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thorn to lire at Chicago. 1 think the mob gonerally kills more of its own people than do tlio soldiers. anyway." “Yes, and when a mail is killed it is almost invariably shown that he was a peaceable citizen, merely a looker on,’’ interpolated General Swaiw. “Did you not notice that?" “It was one of the first features of the do strtietiou at Chicago," answered General Davis. “If the military realty means business, however, and there is good generalship, there can be no doubt about where the bullets come from. Now, I believe, if the military at Cincinnati had fired upon the rioters at the beginning, and followed up the fire with a charge of bayonets, that whole war would have been averted, and not twenty men would have been killed outright. Os course, there is more or less risk in ordering a troop to fire. The commanding officer nearly always has hopes that he can outgeneral a mob and save lives, but the history of riots hi this country, T think, will bear out the assertion that it is mu h better, when it becomes evident that there is an organized determined riot brewing, to shoot into the very incipiency of it. T cannot remember when it would not have saved many lives and much property.’’ The riots at Pittsburg. Philadelphia, New York, etc , in 1877, were talked over. “I should think the experiences of the military at those places ought to have taught those at Cincinnati that much depends upon the manner in which arms and ammunition aro guarded," said General Swaim. “It seems the rioters at Cincinnati had the best of the situation in this particular, and wero prepared to do moro destruction than were the soldiers. Tt was stupid to let the rioters pillage the gun stores and equip themselves for warfare: and worse yet to permit the rioters to take possession of arms belonging to the local military organizations. General Butler, who quelled the riot in New York about 1864, you will remember, did so by the most severe methods, mowing down the rioters with grape and cannister. He believes in taking a mob by the throat at the beginning." Washington statesmen generally sympathize to some extent with the rioters and condemn tlio range of it, which, they assert, is the practices of Cincinnati’s criminal lawyers. It is believed it will have a wholesome effect upon the morals of Porkopolis, and that it will, in a degree at least, purge the jury system at that place. It is believed that there should be more bangings at Cincinnati, and that there will be more from lynch law iu the future than in the past.

A TALK WITH HR. C A WPTHDIX. How a Shrewd Lawyer “Work*” a Jury to Secure an Acquittal. Columbus Special to Cleveland Leader. In an interview had by your correspondent with Colonel Tom Campbell, the great criminal lawyer who defended the murderer Berner, he said: “The public have been misinformed, and much unfair criticism of the jury has ensued in consequence. I tell you that if 1 had so willed, I would have prevented him being found guilty of manslaughter: his acquittal was possible. I cite you to the fact that in my address I frankly claimed that there vrere ten men of the jury with me.” ‘•How, pray? Please explain. 31r. Campbell," said tire scribe. “In this way,*’ answered the .advocate, laugh mg at the report er's open-eyed wonder: 4 ‘You see this trial had lasted some time. I measured my men on the jury; I studied them; I knew when I had one of them converted as well as if he had told the sac t. The public have a misconception of the so-called summing up speeches of attorneys to a jury. While 1 admit the importance of that portion of the defense or prosecution, I tell you that the jury who have not been awakened or won over in the course of the trial by the evidence as ad duced. are seldom captured with the speeches of advocates. Now, as the evidence proceeded, I narrowly watched my jury, and when I made a point the fact was noted down, and on that point I elaborated sufficiently only to secure that particular juror. The greatest mistake, in my opinion, an advocate can make, is to settle down mto the conviction that the particular piece of evidence capturing one juror will convince his fellows. No, sir; the most diametrically opposed statement of fact is sometimes necessary to secure a fellow juror. Now, for instance, on this Berner case I had a juror/ an Irishman, named McGuire. On this man and another of the jury I failed to make the slightest impression, until 1 was positively talking half an hour in my final address. I finally got McGuire to look at me steadily, and rein boring that ho had a boy about seventeen years old (the age of the prisoner), I struck out on a simile. I put McGuire’s son in the prisoner’s place, alternating with my own boy 1 called at ten ton to the influence older companions exercise on younger and weaker ones, knowing from my own experience of youth Fill escapades that McGuire’s son and everybody rise’s son sometimes commit frolieksonie and mischievous acts at the instance and at the inspiration of older companions. I paralleled the ease, as it were, showing how the prisoner was innocently led along, with no thoughts of crime, by dis* older companion. I traced the whole bloody tragefy from beginning to end, leading my youthful prisoner along in the person or McGuire’s son, and when 1 concluded 1 had not only convinced, but I had conscientiously con 7ineed him that I spoke the absolute truth. The tear on each cheek of the juror was to me the white flag of surrender, and I had eleven men om of the twelve.*’ • Why didn't you try for on aecmittal?