The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-09-19
SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN CNILIZA-
TON.
The Two Standards Sharply Contrast
ed With the Odds i'm Favor of the
South.
Raleigh Morning Post.

cd WIN the OO0S III FAVOR Oh 1HS
South.
Raleigh Morning Post.
The following editorial, which APP
peared in the Washington Post OF
Tuesday. 10th, is SO truthful con-
trast of the regard for law and order
as the Anglo-Saxon has been taught
to understand it which obtains in the
sections that we reproduce it entire.
1t is particularly suggestive, and we
insist truthfully so, in the last para
graph, which is as whorthy of con-
sideration by really patriotic people
of the North as it is cause for just
pride on the part of the South.
The article is as follows:
eleven or twelve years ago the
representative citizens of New Or
leans found themselves confronted
with an appalling alternative-that OF
surrendering their civilization to
band of robbers and assassins or de-
stroying that society outright.
The machinery OF justice was i'm
potent. Juries did not dare to bring
in verdicts against even the most
fragrant criminals. A committee
selected by the Malta had waylaid and
killed the chief OF police, who repre-
sented in their eyes the tyranny of
government. The murderers were
known-not all of them, perhaps. but
number of them-known beyond the
question of doubt. OF some there
was less certainty, and these were
indicated by the trial judge in his
charge. The jury, however, brought
in verdict of not guilty for all the
prisoners. Threatened with assassi-
nation in case they did their duty,
the iurymen foreswore themselves
and set the devils free! Within an
hour the Sicilans composing the as
sassination society held jubilee
meeting on the river front, tore down
the United States flag, and danced
and spat upon it.
New Orleans lay quiet under this
indescribable calamity, waiting for
the leaders to act. The judge had re-
fused to accept the verdict and had
remanded the defendants to the
parish prison, pending further action
by the authorities. There was no
riot, no mob, no smallest hint OF law
less and indiscriminate violence. The
people waited. Meanwhile the most
prominent and responsible citizens of
New Orleans-the representatives OF
the city's commerce, property, cul-
ture and civilization-held anxious
consultation. 1t was evident that
the community lay trembling under a
spell Of terror. The machinery of
justice was paralyzed. Law and
order had been trampled under foot.
No mans life was safe from the as
sassin's knife. Society was at the
mercy of its most ferocious enemies.
| No amount of discussion could change
or even mitigate the fact. And then
New Orleans acted-not through the
agency of the rabble, but calmly,
quietly, in broad day, with solemn
sense of responsibility, yet with the
terrible majesty of fate. The assas-
sins were put to death. No one else
was touched. Those as to whose
guilt the judge had expressed doubt
were left unmolested in their cells.
There was no disorder, no license.
New Orleans had never been quieter
than on that tragic day. Hoodlums,
rowdies, ruffians, took to their
noisome slums and stayed there until
the curtain fell.
ANARCHY has not shown it's head
in New Orleans since then. Even the
professional murderers who escaped
that time were convinced. They
either migrated to more inviting
fields of activity or they aped the
virtues of good citizenship rather
than invoke a repetition of the cata-
clysm. Complacent editors and ora
tors at the North made haste to de-
nounce New Orleans as the abode oil
outlaws and Southern methods as
relics of a savage barbarism. Yet on
Sunday last, in Pennsylvania, the
very heart of Northern civilization,
the police of Philadelphia were busily
engaged in preventing anarshist ova.
tions, while in McKeesport two hun
dred Italian cut-throats celebrated
the Buffalo assassin with wassail
speeches, music and jubilation. II
may be that Pennsylvania ideas are
purer and Pennsylvania customs more
righteous than those of Louisiana
but the time is not far off when the
South will be regarded as a most
desirable place of residence for people
OF the Anglo-Saxon Stockton people
who believe in protecting the sanctity
of their social organization, maintain;
ing the individuals liberty of thought
and action"