The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
The Reign of Disorder.

InG Hlllllla COilipdlly lllctI ulluC1 tooh
to defend the negro murderers at
Hil1sboro, Ca, with unloaded rifles is
going to resign. These citizen soldiers
should first be contaminated. IT the
privates were responsible for their
rifles being unloaded,7 the company
should be dispersed in disgrace. If
they were not OF deco by their officers
to load their rifles and resist to the
end, those officers are deserving Of the
sevcrest penalty the law permits. 1t
is bad enough for the law to be
trampled upon and scorned by crazy
mob is abetted or aided by the armed
forces Of law and order. At States
boro the militia lad a great oppor-
tunity to strike such a blow for law
and order as would have thrilled the
whole nation. Instead, they have been
the means of promoting disorder and
contempt for law. Wherever, hence
forth, a bloodthirsty mob shall rise to
take the law into it's own hands, it
will be recalled that at Statesboro the
| soldiers did not dare resist the mob
with loaded rifles.
The contagious nature of this social
disease Of disorder is shown once more
by the reign of terror now reported
from the vicinage Of Statesboro. All
! the bad niggers' are to be run out Of
| the district. Badness, it seems, con-
sists largely Of lack Of due respect for
white supremacy, and those who de-
| eide whether "nigger" is bad or not
are the same men who afterward at
tend to the running out.
Allowing that there are plenty of
negroes in the neighbcrhood of Stat
boro that are a menace to the COM
nunity, this lawless method of purg-
ing the community is sure to degen-
crate into a means of satisfying in
dividual grudges and hatreds. That
was the history Of the Ku Klux Khan.
Organized at first to overthrow by
force g. negro domination that was
running the south, it degenerated after
it's first successes into an evil secret
society, which it's organizers were
compelled to disown.
grave enough without turning it into
war between the races. But that is
the natural tendency Of the Statesboro
affair. Under the most peaceful con-
ditions, it will be difficult to shape a
Eplan by which the antagonistic races
can live together. The state govern
ment must maintain order Local
, communities confronted by the pas
sions aroused by race hatred are no.
: equal to the work. Extraordinary con
, ditions call for extraordinary meas
, ures. A state constabulary, we'll
; mounted and well-armed, would a
once he a preventive Of crime and 9
means of depressing attempts to sub
| stitute mob vengeance for justice.
: John Sharp Williams grew sarcastic
: yesterday in his speech Of notification
; The protective tariff, which the demo
: cratic platform denounces as a system o
; robbery, Mr. Williams undertook to ridi
: Guile and denounce, Notwithstanding tn
: fact that he was addressing one of tn
most favored robbers in the country
Mhen MI. LAWS was III Tie SENATE, ditll
: serving as a democrat, he took care t
vote with the republicans on the tarit
and to secure for his business interests al
: the protection that the law allows w
do not find in Mr.. Davis remarks an
! protest against Mr. Williams assault O
the tariff, but the vice presidential can
: didate probably agrees with Judge Parker
! who assures us in his speech of accep
J lance that nobody need be alarmed tina
: even if there should be a Democrat
! president and a democratic house the
: could not do anything on account of tn
s republican senate. Just what excuse re
7 mains for the election of a democrat
h president or a democratic house, asid