*’ “Because J did not and could not convince myself that the prisoner was deserving of it. In fact, it was only after the greatest persuasion 1 consented to enter the case, but the very day it was announced that Torn Campbell was to de , fend the prisoner the Commercial Gazette advo- 1 cated the hanging of my client. It is the first! case in which 1 ever permitted a jury to con net a client of mine. and. as I have said, I am . fully convinced I could have acquitted him.*' •Who selet led the juryH “The presiding judge, and carefully, too. The business of jury selection 1 have never cared one whit for, provided J have no enemy of the prisoner packed on it to convict at all hazards." “You remember the Peyton case, do yon not?" con tinned Mr. Campbell, addressing the re porter. Yes indeed," answered the scribe. •Well, you know the circumstances were much more against Peyton, while the evidence was direct. Peyton deliberately shot his mis tress dead, and even perforated her dead body with bullets. The press justly said that it was the most cowardly, brutal, sickening murder on record. The jury was selected with care, and even the press acknowledged it was more than ordinarily intelligent, yet Peyton was absolutely acquitted. I only cite this as one of the many rhsef* to direct public opinion in the right chan nl, and exonerate a jury the members of which, I am solemnly convinced, rendered a verdict you or any other man who heard the evidence and sat in judgment on the whole case would conscientiously subscribe to.” AN INVITATION TO LEAVE. (’inonnati Poet. Tom Campbell came on ’Change, to-day, but met with a very cool reception. Joseph Wright said to him: “Mr. Campbell, under the circumstances, don’t you tliiuk you had better leave?” *‘N r ot at all,” said Mr. Campbell; “I have nothing to accuse myself of. 1 have simply don ■ my duty to my client,” “Mr. Campbell, don’t you think you had better leave here?” '-no, sir, I won’t do it.”

“Mr. Campbell." reiterated Mr. Wright, “1 think your absence is advisable." Such persistent solicitude was more than Tom could stand, and he went. Rf'KNKS AM) INCIDENTS. Identifying: the Twenty-Six Mutilated Corpses at Hubig's. CinciuiiHti News Journal. In the dead room at Habig’syesterday morning was a spectacle which formed the most awful scene of the terrible tragedy of Saturday night. , Down the middle and sides of the room were ar ranged the bodies of twenty-six men. who were a few hours previous in the full vigor of their manhood. There they lay. cold and rigid in death, with glassy eyes staring blankly at the ; ceiling, their heads and bieasts disclosing gaping lmllet wounds from which the life blood had flowed and spread over the features, rendering them almost unrecognizable. The sickeniug array was headed at. the entrance bv a powerful Irishman, with a bullet hole the size of a silver half dollar directly between his eyes, and with a fiendish expression on his face which show ed the poor fellow’s determined spirit. At liis feet, stretched on the top of an upturned coffin, lay the father of a family, his tongue severed aud his teeth knocked out by the cruel rifle bulk which crushed into his skull through his mouth. Next in order lay a man whose gray hair, chin beard and powerful physique proclaimed him a man of fifty years. No mark disfigured his countenance, and it wore a rather pleasant expression. But a small red hole, directly over the heart, told its tale. A rather in-telligent-looking young German, with smooth face and long hair, next attracted the attention. ; His bare breast showed where his soul had es caped from its prison of clay. In the next box a round object covered with blood could only be distinguished as a man’s head by the rest of the body. The poor fellow’s head had been perforated in several places. The entire top of the skull of the next victim had been torn off, evidently by a Gatling-gun shot. Others lay with mouths open as if gasping for the breath which would never return, forming a most ghastly spectacle. At an early hour a crowd began to assemble about the front of the building, clamoring for admittance. They were allowed to enter, several at a time, for the purpose of identifying the dead. They passed through and out, some satisfied. while many regretted doing so, as well they might, for a sight better calculated to unstring a man's nerves is hard to imagine. Once in a while a body would be identified and recorded. After several hundred jieople had looked at them idly one-half had been claimed by relatives or friends and removed to their late homes or the fatnily undertaker’s. Fathers looking for sons, brothers seeking brothers, and friends looking for friends passed sadly from one to another, fully expecting to iiud them, yet hoping for disappointment. But where one sought friends, twenty were prompted by morbid curiosity. A woman enters whose red eyes Announce her mission. She timidly asks if she can look for her boy among the dead. Some lad told her he was hurt. Yes, she can. She nearly fainted on entering the room, but was supported by the guide. Slowly she passed from face to face, breathing a sigh of relief on leaving one and hesitating apprehensively before looking at the next, She has almost run the terrible gauntlet, and gathers courage. Near the far end lay a smooth faced, honest-looking youth, whose intelligent countenance had elicited many expressions of pity from strangers during the morning. Several pairs of moistened eyes anxiously watch the poor woman as she approaches him. She is there, and takes a single glance. A low moan, and she falls senseless across the inanimate form of her boy. whom she had begged to remain at home They took her out, and the line passed on.

