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| Let the guilty men be punished.-Vin-
cennes Qnd) Sun.
They are lynching people in blocks Of
| five down in Indiana.-M
Times.
Only cravens would have chosen such
| method of redressing their WRONGS
Philadelphia Record.
| The act of the mob cannot be justified
from either legal or moral standpoint
New Albany Qnd.) Ledger. {,
1t is impossible to see any pallation for
such an act as was committed by the In
diana lynchers.-Springfeld (Mass.) Re-
publican.
And yet we prate about "Armenian
atrocities" and are shocked at 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 (N. " 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 exaggerntion.-Atlanta
Constitution.
Lynching is bad enough when it follows
capital crime, but in civilized country
there should be no possible excuse for the
illegal killing Of robbers.-Columbus
(Ohiol Dispatch.
1t is one of the worst cases in the whole
history Of lynching, and shows a muir
derous spirit that should be dealt with ac-
cordins to its terrible deed.-St. Louis
GlObe-Democrat.
In all the annals of lynch law there is
nothing North or South to surpass this
deed of tiendish violence, for no act OF
such magnitude ever followed a crime so
trival.-Pittsburg Times
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 Go 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 y 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 reyenge-death
Philadelphia Ledger.
So mob law has undertaken to amend
the criminal code in Indiana, and make
burglary a 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 ''citizens" wanted no investigation
into the guilt of these men. It 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?-Ceve-
land Plain Dealer.
We simply cannot afford to override our
courts. If they do not perform their func-
sions 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 barbarisn1.
-Terre Haute Gazette.
Nothing in the annals of knights of the
Golden Circleism, Kukluxism or White
Capism can 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 magnitied case of lynchins
that it gives the State authorities a right
to resort to the extreme limit of the law
in hunting it down. 1t should be demon
strated once for all that a man cannot be
murdered in cold blood in this country,
even though he be IL criminal-St. Pau,
Pioneer Press.