The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-08-01
WILSON warns
OF MOB SP!R!!
Calls on Communities Everywhere
to Rise Above Level OF
Germans.
COMPARES lYNCHERS TO HUNS
Gays In Proclamation That Americans
Must Not DiSrcJit Their Own
Demoeraey-,5us, Show Love
For justice and Liberty.

Washington. President Wilson is.
sued The following proyamntlon:
Ny Fellow Couutrymeu:
take the liberty Of addressing you
/ upon subject which So vitality affect,
the honor of the nation and the very
1 character and integrity Of our lnstt
tutions tbat trusl you will think M
justified in speaking very plainly
about ii,
alude TO the mob spirit which
has recently here and there very FIRE
I quently shown its head among us, not
In any single region. but IN many anf
widely separated parts of the coun
try There have been many lynching,
and every one Of them has been
blow nj the heart of ordered law am
humane justice. No man who Loves
America, no man who really cares fol
her fame and honor and character or
who Is truly loyal 10 her institutions
can iustifNmob action while the courts |
of Justice are open and the govern |
ments of the states and the nation are |
ready and able to do their duty. We |
are al this very moment fighting law I
less passion. Germany has outlawed :
herself among the nations because
she has disregardod the sacred oblf
cations of law and has made lynchers
of her armies. Lynchers emulate her
disgraceful example and l. for my
part, am anxious to see every commu-
nifty in America rise above that level
with pride and fixed resolution which
no man or set of men can afford to
desplse.
lynchers Traitors to the Country.
We proudly claim TO be the cham
pions of democracy. If we really are.
In deed and truth, let us see to 1t that
we do not dscredit our own. say
plainly that every American who takes ,
part in the action Of mob or gives ii +
any sort of countenance is no true son I
IF this great democracy, but its be-
rayer, and does more to discredit her !
~ that single disloyalty to her stand
Irds OF law and of right than the y
words Of her statesmen or the sacri- ).
Ices of her heroic boys in the trenches b
an do TO make suffering peoples be- s
ieve her to be their savior. How shall
We commend democracy to the accept W
nee of other peoples II we disgrace a
ur own by proving that it is, after all, q
o protection TO the weak? Every mob
Contributes TO German lies about the "
'nited States what her most gifted
ars cannot improve upon by the way u
calumny. They can AT least say that re
lch things cannot happen in Ger. st
iany except in times of revolution,
hen law is swept away. q
] therefore very earnestly and sol
re states, the law officers of every
and above all, the men and
omen OF every community in the s,
nited States, all who revere America
I'd wish TO keep her name without W
ain or reproach, will co-operate--nOt ~
lssively merely, but actively and ma
make an end TO this ha
S1raceful evil 1t cannot live where
e community does not counte- WI
nee 1t. 81,
how Love for Liberty and Justice. col
have called upon the nation 10 put II
great energy into this war, and ii aR
S esponded-responded with a spir-
and a genius for action that has me
riled the world | now call upon TO
upon its men and women every ~
lere. TO see to II that its laws are
pit inviolate, its fame untarnished !
{ us show our utter contempt for
, things that have made this war
locus among the wars OF history
showing how those who love lib
Y and right and justice and are
ling TO Icy down their lives for N
IN upon foreign fields stand ready adm
0 to Illustrate TO all mankind their HUI
atty to the things at home which Syl'
y wish TO see established every had
ere as blessing and protection to mar
peoples who have never known the "
yileges Of liberty and self govern. the
NJ, ] can never accept any man as pap
hampton Of liberty either for our. are
res or for the world who does not BON
erence and obey the laws OF our the
j beloved land, whose laws we our trlbl
res have made He has adopted noul
standards Of the enemies OF this the
ntry, whom he affects TO despise. for
Inns pl AN TIA! IAN THRUST arob