The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-01

escapade; after his negro postmaster out
rage in Alabama; after his insulting
bravado and action as to the negro APP
pointment as the Custom House official
in the Southern city of Charleston, s. c.,
against the united protest of all genuine
white citizens; after his treatment of the
white woman of high character in Della
ware who was ousted from the post office
in that State to which she had been APP
pointed by President Mckinley and had
been reappointed by little Teddy The vici
Gus, and all because he wanted the place
for one of his disreputable henchmen
there is nothing too mean and offensive
for him that may cause surprise OF
''astonish the natives But Roosevelt
on Lynching is thumper. This modern
Goliath of Gath, Is fresh and astonishing to
the Nation" This man of much 'fuss
and feathers" wrote book ''as is book. -
He called it Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail''-and it was published in 1S99-but
four years ago. He tells of Astounding
horse-thieving in the West, and how
valuable as property are horses. But
they are stolen, and then what? Why
the thieves being caught are made way
with-are lynched, which Teddy calls
ruthless severity" but a necessity all
the same. The New York American, a
Democrat, that talks out in meeting"
says:
mo man can deny that Mr.. Roosevelt,
the same man VINO denounces so severely
the lynchng of a negro who has murder
ell a white woman, condoned most decid-
eddy the lynching of white man guilty
of stealing a horse
Mr.. Roosevelt says that for lynching Q
horse thief the reasons are evident
But this verltable Teddy is simply hor-
rified and deeply offended when a negro
brute who rapes a white woman of char
acter and purity and then murders her
that she may not tell of the awful crime
and help identify the villain if captured.
The horse thief is hanged if caught, and
that is right because necessity. The
negro brute is hanged for rape and MUIR
der. and that is wrong. is brutal. This is
the Roosevelt's pious view of the two
courts. The American says:
Mr.. Roosevelt sympathizes with the
negroes, and he says in letter written to
Governor Durbin of Indiana, on August
3. 1903:
'''All thoughtful men must feel the
gravesC alarm over the growth of lynch
ing in this country, and especially over
the peculiarly hideous forms so often taken
by mob violence when colored men are the
victims
Here you see that Mr.. Roosevelt de-
neunees the men guilty of lynching ne
gro, who in turn absolutely ruined, if he
did not actually destroy the life of help
less woman.
Now. what does Mr.. Roosevelt say
about the lynching of the man who steals
a horse?'
What a poor figure that pictorial
mountebank cuts on the tlght-rope before
SO, 600, 900 American people. If tAe true
Southrons generally do not "love to
hate that marplot and enemy. it will
be because they are marvellously long
suffering and forbearing, and because OF
their humane character and obedience to
the law of God as to loving your
enemies" The conduct of the President
is alike disgusting and indefensble. He
is political anomaly, disturber of the
public peace, the enemy of pure woman
hood in this dear Southland. a disgrace
20 Norther manhood, and he richly merits
public excoriation and the contempt of
alike in the North as in the South. The
New York American must be heard from
cnce more. 1t says:
"In the South very dreadful crime
the most dreadful conceivable. fills with
constant alarm thousands of families.
1.-THE newspapers tell briefly the story
that cannot possible be told in detail
1.-THE father is compelled to leave home
for short time. He returns to find one
OF his family has been murdered under
most atroclous conditions. 1t may be his
wife and the mother of his children. 1t
may be his daughter, mere child.
For this crime in the South, as it used
to be with horse stealing in the West.
the penalty is death.
1.-The most respectable and law-abding
citizens in the South help to hunt down
the ferocious creature who makes the
lives of women unsafe. When found he is
killed. as the horse thief used to be killed.
'Of all the lynchings that have been so
much talked about in the United States a
vast majority have been based upon the
two crimes referred to above.
1T seems uncaled for to ask any human
being which of those two crimes he con
sidcrs the most serious.
(Which offers the better excuse for
lynching--a stolen COW. pony or an out
ragged and murdered girl?"
Rev Jonathan Edwards was in all pro-
liability the profoundest intellect among
the clergy of all New England from Puri-
tar times until now. He was really a
great thinker. and what is better and far
more important, he was deeply pious and
fully consecrated to God, a sincere be-
lever in the blessed Bible doctrine OF the
baptism OF fire and the higher Christian
life. He believed as much as John Wesley
believed in the precious doctrine OF Chris
tan perfection and Scriptural sanctifica-
ton. In this month there will be cele-
brated in New England the bi-centennial
OF his birth. He has exercised great In
fiuence over human thought, and is re-
garded IN England as the greatest OF
American theological writer's and thinkers.
he has had many worthy. useful and
scholarly descendants. who are said to
number III all 1,400. They have been ac
frx-p in ifo a,,I