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Show FED ON A RIFLE DIET. A GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION OBJECT LESSON. Fnbllo Sentiment Universally the Massacre of L'aaruied Condemns Miner at Lattiuiar, leuusijvaula, on the 1ubllc Highway. The fearful slaughter of unarmed miners, who had created no disturbance, but bad simply exercised their constitutional right to walk upon the public highway, near Lattimcr, Pa., emphasizes, says W. J. Bryan, the dangers and evils of government by injunction." This is the general sentiment, also, of the reform press, while with a single exception the plutocratic press does not dare to defend the action of the officers, who, nevertheless, were simply enforcing a judicial order which met with the full approval of the monopolistic dally papers. The newspaper accounts agree that the men who suffered death and Injury had no firearms or weapons whatever. They were all, with one exception, phut In the back, which shows they were in full retreat when the volley was poured into their ranks. There Is already a wild chorus of praise for the firmness of the sheriff In standing up for law and order, but the chorus proceeds wholly from the friends of the official Implicated, says the Twentieth Century. It Is not taken up by the newspapers, with the exception of a few whose point of view does not impress the average mind favorably, like the New York Sun, for Instance. Honor, it exclaims, to the sheriff of Luzerne It Is not easy to see what country. honor Is to be gained by shooting down strikers even if they are engaged in the most riotous violation of law, any more than honor Is to be gained by hanging a murderer. The murderer may richly deserve hanging, but we do not particularly honor the sheriff for hanging him. He might hang a hundred odious murderers In a day, but what honor Is that? It Is the same way with the shooting down of the strikers in Pennsylvania. However, It ' is noteworthy that the horror of the carnage has driven all thought of honoring the killer out of the minds of the people. Only the New York Sun is singing his praises. capias were Issued for their arrest The local constabulary were told by military authority that no arrests would be permitted. There will never be a trial, never an indictment. The murder of these dead miners will never be avenged; their widows and orphans will be accounted outcasts of the law; their gaping wounds and bloody winding sheets will, for all time, confront and haunt the consciences of their indefensible murderers. We are resting upon a volcano. Mutterlnas deep and Intense are escaping compressed lips, from determined hearts and courageous minds. There Is a limit to American endurance. The Mercury stands for peace, for law and order. ThU can be secured by American manhood asserting Itself at the ballot box. Conditions must be changed. We must get back to tbe simplicity of the government of our fathers. We must return to the administrations of the law by honest and patriotic judges. We must return to that personal justice, to ihat Individual liberty, declared In our MU of rights, the constitution of the United States, to be tbe heritage uf all. The American people will nevnr submit to be enslaved by federal judges, who are the lineal descendants of that English tyrant, Jeffries. Our remedy is the ballot In the bands of honest men, who have the courage to repudiate party association and stand for elevated manhood, for free government and personal BUT the Heal Criminal. Before the cadi of an Eastern city there came from the desert two torn and bruised travelers. There were five of us, they said, on our way hither with merchandise. A days journey hence we baited and made our camp, when following ub there came a crowd of fellows, who demanded entrance to our camp, and who, on our refusing It, used to us violent and threatening words, and when we answered not their threats, set upon us with force, 'three of us were slain and we two barely escaped with our lives to ask for justice." Justice you shall have, answered the cadi. If what you say be true, they who assaulted you when you had not assaulted them shall die. If what you say shall not be true, your own lives shall pay the penalty of falsehood. When the assailants of the merchants arrived they were brought at once before the cadi. Is the merchants' story true? he asked. It is, but I will hear no more! cried the cadi. "You admit having reviled men who have not reproached you, and having assaulted men who had not assaulted you. In this you have deserved death. But as they were being carried off to execution the prisoners still tried to explain. Hear them, cadi, said an old man, "lest you commit an Injustice." "But they have admitted the merchants words are true. Yes, but their words may not be all The most serious side of this massacre is the effect It will have upon the masses. All minds will be Inflamed and in the general outburst of bitter hatred the ethics and lessons of the occurrence will oe mlsundestood. As has been intimated already. It will be a waste of time to heap abuse upon the sheriff and other creatures of capitalism who have been the instruments through which this deed was done. We must get not at the agents, but the principles. The capitalists and the exploiters are responsible for it all, and while the sheriff and his deputies are being arrested and suspended and served with writs, the capitalists and the exploiters are safe and comfortable at home, keeping out of the mess and the truth." So the cadi heard them, and they acting as If they had nothing