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Show Lynching ns a rnstlmc. The Ulrmlnghim (All) Age-Herald nf November ltth, ' hits the nail on the head ' in Its comment on an attempted Ivnchlng affair In the neighboring town of Annlslon rortunntely In this case the troops were called out bv the Governor Gov-ernor nml weie nvailible In time, to prevent tho mob from putting to deith 11 negro who had not been Idi milled who had not committed any crime In Annlston and was not ' vuinted ' there except to meet the popul ir demand for a Ijnchlng This is a hard suing, perhaps but the words ure those of the Birmingham paper 'Lynching bees" It sus hive become the pastime pas-time of Ihe lougher element of a com-munltv com-munltv The seize upon each and ever occasion for lint purpose Incitement In-citement Is what thej want pastime lerrentlon Tor such a state of things a moral revolution Is necessnrs The belter cltlrens of Annlston appealed to the mob In vain, and such scenes will occur until a public sentiment Is created that will put them down' A moral revolution Is wanted but wheie Is It to begin? Who Is to put It In mo lion' Trenching does no goo 1 Bdllors can acrompllsh nothing by mere writing writ-ing ami pi luting Nothing except the ndmlnlslrnllon of 1 iw nnd the punishment punish-ment nf j pi hers hj death or long terms of Imprisonment will ever put 1111 end to tne practice of Ivnihlng It must be stopped us the practice of duelling was slopped In Illinois, whcic iino of the pirtlea was killed In a duel nnd tho other vvus hanged In puisuanie of the veidlit or 11 Jurj That was the last dtiil ever fought there People, who had dllllcultles afterwards either went out of the Htnte to settle them, or referred them to tho courts of luw. Hung a tvneher, nnd lynching will como to un end In Alabama New lork Hv cuing Tost. |