Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

in court of law having Jurisdiction of
the subject-matter
1T is the province of the grand jury to
indict; of the court to try. There is nc
power by which tribunal of justice can
act. in given crisis, to protect the sus-
pected citizen from violence, save through
the sheriff and constabulary, safe
guard inefficient to accomplish the
from which protection can possibly
come in such an instance is the
chief magistrate. AS the executive head
of the state. governor is sworn to give
this protection, to the extent of calling
out the militia. If he fails to perform
his duty in this respect he becomes an
anarchist and a perjurer; and any decla-
ration made by him to the effect that.
under such circumstances, he Will with
hold guaranteed protection mases him
an avowed foe to the institutions under
which We live and positive menace to
our civilization.
Would Repel immigration.
''1t is a most unfortunate thing for the
south that discordant note Of this char
acter should be sounded in the ear of the
country by a southern governor at a
time when our undeveloped section is
seeking recognition abroad. Capital alb
hors lawlessness like nature abhors a
we are anxious to encourage is repealed
by an incendiary appeal to brute pas
sions. The crime which invites mob vio-
lence is to be deplored but the ac-
ton of mob, in seeking to avenge
the law, is worse than the crime itself.
however atrocious. which it seeks to
punish, and the governor who. in viola
ton of his oath of Office, refuses to give
the states protection to a citizen sus-
pected of crime is himself a criminal
whose offense in the eyes of the law
gives him little advantage, if any, over
the brute in whose death he abets at
the expense of vested rights.
mo chief executive can worthily hold
office who gives expression to his approval
of lawlessness. If a mob may in it's dis
death for one offense, it can. in it's dis
erection. do SO for any other offense. Who
is to draw the line, and where is the
vicious tendency to end?
Provocation Often Great.
Nor can it be said that resort to mob
violence is justified even by the fiendish
outrages for the expiration of which 1t is
most frequently invoked One crime can
not palliate or excuse anO her. The provo
cation is oftentmes great. I do not under
estimate 1t in the least. l know what it
is to feel the blood within me boil with
ly wrongs some pure and beautiful and
virtuOuS DeSdemOna.
There is no state in the Union-either
north or south-which possesses any
monopoly of reverence for the daughters
of Eve: nor is there anywhere today in
America chief magistrate. born Of
woman. who. when it comes to righting
the wrongs of the gentle sex, may be said
to don an exclusive armor Of knighthood.
Incorporate speech always carries q hint
Of inc
and blatant in protestations of friendship
for a cause by daylight are the first
to give it a dagger in the dark
'Lawlessness cannot afford any true
protection. The only safeguard of
woman's honor lies in salutary and
wholesome respect for the laws of the
land: and whenever the mob undertakes
to right her wrongs it does SO at the ex-
pense of the sole ark to which her honor
can safely be committed. If you wish
to see purity besmirched and innocence
betrayed and weakness oppressed. in this
land Of freedom, then turn your judges
out Of Office, bolt and bar the doors Of
your courts of justice, and commit the
sacred honor of woman to the lawless
passions Of an unbridled mob