The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-25
CHICKENS COMING HOME.

Ing case the more interesting 1t becomes.
The crime which the negro victim COM
nitted was one Of the most horrible ever
chronicled, and yet not more 50 than
many such crimes which have been COM
7nitted by black beasts throughout tho
South since the days Of reconstruction.
However, It was the same sort OF
crime, and 1t aroused the whites Of Della
ware to the same pitch OF Indignation.
and they melted out, to the beast the
same sort Of punishment that has some
times been resorted to in Dixie.
A special from Wilmington, Delaware.
says that on the part OF the public there
has been general rejoicing in that city
because the negro atoned with his life
for his crime against q beautiful girl
and on every street corner the action
OF the mob has been applauded.
1.-THE leaders are proud Of their work."
says the correspondent. "and have re-
,ceived congratulations Of women as we'll
has been thronged throughout the day,
and those who went there early have
brought back CHASTITY trophies and SOU
venrs. There are few persons In this
city who have not seen some Of the
charred bones, which have been proudly
exhibited at many gatherings The only
regret expressed is that Whites agony
was so quickly ,cus short by death.
1.-THE leaders OF the mob are popular
heroes. John Baker, a motorman en-
ployed by the trolley company. who Is
given credit for being the foremost Of
these has been feted on every side. There
is no secret about tho leaders In the at
tack on tho workhouse and the lynching
OF White. Their names arc on every
tongue. The. authorities know them"
This case Is on all fours, as tho law
ycrs say. with similar cases in the South.
The parallel Is complete. A negro as
saulted and murdered white girl; he
was caught by mob and burned at the
stake; the action OF tho mob was gen
orally approved; portions OF the charred
remains OF the negro were exhibited as
Interesting relics.
IT is a horrible story all round. Bru-
tally was met with brutality; the law.
was trampled under foot, and the mob
spirit was rampant. We do not mean for
one instant to condone the action of the
mob. But We call special attention to
that action as showing that human
nature is much the same tho country
over; that white men at the North have
no moro liberation than white men at the
|. South for the negro who commits this
objectionable crime. and it has been dem
onstrated beyond a peradventure that II
the situation had been reversed, II the
North had had the great body of negroes
to contend with, the whites OF that sec
ton would have dealt with them quite
the same as the whites of the South have
dealt with them. The mouths of the
Northern people are now closed. Never
any Southern section In situation like
this and say that they are peculiarly
brutal and savage. The chickens have
come home to roost, and they are roost-
Ing pretty, high In the trees OF Della
ware.
1t was reported IN yesterdays papers
that negro assaulted white woman
In East ST, Louis, III, At last account
posse" was looking for the scamp,
| and it was said that II he could be cap
tured he would be lynched. The chickens
have come home to rooss In the State
OF Illinois also, and they are roasting
high.
Now. let the Northern newspapers howl,
let them denounce mob violence az much
| as they will let them say that one wrong
does not Justify another. and that mob
violence In Delaware and Illinois does not
| Justify mob violence In the South, Very
WE'LL We quite agree: but let these same
newspapers stop. parading their self
Righteousness ana assuming the holer-
| than-thou attitude toward the South,
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