| Show nationalism AND MURDER THE fearful tragedy at new orleans match march 1411 to is something to td wake make thoughtful thought fol mn men shudder in one of the principal cities of the united states scenes were enacted which adhn considerate law abiding citizens are inclined disinclined dis to dwell on it atis it Itu leaching ching unparalleled in the united ates it was ww such sucha a violent contempt and defiance of civil law that min minda db are bor horrified rifled of a court and the verk ven diet of a jury were regarded by an en aged public as ae defenses of murderous A corrupt jury and a 8 retho Judiciary are bad enough but it is seamy scarcely detestable dete table that lynching lunching lyn ching is birtch worse according to the ne new orleaf idress and public opinion the jarand court were purchased iu in the trial of the italians and that was why followed this is a very and ad state of afian mob law to 18 the vors vora kind of and the tragedy sa naw orleans to is a disgrace to that oky city aud and the he state of louisiana TO ata those who wish for the perpetua uan and preservation of our justitz liana this lausen lamentable table dramn drama ought ough t to make object lemon learon it to is all vow vety well moll to denounce denoun 00 corrupt jury M mea en Tenal judges and undesirable emigrants but that will avail very little attle wemusa we must begin at the begin let bot every citizen dema deem it put part of his bounden duty both to see that ahm good men and wise men are elected to to watch the course of those who are elected to cowic post pod bons also to discourage all race factionalism up and maintain the supremacy malcy ot iu it wall w all be remembered that a few months ago a murder of a very sensa lional character bara ctr am occurred burred in new cn captain hennessy the chief 0 police in that city was shot 0 fadi o aw killed led alie in the dis abarge of his duty the reports at the time connected an italian secret so clety known as the mafia l with the murder hennessy He uneasy it was stated was a very energetic officer and incurred the wrath of this society 11 he exposed several of its plots and even brought to light several jobs which it fc accod accomplished P in the way eky of murder murder A few days after his bis death two or three of the leaders of this society were arrested and a strong chain of evidence woven against them the weekly stoics states a new orleans journal commenting qu on the murder and on the causes which led to i it remarked that though our land ete extends di to aliens the blessings of liberty yet it expects them to be alive to he responsibilities bili ties which freedom carries arrie i s with it it said one the cJe fest danger to our social system Is that alt of ak ingrati en grafting ag upon its stem the v vagaries W r we of other I 1 nationalities 1 it appears that those Ital italians laus bring with them all their their vices aad d wk weak nesses of f their people at t h home 0 m e they 0 organize into secret societies and in to bands composed of natives of e each ach die ti strict or province provin i co the f feuds which i we read about so often ar arise lee from seg sectional hate gen genoese and P florentinus florentines Floren tines will fight with all the bitter alter haja of distinct tribes or C clans the sicilians are said to be aie the most wicked of the italian race the vent detta delta la Is especially characteristic of this province and the sicilians cling to it in america with a tenacity worthy of 91 a better cause these them people dp op not generally follow ab orious employment abley ar tUot are not producers they are a variably ped pad adlers of fruit fish or q qi 0 some I 1 b arc raca a brae brack kind indof of ware war when 4 is found thata that a sicilian has a trade jrade fc t is generally that of a tinker or cobbler these two trades are tau taught ap in iam the laries and absil it may ie be inferred that he h a persons exercising them here are graduates of criminal reformatories in a political se sense 11 hw peaple are more tan its in a social sense they q are entirely led by their padrones jap A politician lelaA deals directly with a the latter ate r of course coll ree is I 1 san an italian less im conver conversant con venant hant witla with american poetics addable and able to speak jan nage this oan manipulate votes as it suits his bis Q purpose urpo his HI g strongest gro ground und JA is ai at the primaries and it is thero there that be is mba in 10 demand of the sicilians the W ay our sho abow f t bat nal ity hey belong essen essentially tally to the criminal classes and yet conviction hen cretae is themi la Is vry very to secure odaus of hie akl 0 94 g aej ting them to testify one a against valpo t thoo 0 other tEer of no other race ti del our cranfi inal records are full fuli of instances where circum circumstantial evidence was allbut all bitcon con elusive against individuals ddn ideals and yot yet JUST tice lice has been turned aside by the deathbed statement oven even of the victim him self belf bas assailant was his friend and innocent of the crime clearly brought home to him the victim deeming it a virtue higher even than truth to ce relegate legate his murderer murd eier to the operation of the vendetta rather than to the punishment of the law a however w a rule these people confined their murderous doings do themselves until last october alten david hennessey the afie new orleans chief of domce was killed he knew khee the workings of italian societies made himself cognizant of the strafes and abd feuds which led to their secret plots ta 46 murder it was known that in a cada case then pending he be would give import ant evidence and that was it Is stated mhd cause for the new Or orleans leilas episode is only ong one more of these convincing testimonies which prave the uselessness useless and wickedness of ganv many secret societies clah 0 organizations and race gregariousness no m man an chii can be a good american americana J not nor indeed ind bedd can an he be a useful use rul and effective M member 1 I of american society 1 who clings to old country prejudices and faction factional nal ideas it is right W anat at every man should be proud of hl bil birthplace but the idea that isla his birth birn right is 1 any grander than that of oghig ahls 1 fellow citizen is all moods moonshine bine stanley the famous explorer is ii a good illustration of this ho he is an Almb american rican and speaks of it with lt he has so published himself to the world wor id and yet people will persist id trying to get him to acknowledge another nation nationality ft I 1 ay iy in every town ie he visits he is almost subjected fb 16 insult instill in stilt by persons who want to t 0 lower his A american citizenship by forcing him i into w ide identification with adai some other nat ifon because r lie happened U t be born anere the re to encourage ameri aase cadi cants m mand an d to disparage and danou denounce nee a all 11 dittem attempts 61 to establish Dir european tac fac here bre ought to be th the duty aa the 1 aim of every good citizen and of br t every rational 1 aae member abe r of society |
