Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05

VIII en- YOU ought TO respect;
that he ought to have his plant beds
scraped; that he ought to have his
barns burned; that he ought to be
shot, or whipped, or killed that he
has no right to live; that he is a me-
mace to the community; and that for
that reason a man is justified in do
ing him any kind of damage he pleas
es.' | don't believe that you make
that argument. / hope that you don't
| But / am here tOanswer it, ! will say
to you, that because a man deserves
| to die-that gives you no right to kin
| him. 1t is just as much murder to
| kill bad man as a good one.
Oh, my friends, that insidious fall
lacy, that hideous sophristry chat a
man can do evil in order that good
may result from il" that "the end JUS
titles the means oh, it is so foolish,
as well as so wicked How much
wiser and better it is--to do good that
good may result from it! (Applause.)
That hideous heresy, that the end JUS
titles the means-and a man can do a
dirty dastardly, cowardly deed in or
der to help the community or to help
| the Association-that heresy is as old
as sin; it has done more harm than
the whole volume of false philosophy
and perverted truth; it has caused
more misery, more pain, more sorrow,
than all the other fallacies in the
world.
My friends, that miserable mis-
take has deluded men with brains
and hearts, has destroyed nations. It
has disgraced armies. it has stained
the sacred history of Gods people. It
has made a beast and a barbarian or
the soldier. 1t has made a Mischea-
velli of the statesman. OF the king. it
has made cruel tyrant. Of the
priest and preacher Protestant and
Catholic alike, it has made of Gods
Evangel of Mercy "a torturing fiend,
land sweet religion made a rhap-
sody of words 1t has overturned
her sacred affairs. It has transformed
her holy temples into chambers of
horror and torture It has broken
bones. 1t has snapped sinews. 1t has
taken human life. It has delivered
its shuddering victims to the rack, and
given manned and quivering limbs to
| the pitiless clutch of the thumb-screw
and boot 1t has lit all the torches.
1t has erected all the stakes. 1t has
famed the hungry relentless flames of
all the au-de-fes, and after a thou
sand years, their fires all extinguished,
their angry embers still CLEAN from
the black horizon of the past like
l''blood-red carbuncles upon the ashen
breat of barbarism"
81 have no patience with that here
sy. / have fought the trust as hard
as any man ever did, and hate is as
much; but before I would put on a
mask, before I would take a rope, or
an AK, or a rife, or worse than all
these-a lash and go out in mob
in the night time to do violence to any
mans property, or his person-before
would do that, I would leave James
B. Duke to have the undisputed pos
session Of every plant of tobacco that
ever grew on the face of the earth.
(Applause.)
In anguish of soul, I say it. In grief
speak of it before this great audi
, ence. In tears, in humiliation, with
blush, as your brother, | admit that
: wrongs have been done, possibly by
members of this Association. l can
not help but call them few, as COM
pared with the charges made against
us; but whatever be their number,
they are a thousand times too many
to be laid at the door of brave Ken
tuckians and Tennesseans, anywhere
or at any time, -,
l implore you above all things re-
member that this organization is no
pharisee. Day after day you have
read this: (Here Mr.. Stanley read
from a resolution lately published by
Elk. Com. Tob. ASSN I'VE deeply
regret that such acts do accur," and
no one more deeply regrets it than I.
| have weighed my words today,
1 3 r,,rl, I, I,
times and words of raillery at my
enemies and yours. Remember it is
this Association which solemnly de-
clares: eve deeply regret that such
acts do occur and we again express
our earnest disapproyal of the same
AS the representatives of this Asso-
citation, having its interests at heart,
we call upon every good citizen to join
us in an effort to discOuntenance the
outrages. We are opposed to all vio-
lations of law"
DO you believe the Association said
that and didn't mean it? If so, then
sir, you are a Pharisee. (Tmning to
Dr. Dunn, Chairman Of Executive Com
mittee, on the stage.) You know what
| think of a Pharisee. If l believed
that they said it and did not mean it,
all my love for this Association would
turn to contempt and scorn.
| have campaigned for this Associa-
ton in five States / will go day and
night. / have worked on this defense
in the wee small hours of night, after
the days work was done, tired and
worn and weary, while ever and anon.
even from dusk until daylight, l have
heard the plaintive cry OF my boy, an
only child, as he lay upon a bed Of
pain, a child dearer to me than the
rudy drops that visit this sad heart
in an effort to put you right before the
world. l will do anything else for YOU
l will swear to you, will never de-
tendl l will never excuse, will never
condone, any act that is cowarly and
mean. (Applause.)
or all men, the lawyer should be
most intnlnl.ant Of ln-.--. 90 IL. :.