Show AN DEED the account given in the dispatches from Loute louisville villel KOD kentucky tacky of the burning of a man and woman there on saturday nights night is sufficient to cbill the reader with horror it is a alt upon our civilization n that such fiendish crimes cd can be committed in a land of tor for the instincts of a people must be low indeed to participate in such a proceeding we read with a shiver and recoil horror from the tales of ef savagery ant among icing barbarians but not even the be recital of cannibal festivities surpasses the aw awfully brutal conduct of this Keit kentucky tucky mob it Is idle to say that the deed is a protest against the vice of which the victim presumably were guilty that it was wait a violent declaration that virtue must be enforced if that held bad been the oaf the fiercely cruel features would have been omitted even evea though the death penalty might have been in alfted by lawless methods method it was nota protest against wrong but a deeper and more extreme outburst of vice which led to this terrible tragedy the perpetrators wore were gratifying their heir feelings of brutal revenge lor for to in that sec tion lion of country immorality and even the taking of human life to is too toe ordinary an aim aclair to awaken such intense fiendishness as filled the breasts of the mob we would not say that public sentiment in kentucky will look with com upon this proceeding or will regard it with less than a feeling ot of horror borr or the state has its mess mass of on enlightened hospitable educated people who abo have no sympathy with or ideas of condonation for such crimes but until the state authorities mete out OKI severs severe swift and unerring to every within their borders whatever the pretext for their lawlessness law leea jeaa kentucky will be cleaved claued in the public mind am ai dishonored among the states io in being a place where the foul foal est scones of bar barbarism barbar barlew iBm may be enacted with comparative impunity |