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Show BBB The "white caps" of Indiana have a BBB icputatlon that is baldly creditable, BBB ' but the wiiter, who is familiar with BBB not less than a doen of the cases wlicrcin tliey presumed to administer a justice luTtaccoi (led by law, can not lecall aLslimlcliistancc wjicrc the victim of that'jiistlcc gotless nor moic than he deserved. Men who mistreat wives and children; men who were dissolute and uncleanlj; men who icfused to provide for their families fam-ilies as they should these were the objects of the midnight visits of the "white-caps." Although these "knights of Justlce",managed to keep their Identity a secret, It was known for a ccrtalnlty that many piomlncnt, Intelligent and respectable men were among those who plied the lash to these " 'oncry" cusses, who It seems the law does not provide for. And It was true In most cases that this sum-military sum-military visit of the "caps" and the use of switches cither worked a ie-form ie-form or rid the community of a drone whom it could well spaie. itisiin-foitunately itisiin-foitunately true that theie aie in every community a few men who need such treatment as the white-caps white-caps geneially dished up, and these should be thankful for a law that piotects them. |