The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-03-15
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ments anent the repulsive deed. l
should like to know how long Canaan
Is going to put up with this sort of
business were his words. I am law
abiding citizen, and l have served
faithfully and with my full endeayor
and ability to enact the laws and
statutes OF my state, but there is
point in my patience. l 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, chosen by the will of the people,
If they are to ruthlessly be set aside by
criminals and their shifty protectors?
The blame should be put upon the law
yers who by tricks enable such rascals
to escape the rigors of the carefully en-
acted laws, the fruits Of the solon's
labor, more than upon the criminals
themselves. In this case if there Is
any miscarriage Of justice l will say
here and now that in my opinion the
people of this county will be sorely
tempted, and while do not believe in
lynch law, yet if that should be the
result it is my unalterable conviction
that the vigilantes may we'll turn their
attention to the lawyers or lawyer who
brings about such miscarriage. I am
sick of it, q"
The Tocsin did not print the inter
view it obtained from Louie Farbach-
the same Louie Farbach who long ago
had owned a beer saloon with a little
room behind the bar, where a shabby
boy sometimes played dominoes and
seven up with loafers; not quite the
same Louie Farbach however, in out
ward circumstance, for he was now the
brewer Of Farbach beer and making
| Canaan famous. His rise had been
Teutonic and sure, and he contributed
one-twentieth of his income to the Ger
man Orphan asylum and one-tenth to
his party's campaign fund. The TWEEN
tieth saved the orphans from the coun-
ty, while the 1.-THE gave the county to
his party.
He occupied q 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 IN
comfortable, and he looked woodenly
at the reporter when the latter put his
question.
lief you any Acquaintance off Mister
Fear?" he inquired in return, with no
expression decipherable either upon
his Gargantuan face or in his heavily
EMBODIED eyes.
'No, SIR" replied the reporter, grin.
ming. Il never ran across him"
} DOT ISIS a goot ting fer you." said
Mr.. Farbach stonily. "He ISIS not a
man poebles bedder try to run across
1t ISIS what Cory tried. Now Cory ISIS
dead"
The reporter, slightly puzzled, lit 6
cigarette. See here, Mr.. Farbaeh,' be
urged, Il only want a word or two
about this thing, and you might give
me a brief expression concerning thai
man Louden besides, just a hint Of
what you think OF his influence here
you know, and of the kind of SHARP
work he practices. Something likt
f that"
Il see," said the brewer slowly
Happy Fear hef knowt for a goo
many years. He ISIS goot frient o
mine"
"What?'
"Choe Louten ISIS a bedder one" con
tinued Mr.. Farbach, turning again t,
stare at his chickens. ''Git owit''
"What?'
r "Git owit," repeated the other with
out passion, without anger, withou
> any expression whatsoever. cit owit.
The reporters prejudice against tn
, German nation dated from that me
ment.
There We're others, here and there
who were less self contained than til
brewer. A farmland struck a fellog
laborer in the harvest field for speaE
ing Ill Of Joe. and the unraveling of
strange street fight one day disclose
as its cause a like resentment on tn
part Of a blind broommaker, enger
dered by a like offense. The broom
makers companion, reading the TOT
: sin as the two walked together, ha
begun the quarrel by remarking tina
I for his own sake and twice more Il
: show up that shyster Louden." War;
words followed, leading to extremel
material conflict, in which, in spite {
o his blindness, the broommaker had s
/, much the best Of it that he was r.
moved from the triumphant attitud
he had assumed toward the person {
e his adversary, which was an admirabl
: imitation of the dismounted ST. Georg
o and the dragon, and conveyed to Ii
jail Keenest investigation failed
reveal anything oblique in the man
record. To the establishment of G.
q naan. there was nothing against hin
y He was blind and moderately poor, bl
a respectable, Woodworking artisan an
a pride to the church in which he WI
what has been called an active worI
: err" It was discovered that his sens
= tiveness to his companions attack G
= JoSpDh Iouden arose from the fact Th;