, 1891-05-07
Tint the Paners Say.

CHICAGO, May 6.-Editorial comments
On the New Orleans grand jury report:
New York EUeniRg Post: 1t is a con-
fession by competent authority hat the
machinery of criminal justice has com-
pletely broken down in the state of
Louisiana, and that crimes of any magni-
tude have to be punished by a revolution
airy tribunal. = 1t throws some
light on the workings of the Jury system
which the people of other cities, p~articu-
larly New York, will do well to digest,
New York Herald: 1t is no time to
sermonize about mob violence. The up
rising OF the pc pie is not the outbreak of
a mob. The disease called for the course,
and ~justiies the means.
Minneapolis Tribune: The grand Jury
has published a declaration that New Or
leans is ruled by a detective agency on
one side, or a mob on the other; that the
very forms of law are disregarded by
those whose sworn duty it is to uphold its
majesty, and that anarchy reigns in New
Orleans.
Minneapolis Journal: Public opinion
will hardly endorse the omission OF the
grand jury to formally indict the leaders
of the lynching party or as many of the
party as were known. II would have
been more to the credit OF the community
had this been done.
Cincinnati Times Star: We believe 1t
will be the common opinion that, far from
showing n grand weakness or defect in
our social or political system, the episode
and outcome demonstrates the strength
and efficacy of popular government in
America.
New Orleans States. The people did
it, and no grand Jury could devise a way
to indict the people.
Times Democrat: The grand jury re-
turn will meet the approval of the entire
country. The. ease has been tried before
the bar of pubic opinion. and the finding
of well done has long since been re
turned as to the men whose act sup
pressed the Malta and gave warning to
the criminals OF Europe that they would
find no welcome IN this country.
Washington Post: The picture which
the report presents of Jury methods at
New Orleans indicates that while it NAV
have been necessary to strike terror to a
dangerous class OF the community, there
are still other and equally dangerous ele-
ments that would seem to require heroic
treatment.
PhiIadeiphia Telegraph: The people
of this country, thanks to the i%nsolent
course OF the Italian government, will not
seriously concern themselves with the
question whether a respectable mob OF
best citizens are brought to punish
ment;'' but they are nightly interested
in the question whether the greatest city
in the South is to be a place where no
human life is safe, where the government
NAV be looked to in vain for the exercise
of legitimate and neediul authority.
Toledo Blade. The report shows that
the courts have been Tor years more or
less under outside control, and justice in
any case in which those outsiders might
be interested was not to be expected. The
citizens are blameable that they did not,
years ago, correct this monstrous state of
affairs.
Toledo Commercial The report merely
attempts to condone the crime on the
ground of necessity and fails to show the
necessity. Was the Staying of Hen1essy
by a dozen assassins any worse than the
Staying OF a dozen men by hundreds of
assassins2
Kansas CITY Star: 1t is to be deplored