Show A BRAVE BRA VB SOUTHERN JOURNAL Surely a new n age e is dawning awning when such an influential paper papel as the Nashville ille Banner comes conies out Iqual l against mob snob law It were a pit pity that Prof who was run out of Emery for a 1 truthful article on the negro in the Atlantic Monthly Month ly Iy had not lived d in Tennessee instead of Georgia He Ire would have ha been heen dealt with more justly justl The fhe ll Banner Bulner sa says sacs s 's The mob has no more legal or moral right to take take the tho law into its own hands and to take human life than has the individual indi citizen Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore Fur Fur- a combination of men in a a. mob does not take one whit of the responsibility of the mobs mob's action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion from the shoulders of an any member Cr of it it Individual Indi Indi- vidual responsibility cannot be he shifted upon the mob legally or morally When hen hen the mob kills kill's each member of it is as pers personally nally accountable as if h he and alone And had bad done lone the killing himself singly the Banner goes on and condemns the parties who recently lynched the two innocent negroes in Vest West Virginia In the West Vest Virginia case two innocent men were murdered The members of that mob cannot cannot can not excuse the killing on the ground of justice The They cannot justify it on the plea of oC making a mistake mistake mis mis- take for fOl proper steps were not taken to establish the guilt of their victims The rhe mob in its fury and haste killed the wrong men and each member of the mob moh has the tho blood of innocent men upon his hands bands Such fearless language as this will undoubtedly un un- cost the Na Nashville h paper not a few of its subscribers but there is a growing rowin public sentiment of or honor and honesty hack back of it which will ul ulti ultimately make the Banner the most influential journal in the South |