Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-04-03

Y4# VEN Ek1 III Wnen Viola SCrOutner - the GWett
Nv (J<Ek} Nk Little sister, youngest in the house
M -KWMRrA hold the pet and pride Of the fami-
- PhnNF & ~ ~ was deliberately hunted down
~ WI < by heartless sedncer, made ia
- w suffer tortures worse than death,
and was about to be abandoned to her grief and
shame, the brothers OF the ruined girl killed MIN,
says Tom Watson in his JeffeIsonian magazine
They shct him like a dog.
In just that way he deserved to get it.
lh The Law does its9 best to put itself in the
place Of the wronged and to ont justice ac.
cOrdiDgy.
The whole theory Of civit and criminal law, so
far the redress of grievances is concerned s bas
ed upon that principle.
The law steps in to punish the man who has
RdOne you wrong denying you the right to do so.
III you were allowed to avenge your own wrongs
riot and disorder would ensue. Private wars would
\ pe waged Fends would rend the community. The
Vendetta would usurp the orderly procedure OF the
But in all the books which treat OF the elemental
principles OF Jurisprudence this exception to the
rule stares you in the face:
"There are cases where the law, by reason Of its
B imperectOn, or the sowness OF ts procedure, can
not do to the citizens that immediate Justice which
the situation demands. III such instances the ctiz
len is justified in taking the Jaw into HE own
hands"
This principle is as old as the hills and as sold
be rock
who is trying to kill youi
Because the law can not save you 1t is too
IslOw. You must take the law into your own hands,
and save yourself.
To keep your house from being burned, to save
your wife from Outrage-nay, to balk the raid or
the horse thiei-you may shoot, aud shoot to kill
Whyi Because the law is unable to give you, in
such cases. that immediate justice to which yOu are
IAentitled.
y You are entitled to protection for self, family,
III -. ~
give it to you, apply to the Law.
Y But wher, from the very nature Of the case, the
aw can not give it to you, then you must give it to
yourself.
The milk sop, asinine, and moycodde doctrine
Of non restance has no place in the souls Of manly
men.
Let such warped fanatics as William LLOYD Gar.
rieon declare that he would not by force interfere
Eoprevent his own wife from being outraged
Such man may in some abnormal condition oil
lhings be able to toss torch into powder house.
bring on an explosion, and thus be remembered as
Dne Of the nciters Of the inaanest war in history
but that's about all he's fit for.
For any constructive or preservative purpose
be is less than worthless.
Let such editors as Willard, Of The New York
Evening Post denOunCe the Strother brothers, de.
scribe their deed as nexcusable murder and lecture
the south about law breakers and "judge whose
spirit ID that OF lyncher"
It ID safe to assume that Willard wOald never
shoot anybody over mis- sister.
He has sister, BY the way, and this sister al /
eges in court proceeding that be took from her
britain money left her BY their father.
IA man who would denounce the Etr0ther broth.
srs for killing the destroyer Ot their sister, IL none
Too good to rob his own sister; and 1t would seem
bat Wizards sister brings that identical assertion
,eainst him.
can not bring myself to believe that any con-
ideFabe number Of northern men endorse the cold \
lOoded principles Of such writer's as Garrison and
ZilIard.
The whole social world will be purer when il be,
ones well settled fact that no Judge Or Jury will
unish the citizen, who, In good faith and in con
hleh il supposed to be uncomfortable, slays The
lack hearted william who has done him intoleraBle
rong such wrong as the law, from the very ma
nTs ofthe case, cannot adequately redress.