The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-11-15
Ghelemotrat-Sta
MOB LAW.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
has recently had several articles on
demning in the strongest terms mob
violence in rape cases, portraying IN
vivid colors its brutalizing and de-
grading tendencies on Our civilization.
No man lives who deprecates lynch
law more than we under all. circum-
stances except for this n crime.
When the evidence is positive and
undoubted we say let vengeance come
swift and sure, and in any form no
matter how terrible. Commenting
upon the structures upon the awful
death Of a negro IN Texas a few years
ago who was terribly and shOckingly
tortured for the actual dismember-
ment of the body of a pure little girl
only four years old to safe his flendish
and brutal lust, a senator Of that
State put the question tersely when
he said Look into the blue eyes Of
Your own little innocent child, sub.
jcct to the same fate. and answer the
question" For murder, seduction and
ali other crimes let the law take its
course, but for the forcible dispOlia-
ton of wOman's virtue and purity let
the very devil tax his ingenuity for
torture and death. Brutal, lccherouS
man is the only unimal that commits
rape. Left to nature and free asSoci-
alton the very bruteS of the field are
never guilty of this deed. If man
with his higher order of reason is so
given to devilish lust as to outrage
females he is an enemy to society and
his race and the quicker he is out of
the way the better. There is little
fear of the brutal incur natures being
developed so as to effect our future
civilization by the occasional severity
the rapiSt deserves. On the contrary
the very adherence it bcgcts. and the
first impulse Of our nature being to
rise up against it, is the strongest
evidence of our deep-rooted veneration
for woman and her purity which lies
at the very foundation of all society
and all that is pure and good in our
nature, and makes US susceptible not
only of present preservation but Of all
future progress. w are too far from
our primcyal environments and en-
bryonic condition to suffer derogation
by melting to brutes this is not the
right word, for it ISLANDERS brutes-in.
carnate devil is BETTER their just de.
serts. The devil who leaves for all
time to come a pure woman to bear
the results Of his fcndish act deserves
not pity. And 50 long as honor, love
and virtue dwells in the hearts OF
men and women just so long will such
helliSh deeds meet with their Just
punishment in spite of law and and
individual opinion. The mar who
would not die for the honor and sa.
credness of his home and pure woman
hood, is indeed a pitiful craven. AL
men should stand shoulder to shoul
der in such matters, for none can tel
how soon the shadow of this crime
may fall upon his own home. Only
let the proof be positive, then turr
bose the dogs OF war. The raped
woman well may say to sticklers fol
the law:
"0ut idle words, servants to shallow fools,
Improbable sounds, weak arbitratorsl
Busy yourselves in skill, contending schools,
Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters
To trembling clients be you mediators:
For me, | force not argument a straw,
Since that my case is past the help of law"