The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-18
From the philadelphia Time

From the Philadelphia Times.
THE GROWTH OF MOB LAW.-The
North is silenced in its regulation COM
plants AGAINST the South because OF the
mastery of lynch law. The tragedies Of
Urbana. Ohio. where n negro who as
saulted a respectable white woman was
foreibly taken from the custody Of the sher-
iff and executed by mob violence after Two
citizens had been killed and eleven wound
cd by the military in i'll directed Efforts TO
maintain the authority Oh law. and the
later tragedy at Princess Anue.. Md, whore
negro was executed by q mob last week
after he had been convicted and sentenced
10 death for feloniouslY assaultng d white
woman. furnish impressive lessons alike TO
the North and the South as 10 the growth
OF mob law in both sections of the coun
Try.
While felonious assaults upon women i'll
punished by death. il the Northern States
it is not capital oilense. but there is
even greater excuse Tor mob violence in
the South than In the North. These as
| saults come almost Invariably from brutal
negroes. and in the South. with it's sparse
settlements. the UNPROTECTED condition OF
iamiiies. and tho immense proportion of
colored population, IL requires the widest
ana most terrible punishment for such Of
| lenses. True. if the Law is allowed to take
it's course in the South, the punt inment for
| such crime is death, but the penalties of
| the law have little influence Ia ueterI ING
the ignorant aud brutal class Of negroes
| who commit these offenses. while The mas
| terry of mob law does in some I.elsure ter
| rity and restrain them.
| II should be remembered, also, that the
| increase Of mob law during the last few
| years Is not so much the natural out
| growth OF lawess violence as 1T is the re-
suit OF the alarming increase of fcloniCus
| assaults upon women by brutal negroes
| While slavery existed in this country such
assaults were extremely rare, indeed, al
! most unknown. either North or South but
today there is hardly a week thus does
| not record the execution by mob law OF
! some such criminal. 1t is the increase of
this terrible crime that has logically in
| creased the mastery OF mob law, ami il is
we'll to consider and look squarely in the
| face this fearful truth
| III is the duty Of every good citizen to
| demand that the law shall be maintained
under all circumstances. and the public
press OF the country. both North and
| south. has maintained 1t with great adei-
l.
Ilhtelhseh'ly and .spasslonately consider
! the subject. that the Increase of this fear
| ful crime must so impress the public gen =
eralN that when II IL committed in any
community. however Intelligent. peaceful
| and law abiding. 1t is with the greatest
| difhculty that the majesty OF the law can
| De maintained Two exhibitions % lynch
law in Ohio and Maryland within week
conelusivelY establish the fact that there is
no community In the North that can row
| be trusted to successfully resist mob law
| IN cases OF such felonious assaults III on
| women.
MOD law is growing solely because the
| crime FOR which the law seems To furnish
no adequate restraint or RENE iy has beer
| growing with appalling rapidly, and 1t is
best TO face the truth as II H. Mon law
must he restrained, because II once es-
tlpilshed Tor one crime. It must steadily
eStehd 10 other crimes. and dnmoral2e the
most law abiding people of ,he world but
now u II TO be done7 Let those who mer-
| elitssiV oriticsse the mobs of Urbana and
Princess Anne tell how the crime that
p'oNoNcs TINS lawlessness is TO be mas
| tered
from the Atlanta Constitution.
OUR FRIEND, Mr.. WATTERSoN. Ed
itor Watterson Internationally does in.
justice to contemporary by creditng 10
1t nm editorial article on "Cleyeand and
Clevelandism" that recently appeared in
tho Constitution. II is an injustice be-
cause our contemporary. II it's views have
not greatly changed would hardly indorsc