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Show LEO FRANK AND OTHERS VICTIMS OF SOCIETY By Herbert Quick , Tho wholo nation Is excited about the caso of Lon Frank of Atlanta. Ho ls n young Jew of good character, charac-ter, who Is accused of foully and do generntoly murdering a young wording word-ing girl. An eloquent prosecuting nttorneji got him convicted on tho ovidenco of u criminal negro who Hod over and ovaf again. Public nngcr against the murderer, coupled with somo an tl Jewish leollng, enabled this clot quent lawyer to get from a jury u' verdict that this miserable witness told tho truth when he said Frank did the deed and lied when he said something else. I think there Is very little proba-blllt) proba-blllt) that this unfortunate joung, man Is gul'ty. I think ho has beon railroaded to a conviction.,, And -I think ho has been railroaded to a conviction. And 1 think that tho governor of the state will not allow him to die. I cannot conceixo that n decent man In the governor's chair given tho power to do away with such Iniquities, will let him die. The interesting question to nie Is why we are so excited about Loo Frank. Wo are rather callous to vastly greater wrq'ngs that his unjust execution 'would bo. Many miners die eory month trom preventable accidents. ac-cidents. If Leo Frank Is executed, It will b, only ono mistako In human JiiBtlco They take place all tho tlmo. In our Jails are thousands of jnen tonight whoso only crlmo is poverty. If they wero well to do or even comfortably poor, they would bo at liberty; bu. It Is very hard to get tho peoplo excited ex-cited about him. The newspaper men nro saying In editorial olllces that readers are tired of hard luck stories. Go Into any placo whero hoboes nnd bums congregate, tho open parks the cheap lodging houses, and all night saloons, and you will see men gradually dying, body and soul, of social wrongs. Leo Frank may die, though I hope ho may have a good deliverance, but if bo, he will dlo a good man, I believe be-lieve Hut these mon gradually loso all semblance to uprightness and real manhood. Their spirits aro dead, long before tholr breath leaves tholr bodies; and when they die. It ls under un-der tho grinding wheels of a railway train, in a waysldo brawl, under tho snow of a storm, anywhoro tho Angel of tho Darkor Brink may happen to find thorn. And tho women of their class who can tell of tho mysterious drcndfulness of tholr passing away from tho scones of tholr long dissolution? disso-lution? And yet, wo who read of tho offorts to savo Leo Frank, refuse to concern oursolveB much with tho throng of birds of the shadows who are lost overy night In tho tempest of this modern life. "Perhaps," ono may say, "wo feol a sonso of guilt at tho thought that tho law we havo made takes hold of Leo Frank nnd kills him wrongfully." But nro wo not equally to blame on account of the entombed minor tho worklcss outcast, tho 'woman trnm pled Into tho, mire, tho hobo engulfed In tho social quicksand? Unless civilization Is a delusion and Christianity n fraud, wo aro as much to blamo In tho ono caso ao tho other. |