Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-14

other day for shooting and Killing q
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
surerfuous energy of that Hoosier
mob. If they killed the Senegambian
by shooting him. what was the sense
In hanging him or cremating him?
PROFOUND that query to the savants of
the Antilynch society aforesaid. That
triple infiiction of the death penalty
can be explained only by 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 ''fraiE-
ing" dead dog with hickory club.
Asked why he was thus performing, he
replied, Il wish to teach him that there
is punishment after death' l 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 authoritatiyely 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 in 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
Indianians 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 its 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 ef
Ida Finkelstein the murdered Terre IIaute school
teacher whose supposed murderer was ynched on
Tuesday, by the rabbi denouncing the mob in the
course of his funeral grafton. He declared en-
phatcally for the orderly processes Of the law and
deplored the taking of life without the most am
pie proof of guilt. In fact lie mad, ii plain that
the religious beliefs of the dead girl had been out
ragged by the action OF the mob il assuming to
take summary vengeance upon her slayer The
rabbi was right, and his courage in stating lis
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 proof that the south
makes no discrimination account of color, yet
the law abiding citizen will hardly discover any
good cause for pride. 1t is simply cxemphca-
tion of how familiarity with vice breeds tolerance
The lynching of coored Een. melted by race
prejudice, has become common that mob yio-
lence has superseded law even in the treatment of
poor whites.
LynchinS is disgrace to free institutions
and a blot upon American principles of justice.
Outlines the laws delays irrtatingly and un-
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 resounGing 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 sapieat
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 disfranchising the
colored man in the south while Repub-
licans themselves disfranchised both
blacks and whites ia the District of
Columbia. stated that the only ex-
cuse | ever heard for 1t was that an
eminent Republican resident of the
District of Columbia said to me. .sIf
you grant the right of franchise TO the
people of the District of Columbia, tie
blamed niggers and the poor whites
will vote us into Bankruptcy |
used the expression as | heard it and
gave my authority. Republican author
ity. Now, be 1t further remembered
that the Boston editors did not object
to the emphatic and more or less pro-
fame adjective Their lccture was bas-
ed on the assumed fact that spelled
"colored gentleman" with two g's."
They knew that their contention was
false. but they also knew that their
readers. not having the text of my re-
marks before their eyes. would not
know that they were predicating q
moral and ethical lecture on false
basis, so they could misrepresent me
with impunity. exalting their own vir-