The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-07
THE URBANA LYNCHING.

1t is to be hoped that the barbarism, of
which the unhappy incident at Urbana is a
specimen, will become less prevalent as edu-
cation, refinement and law-abiding hahlts
become more common among the masses IN
Ohio-Baltimore Sun.
There may be different opinions as to
law-abidngness, but there can be none
about the act of the Urbana mob. It's lead
ers should be arraigned and punished.
Whatever their victim was, they are muir
derers.-Philadelphi North American.
Nothing has been gained but disgrace to
the State and the encouragement of the
worst passions of the rioters. The Ohio
authorities should deal severely with them
and make it plain that the State will not
tolerate such WlessnesS.-Philadelph
Press.
1t is time that somebody in authority
fought one of these mobs to the death,
either of himself or the mob. Give us a
martyr, if need be, to law and order, and
build his monument high This affair Is
true anarchy-the mob spirit And IT fs
growing more neutrality-suspicious. Re-
publican.
1t will take long years to oblterate the
shame that this one hour of unbridled fe-
rocity has brought upon the people who in
dulged it's vent 1t will take hard pIecepts
in public morals to unteach the lesson to
the young who saw that revolving scene in
the courthouse yard at Ufbana.-Clnclnnatl
Commercial Tribune
The single felon has made atonement for
his misdeeds with his life. What atone
ment can the collective felons of Urbana
make for the foul wrong which they have
done their own community or for the last
ing stain which they have inflicted upon
the name and fair fame of the Buckeye
State?-Philadelphi Record.
The attack on the jail and the murder
were an attack upon orderly administration
Of justice and the supreme power of the
State. 1t was the bounden duty of the au-
thorities to protect the convict at the eX-
pense of the lives of any number of limo
cen" citizens storming the Jail and DELHI
erately planning crime.-Chicago Post
The life of the ignorant brute who was
murdered by the Urbana mob may not be
especially important, although in the eye
of the law it is as valuable as that of
any man. But if life and property are to
be safe in Ohio there is urgent need for
sharp justice upon the men who claim the
right of murder for the mob.-PittSburg
Dispatch.
We are sorry for the injured, who were
merely spectators, and would, if we could
comfort those who are mourning and be-
reft; and for the cruelty wronged victim OF
brutal lust, we have sympathy unspeakable.
But pity Urbana, fear for our own
homes, and tremble for the State, when
thrones the law.-Western Christian Advo-
cate
The militiamen did their duty as men
sworn to uphold the law and protect society
from the attacks of the enemies of good or
der. 1t may be said that they were too
ready to use their rifles but this does not
relieve the lynchers of the responsibility of
the deadly fire. They invited the fate that
befell them in arraying themselves against
the authority of the sheriH.-Detroit Free
Press.
Any brute, negro other, who violates a
woman ought to be shot down or hanged
up as may be most convenient When
there was like occurrence in Illinois the
State authorities were powerless to bring a
whole community to punishment. There
will be like failure in Ohio; there ought to
be like failure anywhere. The man who
would be guilty of such an offense is not fit
to live-Chicago Chronicle.
The force and danger of mobs lie in
numbers-in the confidence begotten in
ringleaders by the number of those around
them and an innocent bystander' helps to
swell the crowd the same as a bystander to
whom that designation is less lifting. 1t is
therefore the duty of all who concerned
in the preservation of order and safety to
keep away from scenes of actual or pros
pective outbreaks.-Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette
If the laws of Ohio are not severe enough
the people can change them. If they want
to extend the application of the death pen
atty it is their privilege, but when they
make one law and then prevent it's enforce
ment by violence they only feed the
fame of savage passion which they profess
to curb No republican government can
obey the laws of their own making.--NeW
York Tribune.