The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-19
REMOVE THE CAUSE
Says John Temple Graves and You
Will Stop Lynchings.
He TALKS OUT VERY PLAINLY.

And Says Boldly That the Usual
Crime Will be Followed
in the South by
Lynching.
Unique among all summer gather
ings is the Mob Conference" now in
progress at ChatauQua, n. Y. The
increase of mob spirit shown by feuds,
lyrchirgs, riots, assassinations and
other lawless happenings gives great
Importance to this conference. Among
Wednesdays speakers was John Tenn
pie Graves Of Atlanta, Ga.
MI. Graves spoke on The mob
spirit Of the south" He defended
lynch law asa remedy for the crime
of rape, holding that though lynching
is crime it is justified by the crime
which provokes it and will never be
discontinued until that crime is
eliminated. The remedy for lynch
ing must be the elimination of the
crime OF rape and thus, he maintalne,
could be done only by the separation
Of the two races in the United States.
The problem Of the hour is not
how to prevent lynching in the south
but the larger question: How shall
we destroy the crime which always
has and always will provoke lynch
ing"
"The answer which the mob re-
turns to this vital question is already
known. The mob answers it with
the rope, the bullet and sometimes.
God save us, with the torch. And
the mob is practical. Its theory is
effective to a. large degree: the mob IS
the sternest, the strongest and most
effective restraint that the age holds
for the control Of rape.
"The lyncher does not exterminate
the rapist," Mr. Graves contended,
'but he holds him nightly IN
check"
AS a sheer, cold, patent fact, he
said, the mob stands Wednesday as
the most potential bulwark between
the women Of the south and such a
carnival Of crime as would and precip-
itate the annihilation Of the negro
race. The masses of the negro, he
held are not afraid Of death coming
a regular way. The love display and
the Spectacular element of a trial and
execution appeal to their imaglna-
tions.
Expediting the processes of the law
would not be adequate to eliminate
lynching. The repeal Of the amend
ments and the establishment of the
negro's inferiority in law and society,
said Mr.. Graves, though desirable, are
not sufficient.
"For the negro" he added, is a
thing Of the senses and with his race
and with all similar races the desire
of the senses must be restrained by the
terror Of the senses, if possible, under
the law.
"No influence of suppression so
mighty and effective could be brought
to bear is a Law making amputatlon
the penalty for the crime rape. But
this, like curfew e9icts, separate laws
for white and black, or ehe treatment
Of the crime Of rape as separate and
outside of all other codes but eXpedl-
ents, he maintained, there is no real
remedy but one. No statute will per
manently solve this problem. Religion
does not solve it. Education compli-
Gates it. Politics complicates it.
1.-THE truth which lies beyond and
above all those temporizing expedl-
ents," he concluded, is that separa-
tion is the logical, the inevitable, the
only solution Of the great problem OF
the races"
Discussing the subject Of Mental
and moral contagion." DR.. j. M.
Buckley Of New York, after speaking
at some length of the various transient
and permanent changes that take
place under different physical and
mental influences in human personal
ity, took up the question of crime and
argued that all crime implied the ex-
istence of social and its attritionS.
that sin and vice could be committed
by a person alone in the world but not
SO crime. He showed the operation of
this and how far through their natur-
al causes epidemics might spread.
In conclusion, he declared that as
laws Of association bring on such gen.
eral and feverish criminal tendencies,
so the lasw of association must be en-
ployed to antagonize.
In the afternoon mob conference,
John Temple Graves answered ques-
tions. The north and south were
equally represented. Mr.. Graves
plan for the solution OF the race
troubles is a state set aside for ne
g-oes and disenfranchisement outside
of that territory. He said the south
would not object to the loss of the
negro and for it learning the superl-
ority Of white labor.
is mob execution" he was asked,
"a matter of economy to the south"
"No," he replied, THE south never
weighs money in the matter OF wo-
mans honor"
Another question was, Are not
the southern mobs largely whi5e trash
and men Of murderouS intentions:
He answered:
''By no means. The mob have IN
cluded the highest in the land, Of
ticials and professional men"
He declared that white man would
be lynched as quickly as negro for
an otfcnse against a white woman'S