Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-08-01
WILSON REBUKES
The MOB SPIRIT
Proclamation Of the President
Shows HarmfuIness Of
Unlawful Acts.
LENDS FORCE TO LIES

Earnestly Calls Upon American PEG.
pie Who Revere Their Country to
Keep Name Without Stain
or Reproach.
Washington, July 27.-President
Wilson in a proclamation just issued,
calls attention to the evils attendant
upon "mob spirit" wherever 1t is
shown, and indicates its harmfulness
to the cause Of democracy and how it
aids the German cause.
The text Of the presidents procla-
nation follows:
"My fellow countrymen:
81 take the liberty of addressing
you upon subject which so vitality
affects the honor Of the nation and the
very character and integrity Of our
institutions that I trust you will think
me justified in speaking very plainly
about 1t.
II allude to the mob spirit which
has recently here and there very fire.
quently shown its head amongst US
not in any single region, but in many
and widely separated parts Of the
country. There have been many
lynchings and every one Of them has
been a blow at the heart Of ordered
law and human Justice. No man who
loves America, no man who really
cares for her fame and honor and
character or who is truly loyal to her
institutions can Justify mob action
while the courts Of justice are open
and the governments Of the states and
nation areready to do their duty.
1--WE are ut this very moment fight
ing lawlessness passion. Germany
has outlawed herself among the ma
lions because she has disregarded the
sacred obligations Of law and has
made lynchers of her armies. Lynch.
ers emulate her disgraceful example.
], for my part, am anxious to see
every community in America rise
above that level, with pride and
fixed resolution which no man or set
Of men can afford to despise.
1--WE proudly claim to be the cham
pions Of democracy. II we really are
in deed, and in truth, let us see to It
that we do not discredit our own. I
say plainly that every American who
takes part in the action Of mob or
gives it any sort Of countenance is no
true son Of this great democracy but
its betrayer and does more to dis
credit standards of law and Of right
than the words Of her statesmen or.
the sacrifices Of her heroic boys in
the trenches can do to make suffering
peoples believe her to be their saviour.
"How shall we commend democracy,
to the acceptance Of other people, II
we, disgrace our own by proving that
it is, after all, no protection to the
weak7 Every mob contributes to
German lies about the United States
what her most gifted liars cannot im-
prove upon by the way Of calumny.
They can at least say that such things
can not happen in Germany except in
times Of revolution when law is swept
awayl
II therefore very earnestly and
solemnly beg that the governors Of
all the states. the law officers Of every
community and, above all, the men
and women Of every community in
the United States, all who revere
America and wish to keep the name
without stain or reproach, will CO.
operate-not passively merely, but &C.
lively and watchfully-to make an
end to this disgraceful evil. It can
not live where the community does
not countenance 1t.
II have called upon the nation to
put Its great energy into this war and
it has responded-responded with q
spirit and a genius for action that has
thrilled the world. now call upon
it, upon its men and women every
where, to see to it that its laws are
kept inviolate, Its fame 'untarnished.
Let US show our utter contempt for
the things that have made this war
hideous among the wars of history By
showing how those who love liberty
and right and justice and are willing
to lay dswn their lives for them upen
foreign fields stand ready also to
illustrate to all mankind their LOYALTY
to the things at home which they
wish to see established as q blessing
and the protection to the peoples who
have never known the privileges Of.
liberty and self government I ear
never accept any man as a champion
Of liberty either for ourselves or for
the world who does not reverence and
obey the laws Of our own beloved
land, whose laws we ourselves have
made. He has adopted the standards
OF the enemies Of thfs country, whom
he affects to despise."
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This remarkable locking rock n
known as schist which is weathered
and crumbled into human express.
sion which is startling. Not only IL
there distinct resemblance to mans
profile but the head is apparently
dressed in periwig Of the STYLE Of