The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-19
by the Governor;
Byron Boyd,
Secretary of State,

The programme which LORD Kitchener
outlines for South Africa seems to have
been fashioned along the lines OF that
which weyIer tried to enforos in Cuba
1t looks to the determination rather than
the Cancellation Of the Inhabitants.
With good reason after reading 1t Gen.
Weyler declared that his methods in Cuba
had been indicated: In one respect
Weylsr programme was more defensible
than Kitchener $. Cuba was a province
OF Spain and had risen in revolt, Weyler
was putting down rebellion against
lawfully constituted authority, while
Kitcheneris trying to reduce to subsection
a country to which the British have no
right except what might gives them. I
The movement for the annexation OF
South Portland is decidedly premature.
Doubtless some time in the future the
two cities will be united. but not now.
Portland has too many unsolve1 problems
on its hands at present, and the annexa-
ton Of South Portland would add many
more. The bill which has been prepared
proposes to bring about the union of the
two cities by legislative act without any
expression of opinion by the people OF
either. 1t is true that Deering
was annexed In this way, but not until
after there mad been repeated votes by
both places, and 1t had been demonstrate
ed that an overwhelming majority OF the
people OF Portland favored union. while
the people of Deering were divided about
equally 10 unite Portland and South
Il oif,x1 at all
would lie a stretch of power which no
legislature will be guilty of.
n The burning of the boy Porter at the
stake in Colorado, was the most hendish
lynching that has ever taken place in o
Northern state, and when viewed In all
its aspects it surpasses in diabolical cru
city anything of the kind in the South
1t was not a sudden outburst of fury on
the part of mob, as the great majority
OF the lynohings at the South have been.
A week had interviewed between the muir.
der which the boy had committed and
the,Iynching, SO it is evident that the
affair was carefully and deliberately
planned. The people engaged in 1t were
not the SCUM OF society as was the case
in the recent negro lynchings in New
York and New Orieana, but men, and
women too, or respectable standing. The
msthod Of execution was selected by the
father CT the murdered girl, after that
privilege had been conferred upon him by
vote OF the crowd. None Of the spectators
seems to have been Mortified or shocked
In the slightest degree by the savage
spectacle, but all appear to have thoroughly
enjoyed the oontortions and cries Of the
victim. Suoh affairs In the South do ad-
init of the slight extenuation that 1t Is
necessary to strike terror to an element OF
the population which Is In the majority,
and which Is inclined to be lawIess, but
there ara very few negroes In Colorado,
ana the whites cannot be in danger from
them. The only thing In the shape of
extenuatlon that can be urged is that the
death penalty has been abolished In Col
orado. but even that has no tendency to
extenuate the manner of the taking on.
Of. course the South win point to the
affair as additional proof OF what 1t has
all along ella lined, thai the negroes, II
they were as numerous In the North,
would get no more consideration than
the Southern whites give them, and 1t
Is not easy to Sos how it can be regarded
in any other light.