The Globe-republican., 1891-05-13
PRESS OPINION.
Newspaper Comment Upon the Report Il
the New Orleans Grand Jury.

LONDON, May THE St James Ga
Eette says: "The jury has done just
what might have been expected, and
its findings possess polemical interest
which, it may be feared, the Marquis di
Rudini will not fully appreciate. II
Secretary Blaine sticks to his guns and
insists that constitutional authority has
pronounced on the issue. that the con-
stitution provides no machinery for the
governments going behind the decision
OF the New Orleans jury, his PROPOSE
ton will be still more unsatisfactory to
Italy than it was at the beginning"
The News says: 1.-The report of tho
New Orleans grand jury is cold comfort
for Italy. The only satisfaction which
it is now in Americas power to offer is
closer pursuit of the corrupt jury
men,"
NEW YORK OPINION.
NEW YORK, May 7.-Speaking of the
result of the deliberation of the New
Orleans grand jury Editor Barsotti, Of
II Progresso, yesterday remarked: 1T
is what we thought would be done. 1t
is an outrage that these men should es-
cape for what they have DONE"
The Post says: 1T is the apology of
a political committee for an act of de
rect revolutionary violence committed
by the entire population of a large city
and expressed in the inflated rhetoric in
which such manifestoes are usually
couched 1t is concession by COM
petent authority that the machinery Of
criminal justice has completely broken
down in the state of Louisiana and that
crimes of any magnitude have to be
punished by revolutionary tribunal
It holds no promise of better or more
regular administration of local justice,
but it throws some light on the work.
ing of the jury system in New Orleans
which the people of other cities, and
those of New York. will
do we'll to read, mark and inwardly di-
gest-"
The Herald says: ''That is the YER
dict of the grand jury which speaks for
the people Of New Orleans 1t will be
the verdict Of the American people and
Of the civilized world wherever the
facts are known It is no time to SER
monte about mob violence. An up
rising of the people is not an outbreak
Of mob. 1t is idle to moralize about
law and justice taking their usual
course. The Malta instead of the com.
munity is now terrorized. The lives Of
law abiding citizens are safer there.
Justice has been indicated by the
people. The disease called for the
cure. The end justified the means"
CHICAGO OPINION.
CHICAGO, May THE Daily News
lind. says: 1T is rather singular CO.
incidence that the New Orleans grand
Jury report became public property on
the same day on which it became
known that Signor Rudini, Italy's prime
minister. had joined the parliamentary
for the promotion of inter-
national arbitration and peace. Arbi-
tration will afford an opportunity to
the United States to prove to the Euro
pean governments that the responsible.
ity for the New Orleans tragedy, and
for many other bloody conflicts between
outraged American citizens and alien
forces transferred to American soil,
rests primarily with the European gov
The Inter Ocean (rep) says: CLEARLY
shese men were not living in the peace
If the United States as the legal
phrase goes, and therefore their MUIR
Ter is not subject for complaint by any
foreign power"
The Times dem says: 1.-The MEM
Ders of the jury seem to have given too
broad meaning to the statement of
Burke that you cannot indict a whole
people, But there remains the fact
hat the conclusion they arrived at
while the logical result of the con-
litions of existing interests is dis
,race to the state and the nation"
NEW. ORLEANS OPINION.
New ORLEANS. May THE States
;ays: Naturally the grand jury could
ndict no one, or no number of those
in this business. The peo-
de did it; and no grand jury could do
rise way to indict the people"
The Times Democrat says: 1.-THE
,rand jury has given the proper return
n the parish prison lynching. return
hat will meet with the approval of the
entire people, not of New Orleans
alone. but Of the country"
MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, May THE Washing
on Post says: 1.-The report of the New
Orleans grand jury reaches the only
conclusion that was expected of it It
that while it may have been
to strike terror to q danger
JUS class of the community by the ar
oitrament of a self-constituted court
here are still other and equally danger
Jus elements that would also seem to
require heroic treatment"
LOUISVILLE, KY, May THE Cou-
says: 1.-THE serious issue
in the whole matter lies not between
America and Italy, but between law
and crime. AS it is in New Orleans, SO
L is to a great extent all over the conn
try. If the degradation of the instru-
ments Of law were, like yellow fever,
a local manifestation. limited
by lines of latitude, it would be far less
serious than it is"