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PAGE FOUR Tilii Lancaster News (Sm.WUEKLY.) E-stubliiiliod 1 tiC)?. law-abiding citizen should have. Mis purpose could not have been otherwise than to uphold the law. In requesting the mob not to lynch the negro, the mayor was doing more for the members of the mob than for the negro. Me cared little for the fate of the negro, as little as the mob itself, but he did want to see the hands of the men of his town kept clean. The burning of a new million and-a-half dollar coruthouse is an other evidence of the unreasonableness of the mob. With all its defects and infirmities, the courts have never [been guilty of such travesties as that perpetrated in Omaha. A NOV SMjriTl'lt. President Wilson's illness ordinarily would be regretted by all wellmeaning people of America, and the . fact that it made it necessary for hint to cancel remaining speaking dates on J his tour in the interest of the league of anions and oeace treatv makes it all the more regrettable. Opponent* of the treaty have already seized the morsel and are using it to their utmost to break down the force be hind the president. The New York Tribune says: Mr" Wilson's speaking ( campaign has enormously stimulated Interest jn the problems presented by the covenant of the League of Nations in which the public had hitherto shown only a superficial interest." And the Boston Transcript: "However divided public opinion may be in respect of the results of his transcontinental tour, of this much the holders of various and sundry opinions may be certain: In no other way could the attention of bis countrymen have been more quickly arrested, their study of the terms of the treaty . given greater stimulus, or the public : niind afforded a larger encouragement to inform itself upon the great issues involved thun hv fiw> nnnrf t cedented tour undertaken by the treaty's chief negotiator. This is the > tour's best fruit?It has made the people think about the treaty, made t Published Tuesday and Friday BY TKB LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Laucastor, 8. C. ? iiKOUUK UlLLA CHAYKN Editor and Manager ' The News Is not responsible for ths Views of Correspondents. Short and national articles on topics of general galsreai will bs gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION Pit ILK: Cash in Advance. OM Year $2.?? U Mouths 1.00 Entered as Second Class Mattei October 7, Is Ob, at the Postoftice at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 2, ls7tf. ^ly Country 'Ti? of Tht?, Swsst Land of Liberty." FRIDAY. OCTOBER, 3. 1919. THE OMAHA INCIBKNT. The lynching of u negro in Otnaha, Kphr tslrn the ntteninted Ivnrhine of the mayor of the city, and the destruction of much property by fire at the hands of a mob is not suprising. A mob is as likely to lynch a good man as a bad one. There has never been any excuse for mob-rule; it is . senseless, without judgment or reason, and. while the courts may have many defects, and may lie guilty of flagrant miscarriages of justice, until some better method of dealing with criminals than lynching is formulated and put into practice, the courts should be permitted to take their course. In the heat of passion and excitement, men are more than apt to commit deeds which they would not commit after mature thought and reasoning. Kvery mob is dominated by this passion and excitement rendering ordinarily cool heads into unreasonable and unreasoning ones. The effort to lynch the mayor em. phasizes the fact that a mob is without reason. He could have had no motive other than that which every tht?ni think for themselves, interpret for themselves, and come to their i own conclusions." To which comment, the Charles- ; ton News and Courier adds: "It will be recalled that Mr. Wilson did not set out on his tour until the chief opponents of the League had been hammering away at it for many weeks, not only in the Senate, but through the press, and in speeches delivered wherever they were con/ ! vinced they could speak most effectively. The admission of The Tribune and The Transcript that it took President Wilson to really "make the peo pie think about the treaty" is, therefore, significant. "In the light of that admission there will not be many persons who j will be prepared to accept their sug-| gestion that President Wilson's i speeches, after setting the people j to thinking about the treaty, had i the further effect of turning them i against it. That, it would seem to us, is very decidedly a non sequitur. ( IYK THKM liOl'K. The senators in Washington who are knifing President Wilson and the democratic administration in the | guise of opposing the peace treaty and league of nations will hang themselves if given the rope. Let them go. Senator Polndexter, in a speech in New York Saturday night, is quoted as saying "President Wilson is the world's greatest menace, the greatest pro-CJerman in the country." It is hardly believable that a man of the type necessary to occupy a seat ' in the United States senate would ' use such language and attribute it to ( a man whose record shows