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d The Versailles Lynchfngs
Let the guilty men be punished.-Vins
cennes Qnd) Sun.
They are lynching people in blocks Of
five down In acknowledgements
Times.
Only cravens would have chosen such
a method Of redressing their wrongs
Philadelphia Record.
The act of the mob cannot be justified
from either legal or moral standpoint
New Albany QndD Ledger.
1t is impossible to see any palliation Tor
such an net as was committed by the In
diana lynchers.-Spring6eld (Mass) he-
publican.
And yet we prate about Armenian
atrocities" and are shocked Mt alleged
cruelties to inmates Of prison in Cuba!-
New York Herald. =
We feel sure that the people Of Indiana
will sustain the efforts of the Governor to
vindicate the outraged law in this In
stance.-Rochester On. " Herald.
Five men taken out of the custody Of
officers of the law and done to death for
the crime of burglary! The statement
reads like wild Atlanta
Constitution.
Lynching is bad enough when it follows
capital crime, but in a civilized country
there should be no possible excuse for the
illegal killing of robbers.-Columbus
Ohio Dispatch.
1t is one of the worst cases in the whole
history. of lynching, and shows n MUIR
derous spirit that should be dealt with ac-
cording to it's terrible deed.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
, This is an advance in the jurisdiction of
Judge Lynch. Usually he is called on to
avenge only crimes against life or per-
son, but in this case it was matter OF
robbery.-Pittsburg Post. .
The Indiana lynching emphasizes the
fact that in too many parts of the country
to-day the people are forgetting the old
homely moral precept-two wrongs do not
| make right-New York World.
We denounce the people Of the Southern
States for hanging and burning negroes,
yet we hang five men whose crime was
almost virtue as compared with that
| for which men are lynched in the South
Indianapolis News.
Every incident Of this character is 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 revenge-death.
Philadelphia Ledger.
So mob law has undertaken to amend
| the criminal code in Indiana, and make
burglary capital offense! That is the
| only logical deduction with regard to the
ethics Of lynching to be deducted from the
latest affair.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The sscitizensv wnuted no Investigation,
| into the guilt of these men. 1t was enough
that they were 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?-Cleve-
| land Plain Dealer.
We simply cannot afford to override our
courts. If they do not perform their func-
tons properly the thing to do is to reform
them. Mob law is the overthrow Of all
| law and the relegation Of the social or
ganism and civil society into barbarism.
-Terre Haute Gazette.
Nothing in the annals of knights of the
| Golden Circleism, Kukluxism or White
| Capism con compare with it. These five
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 magnified case of lynching
that it gives the State authorities right
| to resort to the extreme limit Of the law
| in hunting It down. 1t should be demon
strated once for all that man cannot be
murdered in cold blood in this country,
even though he be criminal.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.