Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-12
The Peoples Column

Communications are solicited on all
subjects, full name must be signed as
an evidence of good faith. 1t is un-
derstood that this paper does not in
dorse the sentiment of all communica-
tions and is at liberty to take issue
when deemed necessary.
Editor Newark Leader:
"There are some organizations in
this country whose object is anarchy
and the destruction of law, but |
would not meet their efforts by MAX
ing myself a partner in destroying
the law. l despise and hate their
purposes as much as any man, but
l respect the ancient processes of
justice, and I would be too proud not
to see them done justice, however
wrong they are. And so I want to
utter my earnest protest against any
manifestation Of the spirit of law
lessness anywhere or in any cause. >
From Pres. Wilson's address before
the A. F. of L. convention, at Buffalo.
The following was addressed to the
editor of the American-Tribune who
refused to publish it:
My dear sir
| trust that you and many of your
readers will condemn as cowardly the
masked mob reported in last evenings
American Tribune, that entered the
house of a German attorney named
Won Hoegan in New Haven, Conn.,,
last Saturday night, and took him
out and beat him so as to leave him
unable to leave his bed since, where
he is now without police protection
and even threatened with coat of
tar and feathers if he does not retract
the words, Deutschland ueber alles".
Now, suppose that we change the
name of Won Hoegan to Sam Hunting
ton and the place of his residence
from New Haven, Conn, to Berlin,
Germany, and read cablegram
giving the account of the treatment
of Won Hogan as having been done
by a German masked mob to Sam
Huntingdon patriotic American
who did what every fearless American
would have done and did not fear to
say:-'My country the United States
forever, and above all others" What
would the press and the people of
our country say about it? Don't you
think we would all acclaim Sam as
a hero, martyr, a patriot-and raise
fund for his children and put a
monument to his honor in his native
place? Would we not denOunce as
cowardly and barbarous the conduct
of these Huns toward a poor eXiled
American far from his friends and
native land? Well, the New Haven
mob in the city Of the great Univer-
sity of Yale, have done just that very
thing to a patriotic German, and,
instead of the police looking after
the arrest of those American Huns,
they have actually refused to even
make an investigation. At the de-
claration of war against Germany
advocated the cultivation of those
forces that bring about national unity:
but such barbarous and anarchistic
conduct as that reported from New
Haven will do more to stir up racial
disunion than even the reports of the
U-boat barbarities; because they are
| far away from us and are being daily
hunted by our allied destroyers and
submarines on the scene Of actual
conflict; whereas the invasion of a
quiet home and the dragging of its
head before the affrighted gaze of
his family and subsequent persecution
and f1ogging and threat Of further
punishment all happened in peace
full community where the arm of the
law was ready to handle in a legal
way the bold foreigner and put him
where he could do no harm, just as
Germany is doing with those from
here who are now interned over there
in prison camps or other places.
Moreover in this act the mob for.