The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-11

should be so disgraced in the eyes of the world. Public sentiment alone is the cause for it."
 Dr. Steele then commended the press in very high terms for their clean, brave stand for law and order. He spoke of Judge Feagin's crusade against the pistol toters, and said that he only wished their sentences could be stretched into two or three years in the penitentiary.
 The church was crowded, and close at tention was paid to the sermon.
 444%~4es-~se~~A other duties. which no good citizen can deliberately put himself face to face with and decline to perform and still be a good citizen.
 Jury Service.
 One of these vitaly important duties, beyond any question, is the duty of jury service; and it is a notorious fact that this is avoided and escaped to a lament able' extent by our citizens. Either, for one reason or another, their names are never put into the box by the commits sioners, and can't be drawn out of it. or. for one reason or another, when their names are drawn, they seek to be excused and are excused from jury service. There are plenty to take their places, they doubtless argue; and they are more need ed elsewhere than in the jury room. Aye, there are plenty to take their places; there's the rub; and their places are taken by the plenty-and the result is, verdicts that send a shiver of disgust and horror through the souls of all men who are capable of distinguishing between justice and injustice looming large and clear as sunlight. And result of this result is the mob-the mob of American citizens turned murderers, torturing to death an alleged criminal without trial,. and ex- cusing themselves on the plea that the courts can not be trusted to punish crime!
 Is it necessary to add that in nine hun dred and ninety-nine cases out of thousand, perhaps oftener the victim mobbed to death is one whom no jury would have allowed to escape on the min imum of evidence essential to conviction! Thus our best citizens, by declining to serve on juries and do their duty under command of the law and the evidence, are indirectly encouraging the mob; and the mob means anarchy and that anarchy is ever the worst which is practiced by those who do not call themselves anarchists who regard themselves as decent repre- sentatives of the existing order. Society is powerful enough, and always will be, to overwhelm the puny anarchist who strikes at it from the outside, the real danger that threatens it is the potent spirit of anarchism developing and strlT ing it on the insidel
 Let our best citizens continue to avoid and escape the duty of jury service, leav- ing it to the inefficient or the corrupt. and whether they will it or not, they are nurturing the spirit of anarchy and clear ing the way for it's deadly work.
 Gall to Duty.
 I call upon the good citizens of Bir- mingham and Jefferson. county to do their civic duty, and do it to the full, what ever the temptation to leave it undone. might call upon them in the name of the dollar and for the sake of dollar making; for the dollar is more valuable in a civ ilized than in an uncivilized community, and dollar making is a more wholesome and agreeable occupation where laws are justly administered than where it is an even guess whether justice is blindfoldeo or only pretending to bel
 But I call upon them in the name of what is more vaulable than dollars and more important than dollar making-the name of justice and righteousness-lack ing which we might as well put away and bury deep the mock emblems of eiviliza- tion and go backward to the tiger of the jungle and the dragon of the slime.
 I call upon them for the sake of the Kingdom of God. existing in divine idea from all eternity as the republic of man; for the sake and In the name of that king dom right human, that republic right divine, which can never be on earth where 1t ought to be- till justice and right eousness set up their throne and reign in undivided majesty over the ways and deeds, and aims of men