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CIVILIZED AMERICA AND MARYLAND.
Prison guards in Florida torture to death a youth of iiniHeen. Policemen in New York murder a prisoner while administering the "third de rree." Two men are publicly whipped in Ohio for stealing Ku old leTrigiator which they fok! for three dollars. Mere wjtys are in death houses in many American prisons wait-ing to he executed. Jn the State of Maryland, which I'oa.ds of its enlightenment, ffS$ notice that several Eastern Shore newspapers com-iihmiI most in temperately on the decision of the Court of Appeals in the Lee case and come very near to approving iyhehings.
, ,0f course. Courts are not ibf. e criticism. We believe that every citizen has an inherent light to criticize the i ¦ ¦(
actions of every public official, but it is unfair and incorrect to j,rive the impression to the public that our Courts discriminate in favor of murderers and rapists. They do nothing of the sort. I |No one but a lunatic or criminal defends acts of pri-\air. violence, and no one but a fanatical and vicious individual can advocate, either directly or impliedly, lynching in this state.
We have no sympathy with
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