Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-28
Ignoring Causes and Raising the Old Harry Over Results

(Written Specially for The Bulletin) According to the custom, the mob which hfithed a disloyalist in South ern Illinois is receiting the. usual amount ~Sf1mal lsdictions ah of fceurse deserved. And agaln as usual the want of. law. or, wakeful law. officers to deal win crin1e escapes censtre. We are a great people for ignoring causes and raising the very old Harry over esults!"-Toledo Blade
 
 Neatly and fefsetivefy put.
 Would to heaven that the above ragrapl. or one -exen- more vigorous in tone and caustic in language could ne placarded permanently in front of every judges seats in every court room of thes1sne @ .9n aIEs the four walls of all thes jurlss rooms: fnseYerys law yer's office and siH everyt sheriff's or deputy sheriff's chiefest resortt
 Nine out of ten Iynchings in this country are directly caused by the failure of our court machinery to do inc work it has sheen erected for, and the onlyy york it'is paid, for doing, i. e., the unvefIing of truth and the ex- caution iof7Justice.
 When courts of appeal reverse yer diets because of fly-specks. on the in- eictment, or order new trials because some other judge in some other case held some. abstract opinion conflict ing minutely with the trial pudge's languages when juries allow them selves to be swayed by sentiment rather than cold facts! when lawyers can be found ito defend criminals by suppression of truth and manufacture of false testimony: when sherfffs and other law officers wait to be com plained to before doing their duty-so long as court procedure continues tC be highly complicated game, of cum ming ins.which the player with. the sreatesbr skIl1 and the least consc1en- tiousness has. the greatest. chance O. winning rather than plain, straight forward attempt at learning trHth anC enforcing right.-zso long it will hap pen that lynchings will occur Int cammon folk, swho have delegated tC the law and the courts the execution ef justice will, now and then breal ever their own self erected barrier. thto the sacro-sanct ipclosure,. and dC the justice their agents have neglect ed or refused to do: ef -7
 do not believe in lynch law. It is as likely to be wrongsas the action ot a court. It breeds disorder. 1t .stim lates cruelty It blackens the recort of civilizat ton. It tends to make meI almost as, prTtaI as ancient-or moderr Huns. It lowers the tone of com munity sentiment It opens wide the sates set tn 10 keep out anarchy ant nob-rule. But
 When a case Of lynching does occur 1t is short sighted stiffness to devote all our abiurgations to the mob, ir stead of harkinz back to the ilt- effective or slothful or oyer-technica execution of the law by the laws agents. which was tHkee-t tin1es~i2 foAl the direct cause aud sTonsible reason for the mobs actiong
 Again, as many times in the past I imagine some Of you saying: "Well this may be so, perhaps: but wha has it got to do with farmers anC farming"
 Verify, I don't know that it has an7 direct SeuTinss o1T fasF rss----E1tf farn rroblems- and farm conduct -especia Il, here in New England. I've writer . it more. as. an excuse fer in+Foducin; what is to fnIiew, than 76nything- else Will y9u7 kindly go back and reat over again the last sentence in tha extract? We are a great people fo ienoring ca1isess and. 3raising the yer: old Harry over results" ,~r-