New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-07
m Tons of Roses
~ Years Success.
Colgate's
SOAPS and Perfumes.

they did not like the Law they should have had It
clined to think that twenty years lmpTsSnme mt
life has been sacrificed by the perpetrator OF tne
outrage II the offender had been wnite h bow
low he might have been; The lynchlns ", was ~, q
cropping out of the old negro hatred by the
STEP TOWARD BARBARIsM
1T has placed Ohio below Nevada where prize
fighting is permitted by law, and is a step pacR-
ward toward barbarsm where every man Is MS
own policeman. Judge and jury We have held up
hands in holy horror at lynching In the sou'h.
and yet we give most horrible example OF IL IN
the North. with regard to the firing upon the
mob, there be two opinions. Lynchlng
must be stopped at all hazards. both in the North
and the South. have not studied the case sum-
GENTLY to be able 10 say what official or officials.
If any, responsible for the crime. but most
is found to be responsible should he brought 10
eSon Win It
exists. for iawlessness is only anarchy.
NOT TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION.
The Rev. DR.. X G. Bell. No. So East Ninety
frst-st, expressed himself without equivocation
what do | think of the Urbana lynching" ne said.
81 think as every sensible person must think There
are not sides TO the question. The lynchng
was a shame to the town in which it occurred and
a disgrace 10 the State Of Ohio IL came as snocK
TO the whole country. In the South there Is more
excuse or az least more of an understandable rea
SON for such an outbreak. for we know the extent
to which prejudice stu prevails ihere can We
no shadow of an excuse FOR snch &c 90 the
renee While there may be some question az w 20 me
there can be TO the necessity OF enforcing
that law whatever II may he. The ci1lzens OF
Ohio have their laws in their own hands. Ihey can
make their own laws. They have made their own
laws II they don't Ike them they can change thenl
But whatever laws they make. those are the laws
that they must inforce.
RESPECT FOR LAW IMPERATIVE.
at seems 10 me especially important at this
time that the citizens of the country should sho"
the highest respect for the laws that they nave
made II the ordinarily lava biding citizens so lar
give way 10 their impulses as those Urbana ci'l-
zens did they pour contempt on the law OF the
land / grant that the crime in question Is Tear
f,l one Perhaps II Is worthy Of death. II anything
TO- but that doesn', affect the pith OF the matter
The supremacy of the law, which Is the VIII OF me
majority Is attacked and denied ana put 10 sha!ne
by such an ouirag@ ne fSn or Anarchy Will
succeed the Republic"
NO EXCUSE FOR THEM.
William L. Stephens. of No. West Seventy-sec-
ond-st., said. "The citizens of urbana nave us
craced themselves and Ohio. There is no excuse
for them. Lynching is sometimes Justhed on tne
ground that the courts of particular district are
lax and slothful their administration OF the law.
Rut this was not the case in Urbana The criminal
Even had this not been the case. the ACT wouiu
NOT have beon Justified The citizens OF ONO can
make and unmake their laws. SO can they elecl
and remove their own court officers. Persona Iy;.
rnIiovo that el,ch crimes should he punished WIN
death hut no. unless the voice of the people nas
said so through the laws on the statute DOCKS