Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-03
sAyAGERY mi MISSOURI.


Under the heading "Sayagery In
Texas" the Kansas City Star says:
at will be a long time before the
state OF Texas will outliVe the h0tfi-
HE outrage against civilization when
was perpetrated yesterday at lyler
when q negro. confesslng himseIt 70
be guilty OF rape and murder WIS
chained 10 stake and burned TO death
in the public square. The crime OF the
negro was bad enough, but that OF the
mon who avenged the wrongs OF ms
Victim was worse still. Nothing could
have been more barbarous than inc
gathering OF thousands OF people 10
witness n spectacle which might wen
have shocked humanity In the dark
ages. The dclibera.IOn with which
The affair was planned was SIMPLY
nendsh. and the delight which the
crowd manifested In the agony OF the
unfortunate wretch who was tortured
10 death through an eternity Of htty
minutes Is almost beyond human con-
oeptlon. II would require search
through all Of the horrors OF the In.
duisition TO lind parallel TO this deed
OF Incredible cruelty.
"The town Of Tyler has been marked
forever as a plague spot upon the map
OF Texas. Throughout the memory OF
nil who read NJ the burning Or Henry
Hllard II will stand as II synonym
viii shun 1t as n thing OF evil The
mere mention OF It's name Will call up
I'm the public mind an Incident which
viii make the enlightened world rhud-
der. That IL what the people Of TYLER
have gained by giving rein To their al-
tanlc passions. In overriding the law
and seeking 10 proclaim 10 the worl
that there ~ no place In that communi-
~ for offenders or the Hillard stamp
thev have also declared that n -
q locality far pcopln to avoid who re-
gpNt tho authority Of law and who
desire 10 live where humanity has risen
to tho level Of civilization"
II rs hardly necessary to say TINT
this view OF the Tyler tragedy IL tho
product Of simon pure mugwumpcry--
n aystcm Of thought whose morals
prohibit all crimes higher than bcstial.
lty ana l1wor than succsasful theft.
whose religion II an politics ana whose
politics ia tho rrl.sion VI cant. whic1
has no sympathy with man ana NJ re-
gpoct Tor God, n IL to he expected that
the organs OF mugWumpery. wherever
they are found viii declare the butch
cr-rupst. Henry Hulard IAN un'ouun-
ate wretch" whose crime Is not to be
compared with that Of lts avengers.
Thank heaven these saints whose
only weakness Is prelllcatl,n 10 rob
nggregatl1ns Of people under forms OF
law do not represent nor Influence the
Judgment at the thinking people Of
the United states. These. from the
common Instincts Of the nregldo, un-
dcrstand why 1t Is that the communi-
tics of Texas, as well as communal
ties OF other states. refuse 10 treat the
crime Of Henry Hillard as one for
which the Inv has made provision. II
Is the popular Judgment here aud every
where that civilization has apread that
there is depth In crime below which
the human being docs not and cannot
60: that those monatrosliics In human
shape which descend below this mark
are not properly classified with man
kind and are beyond the pale ~ reg
ulatlons In It's behalf II would be
Impossible for nm editor 10 understand
this sentiment whose pity makes u
such a criminal as Henry Hlilarl IAN
unfortunate wretch" While they are
incapable OF appreciation % It, how
ever. they will Observe that Il exists
aud IL as irresisiablc within the gllm.
MGR OF palace lights as on the borders
OF the frontier.
Those who are familiar with tho type
OF abnormal brutality are well nwar,
that II takes no cognizanec whatever
NJ the law. Even tho gnllows has but
/ little terrors for II. II II nm unfortun
! nte fact that TO have hung Henry HI
lard under due forms OF law wolil
have excited no other emotion thar
curiosity on the unlmpresalonahl,
brains of thoac moulded after tn,
same model. only an extraordlnnr,
| demonstration can penetrate their dul
lntelleets aud awake their slow alarms
Such n demonstration was given I,
them at Tyler aud whenever an,
wherever Innocent womauhood meet
the terrible fnto OF Htllard's victim
the author OF 1t in likely to meet Hi
lard's fate. Not Vengeance. but Self
Protection moves TO Il We may !nornliz
about It as we VIII. but the people o
Tyler sleep sounder in their honlea an,
breathe frcer when those hotnes ~,
unsuarded because OF Hlllard's end. I
that has icsscned the number OF saerl
fees to cruel bcstlali,y whore Is IN,
man-barring always the canting mug
wump--who VIM say that the peopl
OF Tyler were simply fendish" ii
their object lesson7 That they dld no
act upon the dictates OF sober Judg
meni goes without saying, but no sen
sible judgment can be pronounced up
on them without taking into consldera
ton the inilammatory crime will
which they dealt. II seems to be re
garded as nothing beyond the ordlnar,
BY the Star. Undor thnsn cIrcnri,