Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-04-02

ihlutia Wltnlu easy call or the city
authorities. The names OF the hood
lums, guilty of this wilful violation Of
the law can be easily ascertainei and
they should be punished.
Rev. Il. r. JONES was charged with
using language, while pastor Of the
First Baptist Church rejecting upon
the husband of Mrs. SHIELDS, the un-
fortunate white lady, who was the
victim of HENRY WILLIAMS brutality.
Had he uttered the language attributed
to him, 1t would not have justified the
mob IN assailing either him or his
Madame. Bat Rev. JONES denies hav-
ing uttered any such language and we
are informed that he is now in WASH.
IAGroN City. refugee from the city in
which he has the accommodations of a
life time. There he has church val !.
fued at s25, 900 and it was built by
means of his admirable leadership.
Now a mob of masked fiends break
into his house, scare his lone wife into
Mysteries and then orders her to leave
the city. Of course, we are not in a
position to speak for Rev. r. X. JONES. d
D., but it seems to US that ipasmuch as
ne is minister of the gospel, and ac-
cordlng to the Baptist instructions and
beliefs in this benighted land, his pass.
ports to heaven are all right, it is as
good time to go to JESUS now as at
any other season of the year, and the
/ n L.,
station from which to start on the Jour
ney.
We would not leave Roanoke. We
would notify Gov. MONTAGUE at Rich
mond, the Chief of Police and the May
or OF Roanoke and proceed to enter the
front gate of our residence in the day.
time, after having previously made ar
engagements with the colored funeral
director as to the kind of casket to be
used for our remains and located the
section In which we wished it lowered
for the last time, if those remains were
sufficiently numerous to entitle them to
slch resting place
Then we should await developments.
A good repeating shotgun, one repeat
ing rifle and one long Colt revolver to-
gether with copy OF the Holy Bible
would be all that could possibly be
needed during that night or the one to
follow.
1t would be only necessary to have a
tolerably fair aim with ordinary eye
sight TO cause matters to be lively in
that neighborhood in the event of such
an attack as his wife experienced.
The report says that the sentiment of
the town is unanimous in condemnation
of the white fiends, guilty of the out
rage and we believe the report to be
correct. The men guilty of such con-
duct have put themselves on level
with the Negro, HENRY WILLIAMS, who
has righteously paid the penalty for his
criminal act.
We shall never regret the execution
of the lawless, insulting, good for-noth-
ing, murderous Negroes, and we have
no tears to shed over the killing of few
white hoodlums, who feloniously en-
tered Rev. r. r. JONES household.
They took their lives into their own
hands
They burglariously entered a resi-
dence in the nighttime for the purpose
of committing murder and they are
amenable to the laws of the state. To
have killed one or al of them was and
is no crime under our laws and we re-
greet that Rev. DIR. JONES was not there
to do it.
The time of parleying with the mob
is past. Gov. MONTAGUE was right
when he sent eighteen companies of
state troops to Roanoke. A large mum
Der of inhabitants there are uncivilizei
and the only thing necessary to get into
them the proper civilization is to shoot
1T into them from the muzzle of a re-
peating rifle. Somebody should pro
tect Rev. JONES house. Somebody
should protect Rev. Jones' wife. Some
body should protect Rev. JONES church
If the hberal-minded white men there
ored men should volunteer their SER
vices.
If they would stand united on this
question, this agitation would cease,
Rev. JONES family would be undisturb-
ed and one of the ablest divines in the
state would no longer be an exile in a
strange land.
Rev. DE-. JONES should go back to
Roanoke and the authorities should be
required to afford to him that protection
guaranteed to him by our laws.
Lynch law must goi