The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-21
MURDER Is MURDER.

IN CONNECTING UPON the Sterling Bill which re-
Gently introduced the Senate regulating murder growing out OF
the Of interstate the Cincinnati enquirer
senator Sterling has introduced bill making il felony
the Federal law for persons to interfere with
the operation of trains in interstate commerce. and making such
persons hageabe with murder in the event that lives are lost
as a result of such interference
Rather singular that already not the statute
ous and abhorent than others The ends who deliberately
and with malice afoethought plan the wrecng OF trains as an
the execution of their designs cause the and
helpless passengers should be held to be beyond the pale OF hu
Senator Sterings bill should become law Difficult it
lis to believe are country who seek to jus
y such slaughter as an reprsa against those they hold
Ito be their enemies The logic Of this muderous philosophy is
the that preached by the advocates Of German
ness during the World War.
Mrder-the murder Of innocent and denenseess men,
len and hdreat autocrac groups becoming
more common every day. HelTn only little
more spectacular than other industrial crimes and the frankly
awless longer the only outstanding agency respo
Let the criminal code be strengthened in the naon and the
states Society should take up the red of battle thrown
down by the lawIess legons Of autocratic anarchy
We gladly agree to the truth of these observations but
der why the editor could not have also found it in his heart to
gone step farther and considered the thousands of more
endsh and brutal which have been popuarized Am
the of ynchng 1t is murder and its victims
less than those of anarchists which he speaks have
had among them deenceess and children.
Certainly it would that the Sterling bill is
worthy of support as deterrent murder strikers
Invites to- the Dyer Bill which seeks the cessation
murders less but for more endsh is even more
deserving of such support.
unfortunate that partisan politics have hindered the
sage this and essened its chances for for
lessened they certainly
During the debate the nLynchng Bill in the House
Representatives than Southern member declared that
the States would gappe resoutey with the evil if onv let alone
was indeed hoped discussion itself might bring about
sensveness the subject and induce Governors and
Shers to be oupoken and vigorous defending and
threatened by the mob Such effect have been
ght in certain States 1t is hopeful that in the new
nn zation of million to stop ynchng in the United
sEB directors from every Southern State taking part Yet
arocous instances Of ynchng are reported from month to
month That they shame to this country and that they
constitute difficult for Americans to meet when they
test against Turkish atrocities ouages in Russia de-
MES Yet the efforts put end to the disgrace to have
accomplished little.
The Republicans charged with nsincerely advocating
the bill merely in order to win the Cooed vote in the Congress
ona elections On the other hand the Democrats in the SEN
late busered against the bill and talked it out with
ceaed party intent December the matter will normally
up unfinished business It is possible that then it be
considered not Of party interest but of national
BY patriotic agreement act be passed to put the
stamp of Federal dsapprova upon form of lawessness which
brings the whole nation into dsrepute.
We truly hope that this be the and that eventually
whole nation to realize that murder is murder
wherever committed