Show THE COURTS AND THE MOBS I In his talk before the Clmulauqua assembly as-sembly on Friday upon law and lynching lynch-ing Chief Justice Loreo of Delaware gave prominence to n phase of the mob question which has thus far been too much neglected in the discussion With keen point and strong emphasis he contended that the law has Its highest high-est function in throwing Its sheld of pro tection before the Ignorant the weak and the helpless and was especially designed de-signed as a barrier agaInst temporary madness The more brutal the crime the more degraded and ignorant tho criminal the more widespread and tense the public rage the more Imperative It Is that courts of Justice should secure calm and Just hearing and that the guilt of the accused be established otherwise innocent men may be pun shed for crime they did not commit as in a recent lynching of n negro in the South where it was found after his death that he had not been within twenty twen-ty miles of the scene of the outrage This Is I a powerful and exact statement state-ment of the high functions of the law and of the courts I Is an admirable Insistence that the public mind shall return I re-turn from Ita feverish shadowchasing and found Its faith once more upon the solid basis of eternal justice and truth and be content with the best that civilization civi-lization has devised in its dealings with ciimlnals instead of recurring to tho most depraved brutal and primitive But as he saya and as any one naturally nat-urally will say What is tie remedy the cure for mobs And he answers with centuries of upward struggles from barbarism and degradation to enforce his words and prptcst against the reverse re-verse travel of that weary way Most emphatically we say the remedy Is not In busty and feverish action of courts of justice against the criminal whose offense Is the exciting cause And he continues his words being a fine and courageous Issue of the best results of our modern civilization When mob spirit rules courts of Justice should bo unyclldlng in their stand for fair dealing deal-ing otherwise they simply become the mob and executors of vengeance and not of Justice The Judges of Delaware have no apology to make for not listening listen-Ing to suggestions of mob vengeance in tho case of George White We are gratified to see such an expression ex-pression as this The Tribune has heretofore here-tofore commented In precisely the ame spirit on the reports of court action Inspired In-spired to hastiness and want of consideration consid-eration fou the rights of the accused at the dictation of mobs We have Insisted In-sisted that wherever a court acts thus under the terrorizing or dictation of n mob the instance Is far worse than If the mob Itself had wreaked Its vengeance venge-ance in Its own way I Is the mob compelling I com-pelling the court to carry out Its will and to ace a UB agent under compulsion compul-sion And this Is anarchy In high places We can better stand the mobs than that the mobs should make the courts their servants I Justice Loree urges that one remedy for the mobs Is the fearless defense of the accused by his keper This Is the Immediate and obvious remedy Beyond Be-yond this Is the fostering and building up among the people of the proper respect re-spect for law and confidence in the efficiency ciency of republican institutions of I which mob law Is the direct denial He urges that this respect be taught in schooln In the pulpit and in the press And he believes with Justice Brewer of the U S Supreme Court that there Is already a turn of the tide that a reaction re-action Is coming against mob atrocities and he considers the fact that the people I peo-ple ore Interesting themselves In this 1 discussion n manifest tendency toward I the desired change I is a strong and timely word that the Chief Justice of Delaware has Hpukcn I should be carried and repeated re-peated throughout the land |