Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-27

American opinion in connection
with the execution of Sacco and Van
zetti gives evidence of a tendency to
regard as unimportant the criticisms
| that have come from abroad. 1t is
| felt by many who discuss that phase
of the matter that garbled accounts
of the case have been carried across
| the Atlantic, or that Communists
have purposely sought to make cap
ital out of the punishment decreed.
There is, however, on this side OF the
water a serious debate as to wheth-
err Massachusetts criminal practice
should offer an opportunity for Jul
dicial review of facts.
1.-THE precautionary yet firm man.
ner in which our courts have pro-
ceeded with the matter should cause
all patriotic Americans to have re-
newed faith in the American way or
administering justice says the Cnar-
lotte Observer, while the Bangor COM
mercial feels that sit is to the ever
lasting credit of Massachusetts, that
it's justice has not yielded to puoilc
uproar, clamor and intimidation.
The San Francisco Bulletin takes
even a stronger position on the case,
saving in it's editorial: Foreign COM
ment on the trial and execution or
Sacco and Vanzetti is as impertinent
as it is unintelligent. Our American
conscience is in no wise disturbed
by noisy European demonstrations OIL
protest. Nearly all the pro-
tests of European and other foreign
cities are predicated on misintor1na-
ton that the two men were perSe-
cuted because they were raolcais,
whereas their political opinions hau
no more to do with their trlai IMAM
had the color of their halr, cut y,
their clothes, or their favored orana
of breakfast food. justice 90
dispensed in the crlmlnal courts VI
America. is an American concern am,
an oorsern Of European editors and
rioters. :.
"Au the world may rave anu
threaten if it chooseS-althouSh o.nS
tho irresponsible choose-Dut tne leI9h
If Justice, under law, CANNOT De us
turbed in the United states oeCialeo
the Kansas City journal, anu s sHe
Durham Sun holds that the linlo
a. ~, If the death penalty in the face
~ worldwide demonstration Oh
,,,re1v emotional elements IS rather
d W., stic hut convincing evidence thaI
society in Massachusetts Is sui
founded upon a system of law ana
nr1er and not guided by the SHOUTS
of the mob" The Jersey City journal
sees the issue Sin the minds OF iilost
neonle" as whether American courts
and the American people were u NC
driven by a lawless mob.
."rhose that cry out against TINS
execution" in the opinion Oh the
Albany Evening News, would say
that American institutions have 1alieu
and that clamor should rule. MasSd-
chusetts had either to carry out tile
law or let clamor rule. IL mas car
ried out the law. 1t could take no
other course. The case ends. NO
recriminations can change 1t one pi.'
America would best go about us DUST
ness in the faith that its INSTITUTIONS
are secure and that justice has been
dome" The Toledo Blade feels that
cit has been demonstrated that money,
influence, foreign sympathy, threats,
violence, strikes, parades and dyna-
mite have not been strong enough
to weaken or undermine the founda-
tons of constitutional government.
The law WINS" concludes the Blade.
Of the final action in the case the
Boston Transcript asserts, 1--WE could
not do less without trampling on all
our traditions and undermining our
whole structure of government, ana
as to the penalty the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin suggests that every
death penalty is gruesome, horrify-
ing, but there cannot be government
or order or peace without law and
law enforcement If any other ac-
ton had been taken in the face of the
violence and threats, as viewed by
the Scranton Times. ''it would have
been n sad day for law and order in
the United States"
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The Lynchburg Advance states that
cit was only because of their radical
political tendencies and their insurrec-
tionary views that we witnessed the
impudent interference of foreigners in
the domestic affairs Of State of this
Union and the perfervid sobbing of
cranks in this country"
Abnormal and unbalanced SYM
pathy" is condemned by the Bingham
ton Press, and equal objection to Euro
pean "protest against the orderly proc
esses Of the law" is raised by the South
Bend Tribune. The Richmond News
Leader AYERS that "it Is fitting to re-
member that the radicals who most as
sail America for being wrong acclaim
Russia as right" The Hartford Times
comments: AN that any one should