making the people's party a fixture in Ohio. Next year we will reap the results of this year’s campaign. The San Fraheisco Call, the great Pacific coast daily paper, owned by Claus Spreckles, the sugar king of the Hawaiian islands, proposes to erect the grandest marble and stone building in America for use as an office. It should be cemented with 1 * 1 men's bones mixed w the tes s of women and children whom tic great sugar king has robbed, murdered and starved in b process of accumulating bis blood tv med mil! ions And then it should anted forever by the cries and gre of his victims. L account it is cal u **e» A DEMOCRATIC PAPER’SOPINION Of Hie Gubernatorial Candidate* in li «*»t iirky. Tbe following editorial appeared in the Daily Evening Post, of Louisville, Ky.,’(a strong Democratic paper) a few (lays ago. "Air. Hardin ^Democrat) is trying to : teal the thunder of Mr. Thomas S. Pet tit, Populist “Mr. Pettit lias a higher claim to the support of so-called free silver demo crats than has Mr. Hardin. “Mr. Pettit is a better democrat than Mr. Hardin. He is loyal to the princi pie of representation in the conduct of [ party affairs. lie left the democratic I party by the front door, because he be- j Ifeved the party wrong. He had the < courage to surrender the hope of polit- j ical advancement rather than surrender j his convictions. | “He preferred to leave the party to having the party leave him. We may differ with Mr. Pettit, but we must re¬ spect his firmness, his loyalty to prin¬ ciple and respect for fair play. i . “Mr. Pettit, moreover, is a better ! speaker than Mr. Hardin, and a far bet¬ ter debater. “if the committee desired to have Mr. Flradley’s (republican) arguments in be- ; half of a sound currency answered, they i should have named not Mr. Hardin, who knows nothing on either side of j the question, but Mr. Pettit, who has ; the arguments of the populists at his I tongue’s end. make j “Still further, Mr. Pettit would a better governor than Mr. Hardin, j His judgment is sounder; his views are j clearer; his reasoning powers stronger, and he knows how to express himself | so his auditors can understand him. “Give Mr. Pettit a chance, He has had great experience in legislation and knows enough to know that many of Gen. Hardin’s vagaries are utterly ab¬ surd. "It is true that Mr. Pettit is the can¬ didate of the populists, but he is not, tbeir victim; no one has hypnotized him, and he would lead his folowers and not surrender to them. “Mr. Pettit is a man of many Ideas; Mr. Hardin Is a man of one. Mr. Pet¬ tit stands by his platform; Mr. Hardin repudiates his. Mr. Pettit was the choice of the party; Mr. Hardin was forced on the party against, its wish, Mr. Pettit bows to the will of the ma¬ jority; Mr. Hardin’s own will is a law to him. Mr. Pettit at Frankfort would he prudent, cautious, painstaking, indus¬ trious; Mr. Hardin would be obstinate, indolent and dangerous to all interests, “Altogether, it would, In our judg mont, lie Tar better for the state and for the democratic party to elect et- 1 ian 0,11 a,< ln ’ NOT WAITE'S FAULT. ('o)orailo'H F*-Governor (il'IH linrk at tlie “liprioemerrt' I** Great Style. Chicago Sentinel. When Davis li. Waite was governor of Colorado, his activity in stirring up things got him into a number of contro¬ versies, from which he usually emerged triumphant. At times he beat the ene my witli argument, and when they “tried to be funny" the shafts of wit he hurled at them showed them they had “caught a Tartar.” In the campaign which resulted in his defeat the one ( cry was, “Waite must he beaten and the state redeemed from populist mis rule!" The banks that had failed during Ilia term of office were dwelt upon, and tlie promise given that no more banks would fail and prosperity would return if (ho populists were whipped. Waite was said to be ruled by his wife, and it was said she was the real chief executive. In his paper, Our Nation’s Crisis, he comments on a re¬ cent bank failure in Denver and exon¬ erates himself and wife from blame in Hit' following happy manner; “in the matter of the failure of the Union National bank. “Plea in abatement. “And now comes Davis H. Waite, a citizen of Denver, and over the age of 31 years, and affirms in his own behalf that he ought not to be held responsible for the failure of said bank for the reas¬ ons following that is to say; “First- UUant denies that he broke tlie said bank, either on purpose and with malice prepense, or accidentally, and he alleges that he never learned of the failure of said bank until Monday of the present week and was consider ably astonished thereat, because affiant had been informed on several occasions within the past six months that ‘the state of Colorado had been redeemed;’ that immediately on hearing of said failure tills affiant hurried home to as certain if he Ir.iii in his possession any bills of the said bank and found after minute examination that he was pos sc'sed of no bank bills on the said bro ken bank, or any other bank. “Second- To the current report that the failure of said bank was caused by the withdrawal from the said bank of a generous confidence.’ this affiant solemnly avers that he withdrew nary confldence from the said bank. “Third And this affiant further al leges that since the 7th day of January last past, neither himself nor his wife lias been governor of the state of Colo riuio. "Witness my hand this 30th day of July A. D. 1895. “DAVIS H. WAITE, State of Colorado. County of Arapa hoe, ss.: Subscribed before me this 30th day of July. 1 S’J5. fSeal) “SAMUEL J. SHIRLEY. Notary Public.” “My commission expires April 11, 189(5." The democratic papers of the South strive to keep each other in a,ice bv repeating with variations the •une “Populists are Bring ” But non of them ever venture an argument against the principles of populism. T t) . 0 ne^er old parties to right trouble ., ,- nr moment England is now buying silver from 5th Ai -t Mexie but th Don't accept uanoaai bank uo;es. OOT E *« --- e£ T AC *1H. r \o romax !■ n X: J ts- X tfrr '.r-r- VC s-t'r'- _T -■ s#m§t -V ” __ ■r kr sf \<2 'I SBff OpuL Wk- a * 1 4 1 Kf vk % ; y, ; m ■j-- my m Hi p|i 3 rJ? 'MU' HtCH ^ AlP» "III 11W. Si® 3 ' I w l^"«kAfr / Z=%- ir r ' ■ - ■ fit 5=—____...____ /; Hu, r* .. __=.^ E~fr ‘“•wy- 3 ■ HfJlW jy* wr— as*. i s' WILL WE SUCCEED? APPEALS TO REASON. THE SILVER CAUSE THE CAUES OF HUMANITY. Hill Arp, Goldbug Writer, Gets Con¬ verted by “Coin Up to Date” and Tells His Friends that They Cannot Meet It with Argument. I have just finished reading Coin’s last book “Up to Date.” If somebody doesn’t answer it and prove it a lie it will shake this country from center to circumference. The bankers amUspec ulators and money kings will be over thrown and the danger is that the masse8 wlll g0 t00 far in revenging thejr wr(mgs and Uke Santstm , pull down the temple and crush all alike. When he shows up the inequalities of taxation and how the rich escape, it makes the blood boil with indignation. Aside from the silver question, he gives a certificate of David Gore, the auditor of public accounts for the state of 1111 - nois, which shows that all that the bankers and brokers of Chicago were assessed for taxation was only $ 44,000 of money, while farmers of that county were assessed $84,000 for agricultural tools and implements. Think of it! The farmers; aH ml,( j h tool^ro. as a ' ! the assessed money a^i' credits twice and "ecurities of all the banks, bankers and brokers of that great city. And all the <l> a >™nds and jewelry in Chicago were at ^, .0, when it is known that single families live there who own diamonds and jewelry ten times that sum in value. The money of these hanks amounts to hundreds of millions, but through the manipulation of muni¬ cipal politics the rich control the as¬ sessors and escape taxation. Can this be true? If it is false, why doesn’t Eli Perkins say so. I see that he has taken tHo field against Coin, but I can’t tell ex¬ actly from his last piece whether he is lying or joking. He closes it by saying that after he had shown Coin his errors and fallacies Coin gave it up and tears rolled down his cheeks and he dis¬ missed his school and declared he wasn't gwine to teach any more. I like Eli. I like any lie that is funny and harmless. I used to like to read Baron Munchausen, and I like to read Eli now. I confess that it strains my credulity j 0 believe what Coin writes about the Chicago banker’s tax, but there is the certificate of the state auditor. Surely there is some explanation of ail this. We know what Solomon, and Paul and the Savior said about rich men, but I never believed that our rich men were that bad. We poor folks whose income was under the mark, believed that to tax large incomes was the right thing to do, but it seems that we can’t do it. we are taxed all the time on the outgo through the operation of the tariff—a tariff for revenue only, with incidental protection, It is the incidental that gets us. An American sewing machine or a mower or reaper can be bought in London or Brazil 30 per cent cheaper than we can buy one here. There comes in the incidental. It is protected here from foreign competition and the profit is so great that Mr. Singer or Mr. Mc Cormick can pay the freight across the ocean and then sell it for less than he will sell to