The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-22

cidental. If so, it was lucky accident
| for him. En- PEASANT it may be stated
that he was one of the three presiden-
tial scholars par excellence, Thomas
Jefferson and John Quincy Adams be-
ing the other two.
1t is always pleasant to lecture to
college students. They form at once
the most severely critical and the most
highly appreciative audience. That
may seem paradoxical but it is true,
and it is good for lecturer to stand be-
fore such an audience. He does lia
best, and every point worth applauding
is applauded.
In the Fashion.
man in Colorado telegraphed
man in Missouri: "Your mother-in-law
is dead. Shall we embalm, cremate or
bury her?' The Missourian did not
propose to take any chances. so he an
swered, "Embalm her; cremate her;
bury her." He evidently wanted that
job done most thoroughly. The mob at
Terre Haute, Ind, was in the same
frame of mind touching the colored
gentleman whom they worked off" the
other dag for shooting and killing a
white female schoolteacher. They shot
him; they hanged him; they burned
him!
wish to call the particular attention
of the Boston Antilynch society to that
superhuous energy of that Hoosier
mob. If they killed the Senegambian
by shooting him. what was the sense
In hanging him or cremating him? l
PROFOUND that query to the savants of
the Antilynch society aforesaid. That
triple infection of the death penalty
can be explained only by a story told
by the Hon. John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi, one Of the brightest men
and finest scholars in congress. He
says that man was discovered "frail-
ing" a dead dog with a hickory club.
Asked why he was thus performing, he
replied, Il wish to teach him that there
| is punishment after DEATH" guess
that was what the Indiana mob was
trying to do to the colored gentleman
aforesaid; but let us suspend judg-
ment till we hear authoritatively from
the Boston antilynchers. They are en-
titled to be heard, and they are invited
to speak. While they are it, they ought
, also to explain to a curious world why
lynching has spread almost iii exact
proportion to their efforts to stop it.
When they began their crusade, lynch
, ing was confined almost entirely to the
south and west Now it is spreading
like wildfire, and Indiana and Colorado
and Kansas are in the van of the pro-
cession. Really it looks as though a
lynching bee will be pulled off ON Bos-
ton Common before long, if the anti
lynchers don't let up in their crusade,
and if the Coloradans, Kansans and
| 1ndianians don't use up all the raw
material in the shape of colored gen.
tlemen. This is an age of progress,
and the Hoosiers prove it beyond all
controversy.
Puts Onus on the South.
The Pittsburg Dispatch still tries to
saddle the blame for lynching on the
south. Here is it's canting article on
the Indiana performance. In an edi-
torial headed "Lynching, North and
South it says:
A sensational turn was given to the funeral of
Ida Finkelstein, the murdered Terre Haute school
/ teacher, whose supposed murderer was lynched on
Tuesday, by the rabbi denouncing the mob in the
! course of his funeral Grafton. He declared en-
phatically for the orderly processes Of the law and
deplored the taking of life without the most am
pie proof of guilt In fact, he made it plain that
the religious beliefs of the dead girl had been out
ragged by the action Of the mob in assuming to
take summary vengeance upon her slayer. The
I rabbi was right, and his courage in stating his
convictions, under the circumstances, is COM
mendable.
Another lynching was reported yesterday. 1t
occurred in Mississippi, where lynching is not
new crime, but it was notable from the fact that
the victim was white man. The deed was her
| aided with some pride as a proof that the south
makes no discrimination on account of color, yet
the law abiding citizen will hardly discover any
good cause for PRIDE 1t is simply an exemplifca-
ton OF how familiarity with vice breeds tolerance
The lynching Of colored men, melted by race
prejudice has become SO common that mob vio-
lence has superseded law even in the treatment Of
poor whites
Lynching is \ disgrace to our free institutions
and blot upon American principles OF Justice.
Outlines the laws delays are irritatingly and
necessarily prolonged. Better that, however, than
crime upon crime.
1.-TWO G's."
wish to call the particular attention
of the Boston newspapers to the fact
that in all the foregoing discussion Of
the far resounding performance at Ter
re Haute have nowhere referred to
the eminent individual who was shot,
hanged and burned as "a Niger" but
as "a colored gentleman" The sapient
scribes Of the Hub should give me due
credit for this. Not long since. in ex-
posing on the floor Of the house Repub-
lican hypocrisy as to DISTINGUISHING the
In no x.,l,;