Malicious Roughs Firing at Random. Cincinnati News Journal. Any man who traversed Seventh. Eighth, and Ninth streets, between Walnut and Sycamore, last evening, placed his life in jeopardy. To walk on Court street, between these points, was almost certain death. There was no mob. Hardly a man could be seen, but what was more terrible. bullets from some unseen and mysterious source were almost constantly whizzing past, and the crack of tlie revolver could be heaiol every few moments. Vicious roughs were secreted behind corners, in a lie}'-ways, and in dark passages, and maliciously fired at random. Walking up and facing a known enemy, a man knew what to do and what to expect, but with shots sounding before, behind, and on each side of him, the prospect was not salubrious. At least so thought the reporter who started toward the Court-house last evening to see Colonel Freeman and Major Hawkins. Afraid almost to go ahead end asfearful of turning back, ho proceeded out Ninth street. Several times reports could be heard ahead of and behind him. but no one could be seen. When he was within half a square of Main street he was hailed by members of Company L, Fourth Regiment, who commanded him to take the other side of the street When his mission was made known lie was helped over the breastworks and taken in. Meanwhile, at the other end of the square, at Court and Main, a terrible fusilade was going on. At this point the soldiers had been annoyed by shots all evening. Balls came whistling by and striking the walls of the Courthouse every few minutes. Finally it became too hot, and the artillerymen were ordered to fire. The Gatling gun was then turned loose and vomited a sheet of deadly fire along the Courtstreet space. This did not seem to scare the rioters at the other end, who had taken a position behind the barricade at the market, house. Here they vented their spleen by firing away toward the Court-house, in the hope of hitting the soldiers. They shot low and to kill, as the balls could he heard whizzing past the corner and then striking the walls of the ruined, blackened palace of justice like hail. The artillerymen had nut up above them some empty beer kegs to better protect themselves, and occasionally these would be knocked off. showing that the rioters were taking excellent aim. When the guns belched forth their deadly load a ringing yell could be heard at the other end. At 1 o’clock this morning this stato of affairs still continued, and had been going on that way since dark. Earlier in the night u few of the mob made an attack from the north and rained down a few bullets, but were quickly l epulsed by a charge from the soldiers, and Major Hawkins and Colonel Free man were here with the boys. Colonel Freeman did not order firing until it was positively necessary. it becoming evident that the fellows were murderously inclined. The Shooting of Mr. Swift. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. At about 8:30 o'clock Mr. Briggs Swift, An old and wealthy pork dealer, was shot in his breast by the excited militia, on Main street, near the corner of Seventh. A few minutes after the shooting, a reporter of the Commercial Gazette met Mr. Henry Hanna, an old gentleman who was with Mr. Swift at the time of the shooting. He said: “Mr. Swift and I walked up Main street to Seventh to see the barricade. I was just showing him how the barricade was constructed when some of the soldiers cried ‘Halt.’ We stopped and stood still, but almost immediately several shots were fired, and Mr. Swift turned to me and told mo he was shot. I escaped by running, and then I hired a hack and had Mr. Swift taken home.” M\ Swift was conveyed to his home, No. 57 West Eighth street. The drunken man was carried inside the lines. Mr. Charles I). Pierce, assistant manager at Wilde’s clothing store, was also an eye-witness of the shooting and corroborates Mr. Hanna’s statement 31 r. Pieiv-e says: “I was standing at the southeast corner of Ninth and Main streets, and I saw Mr. Swift and Mr. Hanna walk up the middle of the street toward the barricade talking together and pointing out different parts of the works. They were a part of the citizens'committee appointed this evening by the mayor to go and examine the situation and report to him. That was why they were there. It was not personal curiosity. They got to a point about thirty feet from the barn cade. I distinctly heard a soldier call ‘Halt!’

