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Show WINNEMUCCA. NEVADA. A VICTIM. I President Wilson warns tho country ' against lynch law and advises that the American people proceed in an orderly order-ly way to deal with offenders ainst good government. To assume this high regard for law, our higher authorities must display dis-play the proper energy in arresting, prosecuting and punishing those who in any manner Beck to strike at America's Amer-ica's preparedness In this war. The spy must be iandled without gloves; tho traitor must be treated to no leniency; the firebug must be dealt with as though he were a monster. In Wlnnemucca, Nevada, the citizens are having this problem brought beforo them with great force, and they are very much In tho humor of doing a little lynching. Fires have been oc curring with regularity. Small buildings build-ings were destroyed. Then the largest hotel in town was burned and the first of tho week the court house, "with Its draft records, was reduced to ruins. Whilo the court house was in flames an attempt -was mado to set fire to tho power house. Wo do not believe in lynchings, as they incite the worst passions of tho human mind, but some form of summary sum-mary justice should be devised to apply ap-ply In a scries of crimes such as Wlnnemucca Wln-nemucca is suffering. Tho army has its court martial and the civil authorities should possess a similar method of quick action when an entire community is subjected to outrages. no |