The Brookhaven leader., 1891-05-14
PRESS OPINION.
Newspaper Comment Upon the Report Of
the New Orleans Grand Jury.


It's findings possess polemical interest
which, IL 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 the
New Orleans grand jury is cold comfort
for Italy. The only satisfaction which
it is now in Americas power to offer is
a closer pursuit of the corrupt jury
men,"
NEW YORK o.iINIoN.
New YORK, May 7.-Speaking of the
result of the deliberation of the New
Orleans grand jury Editor Barsotti, of
II Progresso, yesterday remarked: 'Tt
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
political committee for an act of di-
rect revolutionary violence committed
by the entire population of 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 a revolutionary tribunal.
1t 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
particularly those of New York, will
do well 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 1t is no time to SER
monize 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 vindicated by the
people. The disease called for the
cure. The end justified the means"
CHICAGO OPINION.
CHICAGO, May THE Daily News
(ind.) says: 1T is a 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
association 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
ernments-"
The Inter Ocean (rep) says: Clearly
these men were not living in the peace
of the United States as the legal
phrase goes, and therefore their muir
der is not subject for complaint by any
foreign power"
The Times (dem.) says: "The MEM
bers of the jury seem to have given too
broad a meaning to the statement of
Burke that you cannot indict whole
people But there remains the fact
that the conclusion they arrived at
while the logical result of the con-
ditions of existing interests is dis
grace to the state and the nation"
NEW ORLEANS OPINION.
New ORLEANS, May THE States
says: Naturally the grand jury could
indict no one, or no number of those
concerned in this business. The peo-
Pile did it; and no grand jury could de-
wise way to indict the people"
The Times Democrat says: "The
grand jury has given the proper return
in the parish prison lynching, return
that will meet with the approval of the
entire people, not of New Orleans
alone, but of the country"
MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, May THE Washing
ton Post says: THE report of the New
Orleans grand jury reaches the only
conclusion that was expected of it 1t
indicates that while it may have been
necessary to strike terror to danger
GUS class of the community by the ar
bitrament of a self-constituted court
there are still other and equally danger
Gus elements that would also seem to
require heroic treatment"
LOUISVILLE, KY, May THE Cou-
rier-Journal 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
it is to great extent all over the coun-
try. If the degradation of the instru-
ments of law were, like yellow fever,
merely local manifestation, limited
by lines of latitude, it would be far less
serious than it is"
CHARLESTON, S. c., May THE News
and Courier will say: THE report of
the grand jury is very long, but vague,
indefinite and inconclusive. Admitting
the truth of the charges that there was
chronic decentralization of the admins
tration of justice in the parish of New
Orleans there was no justification for
the massacre"
PHILADELPHIA, May THE Press
will say: ''The grand jury files pro-
fuse apology for the breach of the law,
and it makes no attempt to vindicate
the administration of justice 1t prac-
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