to do said that when they came up to the with it. merchants' halting place they found The New York World (Piute) says: that the mei chants had pitched their Impartial and thorough investigation camp around the only well In that part by the World of the conflict between of the desert and refused to let them deputy sheriffs and striking miners at enter and drink. They first remonLattimer, Pa., on Friday night, proves strated, then threatened, and then, that Sheriff Martin lost his head when rather than die of thirst, rushed upon he ordered his 102 deputies to fire upon the merchants camp, and In the melee the strikers. Butchery Is not too strong three of the merchants were slain. a term to apply to the shooting down Is this also true? asked the cadi miners and the killing out- of the merchants. of fifty-ninot one of whom The merchants were forced to admit right of twenty-oncarried a firearm. World staff corre- that it was. spondents personally examined the Then, said the cadi, you told me bodies of eleven of the dead miners and truth that, being but part of the truth, found that ten died from wounds re- was really a falsehood. You were the ceived obviously while they were try- aggressors by taking for yourselves ing to escape from the sheriffs deadly alone the only well from which these rifles. men could drink. Now the death I have decreed is for you. The following from the Coming Nation fairly shows the sentiment .f the Tim Farmer's Worst Knamj. reform press: "Again has plutocracy The worst enemy the farmers of the shown the mailed hand has given an wheat states have this year Is the Mcobject lesson to the people which plain- Kinley prosperity boomers, who. for ly shows their Intention to hold their political effect in Ohio and elsewhere privileges it the cannon's mouth. Last this year have persisted In sending out Friday twelve tollers were shot down exaggerated reports of the enormous in cold blood at Hazleton, Pa., and crop of wheat we were having this forty more were injured, of whom year. about twenty will die. These men had The effect, of course, was to counterdone nothing except refuse to work for act the logical rise In price caused by less than s living. For weeks the cap- the shortage In other g italists hare been trying to Incite them countries. to riot and thus furnish an excuse for These fake reports, inspired at Rekilling them, but the strikers, though publican headquarters, were sent out famished from want of food, though from Populist states to be recopied In hopeless In the gloom of their miser- the Eastern states to prove that prosable condition, were orderly and quiet. perity had arrived on schedule time. At last forbearance ceased to be virThe effect on the wheat raiser will be tue on tbe mine owners' part and ac- from 10 to 15 cents less per bushel for cordingly capitalistic murder has again his wheat than if the truth had been been done. Widow's tears may flow told. and children may wonder at the grief, This means to the farmers of South but the adamant heart of rapitaliam Dakota alone a loss of nearly half a must have lives to sustain Itself. Large million dollars, for which the Argus mass meetings, addressed by men in Leader, the Republican organ of this every walk of life. Including ministers, state, should be held responslblei have been held In Hazleton to denounce As a matter of fact, instead of our the wanton destruction of human life. having a boom crop, we will have less We go to press before more than the than an average crop of wheat this first report Is In. year. Dakota RurallsL ne e, wheat-raisin- The Southern Mercury says: These stricken miners, through their friends, caused afldavits to be filed against these murderers, upon which writs of IT IS FOUND ONLY WALL STREET. ABOUT THE ELEPHANT Now is the time to study on economic questions. Augusta Daily Tribune. JN HOW THE DRIVER DECORATES HIS FRONT. Silver men should unite upon those Poverty Still Abide with the Producers questions concerning which they are aud It Will Deepen ae the agreed, leaving others fur future setPresent F.nnnrlai Poller Coutluuea A tlement. That Is the way and the only way to accompjlish anything in polil'ew Word of Truth. tics. National Bimetallist. liberty. Monopolist POINTS FROM THE PRESS. FltOSPEIlITY IS HERE. riraa Curt nil Onr Liberty. There Is too much freedom In this Incountry rather than too little. dianapolis Journal (Rep.). at Wild rge Progressive people? compllsh with ease that which would be almost Impossible without him. Any one who has seen these cleverly tralnod animals at work In tbe forests and timber-yard- s of Burmah will at once realize their utility. Sometimes harnessed to huge teak logs, they drag them wherever they are required; or a monstrous tusker may lie seen trundling a log with his tusks and placing it In any position he Is ordered as easily and with apparently as little exertion as a child would handle a tennis ball. The Illustrations are from snapshots of one of these useful creatures, with his mahout (driver), at work and at leisure. In one you see the mahout anointing the elephant's forhead with a cocoanut-ol- l, which Is supposed to head cool when working in the keep the hot sun. The white marks on the bead are made with chalk, with which the mahout delights to decorate his pet. So much for the elephant tamed. In his wild state he Is another creature. The most ticklish and difficult operations la part of elephant-catchin- g to drive the herd into the kheddah prepared for its reception; hence the catch which was made In the Mysore jungles a few weeks ago ranks as unique. A