| Show The ThunUerer8 Common Suse Comments LONDON March lShe Times in an an editorial on the New Orleans tragedy says I Is all very well to reprooate resort to violence but under such circumstances circum-stances as these what way is there for emancipating n community from intolerable tyranny excepting a resort to violence The law requires a trial by jury and trial by jury had been reduced to a farce by tho knowledge possessed by every juryman that i he eonvictiia member of the Mafia his life is not worth a weeks purchase I isrilly misuse of language speak ofa I resOrt to violence IChe standing rule in New Orleans is the rule of violence and all Parkerson and his followers have done is I to accept tho conditions prescribed by tho I Mafia It all rests ultimately upon force and I when the courts are dominated oy criminals crimi-nals whom they exist to punish nothing I I remains but to go back to first principles to effect their deliverance Let lawless violence vio-lence be abandoned by all means but que i messieurs les assassins commencent I Among the men who were lynched there I may have been some who did not actually fire at Hennessey but it is not pretended j there wore any who wore not members of the detestable society that decreed his I death That being the case it is impossible impossi-ble to feel any acute distress because in tho midst of the violence they had rendered indispensable they have been somewhat more severely punished than if they had been leniently dealt witht |
