The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
TELLS GRAND JURY TO SEEK OUT THOSE WHO
 BEAT MAN AND WOMAN
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 lfshed with the laws that you made and put into effect, and when any man or any set of men, or any num- Der of men undertake to take away from the courts of your country their Jurisdiction and usurp unto them selves the authority to punish and mete out justice to individuals that they hear have been committing os lenses in your county, l tell you that that is a blow at the very foundation of your liberties and of your laws and of good order in your community and in your county. Whenever a man has right on his side, he ought to be brave enough to come out in the sun light and do his deeds openly and whenever any man or any number of men disguise themselves, put masks over their faces, or any other way hide their identity and do acts of violence that is lawlessness of the most outrageous character
 Not Secret Order
 Now, you gentlemen may not reaI- ize as much as 1 do the importance of ferreting out these two outrageous violations of the law on the part of some unknown parties I don't be- lteve that any decent secret order would lend countenance to a thing of that Kind. It may be that some indi- viduals have a grievance or i'll will toward these two persons; they may have perpetrated these acts because they supposed the public at large would believe that some secret order did it.
 Now, the chances are that some secret order had nothing to do with 1t. Of course, that is just my opin- in I f, do about that; but I say that no de- cent secret order would take the law into their own hands in a case of that kind, when 1t is so easy to get the witnesses up and bring the parties before the Judicial authorities, try them and convict them, if found gull ty. The law is ample, gentlemen, if 1t is enforced, and there Is nobody in this country who is not under the law, be they secret orders or indi viduals. There is nobody in this country big enough to ignore the law, and the reason that we have erated and you can stamp it out right now in it's incipiency,
 Means Chaos
 You that read the papers see often- times where some man or some woman has been tarred and feathered in some state away from here and made to leave town. That is mob law, gentlemen, and mob law means , chaos. Suppose some two or three or four or half a dozen men disguised themselves and went to your home a night and notified you to leave, what would you think about it? No doubt you would be frightened, and you might possibly obey the com mand, because you can never tell what men who stoop to these kind of acts will do. As in this case the pa pers this morning say that Cooley has left the city and county, been forced to leave the banner county of the state. the empire county of the south Think of that! And yet that has oc- cured in your midst. And the paper this morning also calls attention to the fact that the police have been furnishing protection to Mrs. Alexan der during the last week, and she is still here and says she expects to stay. as she is innocent. The idea of that thing having to be done here! It is an insult, gentlemen, to every law abiding citizen in your county. It is an assault upon law and jus tice, and reaches the home of every citizen.
 The Humility
 It is true, from the reports of the papers, they did not inflict any seri- ous injury on Mrs. Alexander or Coo ley; only whipped them, maybe mod erately. But how would you like to be taken out and moderately whipped by some fellow with mask over his face. or two or three or half dozen with masks over their faces, disguis- ing their identity? It is the humility, the indignity of it, gentlemen. While no serious personal harm has fol- lowed from it, it is the indignity heaped upon the victims and the in- suit to your law abiding citizens that you should consider. It is an assault upon your institutions and your law. Tn other words, gentlemen, 1t is re- sort, to mob law, and 1t is very easily stopped if you put the stamp of your