native public works officer, on the way to Inspect a bridge in hie The Illinois Steel works, one of. the largest concerns in the world, has reduced the wages of its employes 15 per cent Taking this and the strike now on together, one Is forced to ask, what does prosperity keep such company for anyhow? Tacoma Sun. Will our gold standard friends kindly tell us whv a large influx of gold from Klond'ke will be of any service to us? It cannot lower the purchasing power of gold, surely, for that Is fixed by God! It cannot be of any service as money, because we have plenty of money now, if you have collateral, and enough Is as good as a feast. It Is not needed for use in the arts, for our present stock would last fifty years If not another ounce more were mined. Please, oh, please explain. Nebraska IndependenL Simply saving a few victims of poverty and land greed Is small buslneHS as compared with that of drying up the sources. The Star, San Francisco. greenIn the presence of a back a debt ceases to exist Take away from money Its office as debt extinguisher and It would not be worth anything. Louisville Free Republic. flve-doll- Spei-lniBu- N Burmah the public works and other departments are dependent on the elephant for a A late lesue of the Charlotte Observ- bad many Farmer. Fnblle Worba OSIrar lllniaalf by Driving a IV hoia Troup III to a CorralL DUtlnKUktliml They not only put people In jail by er sets forth editorially s convincing but shoot unarmed meu Injunction, proof of prosperity the steady Increase down In cold blood on the public highin the receipts of the Southern railroad, by injunction. Shoals (lad.) a table which shows that the net profits ways Referendum. of that corporation are annually near 12,000,000 more than they were three If the free coinage of silver Is not a years ago. That Plerpont Morgan's thing, why Is It opposed by so good overseers have levied upon the public and colltcted out of them two millions net, above cost of services rendered, more than they did three years ago la a strange way of proving that the public are more prosperous. It will be remembered that notwithstanding this enormous increase In Pierpunts profits. It Is his overseers who have been most influential in persuading the N. C. and Georgia railroad commissioners to refuse the public demand to abate In any particular the exorbitant freight and passenger rates this, too, when the gold standard by enhancing the value of money has, In effect, been raising the railroad charges, measured In the prices received for the farm products handled by them. But the Charlotte Observer thinks there is prosperity. Of course there is, from Its standpoint, for has not Plerpont Morgun increased tne annual tribute money collected out of us, some two millions dollars, and la not the $50,000 salary the public pay his head overseer worth much more since the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was repealed? But from the standpoint of the people who constantly pay a larger part of their produce to get it hauled by the railroads, and who sweat the addition of two millions annually for Plerpont Morgan and the high salaries for the chief overseers he has put over us, there is neither exuberant prosperity nor gratitude. r XtlT l ar flve-doll- ar Farmers who raise wheat will no doubt be Interested In the fact that The prosperity that you have to hunt Banker Morgan has recently cleared for In dally papers Is like a certain a million clean dollars on wheat, while gentleman's All cry and Armour, Cudahy and other smaller fry little wool. Democrat. to millionaires, cleared from lf as much. My, how many The only mistake made by the minmortgages the above will obliterate. ers In bringing the suit to recover the Hurrah for dollar wheat! wages withheld from them by Mark Hanna was that tbe action was not Talk of dollar wheat as much as made under criminal law Instead of they may, no farmer has yet received civil. A plutocrat who confiscates tbe as much as a dollar for a bushel of wages of his employes Is worse han a common chief, though he may be sly wheat. Such agriculturists as J. Pier-poeven for wheat sold enough to escape punishment. Kansas Morgan have more than $1, but the average farmer City Times. has been lucky If he got 70 cents. The When Armour and Cudahy raise the general depression of prices by the operation of the gold standard Is all that price of meats, that Is a corner on prevents farmers from receiving $2 per meats; when the sugar trust raises the bushel for their wheat today. The price of sugar, that Is a corner on suoverthrow of the gold bugs would make gar; when the coal operators combine prosperity general Instead of confining and raise the price of coal, that Is a It to such exclusive localities as Wall corner on coal. All the above are leStreet gitimate, but when a lot of coal miners get together and form a corner on There Is not a leading advocate of labor and say we want wages enough the gold standard in the United States to live on, then that Is a riot and the militia Is called out. Circlevllle (O.) who dares to publicly give his true reason for demanding that gold should be Herald. retained as the sole metallic base of What Is a plutocrat? He Is a man, our monetary system, says the Nationrich or poor, who advocates or defends al Bimetallist Those who know anything about the subject are fully aware government by the rich. We have pluthat gold is constantly rising in Its tocrats who dress In purple and fine exchange value. That it will all the linen and fare sumptuously every day time buy more and more, except when and we have