The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
THE ALLEN SPIRIT
seen ELSEWHERE
Dn. xAcLAcHLAN FONTS OUT
OTHER wars TO PVT JUDGES
OFT OF COMMISSION.
DISCUSSES TRAGEDY
POWERFUL INTERESTS SOMETIMES
CHOP OFF JURIsTs HEAD.
HAS HorEx ron CAR
ROLL COUNTY.
DISCUSSES TRAGEDY

the same spirit that In Lee county
bought and sold nearly whole cleo
torate. and which In Norfolk ransack-
ed the graves and voted dead men.
All these are simply the determination
to get ones ends irrespective OF law
and justice.
There are other ways of intimidat-
ing courts than by shooting the judge.
Bribery and corruption Is a surer way.
The control Of the public machinery
that appoints or elects the Judges is
another way. 1t is notorious that the
courts Of certain States are owned by
special interests. and that the price of
remaining on the bench Is servility to
the corporation. If the Judge Is man
enough to resist the pressure. and rem
der decision against these powerful
interests, they do not shoot him. That
would be too crude. They chop off
hts head at the next election"
Thus spoke the Rev. II. D. G..
Maclachlan from pulpit Of Seventh
Street Christian church last night,
discussing the Carroll county tragedy.
do you wonder that In face of such
facts as these. people are talking about
the recall Of judges" he asked. 1T
liz because there are powerful interests
at work. just like the Allen gang. which
mean to control the machinery OF
Justice. at whatever cost.
Fruit Of Neglect.
Let ii not be supposed for a moment
that the cultured. educated and rclf-
gous portions OF the state are with
out responsibility for these happen
II in Carroll county," he continued.
They are the fruit Of past neglect
and mismanagement. Thes- men OF
the Alien type are the inevitable pro-
duct OF their environment. and we
have permitted that environment.
Wherein can we mend matters | an
swer. in three ways-hy good ROADS.
good schools and a sound ethical relt-
gion. based on tho ten commandments,
IL IL he argued that the country Ia too
rough and mountainous for good roads,
We need only point to Scotland ~here
automobile reads lead into the very
heart Of a country once as isolated and
lawiess as the mountains of Virginia
And what good roads have done
for the land Of Bob Roy and the
Highland cattle thieves. II can do for
the land o. tho McCoys, Hatfields and
Aliens.
But even more ESSENTIAL to the up
lift OF the mountain sections than
good roads are good schools. 1gnor-
anee is the fruitful mother Of all tho
crimes Of the deeaiogue. II the
mountaineerg II q moonshiner 1t To
because he is ignorant Of any other
way of making living. II he is
despiser Of judges and she-ins, It IL
. largely because he has not had
III tr,,o ysr, trn tnn Ia
tremendous significance of justice and
its slow but certain triumph. II he
Is quick with his gun. it Is because
ne has not been brought under the
refining Influences such as radiate
from books newspapers. churches
and schools What he needs above
all else Is the schoolhouse. For the
present adult generation there Is very
little hope. The best that can be
done with them Is to keep them as
far as possible under restraint, But
for the rising geenration there is
hope and IL spells e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n.
Something Else Needed.
But even with good schools and
good roads there Is something else
to complies our picture Of redeem
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. not In Its
creedal. ritual or mystical form; but
in the warm. loving touch OF men
and women filled with the spirit o;
Jesus and willing to dedicate their
lives to the slow. arduous. vet alto
gether glorious task of elevating these
backward members Of the great fam
lily Of our common Father. ! am
speaking. OF course, Of mountain
evangelism. 1t IL not preaching that
these people ueed so much as the So
cializing and moralisinE influence of
Christian settlements planted In theis
midst. whence the quiet power of
cody lives may radiate almost un-
consciously. yet all the more effec-
lively on that account through all
the country round Something no
doubt has already been done In this
direction In the mountain schools es-
tablished by the various denomina-
tlt,nss- and the gosstis already dune' by
these schools proves conclusively the
superiority Of this institutional type
Of religion over the older evangelism
for uplifting backward peoples"