The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-08-21
REMOVE THE CAUSE
Says John Temple Graves and You
Will Stop Lynohings.
HE TALKS OUT VERY PLAINLY

anu says bOluly Vhnt the OSunt
Crime VIII be Followed
I'm the South by
LynchinR.
Unique among all summer gather
ings Is the Mob Conference" now in
progress at Chatauqun, N. Y. The
increase Of mob spirit shown by feads,
lynchings, riots, assassinations aud
other lawless happenings gives great
Importance to this conference. Among
Wednesdays speakers was John Tenn
pie Graves Of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. Graves spoke on "Thc mob
spirit Of the south" lie defended
lynch law as remedy for the crime
OF rape, holding that though lynching
Is a 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 tile
crime Of rape and thus, lie maintaine,
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 lyncling in the soutl,
but the larger question:: How shall
VIC 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 large degree; the mob is
the sterncst, the strongest and most
effective restraint that the age holds
for the control Of rape.
1.-THE lyncher does not cxtcrminate
the rapist," Mr.. Graves contendcd,
"but he holds him nightly in
check
AS 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, hc
held arc not afraid of death coming
a regular way. The love display and
the spectacular element Of a trial and
execution appeal TO their imagina-
tionS.
Expediting the processes Of the law
would not be adequate to eliminate
llynching. The repeal of the amend
ments and the establishment OF the
i.negro's inferlority ip law and society,
said Mr.. Graves, though desirable, re
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. II possible, under
the law.
mo influence of suppression SO
mighty and effective could lie brought
to bear is Il Law making amputation
the penalty for the crime rape. But
this, like curfcw caicts, separate laws
for white and black, or the treatment
Of the crime Of rape as separate and
outside OF all other codes but expcdi-
ents, he maintained, there is no real
remedy but one. No statute will per-
mancntly solve this problem. Religion
does not solve it. Education compli-
Gates it. Politics complexities it.
THE truth which lies beyond and
above all those temporzing expcdi-
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. NJ.
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 It's attritions.
that sin and vice could be committed
by 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 fevcrish criminal tendencies,
so the laSw Of association must be en-
ployed to antagonizc.
In the afternoon mob conference,
John Temple Graves answered uues-
| tiOnS. The north and south were
equally represented. Mr.. Graves
plan for the solution OF the race
troubles is Il state set aside for ne
groes and Observation-Disclosures outside
OF that territory. lie said the south
would not object to the loss Of the
| negro and for 1t learning the superb
ority OF white labor.
Is mob executions" lie was asked,
"a matter OF economy to tho south?"
mo-" he replied, "thc south never
weighs money in the matter Of wo-
mans honor"
Another question was, ''Arc not
the southern mobs largely white trash
and men OF murdcrous intcntions?"
He answered:
by no means. The mob have in
cluded the highest in the land, Of
licials and professional men,"
lie declared that Il white man would
be lynched as quickly as a negro for
an oifenSc against white woman's
honor. He instanccd in proof the
only lynching in New Orleans in re-
cent years.
Where liz He?
A dispatch from Atlanta to the
Augusta Chronicle says: with q