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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Back of this whole question lowers the
dark cloud of race hatred, and we have
been surprised to observe some respecta-
BILE papers, such as the New York Law
Journal, expressing satisfaction that the
negroes are arming to resist lynchings So
far as lynching is concerned, the wrong
is not directed against the negro race,
but against individuals who are loathy
disgrace to any race. Why should the
respectable part of the negroes band to-
gether as race to defend these creatures?
Such action is not demanded by racial
sef-respect, and its adoption by the ig-
norant people to whom the advice is adj
dressed would lead to miseries untold
which would fall with far heavier hand on
them than on the whites Speaking gen
orally, negroes are ignorant, excitable, not
schooled to think or deliberate, without
high ambitions or standards of life. Like
all people of such type, they are easily
carried away by feeling and emotion, as
is amply illustrated by their religion.
These are the people whom some thought
less, if well-meaning, persons are advising
to arm to resist lynchings threatened
against criminal fiends. What must be
the result? Meetings or speech-makings
among the negroes, the excitement of feel
ing which in their unframed minds will
become lndlscriminate race hatred, col
lisions with whites, bloodshed-and then,
as surely as night follows day, stern ven
geance on the negro and a period of
real persecution for him. No advice more
fraught with evil consequences to both
races, more absolutely suicidal to the ne
gro, could be given. Every wellinformed
person who has the negro's well-being at
heart must lament such pernicious and IT.
responsible suggestions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

But with our present standards of du-
~ by sheriffs and sworn officers of the
law, the evil of lynching seems increasing,
not becoming less-life is of more value
than the duties of life to these men. A
dissenting opinion by the Chief Justice of
North Carolina In a recent case, State V.
Cole, Al S. E. Rep. 391, examines the
growth of lynching in a way interesting
and suggestive, if, it must be confessed,
somewhat irrelevant to the legal question
before the court. There is nothing that
is more subversive of good government, :"
says Chief Justice Clark, ethan lynchings,
yet more men have been executed in this
mode in North Carolina in the last four
teen years than by lawful process, and
some years twice as many, as appears by
the reports of the Attorney General. The
last message of the Governor of the State
reports eight executed by lynch law in
the last two years, of whom three only
were lynched for rape, and in the same
period only five were executed by the
sheriff for all offenses.' This increase of
lynching the Chief Justice traces to the
feeling of the people that fragrant crimes
should receive sure and swift capital pun
and an administration of the criminal law
which in the past twelve years has seen
the number of murders in the State
doubled, while manslaughter has ncreas-
ed fourfold and other crimes seventy per
cent. I'm a trial for any capital offense,
apart from other reasons, the mode of
trial prescribed by legislation of itself
renders a conviction for murder in the
first degree almost an impossibility lin
North Carolina) except in cases of sheer
poisoning or lying in wait if the prisoner
is able to obtain able and skilful counsel
For, in an effort to mitigate the barba-
rism OF the common law, the legislature
has gone on giving greater and greater
advantages to the defendant, until now he
has twenty-three peremptory challenges,
while the State has but four Our statute
law says murder shall be punished with
death In practice, in this State and some
Others the punishment is ordinarily a
fine paid by the accused to his counsel as
a fee, and a far heavier fine paid by the
law-abiding people for the costs of the
useless trial" 1t is useless to denounce
lynchings, by statute or otherwise. in any
locality where men in any considerable
NUMBER DeHeVe that IN no other way than
by the fear of lynching can grave crimes
be prevented, and that the fear of pun
ishment by law is too vague and indefin,
tie to deter men from the commission of
capital offenses. The ever increasing tide
OF crime should be depressed in an orderly
and legal way, by the administration of
the law by the courts, and resort to any
other mode is evil, and evil only" Thus
the practical abolition of capital punish
ment in communities where popular SEN
timent regards it as essential to repress
crime is one cause which fosters lynch
ings.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
LEGAL AND POPULAR ASPECT.

