Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-21
VETERANS HONOR SENATOR BERRY Will Head the Arkansas Di- vision During the Ensu
 ing Year. BRECKENRIDGE
 ON MOB LAW Mall Decorated With Silk Flag l sed at tie Famous Battle of
 MaEa&SHN.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
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Fort Smith. Oct. 20.-At caucus Wednesday Of delegatse 10 the annll- Al meeting of Arkansas division, Unit al Confederate Veterans, United States Senator James II. Berry was nominat- cd f6l the position of major general comnandn4 the state division
 fhe state meeting 0i the veterans opened Thursday afternoon at ; I. il, With aaoat f4o delegates in nteaa- afeee 1sHe session Wa= ealled t. or der=hy Judge James l=Bead ei Hffi.. cifs. who paid high tFfbGe#go# gGa southern solaieg@=tbea HHzodueeei ran. Clifton E. Hfeshenridse to vel cone inc eeefans. Major Hreehfnrilse devoted MosI af h.4 1iMa b q dis ci4aiou el gas Haca=ag.s on. aamaae- ing mo6=.a4 and making aa= ealaesl plea for=the observance Of fae law ald adyoeaeiae changes ia .Ife pres eHt=laws which will prevent tue GelaH@ ihfi induce mob law.
 slribute to ilr>. Jefferson Davis.
 Hon. Charles CofitI of Walnut Ridge made response and delivered q Terz catchy address. in which he referred to fhe prevalence ol.geaeIals. ealoaeis and majors and the scarcity of those who were private soldiers dNfin@ the civil war. During the progress Of his remarks. and while he Wsa com meutime on 5he probable death ol NIrs Jefferson Davis. he was informed tha' she had aiel Rasjn4 oHo hand ta heaven. waile=t =te;a.s @Iiste}tea in a5s eyes. he said Aaz the bleszHfas ot the AlmehtN= resi- upon all zae LoH= ed. Man> of the old soldiers bow ed their heads as Che utteranee Wa voiced.
 Hon. (. k. BrepAis'riI=e en Neb Law.
 Hon (. R. rreaeEinri.-e, terGe1 con&ressman. and who was anhassa dor during the last Cleveland admin istratiou. delivered the address of wei come Major Freclzinridse, who is d resident of Fort smith earnestly and eIoquen,]y pieaared the heroic strus- gle of the Coniederacy. The war, he said. settled the issues Qt the day. IL could only prepare the people, how eyer. for the settlement of the issues sf the future. Continuing the speak CT said
 "My friends. we have issues now looming upon the horizon, if not in- deed already pressing upon us, which call for the highest capacity of the people. It is no longer q question of preserving the Union. That is set Aed for all time But it is a ques- tion of preserving society. our institu- tiOn and the sacredness of our homes.
 .,lIere in our own section We have . condition which leads to the ire ouent exercise by the mob of func- Gon which belong to the courts. 1t is needless to cite the steady ten dency of this practice to go beyond it's original scope Il is profitless to SHOW tIldt ulOpS III olllti SNNlioiS oo to greater extremes than in ours.
 ''I am far from holding that mob law is never justifiable Tn the ab- sence of the usual protection pro- Vded by the law, a community has the same right of self-protection that we accord to an individual. will say more I am sure that l and every man in this audience would, in the presence of certain crimes, at once aSsurle the role of execut1oner; and we would not want any mask to do il in. Let us not imagine that we are very different from other people, or underralc he depth of feeling, or the difficulties of the problem with which we have to deal. Execration of the guilty, and unspeakable sym pathv. pity and tender consideration of the sensibiities of the victim, is without limit No man can justly lay superior claim to this.
 But there is a step beyond this. We have reached a point where, Of necessity. reason must temper pas sion. We must seriously ask ourselves if the mob policy does not increase the crime which it seeks to prevent Does it not brutalize the black race; and. to d large extent. at least, hfu- talize certain clements of oor own race? Does it not, in short, disorgan- ize society. lessen respect for law, ren- der the relations between the races more menacing. and greatly increase the prevalence of the crime against