The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-31

In America, you have no real justice.
i lynch people, said Leopold; 1ondon
eopold is British The place was pa.
+ rk contrasting American and English m
:utions somewhat to the credit OF the
mer l might have enjoyed the discus
N somewhat under dineren ancs eircI Rut
Sre were two doting sisters listening, two
ends, three cousins and "grandmaW
| beside, this topic took me wholly by
rhe English merchant of wide expert
,e may concede that America is great: the
,mber of parliament may record MS pleas
+ ; over the growth of kindlier 1eeiing
ween the people of his country and NINE,
I Leopold-and few million more OF MS
ddle. class countrymen in England. who.
him, have no conception OF anythlns
ing good that is different from what they
ow is British-can look no higher as to
ngs American than this, the blot upon our
-utcheon which we all acknowledge But
is one thing to deplore lynchings at nome
q limited section, and quite another thlns
have the whole American nation held up
road as incpient lynchers. Then Leopold
ew religious.
I believe in the Bible" he said; every
Srd OF It, And when I read there that
cry man is my brother, l can not believe
at you have the right to lynch.
9 But I haven't lynched. My father never
ever knew" / said, trying to get the dis
sson away from such dreadful insinua-
ms And then 1 argued fifteen minutes
!. the clock trying to make Leopold under-
and that the negro he sees in England is
! entirely different type from the negro
40 gets lynched; that while the travelled
gro is a man Of more or less education,
.hnement and self respect, the negroes OF
south to O large extent are lazy, dirty
educated and sometimes no higher than
brute morally.
BY. who is sesp1nsible for n his british tisbt
put him into slavery. You have. never
| Gated him like a human being"-and 80 1t
ent. barking back to the days OF slavery,
r which the present generation is IN no
ay responsible, and Of which it knows moth
IS were the country not suffering for the
MS Of fathers hundreds Of years back.
ruly the American Of the present sener-
ore, according to the En- glish authorities
ian were ever dreamed of in his Uncle
1t on my devoted head was altogether
booking and some of it decidedly Of the ma
hre not to be mentioned in mixed company
hat never feazed Leopold, however. He is
g thing like that would not affect him in
lie least when he thought he could make his
oint quicker and harder by calling a spade
spade.
aid as soon as he ceased his flow Of Ian
+ uage. Neither did the generation before
le, nor the generation before that. 1t was
he nice, proper English colonists that sad
led 1t upon the country, and until we fought
out, we never saw the time we could lei
o. Theoretically, you are right: It is no
ght to send man into eternity without
ffenses OF the negroes are concerned which
all out the lynchins element. you are
'rong."
But there is no difference to my mint
I1th eXasperatlnE SmugnesS. WAT" II
light in theory must be right in practice.
And there l was again, humping my heat
gainst the stone wall Of non-comprehensiol
circumstances that alter cases and max
onditions. I tried to impress him witt
he offenses of the negroes; the fact that n
white woman living, on the plant ations il
he south regards herself as safe out Q
light Of her home except when accompanie
w man; that bolts and bars and firearm
AVE failed at times to protect her in he
fome from british negroes who knew her t
Pc there alone; that In years gone by legs
'edress has failed to make any impression
pon the lawless element among the negroes
Ind that In desperation at the repeated OF
be the grow nst trouble tn White
essness, In an effort to check by violenC
What they had failed to accomplish by law
hat even this summary treatment was cor
1ned largely to the south, and that Amer
cans generally deplored the ignoring Of tt
Jaw, even while sympathizfng In way wit
ehe frenzy Into which repeated atrocities b
negroes threw them.
To the middle class Englishmen of to-da
there is NO dividing line between north al
tions like these which obtain in any OF
section are laid at the door of American
from all sections All my attepts to e;
plain went for naught.
doting sisters, two friends, three cousi,