The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-25

Hs IS enough to make the blood
Of every Georgian, and every
lover of untrammeled law en-
forcement boil with righteous indig-
nation. Slighter provocations have
aroused the irascible temper Of the
editors and advocates of this COM
monWealth, to heated defense Of
their State and section. But when
an melted people of remote States
ignorant of the trial and the evil
dence-Wthout the slightest idea of
what is contained in the records of
the court, save a few fragmentary
snatches highly colored by partisans
Of the accused, his council and de-
tectives-with minds prejudiced by
paid for editorials, bought Hebrew
talk and ignorant poppycock-when
] say, people of this kind attempt
to besmear the name of Georgia,
those same editors and so-called adj
vocates faWningly kow-tow to the
ignorant defamers of their State by
keeping silent while it's name is be-
ing traduced.
When few outlaws, from which
no State is free, take the law into
their own hands, as they did at Mon
ticello, and disgrace civilization, we
find Our editors and advocates quick
to spurn q prOffered insult to our
State by the prejudiced misguided
ze2lOts Of the North. But when our
judiciary in whose hands lie the en-
f0rCement Of our laws and, in short,
the very bonds Of our government it,
self, is held up to disdain and ridi-
Guile not word do they speak in it's
behalf. Every day letters and maya
zine articles pour into the State of
Georgia, maligning her courts and
her people. Such articles when fall
ing into the hands of the uniformed
and when not refuted, are calculated
to destroy the confidence so neces-
sary to implicit reliance in the justice
Of our courts; and whenever the gov
erned lose confidence in the courts,
the bonds Of government become
slack, criminals and outlaws breed,
and the people attempt to settle their
differences by taking the law into
their own hands This forms the be-
ginning Of q fallen State.
When our press is so quick to re-
sent any attempt to villify the State
because Of Incidents similar to the
Monticello disgrace, and so reticent,
With some notable exceptions, as to
silently approve an Arrangement of
their judiciary by an infamous and
totally ignorant people of other
States, We shall do we'll to look for
the reason. The cause Of this is to
discerning mind at once obvious The
Frank case has been injected into
politics (see Leo Franks card in an
swer to eE-GOV. BrOwn) and the en-
ragged Jews, generally speaking, are
opposed to any business or enterprise
in favor Of enforcing the law as
against Frank, in a word, the Jews
have run a boycott wherever posi-
BILE This intimidation has not only
brought to light the cowardice of
our press but sits as a disgrace upon
both the press and the State. What
our press, generally, needs is a
dOuble-siZe injection Of manhood
Notice the letter sent by ten men
to Rev. c. A. Hendley as published
in The JeGersOnian of January IA,
1915. They do not base their plea
upon the records and brief of evil
dence III the case, but upon the arti-
clee in Golfers Weekly" they DO not
claim nor profess to believe in the
innocence Of the accused, but hope
that the future will bring forward
such evidence as will necessitate a
new trial IN other words, after
reading "Collier's'' they decided,
without further evidence, that the
trial was unfair and unjust; that
without regard to the guilt of the ac-
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