Friday, August 23, 1935
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SPECIAL
To the Editor:
to having set some half dozen
Can anything be more abhorrent fires near the south end of Moun
or revolting to the average ra tain avenue.
tional human than a lynching ? Riley recently served five months
Can there bo a mure disglisting in the state training schisd for
apeetaele than that of a mob of petty larceny. He stated that ho
•enaeleu and unscrupulous men. had tossed the match into the tin
too cowardly to show their faces der-like grass, "just to SV«- the
in daylight, hanging a fellow creu fires,"
ture in the darkness of night, their
The confession follows u much
facial concealed by black inaska?
confused and bewildered Hie und
la there anything more dishciirt- police department who kept con
ening to a progressive nation tinual vigil in order to put an
which haa strenuously striven to to tin* activities of the Ji
attain a condition of civilization “fire-bug."
than to see their efforts mocked
Chief Talent indicated that he
and defeated by a band of frenzied would turn the lad over to the
rioters, who have suddenly shed all proper authorities for the hand
pretense of culture and reverted ling of the case.
to the savage ways of the barbar
ians of the bark Ages?
lynchers a taslc of a law like that
is there anything to admire or re and lynching would automatically
spect in men who. apparently cease.
without shame, exhibit their in
Not for a moment do 1 uphold
nermost, beastly characteristics to
the world at large by joining to the shooting of a police officer,
gether to murder a fellow citizen even though we all know that
who, by our Constitution, is en many officers lake advantage of
titled to a fair trlul, regardless of their authority to insult auu ar
what his offense may have been ? rogantly abuse citizens in a way
Have we arrived at a pass where hat makes the blood of an ave
our laws must I m * administered by rage person boll But 1 do uphold
a gang of ruffians, devoid of sense our Constitution that guaranty-—
to .v.uv man u t.m tnal for
and conscience, instead of by the misdeeds
and I uphold to the ll
proper authorities?
the efforts made by exjxmcnts^^w
If the dilatory tactics of our civilization to
I cscupe trinii the ber
courts are the cause for such a baritles of I th«1 I >ai k Ages and to
hideous outrage against society, keep from eliding back late U m
whose fault is it in the first place ' foul slime of those hideous and
Were not the Judges of our courts brutal days
elected to office by these very
The majority of these lynchers
murderers who now make com
plaint against them ? Who do these profess to some religion They be
lawbreakers vote for at election lieve that some day they must face
times? Do they not vote for the ■i just Lord and be judged accord
first smooth-tongued Individual ing to their merits. What tor
who comes around and hands them ments of mind they will suffer
a line of "bull" and a couple of is they lie on their dying beds and
cheap, stinking, campaign cigars? painful memories of their past
Do they ever make any effort to lives assail them. How they will
elect to office a man who can writhe and twist and squirm and
qualify in all respects, or do they pray "Oh Lord,” they will cry,
bother to make provision to recall ■great, compassionate Lord, have
any official who falls down on his mercy on my guilty soul and save
job? But if our court officials do me."
What answer they will receive, I
fall down by reason of being too
slow, indolent or inefficient, all have no means of knowing, but it
these nitwits can think of is to Is more than probable they will
lynch someone, which they con be sternly told, "The mercy you
sider as the only answer to the receive will be exactly and pre
cisely the same as you dealt out to
problem.
Men who are harsh and bitter your fellow creatures while on
to their wives and children, cruel earth."
What a colossal nerve a man
to dumb animals, poisoners of
dogs, perpetrators of secret mean must have who would dare to face
nesses can always be found among his Maker and beg tor mercy for
the members of a lynching |>arty himself after denying mercy to
Characteristics of that kind lend others during his life.
These destroyers of human life
the ms«1 Ives readily to the murder
of a defenseless human being. Oth will find that the excuses that
ers. governed by uncontrollable have {Missed as legal tender with
tempers, or possessed by the herd the inhabitants of this earth will
instinct, which induces them to be of small avail at the judgment
join in any crowd they see. or day J. C. REYNOLDS.
those drawn by morbid curiosity,
make up the remainder. When one
man slays another, it is called
murder. Then when a mon slays
the killer, they endeavor to give it
another name, but it is murder
just the same. And instead of re
lieving the situation, they make it
worm-. Two wrongs do not make
one right, never did and never will.
If it is permitted by society for
AT THE
a mob to form, destroy property
and commit murder without pun
ishment. it is just as pcrmissable,
or ought to be, for any gang of
hoodlums, gangsters or brigands
to form a gathering large enough
and vicious enough to intimidate
25c and 10c
the authorities and proceed to
murder at will, destroy and plun
der property not their own and
raise hell generally, without fear
of reprisal.
The cowardly murderers (cam
ouflaged by the name of lynchers)
do not seem to realize they are
committing a crime, the memory
of which will haunt them to their
dying day, to say nothing of losing
Headquarters for
the respect of their neighbors and
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of even their own families. Any FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
woman will develop a secret loath
ing for a man who falls so far
short of being a man. A man can
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no longer pose as a hero to his
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children, once they have learned
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the fact that he has descended
from his pedestal to the level of a |
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common murderer. If he wishes to
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retain his standing in society, he
must keep his guilty secret hid
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den beneath a mass of lies and
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alibis, for there are plenty of right
thinking people everywhere who
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would not hesitate to turn him
down flat, if they knew.
Since the day Billy the Kid, at
Las Vegas, New Mexico, stam
peded a mob of several hundred
who clamored for his life by say
ing, "Sheriff, give me a gun and
I’ll scatter these so and so's quick
er than hell could scorch a feath
er," I have regarded a mob as
simply a gathering of cowards.
And this opinion has been con
firmed by several occasions when
one determined man has faced a
crowd of lynchers and dispersed
them. What becomes of the al
leged courage of a mob when a few
tear gas bombs are tossed among
them ? They are not facing an un
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armed, helpless victim then.
Expert Reports Ours the
What is the reason there are no
lynchings in Canada? Because the
British government can squash the
angry passions of a mob so quickly
that it is positively ridiculous.
When the riot act Is read to a mob
in Canada it means that every
man who refuses to obey must
of Four Tests Made from
pay for his madness by many long
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months of walking the treadmill
for eight hours a day in the peni
tentiary, if it takes the whole
British army to put him there.
And should he escape for a time,
they follow him as long as he is
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Saturday Night
EAGLES HALL
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Robert Riley, 13, of Mountain
4 avenue,
confessed last Saturday
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