us. Isn’t that funny? Har per’s Magazine sells all over this coun try for thirty-five cents, but sells all over England for twenty-five cents. An American Cedar pencil of the best quai ity sells here for a nickel, but you can huv the very same in London for a copper. And just so it is with hun dreds of other things that are made ln " a * s country. This incidental is not accidental, but was done on purpose Washington and our law makers say we must stand it. Boys, let’s fight. No, I don’t mean that exactly, but let’s meet and pass some resolutions— let's do something, Now > the Chicago goid-bugs have “ ,,wl a mmin ^ t0 if the v ^an't - s * op a11 ,his rumpus about silver, but they a « well try to stop a do - I w«n’t taking much stock in financial affairs, for I had read so much on both sides that it made mV head swisu - «d so when a friend sent me Coin's first book I took it up with prejudice against it. for I supposed that Mr. Harvey was a Chicago Yankee and was {laid by the Inter-Oceaa to write m that side, and so I fortified ravself against being seduced by hss read it rather hurriedly, watching for traps and triggers, but I didn’t find them, and I found so much information that was news to me that I read it more carefully the second time, and I came to the conclusion that Coin was a very smart man, or I was a very great fool— one or the other. His last book is bet¬ ter than the first, and if these two lit¬ tle books are made up of fallacies the gold-bugs had better get somebody else beside Eli to expose them—Eli’s forte is fun, not finance—though I’ll bet a dollar he was opposed to the income tax. —Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. FARMERS AND BICYCLES. Ways in Which Profits of Agriculture Have Diminished. The extension of the trolley and cable systems of traction for street car lines has greatly reduced the demand for horses, and as electricity and steam power has been substituted for horse power, the market for the cheaper grade horses has grown worse. Recently the farmers who deal in horses have met with still another disaster which lia s diminished the demand further the bicycle craze. This strikes at the horses of the better quality, ordinary carriage horses, and not those devoted to the humble and laborious task of drawing street cars for their board and lodging. Livery stables throughout the country, and more especially in the smaller towns, are now feeling the siri r ister effect of the bicycle craze. In coun¬ try hotels or boarding houses where in previous summers it was the custom of the guests to go driving, this year there has been very little demand for car¬ riages, as bicycles have furnished an adequate substitute. Not only have the livery stables suffered in respect of transient patrons desiring “to go for a drive” over green hills and through winding valleys in the country, but the regular customers as well have gone over to the bicycle contingent very largely. Country doctors, as a rule, have been among the best customers of livery stables, but they r are so no more, for many country physicians now use bi¬ cycles for their professional visits, and this is true of many other former pa¬ trons of livery stables. The big bicycle factories are turning out hundreds of machines every day, and up to a few weeks ago could not supply the demand. As the number of machines increases the demand for horses falls off, and one of the results of this lias been the cheapening of good carriage horses and the reduction of the number of such carriage horses raised by farmers. In still another way the farmers of many states have suffered from the effects of the bicycle craze, the wheels need no fodder. The fewer horses, the less de¬ mand for hay and oats; and it is be¬ lieved in many quarters that a shortage in the New York hay crop this year is all that prevents a big fall in the price consequent upon the decrease of the de¬ mand. CORPORATION ROBBERY. The Corporations Unite Ajjalnat the Private Citizen. A well-to-do farmer residing near Denton took several baskets of peaches to the boat iast week to send to friends Baltimore as a present. When he offered to pay the freight he was charged 15 cents a basket. The farmer was thunderstruck for the regular rates are but S cents. When he asked for an explanation he was told that he was not shipping to a commission merchant but to private parties; and that rates to consumers direct without passing through the hands of commission mer chants were higher. Talk about the despotism of the czar of Russia! The despotism of this steamboat line in compelling the farmer to deal with the commission merchant is as tyrannous as any despotism in the world. Where is your democratic or republican form of government when you are such slaves to monopoly. It is time to limit the power of this trust. If you agree with us why not be men and vote with us?