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Show I A RUDE KIND OF JUSTICE. 8 111 tho t'niiiii f.d'iitun Club V.ewi th. N.w rlc huh Trrtgtiriy w:th Apprf Ii.tetton. Kkw Yoi;if, April 10 The committee commit-tee on political reform of the l.'nion League, club last night submitted a long di eumoiil on tho recent killi.ig in New I Irieaiis, which was adopted. It considers con-siders the matter gravely from a judicial judi-cial standpoint., saying that, while it is highly probable I hat there was a kind of rede justice meted out to the victims, it was, tinder the government of law and order, nothing but murder. Tho event cannot be viewed without grave apprehension. Such examples are contagious con-tagious a:id no one call tell where the next mob wiil undertake to correct failures that are supposed to occur in the aduiis'.ration of the law, nor how many such asaau'ls our system of gov-eminent gov-eminent will endure. Attention is then triven to the immi-gra'ioti immi-gra'ioti que.-tioii and the document says: "We have always boasted that this land is nn asylum for the oppressed of all nations. For manv years wehavo been ho tisvliitn of the criminals and paupers of ml nations. We have taken in such a 11;m'i of ignorance, pauperism and crime, ami clothed it with the full panoply pan-oply of eiti;'e; s:iip that Americanism is being diluted anil as-ai.ed in a way truly alarming. Ali the better elements ele-ments of the country should unite in 'di aling with this flood. The time is propitious to agitato these questions bidore it is too late, and see if something some-thing cannot be done to save our country coun-try and institutions from the peril that menaces them. "If the present laws are not sufficient, suffici-ent, o'hers should he framed. To postpone post-pone or fly from meeting this issue is perilous ami cowardly. The doctrine contended for is not applicable to any one nationality, but to all." Resolutions were adopted calling upon up-on the governors of the several states to use ali lawful moans to pruvent the importation of criminals and paupers; demanding that the courts be rigid in ' Ritniinhtterinr 'he laws as to paturali.a-tion. paturali.a-tion. ami calling upon tho press and public to agitato ami diseusi the subject of importation of criminals and paupers. |