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OPINIONS OF TUB PKgSS ON THESAUSBUtY LYNCHING. _:_:_— ' * ’ »* ■ Kay It Ret Call la Vain I \ (iiturtm IitaiW Mm. .. The ootnitd. honor of the State calls alood. God grant that U may not call ia vain, Whaa lyarhhi WBi lai OwwaoNfi • , Lynch lag' will aot «a d la North Carolina until the kflltugr of lynchers begin*. Then It «fll e*d. __. { «< - The fact, however, remains, and u abamefnl fast k is. the* bo hand was raised, no shot was. fired to defend the dignity bf ontraaed law. It i* too thin to talk about the lyacbere coming from Montgom ery, Iredell, and other counties —Rowan may as well owa off. The erork area done by their owb people._ * lad Ampla Warning. SocwTflh a—prill It seems that the Rowaa antboritiea were totally aopra* parped for the attack on the |d) by the mob, bat to tlpe layman it looked aa if they had ample warning. .. * ■■UOTmw iMiii, .> rpaMtoftmww. I We a*t tiwd w# «MU|.k9« t^iieftotf aad^Mt olob ki overpowered, and ho*'*• tad* t4ok. tontroi o# ihingi.r^ epottld enlarge onr iaUk .aawai t^aea to read that aotaa.-wflpp hpd aoaoonaed to a aiobtfratbe nfrirtfitat ba takaw.' , b the tael »iae«lia. '*# Nrwtoa New*. Ttt« tfcal quaetlow la, am t<) Waa lak r eed ksaiiy atttatad onWiag—the impastaat matter £i£*,,ti£ tk* crir»^ bat agate* thTjaw^ttiSf! «g*a* IW pence aad dirhfty *4 honor and good oamT* the rate iwintea . ftnu ’of N«*h Car*tea. ■ tSTi’hSwthnt Stem wilt he aomajdhd of lavcstlgatlbn to ap cer«te«hr tba tftUilUtvhp *an •■the acnoonwjenvhtedy they deserted In tbe^nwoithe State’s enemies and with one accord, like the men of Israel on a ceitabi memorable occ*> •tef. departed la haste to their tents. ♦* —.. MhIhmi Cispliit, Abeohstety diagracefel to all cnnmmad and without remaos or crease for anybody concerned was the lynching of the Utsee lrgmci St SnUabnry, N. C., teat night. It wai disgrseetel to the 8ts* and to the county and the tows aad to every one of the several thousand men said to havnbnen in the mob end mom disgraceful than to all the others to dhe ofBelala sad" tie'local mm.. *■ ™ pcritdcc la rack matters or ha*' 'observed them knows that fifty anted and determined mrn can kWd juy Jail against aay mob, «t least aatU daylight. Ninety •fae -timet la a bandied no wholesale taking od . life is ae coaaasy fee resistance. Tim mdor^f moat taoba la cooled promptly by a few real ballets .“d by the coavktloa that cod. •ti seance of the attack mamw •eel danger. la this case all the ■•booting was dooe by the met*. » fa Phlful to read that "Sbcrlf #oliam and his aasietanfe •femfed earnestly while the Omni WM dnfeg aB fia jAootlag." It seems that the ordinary instincts of ••d resentment wo aid have lu ffed itha odlcers of the law trbca they mar* being -fired oe aad tbfcir comrades shot at their sides to retaliate._ mW Mafaet. Imh CM* . WMtber or aot they (the pris ®***tj, won guilty, or whether they got what they deserved, li wot the question; hot they woe tehee tea the heads of the law, btgh-hfiadedly and !a defiance of thu court that was stain* far iboir trial, net in heated blood, ibut deHbctatefy and la cetd 'Uood.'ead wardered. It fa a -diiaw. rUgh-handod, against the good HHwashlp of tho State. The act cannot be too strongly coed earned, la that it has tun ifangh (hod over the law, the (court afrd lb*.rales that should iaorern. civilised society. It fa ppt loo the sake of the victiaw that the erf we fa deplored and ehudrftenl, bat fa behalf of de* cent nWHsarioa. * . ... . v— • The 'know who climbed the Imato place fhe rope pa beat tbe.aevoM at Salisbury last rtmddJsd fha Ha»b, then tolled,. 1ft, bod stapled ad' ^There's you typical lyncher I No Jfld«eoa. the bench, clbtbed p*M mi the authority of the lew fid s**fec«flhfc,ht*' ibori doty, ever prooeboccao death aenteoce exapt with the greatest sad boat, aolaiaahy and regret for the feM oeceselty. Yet you lyncher, with muder in hie heut, cdbatkntu Usual! Jafe. hnyaad-taccutlowar, and eWUe pdrfBveaing Me criminal duds fabntfly eewlcte a dprtttt sad pb*4fce*paol$:to heaW mfn fiadwith tfc shrieks olUsvic ifltNt >'• • f ©oeddtisau, bah I Let tbs kcyvgaxaler. podthe imochlda piairell laydtr IpUcherl :••• them ia the performance of that duty with fenrfnl imHa to the attacking party. It wonld be a moat aafoctanate occarence and oar greatly to be deplored, bat aome. such heroic treatawat ia the oaly rearedy which trill con this dlaeaae which baa seised oa the ppblicr The courts cannot care the evO. There is no uae.in trying to convict lynchers by a iary of their friends and se al checking the growing senti ment in favor of lynch law oa slightest provocation or without any provocation, as was the case ia the Salisbury lynching, is ion the military to do its stern dnty when called on to apbold the law aad protect Ufa. The lynching at Salisbury Monday night is only another Utartcalioa of the fact that hams* aatftre is pretty reach the same the world orer. Bt> canse. lynching* bare takes place - ia Anson and Rowan counties recently docs not prove that the cMroaship of these counties is 'any better or any worm the ddnadlp of other counties in the Stats. The troth of the matter la that both lynching*. under similar circumstance*, might hare taken *ptac«_ in any county is the State. .We do not say this to condone .lynching*, for we batteretthat resort to mob law is Oarer justified eacopt for the one oter*»e, -but wo do think that jqdgoa; newspaper* and others, are making a mistake when they refer, without quali fication, to persons who banc perpetrated a .lynching as a lot of murderers, cot throats, and dirty cowards. Thera is no a a . * . .s . • a uuuui irai p cyciy inou there are a lot of imtpoujbhi Uwlcueaea. bnt usually there era ether an—and they are the leader#—who have aa good reputations as aay oae. The. people know this and wa may denounce lynching in the moat ' bitter Icnss- known to the language, bwt still the fact will j remain that the common people at this great State fed that the courts have turned loose top | many cried nais upon them, and that thmonly way to indict the death'penalty, at least Upon'a white man, is lor the people to ttep ia where r the conits have failed. • •’ j ■ Thntthis fading adds. ****+» hathh dented,- therefore would It not be'hctter to’ tty tai^td ibe root'tt the evil than to All the air with impotaat railings liter the mob has done its work. - V- , I- ,, - • ■ad had fcv had md x44444444*4444444k | MADE IN t OWN SHOPS, I ♦ New Tailored jsklrt* • %■ ■ 4 New Tailored Wirt with % 4 Linen Collar A Windsor Tic 4 + NewWMhSjlU % 4> We invite you to m* ti^tai. | JAMES F. YEAGER $ j*44444444+4444444* . ¥ ft S S jd . . Ori^H^ft I i I;: StOMUng ot :§
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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