The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-21

U.s. " AtStASFcA the GAuN ing anu dildE hGA-
/ ing Of tobacco is involved Is denied by
the Senator in these terms: Never
was more faIsehood uttered in the same
number of words, and I might add in
any number Of words" The State
court IF appeals, he says, is the peer
Of any in any other State. As rhetorio
this Is nothing remarkable. As denial.
it IS a joke
What is law, in this connection! It
is the detection and punishment Of
crime by State officials and State
courts. The crimes here involved are
conspiracy, assault, arson, and murder.
II Senator Bradley would prove Ken
lucky to stand with strong arm, IN
stained sword. and untarnished shield, -
as he puts it, let him cite:
A single instance of a night rider
outrage, from December, 1905, until
today, which las been punished by her
courts.
a single trial for such an outrage
conducted IN her courts.
A single Indictment for such an out
rage by one Of her grand juries.
Until he can and does make answer
in this form he oonfesses his State to
be lawless- And until he can and does
make this answer he drives his hear
eTs to the conclusion that he cannot
make l.. As TO the court OF appeals,
let him keep stin about its impartial
ity and dignity until he can and does
deny that the chief justice, in a public
meetings. set forth on page :, in the
middle OF column i, of last Sunday
evenings edition of this newspaper
has not hesitated to criticise the gov
ernOr for calling cut the troops Ito
proven further mob ruIe) OF to inti-
mate that it was done at the behest
Of the Tobacco trust"
Senator Bradley should confer with
Representative CantriII, whom he com
mends so fully as to the alliance of
the Burley Society with the trust. Said
that gentIeP1an In the House Of Rep
resentatives last Mondays The only
way the farmer can protect himself is
to let It be one seller against one buy
err In other words, no buyer outside
the trust need apply. Senator Bradley
should also-before he permits himself
to say these societies do not rob the
producer Of his earnings the
letter head Of the Mason County Board
Of Control and Warehouse Company
Joined and explain away the muIcting
Of the growers of that county out Of
$4,000 Tor the warehOusing Of q crop
which cost actually $4,000.
One conclusion Of the article Senator
Bradley did not deny. It was that
which IS numbered at the outset Of
this editorial He did not even state
that To the senate On the contrary
he SO far violated his own Judgment as
an attorney particularly interested in
the status Of the Burley Society as 10
set forth seriously that an article which
argued that the National Government
had not the power 70 intervene was
written with a purpose to compel that
Government 10 intervene
The HoIIowuess Of such defcnses Of
the Burley Society as have been made
this week by Representative Cantriu
and Senator Bradley might be sound
ed Indefinitely. Senator Bradley either
did not read the article he criticises
with the harshest terms at his com
mand OF deliberately misrepresented It.
Representative CantriU thought so III
Of his speech that he did not choose
70 include IN the Congressional Record
a statement made upon the floor with
much vehemence-to the effect that,
counterpart 70 the attacks upon the
BUrley Society, so also had 'the great
liquor industry" and 'the great horse
race industry in Kentucky been seri-
OUsIy crippled"
But there is one hope which this
newspaper may be permitted to e1-
press IN behalf of Kentucky even at
this length. when this petty libeler
has m0ldered into an unhallowed. dis
h0noTed. and forgotten DUST said her
Senator Kentucky VIII stand with
strong arm, unstained sword. and IN
furnished shield one Of the truest, the
bTavest, and best defenders Of the
American union" It Is earnestly to he
desired Kentucky will not wait quite
as long as that
The only trouble about the love letters
OF TIE idle Tich is that they express as
much love as they do intelligence, and