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and T saw them stop, but just a? they stopped, immediately after the order came to halt, one shot was fired from behind the barricade. It was not followed by other shots. At least I did not hear any others. 1 ran and helped Mr. Hanna away after I saw Mr. Swift fall. I helped Mr. Hanna into a neighboring saloon, and as soon as bo got into a chair lie fainted. I went to Mr. Swift’s house with the carriage which took him home. I never was so surprised in my life ass was at that shooting. There was no cause for it at all. Some of those soldiers are nervous and reckless. * 4 Defense of Ihe Militia. Cincinnati Comm ore ial Gazette. Colouel Freeman said the people were Dffing incited against the militia, and it could do no good to let them kuow what men were in the different positions; for if the fighting at any one barricade was very bloody, they would be bitter against those men, and watch for an opportunity of revenge on them. He turned to Colonel Hunt, who agreed, and said that one of his officers had been mobbed. Colonel Freeman thought some of the newspapers had done a great wrong iu pretending that the mob was harmless, and that the militia was guilty of unnecessary murder. “The reports," he said, “would make one believe that the troops had fired on the mob without any cause. But I tell you that my Lieutenant colonel, Leggett. Captain Slack aud six men were wounded before we fired a shot. “They were not shot, were they?*’ asked the reporter, who thought they had probably been struck by stones thrown by the mob. “Jf you had *een how they looked you'd think so." answered the Colonel. Colonel Hunt said the same was the case with his men when they shot on Friday night. He said the soldiers had done their duty bravely and with coolness for citizen soldiers. The Terrible Wee pons of the Troops. Cincinnati CMHfflercul Qtfette. Aside from the wreck of the Court-house and tho destruction of Powell and Kittredge’s gun stores, the signs of the conflict which most amazed the crowd that thronged the streets were the terrible holes made by the minie balls from the militia's muskets. Windows were broken, woodwork torn up. and deep dents made in brick and stone walls. In one shed on South Court, nine bullet holes were counted, and all along Main, Court, and Sycamore, high and low', the bullets liad left their marks —not a round hole, but an oval, much larger than the ball itself, which gave evidence of tho twisting course the balls take in human bodies, causing the awful, gaping wounds of which so many have been seen for the past two days. Opposite Powell’s gun store is tho Danbury Hat Company’s store, and in its show window and door wore counted twenty-six bullet holes, which had crashed through the glass and wood and lodged in the buck part of the stow, tearing up counters and shelving in their course. Along Court street there were grazing marks on the walls on both sides of the street, everywhere from the ground to the roofs, but the large majority of them were at a breast level or thereabouts, giving, as well as does the list of dead and wounded, evidence to the fact that tho State guards fired bull cartridges, and fired to kill.

Notes of the Riot, Along the streets fronting on the river as far east as Pendleton, and to the west as far as Sedamsville, the walls and fences bore in chalk marks this symbol: 30 3 I I 10 On the right-hand side was a large star. These marks were said by some to mean third month, 30th day, 10 i\ m No definition was given for the star. Criminal Bailiff Moses, who placed Berner in the penitentiary at Columbus, rushed into the Central Station on Sunday evening and reported that a number of citizens had visited him at his residence and denounced him in violent language for his conduct. *‘You cheated us of Ben* ” “You sneaked him off.” It was in vain that the bailiff protested that he had only done bis duty. “Duty be damned!” they shouted, “we’ll burn your house over your head to-night, and lynch you in the bargain.” Moses remained at the station all night. while bis family was removed to a place of safety. Before the Court-house was fired on Saturday night five men went to the roof of the building to" take in the view from that elevated situation. Suddenly the building was on fire and their descent by stairways cut off. Fearing that they would be burned alive they stood ready to take all chances for safety. Finally, as their predicament became more precarious, the bravest of them determined to jump for the telegraph wires below. Wrapping a handkerchief about his hands he made the leap and succeeded in swinging himself into a window below. He was a colored man, and the crowd cheered lustily at bis display of courage and strength. From the window au exit from the burning building was easily effected. After he had demonstrated the possibility of escape he whs followed by the others, all of whom reached the ground in safety. __ TRUSS AND OTHER COMMENT, A General Feeling that Law Must Re More Rigidly Enforced. STRICT JUSTICE MUST BE RE-ESTABLISHED. Louisville Courier-Journal The warning must be heeded everywhere. Justice, strict, impartial, swift and sure, speeding inevitably to the mark, must be re-estab-lished. The shams and technicalities of law, the false hair-splitting of the judges, the decisions which one by one have hedged about murderers until they have become a privileged class must be swept aw ay. Society must protect life and property, or it will disintegrate. A man must feel that the la w is potent, and that he is under no necessity to take it into his own hands and arm himself for liis own protection. Murder is a crime, grave, unpardonable. Nature will have blood for blood. Lot us have done witli false sentiment, with sham morality, and that pretense of humanitarianisra which [deads always for tne “unfortunate” murderer, forgetful of his victim. It is this rosewater sentimentality which has weakened the men intrusted with the execution of law. It has palsied the arm of jus tice and made a mocker}' of religion itself. We want now sternness and not sympathy. It is time for the reign of tlio genial gentleman to close. Yet hack of this must go o*i a greater reformation. a more widespread awakeuiug. All the moral forces of society must he brought into action. Crime of ever}' kind must each in its way carry with it its own punishment. Faith in the integrity of the people, in the execut ion of law, in the omnipotence of justice, cannot be established by a change of parties, by a change of law, by newspaper clamor, if the “best citizens,” as they are called, become co-partners with the worst*by uegleeting their political duties. A man too sensitive, too highly cultured, too dovoted to his business, too much occupied with church affairs, to perform ordinary duties of citizenship, to attend the primaries and serve on the jury, is too much impregnated with selfishness. sweetness and light