Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-27
President Wilson Urges People
 of Nation to Quell Mob Spirit
In personal Statement to His Country the Chief Execu tive Declares That Violence to Even Enemy
 Aliens Aids Germany Cause.

ject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of our institutions that l trust you will think me justified in speaking very plainly about it.
 "I allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very fre- quently shown it's 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 enc of them has been a blow at the heart of the order ed law and human justice. No man who loves America, no man who real ly cares for her fame and honor ani 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 the nation are ready and able to do their duty.
 We are at this very moment fight ing lawless passion. Germany has outlaWed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sa- cred obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies. Lynchers emulate her disgraceful example. l.. for my part, am anxious to see every community in America rise above the level with pride and a fixed resolution which no man or set of men can af- ford to despise.
 MObs Help Kaiser.
 We proudly claim to be the cham pions of democracy. If we really are, indeed and in truth, let us see to 1t that we do not descredit our own. say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of mob or gives any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy but it's betrayer, and does more to dis credit her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and of right than the words of her statemen or of the sacrifices of her heroic boys in the trenches can do to make suffer- ing people believe her to be their say for. How shall we recommend democ- racy to the acceptance of ether peo pies ifs we disgrace our own by prov ing that it is, after all, no protection to the wek; every mob contributes tC German lies about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot i'm prove upon by the way of calumny l They can at least say that such things cannot happen i'll Germany except il 1 times of revolutions, when law is swept away.
 'I therefore very earnestly and sol ] emnly beg that the governors of al l the states, the law officers of ever! community, and, above all, the mel i and women of every community T
 the United States, all who rever' America and wish to keep her nam' tsttwiiauhon etaoin cmfwypshrdlcm 1 without stain or reprOach. will co
 operate-not passively merely, bu
 actively and watchfully-to make al
 end of this disgraceful evil. It can
 not live where the community doe
 not countenance it.
 Appeals to Nation.
 "l have called upon the nation t'
 put its great energy into this wal and it has responded--responded witt spirit and a genius for action tha
 has thrilled the world. l now cal upon it, upon it's men and women ev
 erywhere, to see to it that it's law
 are kept inviolate. it's fame untal nished. Let us show our utter con
 lclupl TUT lAc IullSS lldC AuVC iIoN this war hideous among the wars o history by showing how we love lib } erty and right and justice and ar willing to lay down our lives for then upon foreign field stand ready als to illustrate to all mankind loyalty t the things at home which we wish t see established everywhere as a bless ing and protection to the peoples wh have never known the privileges c liberty and self-government.
 "I can never accept any man a } champion of liberty. either for our selves or for the world. who doe not reverence and obey the laws c our beloved land. whose laws we our selves have made. He has adopte the standards of the enemies of hi country, whom he affects to despis' WOODROW WILSON" NJ Io,,ay, f:>.o& ,,yor,ousc C1,,b 1vor o