-Peninsula Farmer (Federalsburg, lid.), God grant that the two old gold-bug parties may unite on Grover Cleveland as a candidate .or president. Then ne ^an ki.i two snakes with one club. The gold men bolt their party all r:r hf but the silver men appear to be tco t ifounled '-if. cowards to declare themselves .n pendent men. SENATOR PEFFER ON BONDS. Will Introduce a Resolution Advising Re¬ pudiation. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 13.—“If another issue of bonds is made without the au¬ thority of congress I shall advise their repudiation.” These are the words of Unites States Senator Peffer, used to-day in speaking about the probability of another bond issue* i Senator Peffer has kept his eye on figures which tell of the condi tion the gold reserve. None have watched it sliding down below the $ 100 , 000,000 mark more anxiously than he. It was he who objected very em¬ phatically in the United States senate when the first and subsequent bond is¬ sues were made. “I consider the bond issue fraudulent, and I have not changed my position since then. I still think the govern¬ ment has no authority to issue bonds without the concurrence of congress,” said he. “I am satisfied that there will be another bond issue before Oct. 1, be¬ cause the syndicate has been given the privilege of taking all the bonds issued before then. There is only one thing which may prevent a bond issue, and that is the fear that it will weaken the democratic strength. They are mak¬ ing heroic efforts to strangle the free silver sentiment in all the states, and have to a considerable extent suc¬ ceeded. Look how they squelched it in Kentucky, Arkansas and Iowa, and nearly all the other states where a test has been made. They are compelling the silver men to go outside the demo¬ cratic party if they desire to adhere to that principle. The leaders thing that the voters can be whipped into line, and if they find out that they can, then look out for another bond issue before Oct. 1. The people will be given all they will stand, and no questions are sup¬ posed to be asked. “At the last session of congress I was called impertinent because I asked to have the names of the bond purchas¬ ers made public. If there be another bond isue without authority of con¬ gress I intend to introduce a i esolution advising the repudiation of the bonds. They were issued without authority, and are fraudulent, and the people should not be compelled to pay them. This may not sound well, but there us no use of allowing the people to be im¬ posed upon any longer. When the first bond issue was proposed Secretary Car¬ lisle came to both houses of congress and asked legislative authority for the issue. He went so far as to prepare a bill for that purpose and presented it to the committees of both the senate and the house. Congress refusing to act, the secretary gave notice that If he were not authorized by special act he would issue bonds without such au¬ thority, and he did so. I called atten¬ tion to these facts at the time; charged that the bonds were issued illegally, and also introduced a resolution in¬ structing the judiciary committee of the senate to examine and report whether the secretary had such authority under existing law, and the committee dared not report because they knew there is no such law.” SNAP SHOTS. Don’t you hear "dem good times com in?” National bank notes are not legal tender. _ “Sound money” makes labor and pro duce cheap. - Corn at 12 cents a bushel—gold stan dard prices. Direct legislation wil restore the gov¬ ernment to the people. The initiative and referendum an¬ swers all questions of reform—by direct vote of the people. The workingmen of America will never be free from oppression until they free themselves. The United States subtreasury will not redeem national bank notes. Try it and see for yourself. If every debt in the world were sim¬ ply canceled there would not be a single dollar less of wealth left. _ 41 ; money used by an honest govern meat will be sound. Let us have an honest government of the people. fOUNG MEN OUR HOPE. THEY HAVE COURAGE AND AM¬ BITION AND WILL WIN OUT. They Possess as a Birthright That Healthy Independence Which Despises Traditions and Questions the Highest Accepted Authority. Young men are the hope of new ideas. They are sincere, earnest, unpreju¬ diced seekers of the truth. They have the energy, the courage, the ambition and determination to do something in the world. They pine