The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-21
BLIND TIGERS: HOW TO
DECREASE THE OUTPUT.
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The common law, under which
damage suits are brought against
corporations (for except as amend
ments to the common law, such as
THE fellow servant act, there is no
statute, either state or national, deal
ing with the subject of damage by
corporate bodies), is that law when
made counties responsible and am
creed them in money, payable to the
king, for crimes aAd disorders COM
mitted within their borders, and this
law holds good now. And II non-res-
ident kinsfOlk and dependent rela-
tives would invoke this law and
through the federal courts enter suit
for such sums as at lawful interest
would produce the salary paid the
victims at the time murder was COM
mitted on them the business men
God save the mark } who are wrap
ped up in adding field to field that
they may possess the land would
wake up to the fact that the great
est business of their lives was law
enforcement through the election OF
men to office whom fear could not
Some states have gone to the trouble
of enacting laws against lynching,
when the common law gives this the
strongest weapon known to judicial
nomenclature with which to decrease
this crime, for every victim lynched,
by his next kin or dependent family,
is entitled to just as much damage
against the county in which the
lynching was done as he would be
were he the victim of a railroad
wreck. And if through neglect of
enforcement of the law one should
become the victim of a pistol in the
hands of a man whose cOWardly,
murderOus lust has been pushed to
the blazing point by blind tiger
liquor l believe the state courts
would give damages were they in
vOked for if a county may pay for
the neglect of the proper attention
to the bridges of the county has
skinned his hook, surely the county
is as much obliged to care for the
life of the citizen who has come to
an untimely end by the neglect Of the
county to enforce the criminal laws
of the state. For, says st. Paul 1T
is written thou shalt not muzzle the
mouth of the OK, and doth God care
for oxen, and how much better is a
man than an animal" And we have
this direction from the same author
ity for officers of the church, and if
it applies to the smaller bodies Of
how much more Importance should
it apply to the men who guard the
peOple-and care for
the very life of civilization. Hear
him: Men who rule their own fam
lies well, for if man does not rule
his own hOusehod how shall he care
for the church of God?" So that one
step is to take care that the men
elected to office, from the governor
to the constable, shall be men of
sense, responsibility and force of
character.
While these articles are written to
help solve present problem it is
only by building up public senti-
meut for law enforcement that a
lasting reform shall be accomplished.
And the personnel of officials is a
tremendous weapon not only against
Iawlessness, but to build in the mind
of the young, through whom love OF
law must be built, respect and love
for all law that, when they grow tC
adult age, will make them take al
intelligent part in seeing to the en-
actment of such amendments anC
their enforcement that we shall be
come a nation noted for quiet, bust
ness and love of all that is pure anC
wholesome, for now as always
righteousness (kept law exaltetf
a nation, but sin (broken law is {
reprOach to any people.
Ny next article will deal with spe
cial laws in regard to intoxicant'
and the proper subjects on whom tt
enforce them that all men may
fear" ANDREW P. RIVES.
Cuthbert, Ca, Jan. II, 1913.