The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-27
BULLDOZING THE JEWS IN MIS-
SISSIPPI.

The unanswerable argument against all
lawless assaults upon the rights Of any
man, no matter what may be his race,
color. creed, class or condition OF life, is
that wrong always breeds wrong when it
is wreaked with impunity in defiance OF
the legal pledge of equal rights and pro-
lection for them to all men. Under our
free government the law does not say that
only good men. or intelligent men: or work.
ing men or rich men, or handsome men,
or White men, or natfps born men,
or Christian men shall have equal
rights TO life, liberty. property and
the pursuit of happiness; the law
in theory under all free governments pro-
tects all men in what We term the natural,
inalienable rights of man: the law does
this, because a free government does not
mean government where accidental. local,
transient might means right: free gov
eminent means a complete abdication of
any right to Cypress by might anybody be-
cause he is poor, or weak. or base, or black,
or friendless, or worthless; the theory of
the law under all free governments is that
any man has the same right to protection
for the same rights under the same cir
cumstances legally that all other men en-.
joy; that no man can be legally
robbed Of any rights which all
other men enjoy except by due
process of law; that whatever is deemed
in Jaw sufficient TO cause forfeiture of one
mans rights must be deemed without dis
,ivn he
rights of all other men under the same
circumstances. OF course this theory of
free government is sometimes shamefully
outraged in practice. Lynch law is the
rule OF mob stamping legal right under
the heel of !awless might. This bloody,
brutal burlesque of free government has
been the rule rather than the exception at
the South in the matter OF its treatment of
the negro. For twenty years the colored
population of Mississippi has been made
the victim OF lawless outrage which has
reduced that race to abject submission.
But lawlessness when enacted with inn
punity always breeds lawlessness just as.
cruelty gradually breeds cruelty. so to.
day the lawless element in Mississippi has
begun to prosecute the Jews and the help
they employ on their plantations. A
systematic effort is being made to drive
the Jews out of Mississippi by destroying
their property and making it impossible
for them to do business. The usual
method is for company of so-called
White Caps to take possession Of q planta-
ton, drive away the hands, sack and burn
the storehouses and then post up placard
reading: "This Jew place is not for sale or
rent, but will be used hereafter as
pasture" The governor of Mississippi
has been Obliged to take notice Of
this systematic Jew-baiting and has
issued proclamation offering reward
for the capture of the ruffians. Jew bait
ing has taken the place of negro outrages.
The whites of Mississssippi allowed the
lawless element to work its will for
twenty years against the ex-slaves. who
were without defense or friends in society,
business or politics. and today this lawless
element assaults the weakest and most
offensive element Of the white population.
The Meridian (Miss) News describes the
situation in Keuper county IS follows
The regn of terror is complete. Able bodied
men, knowing not what night will bring forth,
dare not leave their houses after dark. Wood
aad water to last through the night are laid in
ere the shades of night fall The doors and
shutters are closed and securely fastened when
the evening lamps are lighte No Que feels iu-
eliaed 20 venture out alter dark for fear of fad.
Ing himself target for sssassius' bu! eta A
correspondent OF the New Orleans Times Demo
crGt writes thus of the situation in Pike county.
Mss: "The iawiess element seems TO be very
strong in numbers ana permeates every neigh
borhood They are So strong aud aggressive
that they have succa 'dsd in ierror!znC the law
abiding citizens and parayxed ali ef',rts on
their part 10 stay the marauders in .heir high
handed course or to bring them to iustice"
From buIldozing negroes the lawless
classes have gone TO Jew batting. because
these industrious people are the most
detenseless class OF whites, and they are
often moboed probably for the same
reason that after the return of the cru
saders Europe began to prosecute the
Jews, viz. the returning crusaders were
many of them heavily in debt to the
Jews and they found il cheaper to raise
a mob TO murder their Jew creditors
than TO pay their Jew debts. Russian
MOBILES have done the same thing in our
own day. Jew batting i'll Mississippi will
he. p breed kindred law lessness sill over ths
country wherever there is 3 weak. depend
ent class, that have few friends and no in
duence in court or outside of il,