to live comfortably in an American city; he is a bad citizen, bad because of his own neglect, bad because of the 6vil force of his own example, and he should emigrate. TWO PHASES or THE SAME FEELING. Philadelphia Chronicle-Telegraph. The peculiar mental condition whicli induces a considerable number* of the citizen* of any com munity to organize themselves into a mob for the purpose of executing summary vengeance on such a criminal as Berner, is only another form of the same kind of sentimentality that criminals of the Berner class rely upon to enable them to escape the proper consequences cf their crimes, and that criminal lawyers rely upon in the extraordinary efforts they make iiftor trial to nullify such verdicts as may be found against their clients. Law is nothing more nor less than an expression of the better sense of a community with regard to what regulations are needed for its well-being; and unless the better sense of a community has sufficient moral stamina to it to demand that the laws which are made for the protection of life aud property shall be en forced impartially, inflexibly and inevitably, then there is very little use in having codes of law and all the paraphernalia of jurisprudence. In how many American communities, however, are the laws, which it is presumable that the best intelligence aud tho highest virtue of the

whole body of citizens have caused to be made for the promotion of the well-being of the bodypolitic, enforced in any such fashion as this: and jf they are not so enforced, who, out of a body of free citizens who have an abundant control of all the executive, legislative and judicial functions, are responsible for their miscarriage? ONE PLAIN, RECOGNIZABLE CAUSE. Chicago News. The shocking occurrences of the past few days at Cincinnati, the terrible street fighting, the persistent attack on the jail, the destruction of the Court-house and county records by fire, the loss of life—in short, all of the horrors that on horror’s head have accumulated—are due to one plain, easily recognizable cause, existing not only in the Ohio city, but throughout the land. This is the employment of the forms of law in the defense of crime—the common and outrageous prostitution of justice to wrong, the foul deed beiug effected through the agency of unscrupulous criminal lawyers and weak or corrupt juries. Often the failure of a judge to exercise due care that justice obtains her due contributes materially to the result.. Time after time the press lias drawn attention to the evil. and has shown the direct connection existing between it and the ordinary manifestations of mob violence known as the operations of lynch law. Legislatures have been urged to make such reforms iu the law i6 will leave open to counsel none of the loopholes through which they slip their clients. Especially has this been the case in Illinois, where-re-vision of the criminal code has been persistently urged. It is to be hoped that the horror of the Cincinnati outbreak will be laid to heart, and the amendments of the law asked for made at the earliest opportunity. THE CULMINATION OF LAWLESSNESS. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. This movement,, which has caused the loss of so many lives and the destruction of so much property, is the culmination of lawlessness. There has been growing for years in this community a disregard for lawful authority and a growth of influence on the part of criminal classes that foreshadowed danger to society. The warnings have been plain enough. Wo have often pointed them out, but they have not been heeded. There has been no class so powerful in our government as that which chooses to be a law unto itself. The result has been insecurity in the matter of life and property, and the failure to punish crime. As to these matters, this is not the time to enter into details. Intelligent citizens do not- need to read or listen to discussion on this subject. But the outburst of public indignation has already been sufficient to secure reform. Innocent blood has been shed and prop erty has been destroyed, and all that is necessary to bring about a proper respect for law is for those in official positions to cease to wink at crime, and set themselves at work to teach the people that laws arc passed to be enforced, and that tho duty of every officer is to see that crime of every grade is promptly punished, and that citizens are properly protected in all their rights. THE IRRESrONSIBLLE JURY SYSTEM. Cincinnati News Journal. Tho utter irresponsibility of the jury branch of the judicial system is radical and difficult of correction. It is easy to point it out —we confess hard to iiud out the remedy. Salutary, always alert and applied public opinion is a corrective; • but it is precisely because of the continual failure of that corrective that we have continually to lament the failure of justice. How to have and keep hot and applied wholesome public sentiment, so that the jury will intelligently, but effectively and justly, reflect the social will, is the very point to he looked at when that is the reliance tor the cure of the evils growing out of the fact that when the jury separates it bears itself, its own and others’ sins back, to be lost in the bosom of society. Demonstrations of sound public opinion will be effective here for awhile; but for how long? * * * There is no use clogging the stream below the source. What is wanted is not violence, but the moral boycotting of a salutary public opinion—the cool, wholesome and purifying influence of perpetual exclusion from honor, trust, business, ana participation in applying law and justice, of rings and friends of migs and thieves. It is the power of these is to lie broken. Short o-f that is but striking their tools suid damming the poison stream belo\v the source. Reform must aim higher. REFORM IN LEGAL MATTERS DEMANDED. Chicago Times. The fault is not in the trial by jury. It is partly in our evil methods of impaneling juries, partly in laws and rules prescribing or sanctioning those methods, and partly in the inferior civilization of which those laws, rules and prac tioes are the expression. * * * Better methods of selecting juries—methods by which not only unfit jurymen could be rejected, but by which fit jurymen could be drawn—would furnish some guaranty, in every really civilized community. of a more efficient and certain execution of justice. It is not meant to imply that the stream can rise higher than its source; but the frequency of the failure of the formal stream of justice in this country, and the frequency of its execution, or of attempts like that at Cincinnati to execute it, in informal ways, prove clearly enough that tho source is a good deal higher than the stream—prove that with better appliances the stream can be raised much higher than it is. The Cincinnati performance is another warning that the work of raising it is imperative, and cannot be commenced too soon.

