The age-herald., 1900-08-29
IF ONLY pMlY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Lynch Law is National.

Ohio have served to convince the country that it has a negro problem on hand that is as broad as the country itself. They have served to show the people that all sections will act in like manner under like circumstances. A few quotations will prove interesting. Says the New York Journal, Democratic:
 The race problem is national, Proof is at hand that stratum of white men in every part of the nation thinks and acts alke on certain crimes, and, further, that crimes of all degrees are thought blacker by having been committed by blacks. Now is time for national frankness and calm ness. The solution of the problem, how ever, is most likely to be found by the Southern people, with whom the lot of the majority of the negroes is cast.
 The Chicago Journal, a Republican pa- per, is equally outspoken:
 Forty years ago the negro was d slave; today he is a-problem. The South disfran- chises him and lynches him; the North lynches him and buys his franchise Of the two the North uses him the worse The South understands the negro better than the North, and, on the whole, treats him better It at least gives him what he most needs-employment; and 1t gives it freely. But his chances of employment in the North grow fewer every year Mat ters can not go on much longer as they have been. Something must be done. What?
 The Portlend Oregonian, Republican, dis cusses the root of the trouble:
 The truth is the fifteenth amendment is the most colossal political mistake ever made in the United States. In the States where the negroes are numerous it is now practically nullifed. Experience has shown the notification to be necessary. II is nothing less than hideous doctrine that all persons have an equal right to participate in government, on equal terms, or that "self-government' or 'consent of the governed" requires the acceptance or application of this doctrine. Our people have practically changed their opinions this subject since the fifteenth amend ment was adopted; for, throughout the Northern States scarcely voice Is now lifted against this wholesale disfranchise- ment of the negroes in the South.
 The Cincinnati Times-Star, Republican, frankly admits the presence of Boxers in its State:
 The sickening stories that fill the wires this morning from Akron, O., read not unlike the descriptions of recent scenes in China. It is another reminder that you only have to scratch the skin of civiza- ton to find the brute in any land.
 Postmaster General Smiths Philadelphia Press says:
 But while Ohio may have had more evil dences of the mob spirit in recent years than other Northern States, there IS every evidence that the same spirit is growing everywhere well as in Ohio Re cent events in New York City show how easy it is to collect mob which for short time can hold possession of a part of a great city in spite of the efforts of the authorities. The evident growth of this spirit may well alarm thinking peo- pie.
 The New York Herald, independent, thus discusses the situation:
 If the brutal criminal whose life was sought by the mob were white man. there would have been no disorderly up- rising-a fact which again brings into prominence the widespread prejudice which exists among the less enlightened element of the population against the negro race. The brutal outrages perpetrated in New York the other day upon black men merely because they were black, and that by the uniformed guardians of law and order, whose duty it was to protect the unfortu- mates, was an unpleasant reminder that this prejudice exists within our own bor- ders. tt3l ltE4ieesI tHttAf it't tz#EHstit a
 The Cleveland Plaindealer, Democratic, Is frank and unsparing in its comment:
 Now it is Ohio that stands disgraced by race riot. But a few weeks ago the shameful outbreak in New Orleans fur nshed a text for sermons on race preju- dices and contempt for law in the South. Then came the race riot in New York to take the edge off these cutting comments on Southern civilization Now it is Ohio's turn to furnish an illustration of the truth | that race hatreds are not strictly confined to one section of the country, and that 1axx ic ,ari1 fn hp pt,1n wi everywhere.
 The Chicago Times-Herald, Republican, is very pointed and keen. It says:
 Until the North can prove that it's vir- tue Is of finer stuff it had better be silent on the race question or treat it from a general rather than from sectional standpoint.
 The Springfield Republican, indepcnd- ent, says:
 As in the case of the New Orleans and New York uprisings-all coming within less than a month-the mob's fury was readily directed toward the whole black race when the particular criminal of that color could not be found, and if the negroes had been as numerous at Akron as In New Orleans the page of blood would no doubt be larg CT than it is
 Further quotations would be a waste of space, for all practically say that the An glo- Saxon race is very much alike every where; and although all say that the mob spirit is chiefly confined to the ignorant and vicious members of any community in which 1t shows itself, yet the ignorant and vicious are as ready to disregard law and indulge in savagery in the one section as in the other.
 
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