The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-13
barometer of Public Opinion
The Heavenly Law Of Right.

Editor World: Several davs ago you printed
Hm NE, ar'iae that sent YOU entitled: Hard Times
Mako Criminals" That encouraged me, to
ecnd In another article for publication how
ever II am uospassing someone else q
space, ] do not ask you to print It. | like The
world line. 1t IL real newspaper. | don't care
snap Tor the oil page, because ! don't own
any any OIL stock; don't care for the market page.
pFau7o l nave nothing 10 cell but my brain
ana muscle, l care nothing for the baseball
ana prize fight page, because it looks like vast
ing my tmo; | care nothing for Mutt jeff.
because they are not real, and anything unreal
doht Interest me, but there folks who are
Interested In all those things and that liz what
makea Tho World real newspaper. But, the
news is not all good almost every issue of the
paper relates some wicked, lawless crime, com
nnttcd other by hiJackers train bank rob-
bers. or the h, Is. ks. In my estimation the
k' Is. ks arc just as much of outlaw gang
as any other outlaw mob. because have a
plenty OF good laws constitutionaly enacted
10 take care OF the outlaws. without having to
H,t vpouu ~ Oh an outlaw gang nave no doubt
nut that the Is. II, KS think that they can do
some good, but the general public do not think
so' they have sounded ii discordant note. that
~ ringing far and wide. Friends and noighbors
are getting suspicious of each other, scores of
men who are law-abdnE citizens are afraid TO
sleep at night without locked doors. and scores
or men who never owned weapon of any kind
have purchased automatics for self f-proteCtion.
happen TO know some of them, they have said
To mo: who knows but that some of the gang
may get pccvcd at mo about something, and
make u fasc report To his Khan, and take mo
out and abuse me without a just cause ?" Such
mas been the case many times. The operators
or the Khan are only cngcndcring envy, malice.
hhtred ana STRIFE; II dsrupts the whole COM
munity and gains nothing Now 1t ia well un-
derstood tina, every man accused of a crime
has just a(d II constitutional right to a trial
by a jury of picked men. chosen by qualified
council, also we all know that the precious
blood of our forefathers flowed freely at
Bunker HILL Valley Forge and many other
notable places Of suffering. to purchase for
their cons the greatest. the uobcst. the grand
est foundation for civil liberty the world has
ever known. Any man or gang OF men who will
mask themselves and attempt to ftlch from me
the liberties which were scaled by the precious
blood OF my fathers is my enemy, and not only
my enemy but the enemy of every law-abiding.
hbcrty loving citizen In America, lie is cow
ardy, unpatrlotlC, American. II these men
would organize a league to help the Officers TO
enforce the law, | would also Join them and in
that case th"rc would be no. night raids no
masked bands. II the real Khan had Its own
way, there might not he any unjust puniahment.
but II can never gain the sympathy OF the public.
because the range for organized bands is too
great for the real Khan to keep down other law
less wuhS What a glorious thing II would ..
II S.ro'r men would rise mp and stand like men.
for the principles OF the Soap"i Of Christ and
the blood washed liberties of our country.
Then we would stand in fear OF law and not
of secret clans, We would also fear the chas-
tising rod OF our eountry's Just demands our
confidence would be renewed in the heavenly
law of right tContinucd)
sand Springs, Aug 90