WEAKNESS OF THE JURY SYSTEM. New York Herald. Lynch law aud mob rule are always to be condemned. They are unjustifiable and inexcusable even when the results of the strongest provocation and when their avowed aim is to remedy a flagrant miscarriage of justice. But while juries abuse their powei*s>, travesty the forms of justice and outrage public decency by aiding notorious criminals to esc,ape the just penalty of their crimes, there are likely to be lawless outbreaks Imre and there of those determined to take the law into their own hands. There was a time when these occurrences were chiefly confined to frontier regions. But they aro now breaking out in more law abiding communities. Notable instances of this arc the sequel of the Dukes acquittal in Pennsylvania and the consequences of the Berner verdict in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati riot is not to be defended or excused, but it is a warning, and should it have a wholesome effect on the shameful jury abuses throughout the country it will bear at least one good fruit. CAUSED BY THE PEOPLE’S LICENTIOUSNESS. Chicago News. “I’m not of those who believe that God is responsible for everything that goes on in Chicago or anywhere else,” said Dr. L. W. Munhall, at Jefferson park Presbyterian Church. The sneaker said God was in no wise responsible for tne riot in Cincinnati. It was brought about by the licentiousness of the people of that city, which he termed the most ungodly place in America. The same thing was liable to occur in Chicago if Sab-bath-desecration continues and whisky and beer are permitted + o be sold without stint. Chicago, Cincinnati and Indianapolis were designated as tho special homes of Satan and sin. The idea was advanced that the devil alone has the power of death. If sin had not entered the world, there would never have been a grave. The devil caused the deaths in Cincinnati, and God had nothing whatever to do with it. The speaker did no+ believe that death was a dispensation of an all-wise Providence, out thought He caused things to couspire against men to bring them to repentance. REFORM BY RIOT OUT OF PLACE. New York Sun. The verdict of manslaughter against Berner doubtless seemed to foreshadow the probability that others just as guilty might escape in the same way, and bo the people, dissatisfied 'with the administration of the law, madly and foolishly tried to take the law into their own hands. No good ever comes out of such attempts to effect reform—certainly none commensurate with the cost. Tt is idle to expect any system for tho administration of justice to be so perfect that ©very case will bo decided correctly. The value of a particular system muKt depend upon its general result©, s.. far as trim by jury is concerned, the opinion of those best qualified to judge, in England and America, is overwhelmingly m its favor as the best method yet devised for the determination of questions of fact in criminal cases. At all events, reform by riot is out of Slace in this country, and ought to bo out of ate in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A PUBLIC ENEMY. Now York World. The man who attempts to fire the hearts of a mob by incendiary appeals in any cause is a public enemy. It would be a less dangerous aufc if he should let loose the wild beasts of a menagerie in the public streets, for men, when their evil passions are aroused in a mob, show that the nature of the savage is still in their composi-

tion. and are more brutal than the beasts of the forest. * * * Ten thousand men in business pursuits or respectable mechanics and laborers go on from day to day in the ordinary routine of life, and are regarded as model citizens. Get them together in a mob, give them an exciting cause to stir their feelings and arouse their pas sions. and a single inflammatory speech may turn them into an army of yelling, enz} rum ans, ready to defy the authorities and to bring ruin and death on innocent people. THE DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENS. New York Tribune. Tho true preventive to such occurrences is constant and steady vigilance. Civilization can only be maintained by patient and continual exertion. The supervision of governmental affairs, from the highest to the lowest, is tin? duty of good citizens at all times; and that is not good citizenship, however cultured and intelligent, which disdains this work, and leaves it to the ig norant, the vicious, and the venal. Had Cincinnati seen to it that her criminal practice was pure, that her juries were competent, that her officials were kept well under tho the criticism of public opinion, it would not have been necessary to call an indignation meeting over the Berner verdict, nor would that meeting have been the incitement to a riot. THE BEST MEN SHOULD SERVE ON JURIES. Cleveland Leader. What’ is needed is the enforcement of the laws, and to this end the best men in the community should be compelled to serve on juries. The laws allowing them to be exempted from jury service should be repealed, and thou cases would be submitted to the judgment of men who could not be hoodwinked by' cunning lawyers. The riot which has disgraced Ciunnnati and destroyed a vast amount of property’ is without any possible justification but the series of outrageous verdicts lately rendered in that city, and the open immunity to murder furnished an excuse for it. The remedy wall he found in a full and impartial application of the law, and this is in the hands of the people. LESSONS THAT MUST NOT BE NEGLECTED. Louisville Commercial. The commonplaces of mob repression should not lead the public interested in good government to neglect tho lessons taught by the original outburst of popular fury in Cincinnati. As long as the American peoplo allow criminals so much influence in organizing their courts, and bummers so much power in selecting their municipal officers, we may expect occasions for mobs and inefficiency in putting them down. Wheti an American city', nowadays, has good courts and good municipal governments, it is either