Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-23

nomenon unparalleled In the history OF
the human race unless we shall except
the portent of the French revolution,
when q whole nation ~upheaved its upper
strata in a desperate appeal TO the ar
bitrament Of fundamental facts
Those oracles that set the world afame,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no
more,
though the Sicilian Malta at one period
OF It's development is said to have at
tanned a membership Of $1,000 'regu-
lars with a large reserve force OF nov
ices and acceptable candidates. In its
struggle against the representatives OF
the that remarkable organ
ization at last became identified with the
principles OF lawlessness, but owed It's
first success undoubtedly to It's crnsades
against official tyrants and semifeudal
oppressors OF the poor.
In our own country the name OF
"lynch law" has been applied to three
widely different modes OF deviation
from the regular forms OF justice. On
the thinly settled frontiers mobs OF in
| dignant pioneers merely anticipated
the establishment OF less informal
though not always more impartial
courts. Their e~xtemporate commit
tees were bride proof, IS
! fear proof, and their adherence OF pct
| tifogging chicansry was equaled only
by their contemptpf conventional forms,
as during that memorable convention
OF the California Regulars tor "Vigi-
lantes," as their Spanish American col
leagues called them) when two oil the
principal orators engaged In u friendly
boxing match to settle the question OF
forensic precedence.
In the midst OF the deliberations q
| foreign spectator noticed an individual
! standing a little apart from the center
| OF attraction and utilizing his modicum
OF elbow room TO twirl q cigarette.
Whom are they going TO hang any
| how, slr?" asked the foreigner. Got
a match, partner? Inquired the
man with the cigarette. Thanks"
| And then, as II incidentally reverting
TO the original question; Whom are
they going to choke, you say? VOL,
stranger, l ought TO know. IL amt
much mista ken, it's myself"
The White Cap outrages had an en-
| tirely different origin. They were varl-
| ously ascribed to n reaction against fall
ures OF Justice and 20 the intrigues OF
nativists (''Know Nothings"), but a
young fellow OF Shelby county, lad,
let the true cat out Of the bag when he
| confessed that hunting and fishing are
mighty near played out h%ereabouts; no
| circus been round here these last two
years, so the boys couldn't sand IL no
longer, and we managed TO get up a 1T
| tie fun of our " after dark"
The raids OF the masked night rider
were a reaction against n failure not OF
| Justice, but OF moral Jurisprudence, In
providing some suitable substitute for
The rural sports OF primitive Hoosierdom
when the woods abounded with coons
and deer and the streams with fish. A
handful Of spiders imprisoned without 4
| supply OF flies will soon tackle each h
or, and the sport famlshed descendants
OF Daniel Boone yielded to the tempta-
| ton OF hunting their fellow men.
A much more ominous phase OF judi
cial self help has now and then alarmed
| the conservative citizens OF our South
ern border States. Events like the auto
| da Re Of Paris. Tex, and the subsequent
race riots Of Southern Mississippi aud