Show GOVERNOR FOLK ON SPRINGFIELD LYNCHING L St yr Lou loul April 17 to 10 the Springfield Gov Folk Polk ild tonight Wo o hn hove o recently had an tun occur occurrence rence ren In our state ataU that has hIlS shocked tho the world Strange to ur say there are men good 1001 men then too who approve what the Springfield mob dill did last Sat Slit Saturday Saturday night when three throe negro prison ulI era er were w ro lynched by bv hanging them to the tho outstretched arm of ot the statue of liberty holding aloft the torch of civilisation I Whatever mays may run have been tine the crime i io o r rI I I of the hes irrespective of or their I guilt or Innocence It was wita for tor forthe forthe the Iho mob to kill them They The mu may have h OJ I deserved leant death but It semis death at lit the tho hands of or the thc and not lint by hy a Il mob nehe i We e havo n a government by h law and 1 not lint b by mobs Minder omit criminal as assault ass sault ore lire punishable hy by h death In hl this slate and ail n fault of Justice hi In the case cane of or tho the latter crime Is unknown 1 The rhe action of ot the th Springfield mob inch was lUN cruel Inhuman mud Those who ho would condone the action 11 1101 of ot the tho mob speak of or the kill killing killIn lug ing In of a It negro by h young Peters at night In iu this enso COSO Peters was suns attacked ell by bythe h bythe the negro rind ho shot to save sau his ills life lire mid 1 the honor of fit the line holy he hI was w 1 escorting c es cs HI Ills nut net w ns courageous mid 1 entirely blameless In III the eyes of the law liw Conscious of tho the righteous righteousness ness H of what he had done he went to the tho authorities und gave himself up lIl lIllie He lie was lIIS promptly nod properly dis discharged discharged charged If It the of ot the nib think they the did n a manly thing wit wh why do they Ihl not bravely give themselves up UI aunt and have havo the law lase take Its course l as al to them Instead In of at this hie after commit committing committing ting this diabolical crime against tile honor of ot tho the tate state they the flunk slunk cowardly away Into Inlo the darkness Not Nat one will dine date admit nth nit publicly his connection with the nil Infamous proceedings lint Hut If Ir they th thought they were merely putting to 10 death three negroes lIe roell they were mistaken en ell They aimed at ot the assassination III of tho slut of ot Missouri mid Insulted the majesty of the tune law lOll If It such con conduct conduct On duct be tolerated It will lend to ah all archy It tarn takes s earn to III make a Il IlI civilized man inn out of the I savage lamI It only takes a n few w minutes to 10 tomake snake make n a 1 savage out of a II civilized matt man |