Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-10-01
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The Versailles Lynching.

The Versailles I1yncllinE.
Let the guilty men he punishcd.-Vii-
ennes und.J Sun.
They are lyncling people in blocks Of
five down in Observation-Disclosures
Times.
Only cravcns would have chosen such
II method of rcdlcssing their WRONGS
Philadelphia Record.
The act of the mob cannot be justified
from either IL legal or moral standpoint
New Albany Nnd.l Ledger.
1t is impossible to see any palliation for
such an act as was committed by the In
diana lynchcrs. -Sprinsiicld (Mass.) Re
publican.
And yet we pratc about armenian
atrocities and are shocked at alleged
crucltics 10 inmates of prison in Cubu.-
New York Herald.
We feel sure that the people of Indiana
will sustain the efforts OF the Governor to
vindicatc the outraged law in this in
stancc.-Iochcstcr IN. " Herald.
Five men taken out of the custody Of
officers of the law and done 10 death for
the crime OF burglary. The statement
reads like a wild OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Constitution.
Lynching is bad enough when it follows
Il capital crime. but in II civilized country
there should be no possible excuse for the
illegal killing of robbcrs.-Columbus
ohio Dispatch.
1t is one of the worst cases in the whole
history of lyncling, and shows IL MUIR
dcrous spirit that should he dealt with ac-
cording to its terrible dccd.-St. Louis
Globc-Dcmocrat.
In all the annals of lynch law there is
nothing North or South TO surpass this
deed of iicndish violence. for no act OF
such magnitude ever followed a crime so
Misunderstanding Times.
This is an advance in the jurisdiction of
Judge Lynch. Usually lie is called on to
avenge only crimes against life or per-
son. but in this case it WAS II matter Of
misunderstanding Post.
The Indiana lyncl,ins emphasizes the
fact that in too many parts of the country
to-day the people are forgetting the old
homcly moral prcccpt-two wrongs do not
make Il right.-New York World.
We denonncc the people of the Southern
States for hanging and burning negroes,
yet we hang five men whose crime was
almost IL virtue as compared with that
for which men are lynchcl in the SOUTH
indianapolis News.
Every incident of this character is a re-
lapse to the savagery and brutality which
preceded civilization: TO the era when men
ruled by violence and recognized only one
form of punishment and rcvcnge-dcath.
Philadelphia Ledger.
So mol law has undertaken to amend
the criminal code in Indiana, and make
burUIurl,. n rnpitn1 nfInpSnf ul,,, T.. 4I,
only logical deduction with regard To the
ethics of lynching To bc deducted from the
latest affair. -Pit,sburg Dispatch.
The Citizens wanted no investigation
into the guilt of these mon. 1t WAS enough
that they We're in Jail under charges. That
was considered reason sufficient for their
being taken out of Jail and killed. Where
will This contempt for law ~stop?-Clcve-
land Plain Dealer.
We simply cannot afford to override our
courts. III they do not perform their func-
tions properly the thing to do is to reform
them. Mob law is the overthrow of all
law and the RELOCATION of the social or
ganism and civil society into barbarism.
-Tcrre Haute Gazette.
Nothing in the annals of knights of the
Golden Circleism. KukluXism or White
Sipisih can compare WIN III. These i've
men had committed no greater crime than
small thievery, and it was not clearly es-
tablished that they were all even guilty
of that.-South Bend Tribune.
The Indiana instance is so far an ag-
gravated and magnitied case of lynching
that it gives the State authorities a right
10 resort to the extreme limit of the law
in hunting it down. 1t should he demons
strated once for all that Il man cannot be
murdered in cold blood in this country,
even though he he Il criminal.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.