due to tho “main strength and awkward ness" of the good people or to a happy chance. THE CORRUPT JURY SYSTEM. Chicago Tribune. The wretch Berner, who is safely in the penitentiary, the corrupt jury' which tried him, his brazen counsel, who boasts bis ability to acquit any’ scoundrel, have brought terrible disaster upon Cincinnati. Had it not been for the corrupt jury sy’stem this riot would not have occurred. So far as the riot was in the nature of a protest it has done its work, and it would have been better had the protest stopped with the action of tho Music Hall meeting: but some allow anee must he made for tho feelings of a people driven to desperation by’ the failure of the courts to protect them. HOPELESS FOR REDRESS OF WRONG. Chicago Inter Ocean. The mob at Cincinnati is not so much an evidence of the lawlessness of the people as it is the maddened condition of tho community in the hopelessness for redress of wrong by the enforcement of law * * * It is not the time for recrimination. but certainly it ought to suggest to thoughtful people that there are some great wrongs in the execution of our laws which should be righted, and urge them to make earnest efforts for reforms which shall make such exhibitions as unpopular as they are unwise and criminal THE LAW MUST BE RESPECTED. New York Dial. There was cause, however, for somo demonstration, and it is only to be regretted that the people should have overstepped the limit of moderation. The law must be respected. If bad, let it be changed; if ineffective, let it be amended. Mobs are not made up from the best citizens. Not only are criminals and evil-doers to be found in mobs, plying their vocation, but they aro frequently the* most active members, with the intention of aggravating public disorder and profiting by the opportunity for plunder or worse.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW. Detroit Times. Viewed in one aspect, the mad outburst of indignation is indicative of the fact that men are but devils under temporary restraint, and that they will recognize no law when their laws are not enforced against offenders of whoso guilt there can be no question. From another phase of the terrible situation we may gather that the people are merely making ono final, desperate protest against the packing of juries by corrupt officials and the general laxity with which their municipality is governed. LYNCHING WILL NOT DO IN CITIES. New York Evening Poet. A revival of lynching will not do in large cities, however well it may be Adapted to primi tive rural communities, where there is no wclloranized police or militia whose duty it is to fire upon any mob, no matter how good its motives. The only way in civilized communities to stop murder is to provide legal machinery which will strike terror into the hearts of the murderers. CIVIL DUTEKS MUST BE DISCHARGED. Bt. Louis Republican. We can see but one possible good to result from the appalling crime of the Ciueiimati riot: It may quicken other communities to tho performance of the constant duties of civil life, rather than to wait till the social fabric is so disturbed as to call for indignant extrajudicial action, which is always dangerous, and may at any time result as it has in that city. A REAL AND REPRESENTATIVE EVIL. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The provocation which gave rise to the Cincinnati mob was a real and representative one. That the mob has lost its head and is unreasoning cannot hide this truth. The circumstance ought to produce a profound impression upon thinking people. It is a matter for statesmen to deal with as well as the soldiery aud police. LAW ABIDING CITIZENS MUST DO THEIR DUTY. Lafayette Journal. The la w-abiding citizens of this country must see to it that crime is adequately punished and that mobs shall not he tolerated. They must make justice terrible to crime in every form. CHILDREN MUST BE PROPERLY BROUGHT UP. Archbishop Elder * Sunday Sermon. “There is or can bo no excuse for violence, for it is against the laws of God and man. And now you, my dearly beloved, as <’at holies should discountenance all such acts, and use your influence with your neighbors, who may be under the impression that violence in such cases as the present can be justified; but, my friends, it is positively not justifiable, and you must not in any way side with those who aro committing these unlawful acts. Those people who go to see tho battle must expect to run tho risk of being shot. Therefore, keep away, and keep your children away from the mob, for it is no place for them or you. If called upon by the proper authorities, you. as good citizens, are bound to assist in preserving the peace. I beg of you, therefore, to use every effort in your power to put down this spirit of lawlessness which now has such a footing in our city.” The Archbishop then delivered a practical discourse to parents in regard to their children, their training, etc., alluding here and there to the riot in an indirect manner, but, summed up succintly, he said that if children were properly brought up there would be no murderers, no violence and no riot. CORRUPTION IN OUR PUBLIC LIFE. Prof. Swing’s Sermon. It is the measureless value of tho nation and the city that explains the bloody riot at Cincinnati, and that will cause other riots to come to other cities in times not far away. Men grow tick at heart when they see a kingdom once beautifully woven out of nil tho arts and morals of all times and purchased by the blood of their fathers taken away by infamous lawyers aud corrupt juries and by thieves in public office. When the life of the honorable is not safe iu the street, when taxes are wrung from the people to be squandered upon official criminals, and the courts are powerless, tho public heart is either broken or eke inflamed with terrific fury. In our land the fire of anger is more probable than the tame submission of broken hearts. Deplorable as mobs are, they will come as long as official rascality dare flaunt its shameless flags iu the face of the people.

