The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-10-21
"WHITECAPPING" GOING ON
IN BROoKHAvEN SAYS NOBLE
Constitutional Liberty is Assailed He
Says-Half Function of Courts
Is Better.

A few years ago some people who
lived out in the country were sent
to the penitentiary for whitecapping.
State Of Mississippi. That they
should feel the clutches of the law
was certain and inevitable.
Today some people in Brookhaven
in the name of morality and religion
are engaging in whitecapping. They
select some unfortunate people as
undesirables and go to their homes
and tell them that they have a GER
tain number of days to leave town.
The law again is being grossly vio-
lated and the rights of citizens are
being trampled in the dust A ter
rible blow is being struck at consti-
tutional liberty itself and the sane
tity and security of the home and
fireside is being doomed to destruc-
tion.
What shall be done? Will the good
and just men of the community long
tolerate this travesty on justice. this
unparalleled invasion of the rights
of the home? Can it be that the
bright sparkling guaranty of the
Constitution holding out the sublime
golden promise of safety and security
in the home, is perished in Mississip-
pi? viii our officers and Courts and
good citizens longer permit the des-
ecration and devastation of the right
of any person to live in his own
home? Shall we support the law
and the Constitution or shall we
lend our aid to the doings of certain
misguided enthusiasts bent upon
making certain alleged moral delin-
quents get out of the community
and leave their homes? And can it
ever be right to send some alleged
ity?
l certainly want to say that it
would be splendid thing If every
body would live right and emulate
the life of the NaZarene carpenter
This surely is the only thing that
can ever make the world genuinely
pure and great and fill it with hap
piness and peace and contentment.
could hope that the great revival
that is in progress now might pro-
duce an influence that would grip
the heart and life of every individ-
uaI in the city and turn Brookhaven
in to a veritable home of genuine
golden hearted Christians. Should
such a condition ever prevail in
Brookhaven, then, we would behold
a different situation, when the good
people should wish to deal with some
unfortunate sinner that might hap
pen to come into our midst and buy
home here; you would see Cody
men and women go calmly and quiet
ly to the alleged sinner and take her
by the hand tenderly and speak to
her kindly and plead with her un-
selfshly to go with them to Church
and find Christ and character and
happiness and contentment. Christ
looking down out of Heaven would
have his people shape their actions
after this fashion. Jesus Christ
would not have the law violated in
His holy name. Jesus would not
have any of his followers drive any
person away from home.
Further, far better. far better, that
the Courts half-function rather than
have any man or set of men assume
unto themselves the right and privi-
lege Of Furnishing people and driving
people away from home without in
vestigation and without trial. Our
only safety and our only salvation is
by and through the orderly processes
Of our constituted authorities. A
course in the opposite direction
threatens not only troublous times
but the undermining and destruction
of constitutional liberty.
JAS. r. NOZZLE