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Show Mobs A Menace. The continued lepetition of mob iolence wheicln negiocs aie shot, hung, huiiied, loin limb fiom limb, etc., shows such dlsiegaid for law among those who claim lo be law-abiding, law-abiding, that this nation is being bioiiglit Into odious comparison with Tuikey, Koiimanla and Itussla, whose icccnt lioirors weie the talk of the world. This is not as It should be, and behooxescveiy man who calls himsell a lover of law and justice, who feels that he Is a ical American, to use what Influence he can command to lemedy these conditions. Some crimes are so unspeakably horrible that outiaged human naluie, in its tin ill of honor, is for the moment leady to appiove of almost any leveuge. Vet the llcndisli vengeance ven-geance executed by a mob upon a cilmiual Is not the woik of good citizens. citi-zens. Doubtless all who join the mob In such a case shaie In some measuie the uatuial feeling of outiaged humanity, human-ity, but It is the inespoiisible, the icckless, the cilminally inclined who aie most tcadj to lead or follow in defying the iaw and wieakiug uiobj vengeance. I A superficial iew adopted by many is to the effect that such fiendish vengeance ven-geance is necessary, or at least eillca-clous, eillca-clous, to pieeut the icpelltlon of a ci hue so avenged. This seems tobej utterly false in the light of the facts, i Such savage punishment mouses the I very sphit It is intended to repiess. In the lurid light of the binning victim otheis ol his class see him as a maityr. The sphit of vengeance Is aioiised In them, and witli a wild, fleice, unieasonlng madness they has ten to jepcat Ills crime in Older to ( avenge lilui. The work of the mob In such a case not only biauds the nation with indelible disgiace, but tends to inulllpl.v the cilmes It would tepiess. The icinedy tor t lie pievalent and Incieasiiigand dangeious mob sphit Is orj plain and simple. Nothing Is , needed but the lesolute enfoiceiuent of the law. A wild mob attacking a Jail, Intent on the captuie of a prisoner prison-er fiom the hands of the law, lo bum liitn at the stake, is a teirible sped-, nolo, full of pel II to civiliatiou, if( allowed to become common. Hut Its i pievenliou needs only a sheriff lit fori ids position. The mob is cowardly, j and daies to act only when it has little to tear. A sliciill In defense of Ills Jail, who shouts harmlessly over the heads of a mob, is a pollioou. No ; matter how vile, Infamous, or tleudish limy be the wietcli In his custody, his duty is none the less plain. He icp-leseuls icp-leseuls government, his suiienderis tieachery. A sliciill who daied to do his dul would end once for all, the attacks of mobs on Jails, The desper-adoi's, desper-adoi's, hoodlums, niul loafers that usually fonn the crowd will not go up against a jail If they know the sliciill w ill shoot to kill. The time has come for slicilffs of that kind. Foielgn allies lire aheady coiiimcntiniuii t lie decadence of popular government In this country, and to Miperlleial and far-off observers theie Is much to Justify Just-ify their lellectlons. Hut thestrength and the power of good cltiens, when once roused, to meet the evil, Die foreign crittes do not understand. Yet the sting of their criticisms may help to louse an overwhelming public sentiment which even time-serving and cowardly officials daie not defy. The demand now is for sheilffs who will shoot to kill In defense of their Jails, and for governois who dare to maintain law at any cost. |