Show TIlE WHITE CATS Down in staid Connecticut the people seem to be resorting to the methods of the ku klux klans of the southern states An organization known as the White Caps taking their name from the nature of the disguise worn has sprung into existence Recently a party of four men belonging to this organization waited upon one DENNIS MtCARTT who has the reputation of being a hard citizen He has been intoxicated most of the time of late and is accused of beating his wife DENNIS was taken from his home by the four masked men and severely lashed with rawhides Vhen the White Caps tired of threshing their victim they gave him thirty hours to sober up and go to work He was cautioned that if there were any more rumors of wifebeat ing he would fare badly This medicine appeared to have the desired effect for the next day although fearfully cut up DENNIS was looking for work The White Caps may have in view the correction of the morals and manners of the I state of Connecticut but their methods are i dangerous In the south demoralized as it was by the ravages of war and with three million slaves turned loose on the community com-munity with no better idea of liberty than to think that it gave them the right to do as they pleased making them arrogant and insufferably insolent to the whites acd in addition to these evils cursed with the odious carpetbag rule there was some excuse under those circumstances for the existence of the kuklur The machinery of the government was in the hands of the victors in the wara insolent a set of scamps as a rule as ever went unhung The whites had to do something to protect their wives and daughters from the insults of the negroes and to preserve their property prop-erty from the thievish hands of the blacks Yet with all these excuses for the klans their cruelties and the unnecssary prolongation prolong-ation of their existence after the machinery of government went back into the hands of the people the kuklux hade been a just cause of reproach to the south That being true of the south what will the result likely be in Connecticut where the normal state of society has not been disturbed Come back 0 Nutmeg state 1 We expect better things of one of the oldest members of the sisterhood of states I Abolish your White Cap klans and if liberal doses of rawhide in your judgment arc the thing for laziness drunkenness and wifebeating let your statutes speak the sentiment of your people and an officer of the law administer the medicine in the broad light of day and not allow masked men to go prowling about in the darkness of night doing it thus endangering en-dangering the peace and security of your people |