Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-04-17

kind of man considered fit to sit upon
jury. A man who knows about as much
about law as pig knows about psychology !;
who is as capable of dissecting and weigh
ing evidence as a horse is o. translating
dispatch in cipher this man is appointed
to pass upon the life or death of an accused
prisoner
Add to this premium upon stupidity the
fearful danger, in these times, of bribery.
The jury is selected almost at random. In
city courts idlers, men without profession
or occupation, without property, homes or
responsibility, are found upon the jury. 1t
is well known that money will corrupt
multitudes Of men, sometimes those least of
all suspected, where very large sums are
involved. In thousands of instances JUS
tice is frustrated, and the criminal legally
licensed to resume his career of crime.
Suppose, however, conviction is secured
What occurs2 Fool women with jeweled
hands place exquisite bouquets to load the
prison air with delicatest perfume, and wet
their dainty pillows with hysterical tears.
The semblances of men, no less effeminate,
besiege the pardoning power, whose abuse
has been so shameful in the past few years,
and usually succeeds in procuring another
outrageous wrong. If, in spite Of all de-
vices To cheat her, justice secures, finally,
the death of murderer his prison life is
made luxurious, he feasts upon viands which
the honest, Woodworking citizen and his
heroic, toiling wife have never seen except
in pleasing but illusive dreams and rounds
up all with profession of religion, when
he can't break Jail, holds n praise meeting
or so, breaches sermonette on the gallows,
and plumes his wings for Paradise. All
this wretched foolery the gullible public
believes and approves. We have no further
comment on this last, peculiar phase Of the
general subject than ardently to wish that
the fool killer would multiply and bestir
himself!
Every good citizen wishes the law up
held. 1t is possible, however, to assume
more perfection than is seen in the divine
law. Charity of spurious kind may be-
come the foe of justice, and leniency the in
stigation and encouragement of wrong.
Mercy is not itself that oft looks so,
Pardon is still the nurse of future woe.
can eye for an eye, and a tooth for TOOTH"
is still good gospel where it applies. Lynch
law has an unpleasant sound, largely from
education perhaps But il is striking the prac-
tical unanimity with which men everywhere
unite to punish with instant death that one
crime which imperils mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters. No attempt will ever be made
to correct the verdict which in this case
waits for no jury. When a man would be
less than man not to do, he may be abso-
lutely cure that God approves the doing.
Real mob law prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in this country of which its solid citi'
zens will soon have to take cognizance
For many years the policy of the United
States government has permitted the entire
outside world to dump uncounted millions
of human fifth upon our shores, creatures
whose brutal natures and beastly habits un-
fit them Tor amalgamation with citizen
population which century ago was per-
haps the purest upon earth. Broad lands
which should have been reserved for the
use of American descendants have been
greedily seized by pauper immigrants; our
cities are crowded with pauper labor, which
heartless corporations employ to enrich
themselves, and, because competition is i'm
possible, force into a poverty which hourly
grows more desperate, millions of our own
honest and hard working countrymen. Not
content with displacing Americans from
their accustomed employment, they now at
tempt the role Of murderers, as Mt Mount
Pleasant last week, when horde OF heathen
sought vengeance upon their employers
through destruction of their property
While the laws OF the United States remain
as they are, the American laborer eau have
no relief; his sole remedy lies in sending TO
Congress men pledged to restrict immigra
ton Meanwhile, they must protect them
selves from the mob.
Between the two cases cited the differ
ence is plain: The gathering of brave men
at New Orleans was not mob but a force
which punished wrong, The furious crowd
at Mount Pleasant was a mob iDflcting
wrong The first all true men applaud
the last all good citizens condemn.