Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-02

THE CINCINNATI RIOTS.
The Cincinnati riots have re-
suited, among other thing. in call
ing forth variety of expressions
of opinion from the press. A riot
seems to strike most newspapers
as being something about which |
they are expected to write a good
deal and say little. The general
idea of the editorials on the subject
appears to be that the expression
of opinion must be favorable to the
authorities to just that extent that
it will not lacerate the feelings OF
the rioters. If the lesson of bloody
work in Cincinnati will teach stupid
and corrupt iuries and smart and
corrupt criminal lawyers that there
is q limit to the public patience
then all this destruction of prop
erty and human life will not have
been wholly in vain. 1t is all right
to say that among the rioters were
the NEST worthless and dissolute
men in the city. This is always
feature of mobs, but at the same
time. let 1t be understood that even
idle and disselute people do not
commit these accesses unless they
have excuses for SO doisg. The
mob, is this instance. found their
excuse in the acquittal ola ruffian
who deliberately murdered man
for a few hundred dollars, A no
torious criminal lawyer saved the
murderer's neck from the gallows,
and is supposed to have done so on
the murderer's money. A mob went
out to lynch the murderer and it is
regretted they did not do SO and
swing up the criminal lawyer along
with him. These lawyers, who get
elected to legislative positions. that
they may frame the machinery
which gives a fat living to them
selves and legal immunity to Grim.
inals ARE fast becoming the scorges
of society and the encouragers.
aiders and abbettors of crime.
They are usually worse scoundrels
than the men they defend and what
they cannot accomplish In open
court by false logic, finess and
trickery they bring to pass by the
steal,hy corruption Of money. 1t
would purify the moral atmosphere
to hang a lot OF these men and after
thew have been driven out of their
dishonest callings, the people
should set calmly about the work
of simplifying the laws 80 that
men, who, without the slightest
provocation, murder for money,
will swing for it. Everything
went wrong in the Gaze Of
the Cincinnati riots. The killing
by Bener was the first step, the re-
fusal Of the jury to convict him OF
murder in the first degree was the
next, and the riot was no. whit bet
ter nor worse. Then came a moment
when the Sheriff. by prompt acton,
such as killing half a dozen men
who attached the Jail, could have
squelched the riot and ended
the blood-sLed. There is
always time in cases of
this description when the prompt
sacrifice of few lives will save
good many later along The au-
thorities let that time pass. and
then comes the scenes in which
hundreds of innocent people were
killed There is good deal
of serseless bosh about what news
papers are won't to deplore as mob
law" and "commuDism," but if
mob law is the only law which MUIR
derers fear.it simply proves itself to
be in that respect superior to the
miserable mask and sham which is
ordinary and legal law in this conn
try, which criminals neither fear
nor respect. If the riots in Gin
cinnati result in causing men to
pause and reflect before they kill
and rob people. if they result in
curtailing the rogueries of lawyers.
if they result in beating ideas of
honesty aud common sense into the
stupid aud knavish juries then the
blood will not have been shed in
vain. When the laws of the land
prove effective there will be no
law of the mob.
Queer Justice.