Show W WATCHING PHILADELPHIA effort to protect il itself elf from a gang n of thieves who know no mercy or conscience or any of honesty ill I Being watched aU alt over u lids because other cities that jt if reform is ia possible In Ute the Quaker town ton It IM more than possible Per yer the corruption of manicI t In Me e a tor fot years the city baa haa teen hoes by the t most Jl tori oM s inC gr tl ti g of that ever disgraced citizenship or plundered a complacent In other great citIes have occasional of remorse and reform but fa hiss has heki up p its bad and smilingly submitted to II a of everyday plundering which kick Me have d disgraced a f c freebooters in the middle a ages es or u le a nt dem highwayman envious he e of ita iLe and freedom free uan bret t danger tet of fT the gang FUg has Nul waKed 11 mp to tt that Its Ib latest and aud must most dis attempt at on a kt I lan tate has aroused arouNd the Quakers and they are u ugly y yI I to make It unpleasant for the boot bandits woo who attempt to complete the deal leal Curiously enough h the organ w which Iett plotted the ro robbery hery of is Jt highly that its should uld be overturned and threats of against Weaver woo who stands stand between the citizens and the gang gan ganNow Now observe the facts Senator Pen Penrose rose pupil and of Senator Is very tery Active in the thi proceed I Ipg Au ignorant foreigner would sup J tt that a senator who a art rt state Kalt like Penns Pennsylvania in the theise mot ise t deliberative body hody In the would be found aligned with the people pee in defense or of their rights and the plu plunderers Is he Hard Hardly IY ly In Instead tead he be is the leader of the aig Ute the hearer of oC their bannerS Danner dia tr tor of the loot And recruiting er erg g tat for the th which walek controls his state Moreover he hiss bas for silent l r and all allies issue of t the e most J respectable al le of New Yr Mk l iI elphia men who hoped to t lacU t by the tk steal were to the for the preliminary caMI campaign of and underwrite the whole wole 1 from petty thievery ery Ill to d larceny provided they themselves escaped 1 publicity in conner connection tion with the transaction Penrose and his political part iss the robber barons ot of dais were desirable members of so dey clet It IM tr they robbed everybodY passed ir way they tortured and aDd maimed and occasionally burned innocent men they ravished women and sometimes sacked cities without rhyme or 01 this is their claIM tp regard a as compared with the Pennsylvania pilla if robber baren risked their Urea JIves they were or oc decent they made seine ome pre pee preten ten tense or of patriotism where their over OYer lurda were LOnc concerned or their domain they even exerted thesis ses to defend their own subjects l rem other robbers The Penrose e crew no chances it makes a peat great city pay tribute and pretends no return Jt it ite e s poor moor and rich lIke alike to pay py toll alid lies theism t UM the machinery fit of It I there were any fur tur titer of f legalised theft they haw baYe at t last exceeded ed the limit of hu he endurance and the people have In III revolt r There as the of Ute the have provoked excesses In Inthe the te of law Jaw is et with threats J of lawbreaking pea vp up wrongs s are with jUt the oC 0 by violence And there all as elsewhere where Ute time in of an aroused and wrathful is called anarchy As s If any b with his piteously Insane ine ever wrought by murder taU half the Injury to a people that hat has been m In D by the Pennsylvania pro n nII II or of respectable anarchy be Mod the forms of legal authority TIM Tue battle has not booms beeR won in Phil yet but a whole nation Ia 15 it much as the fath fathers for fot news from the old little Hall ball when the freedom of I wu in III the balance and Dd a whole nation is praying that the knell of mu I and may De be sounded there IUS as the knelt knell of waa sounded In hi IL 71 |