The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-09-02
How a Noted Visitor Handles
Questions Of the Day.
Ex.cov. Hocc ON lyHcHIncs
His Strong and Direct Letter to
People Of Texas Special Legis.
Iation-Frsnzisd Rstort.

visiting these Islands, was one of the
characteristic Governors OF that State
He is a man OF much force of will and
intelligence, and his period OF service
was marked with intense partisan bit.
terness on many questions.
He took very decided stand on the
matter OF lynch law, and determined
TO put a stop to 1t in the State Of
Texas. The following is an extract OF
letter which he wrote last year:
Within the last few weeks his MUIR
derous majesty has executed six ne
groes in Waller county, three negroes
in Falls county and one white man IN
Smith county-all prisoners in custody
Of the law.
Where will this savage carnival OF
crime end unless the law-loving, the
constitution-obeying. self-respecting,
fearless citizens of Texas put a stop
TO 1t? Time serving sycophants, cring-
ing towards, and the apologists for
murder say II can not be done. say
1t can be done. II should be done. 1t
must be done, or the people Of this
State will live to curse the days OF
their apologies, negligence and cow
ardice. You may ask how can 1t be
done? ! answer as ! have on more
than one occasion heretofore. Have a
law passed providing when a prisoner
is murdered by a mob
]. That the sheriff shall be immed-
lat
after be disqualified from holding 1t.
2. That the county shall pay the
next OF kin OF any victim of a mob
large stipulated penalty, recoverable
in the district. court of any adjoining
county.
3. That each and every person who
takes part in or advises a mob murder
shall also become liable thereby to pay
the next OF kin large stipulated pen
atty, recoverable In some district court
outside OF the blOod-stained county.
!. Provide for a change OF venue
either before or after indictment in all
cases Of mob violence. This will do the
work.
Let the voters who favor this motion
Hood their representatives with de-
mands that such law shall he passed.
They can thus have 1t done.
Follow up this law by agitation.
Agitate now. Agitate all the time, I'M
Ill every man takes sides for or against
mob murder! Cultivate public senti-
ment against the mob sentiment Call
out on the subject every man who
makes a public speech. Teach the
press OF the State that apologies for
mobs are dishonorable. contemplate,
and that the name Judge Lynch" Is
synonymous with Judge Murderer"
whose brutal parsonage Is hateful in
the sight Of all honest men.
Yours for the constitution. for good
government, and against anarchy and
mob murder.
J. s. HOGG.
On the other hand Lynch law is de-
Tended by caustic writer in the Al,
economist, who writes:
] am believer in mob violence. 1t
is the last refuge of an oppressed and
outraged people. 1t will exterminate
those who are unfit to live. 1t will re-
move the tyrant and the rape fiend
from the face of the earth. And more
than all, 1t will sit down on the polit-
ical aspirations OF those who denounce
IL as viler than all of hell's unclean
brood. IL will teach them that there
are as many honest men who pull
rope as there are who warm the easy
chair of state.
Whenever a man commits rape he
should be -mercilessly extermin-
ated. And If II Is said that the inno-
cent may suffer, let 1t be remembered
that the mob is less likely to err than
the district court, where the lawyer
who denounces the mob may be hired
TO defend the criminal. Was 1t n mob
or judge that sent Debs to Jail? Was
II mob that invaded the State of H.
linois to shoot down the citizens OF
that State? Was IL mob or judge
that passed sentence on Christ? Was
1t a mob that starved the town OF Pull
man into revolt? mob that made
Homestead and Couer d'Alene run
with blood? Was It mob that
marched to the sea leaving behind II
a path of desolation sixty miles wide?
Was II cowardly gang of assassins
that brought on the southwestern
strike of 1886?
Is II mob now in session at Austin,
Texas? Did a mob plunge the State
into debt-did mob violate every
pledge it made to the people? Is it
mob that wants to break into the
United States Senate, where an honest
man could only wish to go as the place
where the devil would never expect to
md him? Is 1t mob that having
once denounced the corporations now
defends them? Long live the mob and
not the emperor. Health to the man
ana men who do not await the laws
delay to Kill those who violate the
sanctuary OF their homes-who assault
their wives and mutilate their babies
Let those who fatten on other peoples
sweat continue to draw their iawbones
In defense OF constitutional govern
ment. Let them continue to wave their
tails, flap their ears and paw the earth
In a vain attempt to break into the
public crib. No one need be alarmed
No money will be paid to the next OF