Show PREACHER IN CHICAGO JUSTIFIES LYNCH LAW f chicago june 29 I am no advocate of lunching lynching lyn ching or of mob law but I 1 had rather aee a community wrought to the highest pitch over crimes that would seem impossible this bide of hell than to remain apathetic waa the declaration of eav dr bartlett at the first congregational church yesterday in a prelude on lunching lynching Lyn ching from another point of view dr bartlett said J have seen 90 many editorial and resolutions denouncing lunching lynching lyn ching and mob law that one get the impression that tiro citizens who hang or burn the destroyers of life home and all that is held sacred by womanhood are the offenders rather than the monster whom they destroy we seem to bo absorbed with the majesty of this term law that the notion appears to prevail that alia real criminal alq those who do not wait for legal processes and the violator of womanhood i the abused party we shudder at the torture of the criminal who ig burned but apparently forget to shudder for the innocent girl whose mental and spiritual agony is ten fold greater than that of the fire this ia not a race problem except so far as one race are the offenders the whito man who commits the same crime is just as guilty the indignant uprising of a corn ni unity and some of the best men in it to avano a wrong of such awful magnitude may be technically lawless but the spirit which causes the kupria ing is the reflection of a higher civilization there are crimes so dreadful that the pdro and the chivalrous and the strong find it well nigh impossible to endure the thought that such a degenerate should pollute the earth by his presence it is baay to theorize about tho anarchy of ifton law but the same hand which penn ed the calm editorial might bo the first to grap the torch if it was a mother wife or duga ter who was the victim say that when you look at lyna ing from another standpoint it i aim ply the bursting forth of an indignation and loathing that will checked in the old testament day they made short work of such an offender lunching lynching is certainly a bad method and forms si habit of disorder and flakes men bloodthirsty but if it is to bo avoided there is certainly called for a more sure and speedy arial of those wretches who often brazenly deny crime amid the red tape of legal procedure but confess abjectly when confronted by men it is useless to bring to trial good men who rise up to protect their fi resides the community will not bear it if the men object to being burned let them cease from crimes which make a nation sick |