Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-12
|DR BABBETT ON LYNCHNG.
He Denounced Officials Who
 Countenance It.
The Address Was An Answer to John Temple Graves of Georgia-He Said That Lynchers Are Murderers in the Eyes of the Law.


 Eyes of the Law.
 Chatauqua, N. Y., Aug 12.-The Rev Dr Dean Richmond BauDett, rector of the church Of the EpiphAly, Brooklyn, answered John Temple Graves of Georgia in an elaborate address this morning at the GhauIauqua assembly, on lyncnings and mobs from au Ameri- can standpoint. Dr Babbett's address was the chief one of to-day oIl moOs. The interest in the mob question grows deeper every day of the five days ai- lotted to it this week.
 Dr Babbetr entrusted the southern view of lynching justified by MT Graves with what he called tne more general and the better view of the American nation" and showed the pre- valence and increasing violence of the mob spirit and it's tendency to leap the color line and to lynch for minor of fensG-p than rape and murder. He dwelt upon the psychology of the mob and gave the Wilmington lynching of the negro White as typical and de- nounced the officials who refused to protect any prisoner of any color or for any crime. He paid a glowing
  in Governors Durbin and Yates of h. diana and Illinois, and upheld Presi- dent Roosevelt in his recent letter on lynching.
 A marked feature of Rev Dr Bab bett's address was the emphasis he put upon riotous lynchers as murderers in the eye of the law and of good morals, and the terrible responsibility of every man or woman who engages in a mob. participates in lynching, or who by word of mouth, or sign, supports a sen timent or helps make public opinion in favor of mobs and lynchings.
 Dr Babbett said in part: 'As an American citizen we should know no north or south, and we should be shel- tered under but one flag, Old Glory, the symbol of order, justice, political equality and equal rights before the law. Mob anarchy, brutal lynchings. can have no excuse morally, legally oI politically. Lynchers are plain, brutal, savage murderers; should be treated so by the authorities and by all worthy to wear the name of American cftlzens Lynching never protects Womenhood, but it does glut bestial, savage lust Tor blood. Let us henceforth call things DY IQ6lT TlSHJ diACSs' AASs yict and punish every rioter and lynch CT. and do it deliberately with Anglo Saxon calmness. Do 1t in the name Of the Lord and of the welfare of Ameri- can society and institutions. We have not gone so far in American civilization as to have to mutilate persons to pre- vent rape. nor to forcibly exile negroes because We cannot control them. The first is a reversion to barbarism. the second to feudal sentiment and both are utterly un-American methods of build ing I'D an aristocracy on color.
 Enforce the law though we have to become a nation of soldiers to do so. Protect our women. if you have to put a constable by the side of each one of them. Let the mob have the law. or dered. regular. judicial but unplacable to rioters. whose only medicine. as yio- lators of the law. is what Sheriff Whit ! lock in Danville. H. gave them--leaden bullets More morality. less prejudice. stricter law quickly applied. fair play to negro and white and both the race question and the mob problem Will as sume less dangerous dimensions"