NEWS IN BRIEF. It is understood that tho Fillmore will . been settled. The Massachusots Greenback convca be held at Lynn the last week in April, Ferdinand H. Biewerd, an oyster' ► Baltimore, lias assigned. Liabilities By’ agreement with the Tax-pay i f tion. tho sheriff at Troy, N. Y.. h| thirty-two deputies. Edward Bennett, of setting fire to his house, lias been six years in the penitentiary. The Republican conventions $ * Warren and Green counties. P' terday’, elected Blaine delega convention. Peter Carrigan, foreman of the the new Chicago Board of Trade structure, while leaning out of one of the upper windows, lost his balance and fell to the pavement, a distance of eiglity-five feet, and was killed instantly’. Tho ex-confederate soldiers and members of the Grand Army have decided to hold, their mass-meeting to arouse interest in the work of establishing a home for soldiers in the South, on April 9, at Cooper Union, N. Y. General Gian** will preside. "Hie report that the Mexican government lias demanded a reduction of tho tariffs on the Mex - ican and Vera Cruz railroad is officially denied. The North German Lloyds co npany is prepar ing to run a regular line of steamships to \ era Cruz, to meet increasing German shipments. Obituary. San Francisco, March 31.—Flags of the city are at half mast for the death of Jno. Parrot the pioneer banker of California. He was ; native of Virginia. Petersburg, March 31.—Judge C. B. Crumpler, a Readjuster, is dead. He is the second Readjuster judge who has died within a week. Buffalo, March 31.—Captain Geo. B. Dickenson. one of the oldest captains on the lakes, is dead. Losses by Fire. Detroit. March 31. —Fire at Grand Haven yesterday destoyed George E. Hubbard’s hardware store, the main one in town. Loss on stock, $15,000; building, SIO,OOO. The stock was insured for SIO,OOO. Canada’s Defenses. London. March 31.—The government has placed CoL Butler at the disposal of the Canadian authorities, to inspect the defenses of the Dominion. Reasons lor Resigning. Springfield Repnblican. Minister Sargent does not care to oblige Prime Bismarck by moving on to St. Petersburg, but would like a leave of absence so he can come home. Perhaps ho wants to come home and enjoy his sudden and unprecedented popularity before it wanes, just to see how it will seem: perhaps ho wants some oysters and other deli cacies not to be found in Germany; and perhaps he.cannot see any fun in selling his furniture in Berlin and refitting at St. Petersburg, all for nothing.

Squally Worthless. Philadelphia Record. By leaving the Berlin mission vacant PresidenArthur will do a good service in disabusing a por tion of the public mind of a false impression ir regard to the value of tho country’s diplomatic establishment. Tho dispute as to whether th< Russian mission, to which Mr. Sargent lias bee transferred, is a promotion or not is of no consequence. Both missions receive the same salar; —to-wit: $17,500 a year—and both are equally worthless to the country. Tlie Kind of a Man Who Doesn’t Suit. Lagrange Standard. E. B. Reynolds, who is a famous prohibitioi worker, but lacks the qualifications of being either a reformed drunkard or reformed Democrat, .refuses to join in the new departure of the Prohibitionists, and consequently a writer iu *be Monitor-Journal excommunicates him, and declares he has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. A third, party \m*l hnu a goo,, many such wanting. The Part}* ir Rad Shape. Atlanta Constitution. “Mr. Tildcn is the only hope now.” says the Atlanta Constitution. If Mr. Tildeu ir the only hope, the Democracy must be a great deal sicker than ever Mr. Tilclen has been represented to be. A Fine Hair Dressing. Cocoaine dresses the hair perfectly, and is also a preparation unequaled for the eradication of dandruff. The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts consists in their purity and great strength. DIED. FERGUSON—At her home, in Indianapolis, on Sunday evening. March 30. Mrs. Ellen I. Ferguson, wife of Clement A. Ferguson, aged fifty-five years. Mrs. Ferguson was one of our good citizens in all that the term signifies, and her loss-will be deeply felt in the eirele of her acquaintances. Affectionate, gentle, modest, discreet and wise as a counselor, she was a very model of a wife and mother, and one of whom it would be difficult to speak extravagantly. She was a Christian, having connected herself with the church Hourly forty years ago, in this city, and has since lived a consistent Christian life. Adjudged by the circle of her acquaintances, her aim has been through those years to honor God and do good to her fellows. Surely a blessed immortality was awaiting her. Funeral from the family home. No. 49 West Seventh street, at 2:30 P. M.. Tuesday, April 1 . fit KREGELO & WHITSETT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Delaware Street. Telephone connection at office and residence. Carriages for weddings and parties.

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