The Appeal., 1903-07-25

through it has the system
been wrought The higher local courts
were pOwerless to stay it. LEGAL juries
refused to convict. So the good peo-
pie of the South, represented through
he press and other agencies of pub
licity, hailed with relief the bringing of
;hese cases to the cognizance Of the
federal court Now the same paralysis
Of Justice is manifest there. The local
jury in federal court refuses equally!
as in Il state court to bring in verdict
according to the laW~and the evidence.
Sc in the first decade of the TWEEN
iietb century we are looking towards a
judicial situation like that which char
acterized the first decade of the last
half OF the nineteenth century. f. Then
the cou,ts belonged, body and soul,
to the shareholders, until finally our
great supreme court rendered the die
tum that Negro had no rights that
a white man was bound to respect
This is the situation that we are fac
ing today. The disagreement Of the
federal jury in Alabama shows that
the laws as they stand may be inenect-
i've. But the case should be brought to
trial again with all promptitude, as
we'll as the many other cases in which
indictments have been found. If juries
fail to convict, congress must devise
Negro. Slavery in any form cannot be
allowed to exist.-1ndianapolis News.
STANDING OUT FOR SLAVERY.
The failure of the jury of white men
to reach an agreement in the last peon-
age trial in Montgomery, Ala, is in
every way a reproach to the republic.
Judge Jones, an eminent. Democrat.
told the jury that if they accepted
only the admissions of the defendant,
they must bring in a verdict of guilty,
aud that "they would prejure them
selves in the sight of God and dishQnor
themselves in the eyes of men" if they
took any other course. But one-half
Of the jury stuck out for acquittal, and
go out before the world with the
judges brand of perjury. The case was
very clear one, but many Southern
men stand out for illegal and dishonor-
able slavery now with as much vigor
as they stood out for the legalized
slavery before the war.-Philadelphia
Press.
The Afro-American press has been
saying over and over again for years
that mob law must be put down or no
man black or white would be secure,
this was smiled at derisively, but, it is
beginning to dawn upon the minds
of the white people that this is true.
White men are lynchedI quite fre.
quently nowadays for any old thing.
They were not troubled very much
when Afro-Americans were daily
lynched for alleged crimes Of which
they we're frequently not guilty, but
when white men began to get some
of the same barbaric treatment then
they began to think about the matter
now they are talking about it in no
uncertain tones. The st. Paul Globe
| while congratulating Minnesota on be-
| ing saved from the disgrace of a lynch.
! ing also said:
"There is no community safe from
! the threatened rising of the mob. Men
| do not wait for due process of law; not
| because they do not trust the law
or because the law is false to its
claims, but because they have imbibed
tho instinct of disorder. The poison
of the mob is in their veins, and they
have been taught that it is safe to gra
tify it,
f'This is nothing more or less than
a dry rot attacking the whole system
of self-government. If jails and courts
and laws are set aside, we go back to
I Exactly exactly the conditions that prevailed
| before society organized or adopted
measures for the preservation of order
This must be changed if we are moi
to fal! into virtual anarchy
"The remedy? It lies with the au
tnorities everywhere. They ought tt
exert all the powers at, their com
maDd to hunt down the leaders of mobs
as relentlessly as these hunt dowr
! their victims. Instead of remarkins
upon the provocation and enumeratine
| the extenuating circumstances, every
| public official should go after the moi
like the wilu beast that it is. The life
OF that deputy sheriff who fell while
| doing his duty is worth more than that
Of all the mobs that disgrace Ameri
ca. Disperse them with clubs or NOV
them down with gatling guns if neces
sary,, but do not let us have to think
that these United States are give1
over utterly to the lords of misrule.