Show I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER CORNE Excite Ire Of Defender of Order Editor of The Telegram What is coming over the U. U S. S with mobs storming jails and taking prisoners pris prisoners pris- pris away from officials and hanging hang hang- ing lag or burning them I see sec where Governor Rolph Ralph of ot California approves approves ap ap- ap- ap proves of lu it I 1 also see seo where a sheriff sher shere if iff said All right right right-I I know when Im I'm licked You can have him In some other place they put oil oU and feathers featherson on a 1 man who was trying to collect on a mortgage which he had a right to do Here not so long ago mobs defied de de- de lied fled our sheriff to carry out an order of the court We need not think that we are not liable to have outbreaks outbreak as serious as they have in other places if it the lawlessness of the mob is coun coun- I admit that nine times out of ten when persons are arrested and charged with crimes they are arc guilty Many times it Is hard to prove it in incourt Incourt Incourt court because accused persons are arc entitled en cn titled to a complete proof of guilt I admit too that judges and juries jurIcs sometimes take an absurd view of cases s brought before them I admit too that officers do not always tr trany try any too hard to get their man Sometimes even I am convinced that it is Js made profitable for them not rot to tomake tomake tomake make arrests But what o of this Is this to be betaken betaken taken as license for mobs mob to take the law in their own hands I saw i of this in the early days of California Califor ala nia Texas and Nevada A human being has a right to a fair fall trial as called for by the law and citizens who deny him this are just as much lawbreakers as the accused man ma may be They are more so when they co collect col lect ic-ct in a mob and conduct a Q public hanging I admit hanging is too little for kidnapers and some others G cf our worst criminal types but whatever penalties are assessed against a lawbreaker law breaker it must be by courts or our system of law and courts will fall all to pieces OLD TIMER 3 1 I. I Letters limited to J Word Preference In publication j Is b where the true name and address are used 2 2 Write Writ legibly on onS j o one side of paper only 3 racial and partisan dl barred personal aspersions a are not desired 4 4 Writer Writers must mOtt Ig true names and residential addresses fi Id ad- dresses but when desired the will not be printed B. B Political j contribution arc are not 2 6 8 Views expressed In this thi depart dept depart meat ment are those thole of the contributors t and do not necessarily reflect th m the 3 views of this newspaper 7 7 TV Th f department may not bo be used need a u an advertising medium 8 The Pee Peo pies pie's Corner does not Invite more mare M than one contribution a treek eek from the same suno writer H take matters into their own ow hands handi It i Is now a notorious fact that jus ju tice has haa disappeared from our and is controlled more by and Influence Furthermore wh whir should peoples people's tax money be Used tot t. defend above type confessed criminals of ti the the- w 4 Thousands of dollars are s spent nt hV fa 1 such defenses at the thc expense o of ta tn payers These criminals are arc not the cost of at their defense In the theof n naS of justice Especially when the it Is Ls perverted by shyster who only seek to make a fee or re 1 i at the expense of the people i I You state It is proof that society devotedly aspires to the Integrity of the structure of i hi It and order it has laboriously built built 1 and then a mob of ot normally citizens outrages what it has crute created On the the contrary that mob was aspiring to maintain the integrity of ot I Ithe the structure of ot law and order when they took the law into their ow own hands for tor they well knew it Is the courts that have outraged our h Jaw i I q and order 1 If such as the above could couI be made lawful for kidnapers kid would soon cease It Hit is fa th-J th only recourse recourse that people have left lej I. I i when you consider how miserably law Ia h has s failed to brin bring such crimes to Ju jw- jw jus- jus tice e. e A READER 1 |