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Show KEEP DOWN THE MOB SPIRIT. Every day brings a report of nmb law by which offenders against this country arc tarred and feathered. In Louisiana yesterday an aged owner own-er of a plantation was roughly handled when he refused to buy Liberty bonds The day before a mob drove a pro-Germ&n pro-Germ&n out of a Nebraska town. Feeling is running high and some action should be taken to assure the American people that offenses against our povernmen: will be dealt with in I .ce,rous, but orderly manner. We do not desire to supply Germany Ger-many with an excuse for committing horrible outrages on our soldiers who nay be captured. All these acts of violence In the United State will be rehearsed in (lermany In exaggerated form and then will follow brutalities in the prison camps. Furthermore, we do not want lynch law because tho infuriated mob resorts re-sorts to excessives and too often inflicts in-flicts punishment on the Innocent. No one favors mistreating those who are obeying the mandates of BtrlCl accountability, made necessary by the exieeneies of war, and we must not allow the mob to determine who shall be harshly dealt with. We must have a powerful government, govern-ment, capable of eommnndinc the re-ipect re-ipect ol even those who at he-art are disloyal. We mast have laws most drastic, and an army of citizens with endless resources with which to ferret fer-ret out those who are treacherous. |