The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-07-03
PAGE EIGHT
The SO-Called ssMartial Lazy"
In the State of Georgia,
Last Year.
Last Year.
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of anybody to injure life or property.
What is the law? They established dead
line, and / really thought it was going to
become fashion. They established one here
IN Thomson. tLaughter.) | was afraid it
was going to break out in an epidemic and
run up and down the Georgia railroad like
a case of measels. (Laughter.) They estab-
lished a dead-line; they put up no planking,
no railing, they stretched no rope, they did
not even put up a barbcd wire Why, when
there is place in the street dangerous to the
foot passenger or to the man in the vehicle,
it is the citys duty and practice, to rail it off
In the daytime, and to mark it with a red
light at nig ht.
But here they established the most fatal
kind of man-trap, and did not put out any
signals of any kind no sign, nothing to show
where the line was. Suppose one of our citi-
zens had gone down there to sell some truck
and hadn't known about that dead-line and
had not seen the newspaper and had not been
told about it, and had been shot off his wagon
like a dog, what would we think about it? 1t
makes the red blood boil in me when [ think
Of it. A man rides by on bicycle, both hands
busy with the bar,-Shot! A man with his
wife and child in an automobile both hands
on the steering wheel Fired upon! Two
men in buggy, their horse running away,
home meaning no harm to anybodys prop
eTty or life,--Riddled with bullets Another
man, losing control Of an automobile, seen
struggling desperately to control it,-Shot
like dog. And when Charlie Wilson, the
man whose wife and child had been fred on,
complained of it, they told him he would
have to send Governor Brown an apology, or
90 to jail. And Wilson sent him an apology.
If [ had been Wilson [ would have gone to
jail and stayed there until the ants toted me
out through the keyhole before I would have
apologized. (Cheers)
What right hare soldiers to put ciciziaas
IN jul for exercising freedom Of speech?
NONE WHATEVER
What does the law say? In the first place,
/ don't see that there has been any repeal
of the statute requiring that the demand for
troops should be made in writing, in which
all the facts should be stated, and that the
Governor had the discretion in the NATTER
to make an investigation before he ordered
out the troops. But what is perfectly plain
is this: Before using the troops, before the
dispersion Of a riot or tumult even-before
dong anything to any member of that mob,
they shall be ordered to disperse.
Gentlemen, that has been the right of
the English speaking race for nearly
one thousand years. Give them first a
chance to dispersc, and then what!
If they don't dispense, have you got
the right to shoot them down? Indeed
you have not. Section 366 of the Code says
they shall be arrested and imprisoned in the
penltentiary not less than one year nor more
than two years.
What else? Section 800 is still palmer 1t
says that when they shall 90 to marking off
places or streets that are prohibited to the
public, any person, after being duly informed
of such prohibition Or regulation, who will
fully and intentionally, without any lawful