Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-05-12
I(llillg Condemned.
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thnsissm ID 1867 while on bis
is the Roman prison, he pens
ned ia his letter to his comrades
the following sentance: IF fifty
[Garibaldis are thrown into prison,
lst Rome befree!'' Oh that every
true citizen il America would pa
raphrase this expression to suit
the times and the ,e1igence By
saying, sIf hn ndred athousand
llynchsrs be thrown into prison,
let America be free!' Afro
America Citizen.
A few pounds Of dynamite
thrown promiscuo usly about such
mobs IS the one at Newman, Ga,
last Sunday would do more good
toward curing such tends Of bar.
barism than all the preaching,
talking and writing that can be
done in 8 thousand years. Oma-
Progress,
Undoubtedly, hades has been
uncapped in Georgia and the
demons have taken renewed i'm
petus to make for themselves a
record of blood and murder that
far excel ny, made elsewhere in
this country. The Texarkana and
Paris, Texas horrors have been
out done and Newman, Ga, stands
alone 7as having committed the
most inhuman and Infamous crime
that ever disgraced the crimson
pages Of American history.
Western Enterprise.
There is need for us to attempt
to describe the hellish scenes, as
they have been largely described
in the daily papers, though we do
mot believe that their horrors
could be fully depicted by the
master hand Of Dante. When we
think of the terrible, terrible outs
RACES which have been perpetrat>
ed in the South upon Afro. Amer
leans, we are often forced to ask
the same. question which Sojourn-
or Truth did Of Frederick Doug>
lass: els God dead?" Verify, it
seemeth He is. st. Paul Appeal.
It is useless to 60 to heather
lands or to search the records of
the dark ages for 4 parallel Of this
blood J drama, for the blacklist
page il the Worlds history was
written at Newman, Ga, on the
Holy Sabbath Of Gods crucitied
and risen Son!!! April %, A. D.
1899 Springfield, O. National
Standard Enterprise.
We live in Christian Country
= y )
and are govern by an elaborate
and intricate mechanism of law,
which Blackstone has defined to
be "a rule of civil conduct, pre-
scribed BY the higher power in the
State, permitting what is right
and prohibiting what is wrong !"
We make loud proclamation to the
world of our civic power and
moral virtue, and we do it with
such ostentation as to amount to
ofensiveness. If the outside
world could be imposed upon by
our loud mouthings we would be
rated everywhere as q Nation Of
saints instead Of a Nation Of by
pocrites, liars and murderers, such
as we are. New York Age.
The daily papers refer to crimes
upon crimes by the white race
from all sections of our land and
they are as atrocious as many by
Negroes yet the law takes it's
course for the white man and the
mob takes the Negro. The thing
has narrowed down to this fact
that, courts are now organized for
white men only, and mobs for
Negroes W eekly Press. Ala.
Southern lyachers are "over-
reaching" themselves. Sam.
Hoses execution was 50 brutal,
barbarous and outrageous that
the civilization Of this country is
being questioned at home and
fabraod. Cleveland, O., Gazette.
tits about time for the minis
tiers Of the A. NJ. E. church, who
in the aggregate, are the most
progressive, enlightened and rae