The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-08-23
MORAL SENTIMENT WON'T REACH
THE CASE.

Ida b. Wells, COloTed Ciusduer,
has been to England, where she en-
gagged IN Organizing anti-lynchlns
societies on people generally, but on
the colored man Of the South in
particular. She succeeded in creating
a good deal of sympathy for her race,
and in establishing several societies,
having for their object the suppression
of lynching. We do not see how the
people of England are going to help
matters, other than through the force
of moral sentiment, which doesn I
count for much in the hands OF a mob
in Louisiana or Arkansas, who are
abou, to deal with negro guilty of
rape. The remedy for these lynchlngs
is in the better behavior Of the victims,
who are safe from the hands of mob
as long as the women Of the South are
safe from their hands. The people of
the South do not lynch Colored men
for fun. The Wells woman has held
up the women of the South as IN a
measure to blame This is a libel.
The women of the South arc famed for
their virluc.-C Courier.
Senate has appropriated $4,000
and appointed a special committee to
ascertain the number of persons lynched
in the United States, and what for,
during the past decade. In advance
of the report it IS entirely safe to say
that the total number will be so large
as to be appalling. 1t is predicted
that % per cent of the victims will be
shown to have been negroes; their
crimes rape upon the persons of white
women and children.
White persons commit such crimes
only with extreme rarity. Despite
all Of the terrible tortures that some Of
these inhuman brutes have been put
TO, despite all the efforts that have been
made to Christlanize the race by the
most powerful influences, and despite
the countless thousands that have been
devoted to the education Of the negroes
in the South; these inconceivable
crimes not only continue, but increase
with a rapidity that is as deplorable as
it is appalling.
If the able bishops and ministers,
the scholarly and honored men and
women Of the race would inaugurate
a crusade against these uncomfortable
crimes, they would be far better
employed than when contending for
the "rights," social and political, of
the race.-Fe Felicity ohio Times.
CAPTAIN ROBERT B. PEBBLES, the
Democratic nominee tor the House
Of Representatives from Northamp-
ton, opened the campaign on last
Monday by speech of an hour and a
half in length in the court house. He
said Senator Ransom's votes in the
United States Senate for the past
twelve months force him to be against
his reelection. He said that he was
in Washington four days before the
passage of the bill Internationally
repeating the Sherman silver purchas-
ing act, and that he had warned the
Senator that if he voted for that bill
and no measures of relief were speedily
enacted that he and the people Of
| North Carolina would not support
him that Senator Ransom voted fol
The unconditional repeal of the Sher-
man act and that no measures OF relief
have since been enacted, consequently
he could not support the Senator fol
reelection. He believed that the
Democracy of North Carolina needed
and should have Senator who would
carry out the wishes Of North Caro-
lima and work and vote for her besI
in,erest.-Lasker Patron and Cleaner