The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-28

Bishop Gaines interview in yester-
days Post-Inteiligencer brings to the
minds OF thoughtful people again the
terrible lynching problem in the South.
and the seeming. but contradictory.
hopciessness of the situation.
Through a fault OF the American Law.
to protect the people under their rule.
or to arrest and punish the lynchers.
does not warrant the interference of the
national government. Gubernatorial
remissness consequently compels the
people to go unprotected and the lynch
ers unpublished.
Yet the troops arc sent TO the Philip
pines 10 produce law and order among
o people who do not seem to rejoice
are dispatched to spank and put them
to bed. The little yellow man Of the
tropics Is expected to say. God bless
the Americans. who had come tn tear
down the Spanish flag and substitute
Old Glory" but the nag can't go down
to Georgia. under the conduct of the ma
tional officers. and the Georgia cracker,
that lot of poor white trash who are
making a holiday OF negro-baiting. be
hidden TO quit lynchIng"
Uncle Sam has fixed himself so that
he can interfere In a foreign family
quarrel. but, according 10 the ruling
OF 1880. when Secretary Blaine informed
the Italian government that the United
States could not punish the Malta lynch
ers. or be held responsible for indem-
nifty. he has nothing tor do with the fam
lily jars of his own country. and Is pow
erless when Southern community
arises and burns or hangs or hacks to
pieces those whom the greatest of Amer
leans died to set free. Congress viii
stretch Its conscience to meet the cmer-
gency In the Philippines. but 1t is most
apt To shelve the lynching business as
thing outside of It's scope and impos-
sible to be interfered with
Lynching is verse than slavery. IL
II to be tolerated. as slavery once wase
The efforts of Gov. Gambler TO put an
end TO the states crimes only emphasize
iathe strength Of the evil. /. seems pity
that the crime should he So low that A
governor must act as policeman 10
protect negro from the violence OF a
lynch mob, yet Gov Gambler has 81
acted. He has issued stirring and
manly proclamation begging that his
commonwealth he not held up before
the eyes of the natlen az lawless and
criminal. But words. NO matter what
the depth Of their patriotism. do not
stop the thirst Of a Southern ivnchiny
party when, like the blood hounds which
they send ont as scouts, they taste the
frenzy Of pursuit and tineie and vihra;e
for the excitement az the elimination
81 their orey-ihe oonyulsive form II "A
negro shrieking his innocence upon a
teering and yeip.ng mob,
Gov Gambler asserts tina; the error
at the bottom ~ the situation is the
original gift OF the suffrage 10 the an
enlightened. There IS no disput;ng
some af the truth q this statement.
but the negro is only a fractional ele-
nlens Of the unenilghieneti IN me South
The governor wants the ballot reserved,
fer the ''virtuous and the intelligent"
but II he means - retain IL solely for
the whites ne forgetS what she negro
has done where the white has not kept
BIN tn sahserN!encc ard racial Fxnonl-
iny. The siatistician IN the ethics 81
learning fn9s no difficulty IN showing
that the raee which has practically only
learned iss A. Il. Cs since is65. with
no ancestry % information. w}th eeerY
draw hack as 10 scholastic advancement.
has ou,ranked any ether nesy nation in
it's ability aasf power ~ receptive knowI-
edge.
Ana as for SIS virtue Asa the ,haa-
sands 80 rnuisftoeS. who walk 'he.y 81 {
way under the magnolia ana TIRE ciean-
der~~tco white - weG s7e negro. too
dark IN mate with the white u,an-shey
sreak .rcTn the silence ~ hopeless resis-