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Show Tin: iimrrnf aou mubiM ntleref tears Tho Naslivlllo Vtituium .lifissouf-cells .lifissouf-cells attention In Iho fait that tho Columbia luoli thai lynched (ireeii Wills, a negro miitdeier, lu uu daylight day-light bad nil "Ihu sllghti st reason to loniluJo that Justlcn would Im dl-fraudeil dl-fraudeil or dela)ed by leaving thn cnn fortheunurttodl-iftsouf" Tbo Tic tlmt of mob violence It-lotig bi line ol twiirlatsea, atarule Thiyameliher criminals whose erltueaara an ahoek lug that thn cojila aro iullu aure to itiid.ti them, or they ans legab ly luculpibln wretrhet against whom theru It a violent t r-onal, clan nr race prejuillee. lu case nf tbo former, nothing can Im lost by leaving the trial to n lawful court. If tha vie tliiicomeaiindrr tlinsrcond rlastlflia-tlou, rlastlflia-tlou, lilt taking oir by a drunken or Infuriated limb It iiothlm- It Iter than Ibnmittmwanllyasiiestiuatloii of an luniMent clllreu, If tho mole) wuo not stronger than lhacuuita, lusuih cusiti every man engageil In such a I) uihlug would bu I rough! tu trial and haugnl fur murder. Hut Ihu mob w III not stop long at the social, llllcal or financial etaudliig of HmnlOict of r. soual malliii or rare .t,Ju Jlit. Willi lewabtl succrsa lu the lino of ileratu Uitcbvr), with thn emviur ageiuent of Imtuuidly from rrotetutlon orufrontt audut'ii aitpiltlal, with Hinaseuraliroof a I rare publln telill ment It with them aul that they am lieyoud tho reach of all law, It will not be long Itrfure tho mob w 111 proceed to destroy any Imiiixuit cltlrena against whom aumn olio of Ihn lynchera hat a murderous Kludge, Thn mob will not stop with IniiiKiut iertint wllhuut money or lullui uce, or with the guilty whom the courts are strong enough to punish, A mob bat nu aen-n of moral or legal retwuslblllly, II It without restraint uf conti Irticei an 1 IhiciTaelllot. afnla of merer or of idly. It knows no sanction but the ferocious luiai!tool IU own mural In. aanlly I u couutrlra w hero mob rule It rmltuil to I rovall the cltltona may exjfet airopof whllecaplsm, of dead ly feuds, of assassinations aud uf the mostcowanlly warfare. Theonlv-way to get along la to e.!e faithful lllelafa und abldo In Iho law. Tho CirftfJuu MetMiti cuutliidia wllh tho following timely blow at lynchers generally! "Mob Ixw It nnarihy. If It la toll rated society got s lu plerct. The only thing that ruablei lit to lln down at night and alceplu iaio It thn know!, edge that wn uro living In a community communi-ty in which theru It resict for courts nndjurlis. If linn. Ilmv bonoieil In-atllutlout In-atllutlout aro set atldu In ouo lustaiico, they will come lo bo Igiure-I lu other liistauiHa also. If they are disposed wllh lu dealing with renigultedirliul-uals, renigultedirliul-uals, they will sooner or later bo overridden over-ridden an I trampled down In mattrri with which, upright cltUont uro con-lernuj," |