Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-12
HE DEFENDS LYNcHlNe.
John Temple Graves Says it is the Bull J.
vyarl> of Southern Womarlhood.

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lutte separation of the white aud black
races of This coutry is the only solution
Of Tho r,ca nroblam that now is the
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delivered here Yesterday at the CONFER
enee called 10 discuss the growth OF the
lynchng spirit In this country.
The crime which begot lynching was
a crime against southern womannood-
a crime hlacker than arson and deadlier
than assassinaton-a crime beside
which murder is n misdemeanor and
death holiday-a crime that killed
thrice and each death without a res
direction crime that blasted mem
DRY while it murdered reputation-a
crime tnspeallable and unthinkable this
side the gates Of he'll.
Count it at it's worst, concede its
lawlessness. confess IT'S decentralization,
deplore its outrage upon the law, but
you. slr--you who condemn lynching
nost-put yourself in the place of the
ashes and desoIation of an anguish for
which there is no balm in time and no
healing in religion--look upon the form
manned. battered ana forever dishonor-
ed. of the thing you hold dearest and
pursst on earth-and then with your
hand upon the heart of an honest man.
answer the challenge of the mob and
saw. where would you stand in that
day?"
Admitting that lynchng is lawiess,
Mr. Graves insists that it is the one
bulwarls between the honor of the
woman of the south and a carnival of
crime that would bring on the annihil-
alton of the negro race. He continues:
The masses of the negro are not
afraid of death. They dare it nightly
in their orgies and gambling dens. They
have little sensibility. They have few
idaals They have no especial dread
OF something after DEATH They are
not afraid of pain. They look too often
upon the razor's edge and the pistols
muzzle in their nightly quarrels ana
they d., not suffer the tremors of a
hi,.her civilization
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adequate as solutions OF the problem
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