The Weekly orb., 1899-05-07
THE GEORGIA HORROR.

Concerning the most horrible and inhu- man torture of the black brute in Georpis
 and the inconcslvable iiCndishness displayed by the infuriatel mob which visited upon him such direful vengeance there can be but one opinion anon. civilized people in full posssssion of their reasoning faculties.
 Nothing more deplorabie, moro disgrsse-
 full, more humiliating to the sane, cousSrys-
 tivo people of the south has ever occurred
 and public sentiment, as we'll ns the opera
 tions of the laws, should so strongly con demn this monstrous outrage that Q reoccur- renee of anything like It in any civilized community In . state of the American union would be impossible,
 If the enraged neighbors of the brutal pegros's victims. having caught the wretch red handed, had strung him up and riddled his body with bullets, without ceremony, there would hevc been apology for, if not approval of, the act. The provocation was such as to excuse. if not to justify summary vengeance. but no sort of provocation could palliate such an exhibition of suyagery ss the Georgia mob resorted to. The act of the negro Hose deserved condign punishment, If he had been shot down or hanged without the formality of the law. there being no question ., to his guilt. his crime would have been avenged and his fate would have been a sufficient warning to others who might thereafter be tempted to follow l.. his footsteps. Mob violence may be excusable where the provscation is such ~ to drive the people into frenzy. when each oue feels that his own home may be dsspoilsd by the samC or some other negro brute if vengeance Is not swift and sure. ..a..g ' .~
 It ia useless to talk to such people under. such circulu.tances, about the majesty of the law and that the law bc permitted to take It's course. People will submit patient ly to ordinary miraculous of tho criminal code, but nine out of the leu of the good citi- sens where the nameless crime for which Hsse suffered such terrible punishment will excuse or approve the summary action of Judge Lynch in nearly every such case when not accompanied by barbarian which al- most shames the original crime. But such Is the spirit and effect of mob violence that when few good mon have undertaken to punish yiliainy, hundreds of bad men or men who became crazcd by their aroused sentiment and pnssions will often take the nattcr out of their control and go to the extremes of cruelty and sayagery that brings the blush of shame to the community which they disgrace. ..
 The meddlcsome sentimentalists in the north and east and across the water and the negroes themselves who manifest sympathy for the victims of Judge Lynch are much to blame for tho dsplorable occurrences of which ths Georgia affair Is an extreme OK ample. If those people confined themselves to denouncing the crimas which provoke mob violence instead of passing resolutions and making inHamatOry speeches against the summary punishment of such crimes the outrages would be fewer and it would be less difficult t.o build up Q healthy public sentiment against lynchings in those com nunitios where thoy are most likely to oc- cur.
 The rape hend is entitled to no sympathy or consideration under any circumstances, but the good name of the people. the Chris tian civilization and character of the com participating In or tolerating such hendishness in execution las that which marked tue taking o1r the negro at Newman, Ga.. are badly smirched. and the effect Is ai- together bad.
 Let us hopo that eondomnati.,n will be 70 severe and general that thcre will never be such another occurrence in any enlightened r"untry.--Snn Antonio Express.