over no regrets and fear not the untried future. Their lives are before them. They long to conquer the world. Their ancestors have been swallowed up in the whirlpool of competition, and many fathers have become reconciled to the lash and the blind of party and giv¬ en up the struggle. But these young men will not give up without a fight. These young men may not now be statesmen—heaven knows there are too many of what the world calls “states¬ men” already— but they have human hearts and manly aspirations and op¬ portunities to pursue the right. They may be hooted at by their el¬ ders, but they were born in a fortunate age, and will live to manage the affairs of the nation long after their elders, with all their egotism and prejudice, are under the sod. The old men who have had their po¬ litical eyes opened just at the physical age when nature stands waiting to close them again forever, have learned by a life’s experience, and we should » respect them as teachers—but upon the young men of to-day will fall the work of practical reform. The principles of right have always existed—but to this generation is the revelation of the progress of all the past ages—and this or a future genera¬ tion are the only hope of utilizing the wisdom of the ages. It is but natural that the great West should lead the reaction against the encroaching restraint of liberty which drove humanity westward. Here the eye and the mind have looked upon an unbounded prospect. Imitation of the East grows fainter as people scatter westward and away from the centers of custom and tradition; bold strokes of nature assert themselves as man is thrown upon his own resour¬ ces, and isolation shows him the mean¬ ing of liberty and independence. He forgets the fashions and methods laid down in the books , and conditions force practical ideas into his head. He learns simplicity and directness. He sees that the complications of “fi¬ nancial legislation” are composed prin¬ cipally of formulas to enable “finan¬ ciers” to squeeze a living out of labor¬ ers without toiling’themselves. f The young man growing up in the West learns Nature’s laws first—they are a part of his being—and no peda¬ gogue in the world can persuade him to exchange real ideas for artificial ones. The young man of the West possesses as a birthright that healthy indiffer¬ ence which tries things on their merits, and accepts nothing until he sees what kind of stuff there is in it. Call him a savage if you will, but he sees through your flimsy ceremonies, and scorns them. He is tied to no formality. Give him only facts—fairy stories don’t go. The young men of the East are sur¬ rounded by environments the justice of which they will not question as long as they are well-fed, well-clothed and edu¬ cated in aristocratic schools—but the poor among them are born with their eyes open to the glaring injustice of the situation—and as they hear the hope¬ ful voice of the great West and South proclaim the coming day of “equal rights to all and special privileges to none” the courage of youth and hope responds: “Hurrah! boys, we are com¬ ing.” THE DOG YELPED. Coxejr’g Rock Hit Him Amidships an< Shattered His Frontispiece. A correspondent from Glouster, O. sends us a cliping from the Athens County Gazette, in which he seeks to blackguard Mr. Coxev. He has not the ability to attempt to reply to his argu¬ ments. He contents himself with call¬ ing names. Sound Money is engaged in a labor of reform. It is seeking to tear the mask from the rottenness and corruption of the old parties and ex¬ pose the villiany that permeates and controls their leaders. Our correspondent says of the pin¬ head editor of the Athens County Ga¬ zette, that he graduated as the landlord a little country tavern and immedi¬ ately assumed the editorship of a news paper that, through more or less changes of name, has at last assumed the name that it now bears. What the next change will be is a problem. He knows nothing about the questions of the hour, and there is not a miner in the Sandy Creek valley that is not cap¬ able of teaching him the a. b. c. of eco nomics. We expect to arouse the antipathy of such people and only hope that Mr. Coxey hit him so hard that it will bring him to a realization of his igno¬ rance. Such people usually are put to &reat straignt to pay for their patent insides, and, if the truth were known, possibly this man Allen is in the same fix. The greater the outcry from such fellows the better impression Mr. Coxey generally makes, Let them blow.—Sound Money. If the fiat cf» bankers is good a 3 money why not the fiat of the govern¬ ment. Y.'hy not hire England by the year ta manage our finances?