The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-05-04


great sticklers for law, when they de-
sire protection for lawlessness and
crime. 1t is one Of their schemes, to
overcome the powers Of the Courts, by
the number of the crimes they COM
NIT. This is the scheme of mobs.
One man commits murder, and he is
hung; one hundred men commit muir
der, and not one Of them is punished.
The Commercial short time ago
estimated that it would take about
four years to try those parties where
the parties have already been arrested.
Should this scheme be attempted, the
Legislature would perhaps create ad-
ditional judges, and if this mob scheme
should defeat the ends Of justice, then
the people have sovereign aud sure
remedy, as in the recent cases at Iron
ton, Athens, and many other places.
The Commercial Of last Friday re-
corded some cases of this kind. One
occurred in Kentucky, and ran thus:
A mob Of from thirty to one hun
dred men entered the town of Brook
vile last night, and quietly went to
the jail, and after presenting a dozen
or more revolvers to the jailor's head
he gave up the keys, and the mob un-
locked the jail, took the Courts boys
out and left the town so quietly the
citizens did not know until this morn
ing that they had been in town. The
mob took the Courts boys about half
mile away from town, hung them
on one limb of tree, and left them
hanging face to face, almost in each
others embrace. They were terror
to all of the neighborhood, they were
outlaws of the worst character, but
our people are indignant at mob vio-
lence. The age Of the Courts boys
was respectively twenty-four and
nineteen. They were STEPPED in crime
to be so young.
Here is the way one Of the Dutch
papers invokes the law to protect law
breakers and criminals:
The Gazette has not fallen into any
illusion on this point, but it does not
give up the fight for all that. AS the
defendants will not withdraw their
legal rights, it has the audacity to pro-
pose that the Court shall deny them
such rights. ''The Court" it says,
''has the power and duty to expedite
trials, so that they shall not become
an obstruction" But this power and
duty the Court has not. If Judge
has so many cases on hand that he
can not manage them in observance
Of proper legal procedure, he has not,
therefore, the power nor the right to
suspend the legal method of proce-
dure, and to expedite the trials by pro-
ceeding illegally, as the Gazette de-
mands Of the Judge of the Police
Court. He must, under all circHm-
stances, proceed legally he is bound
to respect and protect the legal rights
of the defendants, without regard as
to whether he is getting behindhand
in his business or not.
Another one of these outlaws takes
this cheerful view of the matter:
THE OFFICIALS AND THE SUNDAY LAW.
Mayor Means has done all he eau
to enforce the Sunday Law. That
was to be expected, and he has done
right to give the Republicans the
medicine they themselves have pre-
scribed. That the Democrats must
also suffer, is a matter of no conse-
quence. But the Mayor will soon
find out that it is not possible to en-
force the law permanently. The pur-
pose Of the law is to close all saloons
on Sunday. He has already seen that
q great number of them have remain
ed open, aad aeKt Sunday he will see
still more of them open. When he
will have seen that it is impossible to |
close the saloons, he will soon content
himself if the saloonists will comply |
with an outward observance of the
aw, only closing the font doors and
their business quietly and
orderly. More cannot be demanded