that be ( became a world leader in the fight 1 for peace when the world was at war, 1 but it shows that the senators who have been fighting the ratification of j the treaty are not fighting the treaty | at all. They have passed up Ger- ' many, they have passed up the fight for peace throughout the world. The ( object now is to down Wilson, and their efforts may be counted now as strengthening the president rather 1 than hurting him in the estimation of the people of the United States and of the world. Says the Charlotte Observer: "That, any man in this country with intelligence and Americanism enough to occupy a seat in the United States Senate instead of a cell in a Federal J, prison or an insane asylum should ^ < be guilty of such public utterances ! I ] as those of Senator Uoindexter in hisj address to New York Republicans Saturday night would he utterly sur ( prising hut for the fart that it heeame i evident a while ago that some of the ' opponents of the Peace Treaty ami the League of Nations were willing to do or say anything, no matter what, j for the purpose of weakening Presi- < dent Wilson with the people. Hurting ' Wilson is a more important matter with them than the ratification or dofeat of the Peace Treaty and the i League of Nations, more important I than the question of whether A uteri- ' oa and the world have permanent peace or continued war. I "Senator Poindexter's utterance, ? however, is calculated to strengthen 1 the President and the cause for which he is fighting; at the same time weak- ( ening the position of the opponents i of the Peace Treaty and the League ' of Nations. When it comes to the point that a member of the United States Senate, at such time as this, feels called upon in order to weaken the President of the United States in the minds and hearts of the people, to utter such statements as Senator Poindexter is quoted as having madeL Saturday night, the situation is ser-| lOUR. "The people are likely to become aroused to inquire what la the motive behind all this tirade against President Wilson. To get down to 'brass tacks.' it is time for the peop|^ to ask: Who is patriotic, Wilson or Poindexter? Who has rendered the greater measure of service to this country and the cause of humanity. Wilson or Poindexter? Who has the cleanest, straightest record for patriotic, unselfish .service to the Ameri ran people. Polnrioxter or Wilson? To I THE LANCASTER NE1 put the question .squarely to readers of this paper, whose record during the last live weeks, live months, live years, is more in keeping with your Ideal of a great American statesman and patriot, Wilson's or Poindextor's?" SOMETHING NKW. The News recently sent a "want ad" to a newspaper in South Carolina which is supposed to have a general state circulation for a linotype operator. And here comes the following letter from that newspaper. "We received your letter of the 27th of September, with advertisement for a linotype operator. "We have been declining similar advertisements recently from other papers on account of the scarcity of operators, and for that reason we reluctantly have to decline yours." Can you beat it? SCISSORS AND PASTE. Why Can't We Have It? (Charleston News and Courier! In striking contrast to the apathy which appears to exist in this state as to construction of board system of good roads is the enthusiasm manifest in North Carolina. There the plans for a highway from the mountains to the sea are proceeding uninterruptedly and in the most determined spirit. The scheme for this highway has been under discussion in North Carolina for months, its proponents having finally worked out the details by which it is to be built at a great rally held at I,umberton, North Carolina, last Wednesday. Sentiment was unanimous that the highway must be of hard surface material. The plan is to have the Legislature incorporate the sixteen counties through which the highway will pass into a special district which would be empowered to borrow, by means of bonds, a sufficient sum to build the road, with the aid that will be available froin the State and national governments. The road is to run from Asheville to W ilniltitrl nn f hrnmrh f ? distance must be close to three hundred miles. What an asset to South Carolina would be such a road from Charleston to Greenville or from Charleston to Spartanburg! It would pay for itself over and over again even without taking into account the stimulating influence it would have indirectly in many directions. Where is Xo "Class" Distinct ion. (Columbia State.) Last Thursday The Evening Post, of New York, thus commented on the expression of Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, on the "foreign born labor" in the steel strike: "The question is whether a Slav or other foreigner, if he has acquired citizenship, has become an American, as we have always been led to suppose, or whether he always remains a Slav and a foreigner If this country's blood and treasure were shed for the Slavs, it is also true that n great many Slavs?and other 'foreigners' shed their blood for this country in common