Show The Only Recourse San Francisco Wave The oldfshioned Texan had by some strange apportioning of fate bee put In a rom with a divinity student from an eastern college and they soon established estab-lished a conversational footing Before they slept the talk turned upon the customs and morals of Texas as ex emplfed in lynching the young man arguing against it Ge whiz you dont reckon we oughtnt to hang a hess thief do you Most assuredly not But what ought we to do with him Not let him gt loose Let the law take Its course Mebbe Itl miss fire and the cussl git away That is not your fault I the law says he is guiltless you must accept the decision and forgive for-give the sinner There ant no authority au-thority for that is there The BIble BI-ble Thars nothin thar that covers the ground Oh yes my friend sad the student warming up in his zeal even the thief on the cross was forgIven Aw here young feler the Texan exclaimed In a tone of expostulation I ex-postulation that wasnt no hors thIef |