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HANFG THE MTJSDEEERS.Xr begins to look like tbe people of Brownsville have good cause for feeling aggrieved over the delay of the! national and state governments in af- j fording them relief from the danger of j another outbreak among the negro ! troops at fort BrovrruApparently the state authorities have j done nothing except pass the matter up to the army officers, and the war de-. purirneiit ha5? done nothing at all.3n the meantime the people of Brownsville live in. daily fear of another outbreak, and have found it necessary to establish a guard of special deputies.The facts in this case are sufficient to arouse the deepest feeling, and the people of Brownsville have gone to an extreme of patience under the greatest provocation that few communities would hove been able to command under . similar cireumstances.That 20 or 30 soldiers could leave a small post like fort Brown, begin shoot-, iug almost as soon as they got outside I the reservation, kill one man and maimi another, shoot hundreds of bullets into*houses, and get back into the post without any of the officers being able to identify a single one of the murderous party is almost beyond belief. .The commandant at the post, says he is doing lils best to ferret out the criminals, but days have passed nod apyiar-jeullv nothing lias been accomplished.Thu district attorney at Brownsvillej has the po\ver to jmi k can i n vest iga tion1 that would lt;|nh*k1y result in justice! being done, and hr ought to takecharge of the sitniiiion without waitingfor the war depart in not, major PrnroScj or ili*' state authorities. Every soldier I that participated in the murderous raid ought fo be hanged 'pd^dUy as possible. Only by hueh a eonran *'i\n the\ wjvfrejguty of Tc^as lr vindicated andthe majesty of the law upheld.If th.12 culprits in thi* ca«« are allowed ?0 g° free, no rotnniunify near a pont ] where neg*'0 troops .nr** *iow or in the
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San Antonio Gazette
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Aug 18, 1906
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