with the native born. As a purely economic problem it is well to recall how very recently people viewed the threatened emigration of our foreign labor as a serious menace to American industry The point that labor of the native stork is not so susceptible to incendiary agitation as the foreign born is legitimate. but it Is hardly fair to de? cribe the Slav as an American labor sr when he works and adds to the national wealth and to rail him a foreigner when he strikes and becomes a scource of worry. Neither floes it help the work of Americanization upon which so much time and effort are now being spent." That same day Mr. Samuel Gompers before the Senate's investigating committee expressed sentiments of much the same tenor. The .Kvenlng Post is a "capitalistic newspaper." It is owned by the greatly rich. Mr. Satnuel Gompers is the president of the American Federation of Labor. What is the meaning of this agree ment? Does It expose The Kvenlng Post or Mr. Gompers, or both, to suspicion? Or is it just another demonstration that much of the distinction between capital and labor so much emphasized is false ami that honest men can see clearly and speak out, regardless ol differences of "class" which differ ences are mostly the contrivances o( demagogues? The I toy in The Mob. (Rock Hill Herald.> In reports of the recent riots in Boston, and similarly from other points in the country where there WS, LANCASTER, S. C. have been disturbances, the state-1 ^ Client is made that the offend In* rioters are mostly boys. ! Jt It is difficult often for the author!-'Jt ties to deal with street uprisings just ? for this rpnson In lhi> fnrefrnnt nf every mob are boys .so young that *4 hestitation is felt in applying the'4M stern measures of suppression which ; 4$ could be dealt out without mercy ^ were the mob composed of the older X men who started the trouble. But even a mob composed largely of ^ young boys can do infinite damage, ^ and by its lawless excitement extend 4$ the mob spirit far and wide. The boys are not really to blame. 4R , The blame rests with the older in- ^ dividual who brings violence to his ? cause or preaches violence to others. J The boy goes head-long because he is *4 a boy. He has not the judgment to ^ weigh the evidence or realize the 4* danger. | 4$ Wherever street brawling occurs it j must be broken up first, and unhap-| X plly, if it has attained such propor tions that armed attack is necessary, j this means must be employed. If <11 the course of such action young boys 4* are maimed or lose their lives it is 4$ to be deplored but the public safely 4 is the first consideration. J When the trouble subsides, how-j^ ever, the instigators of such rioting should be sought out, and punished ** not only for their own acts but fori 4$ the effect of their example upon the1 ? youth of the community. For, as the! J I 4 Washington Star points out: j ^ "Their corruption of youth is a greater and graver offense than their ] 4^ 1 _ 1* 1 _ ? : a _ 1 11 it 1 I .A v i o ta 11 oil oi gpecinc taws, for me uoy of this day becomes the man of a lat- 4 er day; anil If when a boy he is ineited to violence and grows up in such an atmosphere he exhibits his vicious 1 training as long as he lives. And the 4 men who start him on his career be- i came responsible for him and his mis-j 4 deeds, however numerous and spread^ out over the vears" I ?:? \% Sen. Hitchcock Overestimates the V Case. ?(Charlotte News.) jn] It is inconceivable that Senatbr,po Hitchcock can be correct in his con-jif elusion that Republican senators are'pu j determined not only to make some in- ini j terpretative reservations in the peace'th | treaty that will have to do with thejad | league of nations, but that they arejdi j determined to defeat the whole treaty, en | th? tight on the league covenant being, of chiefly a cover for their scheme. i ce ' 1 wl Our judgment is that the senator is w 1 entirely incorrect. There are only a 'a i few Republicans in the senate and , two Democrats who want to defeat so the whole treaty. Reed and Gore are;ev the Democrats. Borah, Johnson. Poin-jof i dexter, Bandegee and perhaps one or '''' i two others who are known as be-' 1 longing to the class of "irreconcilrbles" are the Republicans. They are inj opposed to the w hole treaty, and w:llj ha do all in their power to defeat it. but es such is not the attitude of the major ve number of Republican seirtito-s There are several classes of them, according to what they want done C~ with the treaty, but in the long run, J it is found, that the vast majority of I them will not go to any great lengths E in seeing that the whole pact is con- E demned. We are not so charitable to | thorn as to assert that they would not j j be Irreconcilable also if they thought, 9 they could get away with it, but they]"# have political sense enough to know U that if they make a determined fight D to defeat the treaty, they will not H ! even he welcomed hack home, to say Q ] nothing of being returned to their n ; present places of eminence. 9 Senator Lodge. 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