The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-10-26
End Il the anticipating Movement.


1t cannet but strike every one how
thoroughly and completely the Ida Wells
anti-lynching campaign has died ont
Ida Wells, when she won't across the
ocean some months ago, was received
with considerable effusion by that class
of Englishmen who think it their bust
ness to NEEDLE in everybody else's affairs
and to show the rest of the world how to
behave, a class of hypOcrites of the
Peoksnifi type. She met with 50 much
success, financially and otherwise, espe-
cially whom the PeeEsniffs found that IN
dOrsing her was slap At America, that
she was tempted to come over to this
country to proselytize here. Possibly
she imagined that, coming as she did,
inst on the evo OF congressional cleo
tion, the republicans would welcome her
as an issue, and making the lynehing of
the colonel brother plank in their plat
form.
Her coming was mado quite an event
Of by the English Peoksniffs, and one of
the anti-lynehing societies which had
sprung up at meeting of hers in Eng
land sent commissioner" or reporter
over to investigate her lynching yarns.
The commissioner got as far as New
York and committed the great folly Of
writing to the governors Of the several
states, az though he had come over on a
g,v4y,,r ,,,s.ss15, -v,1 ,,-ss e., ,o-,-,gr,,E,
tive Of the British government treating
with the several southern states. Several
Of the governors thought it worth while
to answer the request Of the Ida Wells
committee mistake, we thought AT
the time, as it gave the committee de-
oidedly too much Importance. However
that be, the pablic attention has been
called to the matter and the result has
been the complete collapse Of the Ida
Wells campaign. The northern press.
without exception, and republican as
well as democratic, rspudiates the often
siye intermeddling with onr affairs. 1t
As as though some 'sOne-hOrse- club had
sent a representative To England, 70 cali
ON the Queen. Lord Resoni,ery and Par
lament, and ask for their aid and assis-
tance in investigating the morals of the
English nobility.
The sensible people Of Great Britain
seem to have been awakened 60 the ab-
suriiity and iaPertincnce of the whole
proceeding, and the Ida Wells campaign.
lately 50 enthusiastically received across
the water. IS catching ii hot" there.
The London TTass and the Pail Nail
tiassfts seem 20 have suddenly opened
their eyes TO the position in which the
lemlssrs OF the British investigating
committees have placed themselves. and
these papers administers severe reluke
70 the Welisites. The Pail Mall Gazette
goes 50 far as 70 call them irresponsible
English bRsybodies 2 and the II1aes de-
olales that the committee has done more
harh than good. As for the northern
press whether il was that it did not ike
this English Interference in our affairs.
or whether when il saw the English
press drop Ids Wells, it determined 20 40
the same NO do mot know; bat we do
know that 1t has refused 10 have any
thing To do with Ida Wells. We thought
some time ago that the Wells incident
coaid be wound up as faras the south is
concerned; it Is quite evident new that
ii is ended not for the south alone, but
for the whole country, and that even
England is sick of it.-Er.