The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
Tnlsn,s Criminal InMYcrs.

Editor world: The Texas detective has come
and gone, the culprit Fridge has disappeared,
the Tulsa lawyers have collected their fee. and
respectable Tulsa Is composing It's face to that
bland expression which seems to be It's only Ie-
lance against all questioning, all charges all lu-
The Fridge episode is but another verse In the
continuing Chaptct Of universal dsrespect f.r
the enforcement Of criminal law, here as cVcly-
where one more small stone torn from its place
in the rampant wall Of our national security.
Tho time has come for citizens in this corurnu.
nifty to arise and zcalously attempt to answer
the question, shall we tolerate longer tNo
methods OF the Tulsa criminal lawyers THIS
question is being asked today by the best r.f..
zens OF Tulsa, well as the entire state; asked
In shame, in humiliation and in Disgrace. n
becomes an iudclible indictment against the fair
name Of Tulsa, an unanswcrabie accusation
against the good reputation of Its upright c.N-
zens, and a PROCLAMATION Of this splendid com-
monwealth which shall not be wiped away. AS
truth is truth obedience to the law constitutes
liberty can honest Tulsans read this self-evl-
dent truth and not TO themselves honestly say
liberty is dead In Tulsa
by what rule of law method OF reasoning
is Tulsa criminal lawyer permitted to violate
his oath as a lawyer, flagrantly emascuIate the
law Of the land defy the officers OF the courts,
and then smiingly and serenely announce that
the Texas officer was simply in too fast COM
pany, as II hoodwinking Tulsa couutys trusting
public officials in the dead hours of night were
exceptionally brilliant, then to issue advice 90
the Texas representative to go TO hell. II Il be
true that the crooked lawyers method OF OPP
Grafton, their ely and cunning tactics, const-
tute an honest legitimate and legal way by
which to secure the freedom OF Fridge why
the necessity OF their secret, midnight manner
OF hurriedly driving II through? We have the
answer in Sacred Writ: They love darkness
rather than light, because their deeds are eyil'
In the city Of London last year, with popula-
tion Of 1000 900 people, there were nine muir
ders In Tulsa there we're 81. II cannct 10
denied that there crime goes unpunished, crim-
inals walk unscathed amid the public streets,
vice sits enthroned in gorgeous purple while
graft bends the feNing knee OF sycophancy.
Tulsa. rich. growing, suobbishly cold, pleasure
| mad politically corrupt, criminal Tulsa The
most awless city in the west, harborng some
OF the most vicious, scheming jackals, called
criminal lawyers TO he found anywhere. City OF
the Ku-Klux, Cadillac and corn whisky. Tula1'
land Of dog races, riots. ynchings and hijackers.
OF sneers at morality even in high school, land
| title shysters crooked judges and general open
admiration at triumphant wrong
Tulsas criminals are legion and admittedly
corrupt but to permit the lawyers to bra2eny
compound their !nfamy upon that OF their client
openly with bold defiance, and to continue un-
molested by those who believe in good and bet
/ ter government is 10 throw open our gates to the
criminal, the lunatic. the anarchist. the bomber
and the hired assassin and to make this city
safe for criminal democracy.
Sincerely,
| A TAXPAYER OF THIS CITY FOR IL YEARS
! Tulsa. Sept. 4.