Show A denunciation OF LYNCHING LYNCHING is is now so notoriously common in this country that ft t has the th appearance of having come to stay end ami spread we are pleased to note the fact that some borne of the beat conducted journals are beginning to a seethe the dau dan ger to the republic from this athla detestable form of anarchy the following extract from an article in the st louis republic to la in line with views expressed in our own columns upon this subject it is said by some that with inefficient courts and with shyster lawyers the only method of getting justice is by mobs formed for lynching lunching lyn ching those who are charged with crime every lynching lunching lyn ching is a murder and it makes more murders but even if this were not true if the whole fault were in the courts and were only to be remedied by anarchy and murder why not murder the judges the prosecuting at attorneys orneys the shysters shy if in courts controlled by the representatives of the people it is impossible to get justice if this is i he fault of the courts why are we not manly enough to rebel against the bad government itsell itself in the hope ot of getting better by overthrowing it our laws are the very best beat we have yet learned how to make if under these laws we have bad government why do we not rebel reber against the government to uphold the law in stood stead of breaking the law to murder some entirely helpless person held us as our own ward aws on a charge for which he has had bad no trial under the laws we ourselves have made anade the supporters of mob murder cannot pretend that they are rebels against bad government for while they vilify the courts as a pretext for their own crimes aney do not lynch judges or prosecuting attorneys they do not rebel they murder we or ar not discussing rebellion on its merits and de demerits merita we have only to say in its favor that in the american sense it involves anarchy and the murder of individuals only as an incident and not as aa an eisent essential ial it is a rising to kill a government after trial hial not to murder an individual before trial As matter of fact our courts court with all their shortcomings shortcomings for which the people are mainly responsible are the best beat in the world with the possible exception of those of england whatever is wrong in our courts is in wrong in the makers of the courts in ourselves or we would make them better they are our creatures let us improve them if we can ai m we can but lot let us ns not confound the last resort of open rebellion against the bad government which attempts to coerce and control a w free people with the anarchist spirit of the cowardly mobs composed of those who herd together to commit murders they are annid to commit singly honest and upright men may rebel against bad government in the hope of bettering it but lyno lyn hers chers are not rebels they are murderers and anarchists moved by the criminal spirit which while it prevails extensively makes it hard to secure justice in the courts or out of them |