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Lynchings I'm Louisiaua.
The entire country Ii involved and
shares the disgrace Of Louisiana.--P
delphia Record. n
The facts In the case In no wise justi-
fed the action Of the mob.-Birmingham
tAla) Age-Herald. lSlit Vi
Louisiana me fiods are somewhat bar
barous, but there Ii no question a. to
their effectiveness. -Detroit News-Trib-
unc.
The lynching shows that negroes are
not the only ones against whom the
Southern mobs direct their vengeance
New-York Sun.
The law-abiding people of Louisiana
will read the terrible news from Tallulah
with profound regret.-New sOrleahs
Times Democrat. eftg
A community which permits all these
civilized methods to be trampIed upon
and allows passion to exercise itself in
barbaric revenge should pay the penalty.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
II lynchings are tolerated at all,
against any class of the people or for
any class Of alleged crime, 1t is q dead
certainty that they will grow more num-
erous, and that no class of people will
be spared.-Leavenworth Times.
The lynchings Of FIVE Italians in Louis
lana because one of their number had
engaged in a quarrel with and shot and
wounded doctor in the parish in which
the affair occurred, again brings before
the world Americas disgrace.-Milwau-
kee News.
A lynching Of a negro in Missouri and
of five Italians In Louisiana last week
are bl0tches on our record as humanita-
rians. Besides, in the latter case the
Government may be called upon to pay
handsome indemnity.-St. Joseph Her
aid. ik9s
In his recent letter on lynching, Mr..
Booker I. Washington warned the South
ern whites that the habit grew by what
1t fed upon. His warning finds an early
and impressive illustration in the lynch
ing Of FIVE Italians at Tallulah, La
Boston Herald.
Robert G. InRersoll.
Col Robert G. Ingersoll has solved the
problem concerning which he had SO
much doubt-New York Herald.
The great agnostic had many follow
ers, but 1t is a question whether his as
saults on religion did not promote rather
than retard its progress.-Omaha Bee.
Whatever else he was or was not, he
was an American, product of our soil
and racy Of 1t, particularly a product Of
the middle West, which Is developing it's
own subvariety Of American.-New York
Times.
The evil of his teaching was its effect
on weak and unintelligent minds. He
professed ignorance of the hereafter, and
his ignorant hearers went step further
and disbeleved in any hereafter.-St.
Paul Dispatch.
lngersoll is no more. but the churches
continue to point with taper spires to
heaven. What Is good in religion will
Withstand the assaults Of revilers; what
abuses grow up within its fold are more
likely to yield before the onslaughts of
reformers within than of wreckers with
Out.-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The sudden blow only emphasizes the
force Of that reflection of Pascal, who
said that he could not imagine any one
suffering harm by being mistaken in be-
lieving Christianity to be true, whereas
he could easily see that it would be a
fearful error to be mistaken in believing
Christianity to be false.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Messenger Boys Strike.
Even the marble-playing messenger
boys seem to be tolcrably lively when
they are on a strike.-Cincinnati Com
mercial- Tribune.
The general impression is that IL the
boys take as long to strike as they do to
deliver messages no great Inconvenience
will ensue.-Nashville American.
Who shall win fame by identifying the
strike germ? Even the New York news
boys have caught the disease land the
messenger boys of the metropolis threat
en- to go out to-day. As we all know,
when messengers 60 out it is matter
Of some moment.-Boston Journal
The messenger boys strike ought, Il
the strikers are true to their immemorial
traditions, to be conducted with the ut
most leisure and elaboration, even with
a touch Of shat repose which stamps
the caste of We're de Vere." II, how
ever, it shall have the effect Of changing
the nature of the strikers, so as to make
them a trife more sudden, not to say pre-
cipitate, the wondering public will rejoice
with fitting awe.-New York Tribune.
England's Spoiled Child.
England's spoiled child" needs some
earnest admonition from the mother
country.-Omaha Bee.
If England can only quiet Canada, the
enfant terrible of the mother country,
who insists on making such rumpus
that her elders can't hear themselves
talk, the difficulty will probably be
smoothed over.-New York Herald.
Since the firm stand taken and main.
tanned by the United States on the Alas.
kan boundary question Great Britain is
said to be yielding something of her
claims and responding in better spirit to
our representations. 1t is well for Mr..
Bull to understand that other people can
be firm as well as himself.-Indianapo
Journal.
There is an almost universal opinion
in this country to the effect that Great
Britain has permitted the amity now ex-
listing between the two countries to be un-
necessarily threatened by her weakness
in the treatment of Canada. The latter
country has played her traditional role Of
a spoiled child.-Washingto Star.