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KILLING OF JESSE JAMES RECALLED BY VISIT OF HIS SONASPIRINName “Bayer” on GenuineIn connection with the visit to Sedalia of Jesse James, jr., of Kansas City, Missouri and his appearance at the Lona theatre with the presentation of “Under the Black Flag,’1 the following article from the pen of Major John N. Edwards, written in April 1882 at the time Major Edwards was edi tor of the Sedalia Democrat and published editorially, tells of the killing of the father of Jesse, which is considered of sufficient j terest to reproduce:irninai to lake chance onThe Killing of Jesse James(Sedalia Democrat, April, 1882)“Let not Caesar’s servile minions,, Mock the lion thus laid low: ’Twas no foeman’s hand that slew him.’Twas his own that struck theany substitute for “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin.’* Unless you see the name “Bayer,” on package or on . e tablets you are not getting genuineJI ’ Aspirin prescribed by physiciansin' for twenty-one years and proved j safe by millions. Take Aspirin! only as told in the Bayer packagefor Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost few ^euts. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salisyllcablow.’cid.Adv.No one among all the hired cow-j ards, hard on the hunt for blood- j death the majesty of the law money, dared face this wonderful j wTould have been vindicated; but ! outlawr, one even against twenty, j here the law itself becomes a mur- j until he had disarmed himself and | derer. It lagues with murderers. I turned his back to his assassins, i It hires murderers. It aids and the first and only time in a career ■ abets murderers. It borrows money which has passed from the realms j to pay and reward murderers. It ! of an almost fabulous romance in- i promises immunity and protection j to that of history. j to murderers. It is itself a murder- |We called him outlaw, and he j er—the most abject, the most in- j was, but fate made him so. When j famous, and the most cowardly the war came he was just turned ever known to history. Therefore, I J of fifteen. The border Was all i this so-called law is an outlaw, and j aflame with steel, and fire, and these so-called executors of the law I ambuscade, and slaughter. He I are outlaws. Therefore let Jesse ! flung himself into a band which j James’ comrades—and he has a i had a black flag for a banner and ! few remaining worth all the Fords j devils for riders. What he did he did. and Littles that could be packedtogether between St. Louis and St. Joe—do unto them as they did unto him. Yes, the end is not yet* r,or j should it be. The man had no trial. I What right had any officer of this I state to put a price upon his head | and hire a band of cut-throats and jand it was fearful. But it wras j war. It was Missouri against Kan-! sas. It was Jim Lane and Jenni-son against Quantrell, Anderson and Todd.When the war closed Jesse James had no home. Proscribed, hunted,• shot, driven away from among his | highwaymen to murder him for j ; people, a price put upon his head— j money?what else could the man do, with Anything can be told of man. The | | such a nature except what he did do? whole land is filled with liars and I He had to live. It was his country. ] robbers, and assassins. Murder is j The graves of his kindred were ! easy for a hundred dollars. Noth-there. He refused to be banished ing is safe that is pure * or unsus-| from his birthright, and when he i peeting, or just, but it is not to be was hunted he turned savagely i supposed that the law will become about and hunted his hunters, j an ally and a co-worker in this sort Would to God he were alive today of a civilization. Jesse James has to make a righteous butchery of a been murdered, first, because m few more of them. I immense price had been set uponThere never was a more coward-' his head, and there isn’t a low-lived ly and unnecessary murder commit- scoundrel today in Missouri whoted in all America than this murder of Jesse James. It was done for money. It was done that a few i might get all the money. He had I been living in St. j months. The Fords him. He was in the toils, for they j meant to betray him. He was in j t he heart of a large city, bne word j would have summoned 500 armed j men for his capture or extermina-I tion. Not a single one of the at-j tacking party need to have been j hurt. If, when his house had been j surrounded, he had refused to sur-; render, he could have been killed | on the inside of it and at long | range. The chances for him to es-j cape were as one to 10,000, and not even that; but it was never intend-| ed that he should be captured. It j was his blood the bloody wretches i were after—blood that would bring | money in the official market of Mis j souri.And this great commonwealth leagued with a lot of self-confessed | robbers, highwaymen and prosti-I tutes to have one of its citizens as-; sassinated, before it was postively known he had ever committed a single criipe wrorthy of death.Of course everything that can be said about the dead man to justify the manner of his killing, will be said; but who is saying it? Those rith the blood of Jesse James on their guilty souls. Those who conspired to murder him. Those who wanted the reward, and would invent any lie or concoct any diabolical story to get it. They have succeeded, but such a cry of horror and indignation at the infernel deed is even now thundering over the land that if a single one of the miserable assassins had either man ; hood, conscience, or courage, he would go, as another Judas, j hang himself. But so sure as God j reigns, there never was a dollar of ! blood-money obtained yet which} j did not bring with it perdition. Sooner or later there comes a day ! of vengeance. Some among the i murderers are mere beasts of prey, j These, of course, can only suffer through cold, or hunger or thirst; but whatever they dread most that j thing w ill happen. Others again among the murderers are saneti monious devils who plead the honor of the state, the value of law’ and order, the splendid courage re-I quired to shoot an unarmed man in the back of the head; and these will be stripped to their skin of all .‘ their pretensions, and made to shiver and freeze, splotched as they are and spotted and piebald with blood, in the pitiless storm of public contempt and condemnation. This to the leaders will be wTorse than death.Nor is the end yet. If Jesse James had been hunted down as any other criminal, and killed while trying to escape or in resist ing arrest, not a word would have I . , n : aid to the contrary He had { - signed and he had suffered. In hiswrouldn’t kill his own father for money; and second, because he was made the scape-goat of every train robber, foot-pad and highway-Joseph for j man between Iowa and Texas. wrere with j Worse men a thousand times thanBARu URUG CO.ESTEDAre of the highest grade made to give , safe, dependable service.Every MOOG-ST. LOUIS Spring is hand fitted, oil tempered and tested to withstand overload and shock.Your next replacement can be made promptly on any model car or truck by our spring experts.FREE SERVICEKELK CARRIAGE WORKSSEDALIA. MO.he averaqe-* man coants to ffe. come into t# business f|t; contact (Oith E- those coho Wk will at fA all times Jpserye him§ 1 ft* 'efforts M § this is our *1 f maxim ofsmric^| STALEY|* FUNERAL HOME: f Ambulance Servicet109 W. 7th.St.Phone------251
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Sedalia Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Fri, Jun 03, 1921
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