Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-01-27
HAS THE MOB SPIRIT DIED?

II has been argued, IN answer to the assertion
that judiciary recall is reversion to trial and
condemnation by mob that our modern civiliza.
ton has eliminated the mob. During the amend
ment campaign, IN which the constitution Of the
state OF California was torn to rags impassioned
orators waxed apoleptc over the assertion that
the majority sometimes judges hastily and acts
unwlsely. They vented their scorn on those who
maintained that the people were wise enough to
impose the self-restraint of constitution and ju-
dietary upon themselves There is no mob y
they erred IN one breath. In the next they shout
ed, You and are the mob F"
For the consideration of those gentlemen who
have maintained that the mob no longer exists
or That It is a much wiser and more reasonable
mob than the mob that ragged about Calvary the
following dispatch from the Associated Press is
offered:
HAMILTON, Ga. Jan. GA mob of
100 men last night broke into the Harris
county Jail here, oyerpowered Jailer d. NJ
Rabbitson, took out four negroes three
men and one woman and hanged them to
trees one mile from the town The bodies
were rddled with bullets. 1t is estimated
that 300 shots were fired The
negroes We're arrested yesterday and were
charged with the murder of Norman Had
ley, wetodo farmer. The
negroes protested their innocence TO the
last No motive for the killing Of Hadley
is known
This IS matter-of-fact account of an actual
occurrence IN tins the year of our Lord 1910
four human beings, one of them woman were
condemned and hurried to a shameful death
though they protested their innocence and II
was admitted that there no motive for the
CRIME OF which they were charged This is an
instance OF the higher sense of Justice which
modern civilization has developed in the mob
lheSe men, says the San Francisco Post who
ho' content with imposing the death penalty
without trial without even hearing evi.
dehce. rddled the dead bodies of their victims
win oullets, with the savagery of Indians lnuti
lathg me eorpses OF their captives are the mob
q winch the irresponsible demagogues are SO
historically anxious to be regarded as members
anu unhapplly tins IS not comparatively OBJ
scure instance of existing mob Justice
Il such occurrences as this are frequent when
me Judiciary IS upheld and respected what will
happen if the Judiciary is reduced TO the condition
Wheh only spmeess men will sit upon the bench
ana i Self-resramt is east to the windsg A
Georgia mob IS no more violent than any other
mon IN amy other section of the United States
mere IS not IN other sections the bitter nre
JUDGE against the negro buf there are other IRE
JUDGES almost as bitter
In the face of this tragedy it would be well
70 reconsider the danger of abandoning the self
imposed restraint that only free and intelligent
people can endure IN order to keep them free
from their dangerous impulses and intelligent
enough to protect themselves from their has.
SONS When woman is strung up to tree
and her body is riddled by bullets it is time for
The most irresponsible demagogue to pause
Inc mob still exists as blind and as savage
as when It ragged about the slopes of Calvary
Only the ambitious demagogue and the catch
penny publlelst pretend otherwise.