New-York tribune., 1903-08-15


and Chief Justice Lore, Southern man, of
whom some expected sympathy with Mr..
Gravess sentiments, took the core out of the
latter's civic heresy.
The mob conference, which ends tomorrow
with Justice woodwards address. has been one
of the most remarkable. interesting and in
structive conferences Of the season. Chautau-
qua has made the first movement formally to
consider the pressing question Of lynchings and
mobs.
JUSTICE LoREs ADDRESS.
The address of Chief Justice Lore follows:
In discussing our subject, THE Relation of Law
brought in touch with OF the evils perhaps the
evIi most dangerous TO republican forms OF gov
Our government is based upon written constitu-
Which define or limit the powers Of government
and the rights and privileges of the people Its
whole framework is written law. Under this law
each citizen covenants with every other citizen
toward the other ana to the government. Indi-
Vfdual liberty within such limits IS given up to
mental power has three oivisions-legislative. ex-
its efficient administration To these agencies
within their respective limits the people nave
such authority must be administered from the very
The government being of and by the people,
where each individual voter is the source of ali the
So 900 of our people TO get together and a
body on all and every occasion in legislative.
our general government, it is equally true of the
people Of each State constituting the United
Under well devised law this power has been dele
red only in pursuance of the written covenant.
The people a body, cannot execute. They must
all times amenable the people acting in lawful
channels, and may be changed at the people S
This being So we are simply and purely a gov
dissoIves into its original elements. each fol-
lowing his own arbitrary will so far as other
more dominant will or brute force permits. with
us. therefore, government means obedience to law.
pure and simple Anarchy is the rock upon which
all ancient republics have ultimately been wrecked
Strangely enough just at this reriod OF our ma
oppression the United States has taken dominant
e me when S our e seemed to be most
firmly rooted in public confidence. We have been
disgraced by some of tho most revolving and brutal
exhibitions of mob violence recorded in history.
Let as consider the mob spirit, with respect to
its origin. its effects and its remedy
The origin is not always founded in evil 1t often
enlists men who are pleased to call themselves the
well meaning. Its Indictment is generally real
or imaginary wrong or some aggravated crime In
the moment of unguarded passion such men forget
their duty 10 themselves and society and lend coun-
of its consequences to themselves and society in
thus taking the law into their hands. There
whose criminal lives tend TO Iawlessness. This ele-
oence &c as seuth tn hound % scents tg bood When
mob s Jaw Up prevails @ this element furnishes MS the lead @
comes; comes the follower OF the most DEGRADED whose %
summed with as much care as The plague
MoBs IN FREE NATIONS.
Free governments where the people are the
sources of power are much more subject to the
mob spirit than despotism monarchies. In the
the despot, to crush the mob. In the former the
in Sympathy with the mob: SO that our very very free
dom subjects US TO this form Of evil. The people,
PACK Delegated power even though liberty regu-
IS painful thought that this great government of
ours has this elemental structural weakness with
IN free countries until all men learn that only
We pass from the origin of mob spirit to the evil
Ffrst-Mob law saps the moral fibre of every par
t1cPahI !, h me ipiSIess act snd puts the most
as the most degraded For once they ioin hands
Both clothe themselves with the garment of crime.
,lhe most brutal and desperate naturally take the
lead; the respectable men follow such leaders.
1aNIessness breeds crime, and when respectability
a. - - ne OgHt lpeetheT reapeclaplIty WaloWS
IN me mre: The man who violates law in any
last He readily finds plausible excuses for his vio-
cs at ali ' The e comes ones nceT %en ne needs no eX;
breaks down every barrier against vice. No self
violence AGAINST law. order and decercy and re-
@ tam hS moral iniegrity Every such act leaves a
He can never forget that he Joined a COW
Inde~ cover Of the T1rifnd o ~ care 6
fractional murderer without the courage to become
a BhoIe rnurderer-ln ether words coward I'm his
crime such men dare not stand forth in Il court
or justice and aVow their participation in the crime
and let the law take its just course and usually
wsen arrested ne puts in a plea of a alibi.
Second-The effect Of mob violence upon society
Is even more startling. 1t resolves society into
original lawlessness, substitutes brute force for
Jaw, and passion and vengeance for justice IN
the worcs OF Governor Durbin of Indiana: TT
breaks down the barriers which centuries of civil
siLauon nave erected between brute force and
h human lights; Il gives society over to the most
DEGRADED and criminal classes. II makes every
noblte when human life is taken. a murderer
as justice Brewer has wei declared. and liable
10 be lIled and convicted for that offence.
Sucn IN general is the communal reSut II in
oculates the people with a deadly noison. az js
certain that the mob soirit is c0utas sioJs The tri
umph over law and order of 3 mob OF reckless and
same class every other locality There is Al
ways IA every pOpulous community considerable
percentage Of people criminal by instinct and
though ordinarily cowed by public sentiment and
The forces Of the law into an outward respect for
opportunity TO tTampe law under their feet Little
by little the mob spirit which has long been active
every issue Of the daily press has news Ts Of an0S6 most
outbreak Of lawlessness. often successful and
criminals in every community TO riot more readily
ana Tor less reason than before"
A DEADLY TREASON.
Mob violence is deadly treason against our gov-
erament. which grants the lareest liberty to the
individual and protection life. liberty and prop
ideal and governmental theory of mans capacity
for self-RoVeTnment-the more deadly beca use il
touches all the people. disaTms the poor and the
helpless, and turns them over to brute force or
despotism. Steadily pursued. il means the dea tn
Of liberty. Mob law and anarchy delivered re-
publican Greece 10 Philip of Macedonia and to
his son. Alexander the. Great. Sulla and Marius
made Cesar = possibility. Robespierre preceded
was drunk with b'ood shed by the mob and satiated
PevoIution is the highest historic ex5ression ~
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