People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — Rich Thieves. [ARTICLE]

Rich Thieves.

The rich thieves of the Union Stock Yards who stole water from the Chicago city water works, by connecting the water mains with pipes, that run into the packing and fertilizing manufacturing establishments of that nes' of millionaire anarchists, have not yet been made even to pay for the water that they stole, and no effort has been made to indict them for the crime the} committed. Chicago is pretty steadily engaged in hanging friendless and obscure men who commit murder; in im prisoning little boys who, from theiienvironments are led into little pilfering; in punishing men who sometime. l steal to keep their children from starving, and men who steal a coat to keep them from freezing in winter;- but a millionaire Stock Yards thief, perhaps a prominent member of the church and a star in the social circle is permitted to go undipped of justice. We have changed our mind in regard to a standing army. This country ought to have millions of men under arms, for as sure as the sun shines hnd the seasons come and go, there will need to be a soldier with fixed bayonet on every third yard of our territory if this monstrous perversion of justice goes on. Talk of anarchy; talk of punishing It; talk of its impracticability and its folly. It is the millionaire thieves who

can steal and plunder and yet be sate from the clutches of the law, while the little thief is roaded to prison, who make anarchists and create the spirit of anarchy even In ordinarily loyal hearts. In the name of justice and our civilization we demand that the rich thief shall take his place in the dock beside the ragged violator of law who has stolen a loaf of bread or a pig’s foot at the Stock Yards, to feed his starving children.—Farmers’ Voice,