plutocrats who dress in some unusual thing occurs to temporrags, beg the crumbs that come from of some tbe raise price arily particular rich mens tables and whose sores are In tbe case of wheat licked by the dogs because they are commodity, as at the present time. They know that too poor to buy spirits of turpentine. as money Increases In purchasing pow- So plutocracy embraces tbe rich and er the only beneficiaries are the hold- that servile, parasitic class who want ers of fixed Incomes, and those whose the rich to rule, because they love crumbB so dearly. Louisville Free ReInterest In money exceeds their interests in all other things combined. They public. know that what benefits these classes Bllvar and Wheat. in such a way must Injure all others. Only a few weeks ago the goldbugt Finally, they know that if they were to were pointing gleefully to the tact that declare that they were seeking to far- the price of wheat was up and Lht ther enrich those who are already the price of silver going down. But the) richest, they would be buried out of had hardly gotten the news well startsight at the very first election. So the ed before the price of wheat began tc millionaires and mutlmilllonalres, to- drop and the price of silver began tc gether with their subordinate shouters, rise proof that abnormal conuiuonf pretend that they want the gold stand- will reverse tbe rule either way. The ard (honest money, as they cal It) in failure of the crops In India, Ireland the Interest of tbe widow and the or- parts of England and Germany, was phan, the hod carrier and the washerthe real cause of the rise In wheat woman. This Is a palpable fraud. It and this was given an impetus by actshould deceive nobody, and should con- ive, even wild speculation. vince every thinking man that the gold Prevailing conditions have not shakstandard has no valid defense. en our confidence In the dollar of oui daddies. Silver Is one of the greatest Power of Legal Tender. of the products of our country and the Our silver dollars are the greatest price of It will never go very low object lesson ever known In the United It Is given a fair chance. Legislate States to teach the power of legal ten- against gold, cotton, wheat. Iron, oi der. Containing material worth less any pther product, curtail the uses ol than 40 cents in the markets today, either and the price will go down. Cole each dollar buys as much wheat or silver into money and the price of corn or clothing as its mythical yellow will go up, and it will carry prices ol brother (for there Is no gold dollar other products right along with It now coined). It Is an evidence of ig- Progressive Farmer. norance or downright lying to talk about the silver dollar passing at par fliMrernmant Ownership of Rnllmada. The men who now talk about govbecause it has a redeemer. There Is no warrant of law for redeeming sil- ernment ownership of railroads as a dever dollars in any other money and It lusion will by the next generation be classed with the men who wanted tc is not done. Nebraska IndependenL burn old Capernlcus for denying that It Is the struggle to keep up ap- the sun swings In a circle from east pearances that keeps a great many peo- to west around the earlh. Augusta (Ga.) Dally Trlbuue. ple down. g, one-thi- afiKSfenr rd one-ha- -- nt 11 11 I I THE MORNING TOILET. district, passing near one of the enorm- ous enclosures built for the purpose, saw a large herd of elephants feeding near the gate. Being alarmed, natlve-llk- e, he fired his gun and shouted for all he was worth; the herd, equally alarmed, fled Incontinently into the kheddah, whose gate stood open! Whereupon the engineer recovered his wits and made his coolies lower the gate, rapturing the lot That various delays gave the elephants time to break down the ungarded Btockade, whereby the majority escaped, reducing the number actually secured to 10, does not affect the capture as perhaps the most remarkable in the annals of elephant-catchin- g. (laid Found by Accident. Many of the gold fields In the Klondike region have been purely accidental and some of them were decidedly interesting, though, perhaps, not more so tban many accidental finds in our own west in the forties and fifties. It was before 1850 that three men, while looking for gold In California, discovered the dead body of a man who eviPoor dently had been prospecting. fellow! said one of the trio. "He has "Lets give him passed in his checks! a decent burial, said another. "Some wife or mother will be glad If ever she knows it" They began to dig a grave. Three feet below the surface they discovered the signs of gold. The stranger was burled In another place, and where they located a grave they opened a gold mine. An adventurer who had drifted Into Ieadvllle awoke one morning without food or money. He went out and shot a deer, which. In its dying atonies, kicked up the dirt and disclosed signs of gold. The poor man staked out a claim and opened one of the most profitable mines ever workDead Mans Claim, ed in Ltadville. the name given to another rich mine in Leadville, was discovered by a broken-dow- n miner while digging a grave. A miner died when there were several feet of snow on the ground. Ills comrades laid his body In a snow bank and hired a man for $20 to dig a grave. Tbe grave digger, after three days' absence, was found digging a mine Instead of a grave. While excavating he had struck gold. Forgetting the corpse and his bargain, be thought only of the fact that he had "struck It rich." Petal am a. Cal., has a horse abattoir, the product of which Is used for chicken feed. |