The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-12-28
For the COURIER.
dov. Mount and the Spencer County
Avesgers.


Avesgers.
| While the recent lynchings at
Rockport and Boonville, brought
about by "justly outraged popu-
ace" is to be deplored by all good
people, yet, as the great dramatist
has aptiy put it, ''it is sometimes
necessary to do little wrong that
much good may come OF it," SO
let US hope in this case that much
good may come Of this work. As
rlle the American people are very
forbearing and forgiving, but when
thoroughly aroused they brook no
wrong, accept no injury, and when
an appalling crime has been com
mitted, as was done in this case,
in the power of their wrath they are
sure to rise and sweep every obsta-
Gle before them, Jimmy Mounts"
protests Notwithstanding.
What are the fountains from
which mob law drinks its greatest
draughts?
Tne lack of a rigid enforcement
OF the laws, as well as the failure to
run up black flag, never parley-
ing for terms, nor accept anything
from the would-be murderers,
thieves, thugs, robb,r and cut
throats, except an unconditional
surrender, until the rights of the
"good p ,eple" are crowned with
triumphant success.
When such men as "Dear Jim.
my" our own chief executive,
hides behind his own doors the
worst assassinators OF the 18th CEN
tury in Nervousness, out rivaling
the assassinators of Garfield; when
it was shown that Guiteau was
crank and crazy besides, but the as
sination bad as it was, committed
in broad daylight, in view of all
eyes. The ferocity Of their crime
is only equaled by the assassination
OF the immortal Lincoln, and yet he
has the audacity to order out the
ilitia, eve must preserve the in
tegrity Of our State" at the same
time refusing to obey the plain
mandate of the constitution, the
sacred instrument that he swore to
uphold, in refusing 10 honor the
requisition of Kentucky's chief ex-
ecutive, fortifying himself behind
newspaper reports, constituting
himself iu jge, inquiring into the
personel Of the grand jury, assert
ing that it was q partisan grand
jury that returned the indictment
against Taylor and Finley.
What kind Of q position is "dear
Jimmy" 10 to criticise the staid
and sturdy people of Spencer and
Warrick counties, wher they aveng-
ed one of the most atrocious mur-
ders ever committed?
Itis no wonder, when the people
see their public officers protecting
and shielding murderers and as
sassins, that they become exas-
perated and right their own wrongs.
Before "Dear Jimmy" can suc-
criticise he had better
pluck the mote from his own eyes.
The blood of Gov. Goble to-day
cries from the ground to Dear
Jimmy" appealing to him to hon.
,r the requisition of Kentucky's
chief executive, that outraged law
ind society may in a measure be
lppeased. But "Dear Jimmy"
Iays, "It is right to assassinate a
democratic governor of Kentucky,
,ut wrong to hang the inhuman
nurJerers who deliberately took
he life OF an unsuspecting victim
or forty dollars" the shock Of
which has since sent his beloved
wife to meet her husband in the far
'eyond from whence there is no re-
urn.
II is right for me to protect the
ssasinators Of Gov. Goble, but it is
Jrong for the people Of Spencer and
Varrick counties TO protect their
acred homes. II is right for me to
ct an example Of protecting MUIR
erers, but it is wrong for you TO
unish criminals, that others may
e deferred thereby, as Black
tone says, "one Of the primary OBJ
scts Of punishment" Oh! ye
iods and little fishes! you surely
,ake one laugh. "Desr Jimmy"
ou "doth protest too much," and
/ the same time stultify your acts
y your past conduct. Would not
ne people Of the State, with one ac-
ord, applaud your acts were you to
all out the militia and never let
our "pet wards" stop until you
ad pushed them across the Ohio
ver and back to their native state,
'om whence they came, and COM
81 them there to submit their cause
, a jury Of their peers, and with
10 result LET the world be content.