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ICED. as you have 50 justly insisted
t@at thef should be subject TO this
guarantee the law must Work swift
n and surely and all the agents OF
tie law should realize the wrong they
do when they permit justice to be
Delayed or thwarted for technical or
insufficient reasons. We must show
tnaf the law is adequate to deal with
crime by freeing it from every vestige
OF technieality and delay.
But the fullest recognition of the
horror of the crime and the most com
plete lack of sympathy with the Grim
inal can not in the least diminish
our horror at the way in which it has
| become customary to aVenge these
crimes, and at the consequences that
are already proceeding therefrom, It
is OF course inevitable that wh.
vengeance is taken by mob it
should frequently light on innocent
people: and the wrong done in such
case to the individual Is one for
which there is no remedy. But even
where the real criminal is reached
the wrong done by the mob to the
community itself is well-nigh as great
Especially is This true where the
lynching is accompanied with torture
There are certain hideOus sights
which, when once seen, can never be
wholly erased from the mental retina.
The mere fact of having seen them
implies degradation. This Is thous-
and-fold stronger when, instead OF
merely seeing the deed, the man has
participated in it. Whoever in any
part of our country has ever taken
part in laWIessly putting to death
criminal by dreadful torture Of fire
must forever after have the awful
spectacle of his own handiWork scared
into his brain and soul. He can nev-
er again be the same man.
Violence Encouraged.
'This matter of lynching would be
a terrible thing, even if it stopped
with the lynching Of men guilty Of
the nhuman and hideous crime OF
rape. but as a matter Of fact laWleSs-
ness Of this type never does stop and
never can stop in such fashion. Ey-
cry violent man in the community is
encouraged by every case of lynching
in which the lynchers go unpunished
TO take the law into his own hands
whenever il suits his own convenience.
In the same way the Tie Of torture
br the mob in certain cases is sure
10 spread Until it is applied more
or less indiscriminately in other cases.
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