The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-23
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business, were MS WOruS. =
law-abiding citizen. and I have served
faithfully, and with my full endeavor
and ability TO enact the laws and stat
utes OF my State. but there Is point
In my patience. would state. which
lawbreakers and their lawyers may not
safely pass. OF what use are our most
solemn enactments. / may even ask OF
what use is the Legislature itself chos-
en- by the Will OF the people. II they are
to ruthlessly be set aside By criminals
and their shifty protectors? The blame
should be put upon the lawyers who
by tricks enable such rascals to es-
cape the rigOrS Of the carefully enacted
laws, the fruits of the solons labor
more than upon the criminals them
selves. In this case. II there IS any
miscarriage OF justice. I will say here
and now that In my opinion the people
OF this county win be sOrely tempted;
and while I do not believe In lynch
law. yet IL that should be the result II
is my unalterable conviction that the
vigilantes may we'll turn their atten-
ton TO the Iawyers-Or lawyer-who
bring about such miscarriage. 1 am
sick Of it"
The Tocsin did not print the inter-
view IL obtained from Louie Farbach--
the same Louie Farbach who long 60
had owned a beer saloon with a little
room behind the bar where a shabby
"seven-upr with loafers; not quite the
same Louie Farbaeh. however. in out
ward circumstance: for he was now
the brewer OF Farbach beer and making
Canaan famous His rise had been
Teutonfc and sure: and he contributed
one-twentieth OF his income 70 the Ger
man Orphan Asylum and one-tenth to
his party's campaign fund. The TWEEN
tieth saved the orphans from the coun-
~ while the tithe gave the county
to his party.
He occupied a kitchen chair. enjoy
Ing the society of some chickens IN a
wired Enclosure behind the new Italian
villa he had erected in that part OF
Canaan where he would be most I'M
comfortable, and he looked woOdenly
at the reporter when the latter put
his question.
lief you any aqua 'ntunce OF Mr.
Fear he inquired. in return. with no
expression deciphcrable either upon his
Gargantusn face or in his heavily en-
folded eyes
no. sir" replied the reporter. grin
ming. i never ran across him"
Dot ISIS goot ting fer you" said
Mr. Farbach stonily. He ISIS not
man peobles bedder try to run across.
Y iss what Cory tried. Now Cory ISIS
dead
The reporter. slightly puzzled. lit
cigarette. See here. Mr.. Farbach." he
urged, Il only want a word or two
about this thing, and you might give me
a brief expression concerning that man
Louden besides, just a hint of what you
think Of his influence here, you know.
and OF the kind u sharp work he prac-
tees. Something like that"
y see said the brewer SLOWLY
Happy Fear hef KnOwt for a goot
many years. He ISIS a goot frient OF
mine"
ssrx-t..9.,
Chloe Louden is oedder one. con
tinued Dir. Far5ach. turning again TO
stare at his chickens cit owit.
cit owit." repeated the other with
out passion. without anger. without
any expression whatsoever cit
owit"
The reporters prejudice against the
German nation dated from that mo-
ment
There. were Others here ana there
who were less selS-contained than the
brewer. A farm hand struck a fellow
laborers In the harvest field for speak
ing III OF Joe; and the unraveling Of a
strange street fight one dav disclosed
as ITS cause a like resentment on the
part OF a blind broou-naker. enzen-
dered BY like offense The broom
makers companion. reading the Tocsln
as the two walked together. had begun
the quarrel by remarking that Happy
Fear ought to be hanged once for his
own sake and twice more Ito show IN
that shyster Louden." Warm words
followed. leading to extremely material
conflict. in which. IN spite OF his blind
ness, the broom maker had so rn1ch
the best OF 1t that he was removed from,
the triumphant attitude he had as
sumed toward the person OF his adj
versary. which was an adnirabIe INIT
tatiOn off
and the dragon. and conveyed 10 ne
jaiL keenest investigation failed 10
reveal anything oblique In the mans
record; TO the establishment OF Canaan
there was nothing against him. Re
was blind and moderately poor. but a
respectable. Woodworking artisan and
a pride to the church In which he vvas
what has been called an active vorl<-
er. II was discovered that his sensi-
tiveness 10 his companions attack on
Joseph Louden arose from the fact that
Joe had obtained the acqufttal OF an
lmbecile sister of the blind man. a svvo-s
thirds witted woman who had been
charged with bigamy
The Tocsin made what =. co,rA -
this, and so dexterous1y that the vrr,tt
or Canaan was one farther lot in
creased against the SINISTER Az the
town was hot. inside and out.
Let US consider the Forum. Was
tnere ever before such a summer FOR
the National House" corner? Vow
voices first Numbered there. then
cracked and piped. is not TO be rer-
dered In all the tales OF the fathers
One who would make vivid the rraat
doings must indeed dip his brush IN
earthquake and eclipse. even then ba
could but picture the credible and mus
despair OF this. the silence of Eskew
Arp. Not that Eskew held his tongue
not that he was chary OF speecb-no,
o Temporal. o mores. No. But thar ~
refused the Subject IN hand. thai ~
eschewed expression upon It and res
olutely drove the argument IN other
directions, that he achieved such su-
perbly un-Arplike inconsistency; and
with such rich material for his sar-
donic humors, not at arms length. not
even so far as his finger tips. but be-
meath his very palms. he rejected IT.
this was the impossible fact.
Eskew-there Is no option but 70 a.
clare-was no longer Eskew. II - RE
truth Since the morning when Ariel
Tabor came down from Joe's once
ieaving her Offering OF white roses in
that dtnEy. dusty Shadr- r1oo. Co.,