(F'rom Law Notes. Northport. n. "
The thrill of horror which has run
through the country at the news from
Wilmington, Del, of the fearful venge-
ance wreaked by a mob upon a negro
fiend has tended to blind US to the awful
enormity of his crime-the most terrible
known to humanity in its utmost degrade
ton. That an innocent young girl should
be first dishonored and then mercilessly
butchered by satiated brute, whose mere
touch in familiarity the instinct of ages
has taught her to consider a pollution.
rouses the masses to a feeling of frenzy.
Every circumstance of the crime-the
criminals brutishness, his strength, the
baseness of his motive, his grovelling
cowardice, the infinite pitifulness and
hopelessness of the fate of the victim
pleads for speedy and stern retribution.
Beneath the veneer of civilization man is
still savage, and the old Babylonian and
Hebrew idea of a tooth for a tooth, an
eye for an eye, appeals to him, while rea-
son says that no eXpiation which the Grim
inal can suffer can equal the pangs in
fiicted on the victim. Our history from
the rude times of pioneer and frontier
life has made the idea of lynch law
phrase of grim irony-familiar, and, re-
greet it as we may when such enormities
are perpetrated, this idea springs at once
to the mind of the primitive man just I'M
der the surface of our ordinarily law
abiding citizen. The primitive men, Celts
or Teutons, from whom our people are
descended were generous in their virtues
and their vices, and the brutal aberra-
tons of their descendants are not alto
gether ignoble. Deep down in our hearts
some instinct pleads in palliation of the
acts of a mob who lynches a criminal of
this base type, and combats the horror
which we feel at their more than savage
cruelty. But when we sit calmly to rea-
son of the thing and its consequences.
we all admit that lynch law is wholly bad
and perncous. 1t Weakers our respect
for all law, that sentiment, yet so imper-
feet in us all, whose gradual advance
through ages of successive eb0 and flow
has made possible the great world States
of today and our boosted civilization. We
cannot hope to crush out such outbreaks
IN an instant, but public sentiment and
all legislation should be directed to that
end, and we may hope that future ages
will see their utter eXtirpation when the
crimes whence lynch law draws its life
shall become rarer than they are among
the half-savage elements of our popula-
ton. We may realize upon what a deli
cate adjustment of social forces these out
breaks depend, when we consider that the
acts and utterances of one man promin-
ent in official life may stir up sentiments
leading to an orgy of lawlessness in vari-
Gus parts of the country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Negro conventions have called the at
tention of the President to the lynching
of negroes in the South. We hope they
will also call his attention to the cruelty
in the Philippines. Though particulars
can be found in the printed reports the
President seems never to have heard of
them
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Bacon has contributed no profounder
truth or grander sentiment to human
thought than when he said THE duties
of life are more than life Whether he
knew it or not, upon that maxim the
sheriff of Evansville Ind, acted IN re.
relling the mob VINO were seeking the
life OF negro murderer in his custody
That thought acted upon with calm brav-
cry by the officers of the law will effect
much in lessening the occurrences of lynch
ings. Until the day of its final extinc-
ton shall come, here is one help in mini
mixing the evil; the selection of the right
man for the office of sheriff. not the
smooth politician, but the man who re-
CARDS the duties of ife-the duties of his
office which he has sworn to perform
as more than his life. How much one
man can do who does both act and know,
the history of few brave sheriffs in
Alabama, in Indiana, and elsewhere has
taught us.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

ence that the Legislature of South Caro-
lima prohibited legislators accepting free
passes on railroads. He was right then
Now he goes about the country with his
pockets full of passes. If it was cor
rupting for South Carolina legislators to
accept passes, why isn't it corrupting for
United States Senators TO accept them
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Raleigh will vote on the dispensary
proposition on the first Tuesday in Octo-
ber The best opinion now Is that the
days of bar-rooms are numbered.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16
SEGREGATION THE ONLY REMEDY
Tobn Tapn1,1a GpaUac

I1O4N he OANlLI IlELI1 Ell /
John Temple Graves.
And the truth which lies beyond and
above all these temporizing expedients
and suggestions is the great central truth
which 1 have been preaching for years
that separation is the logical, the inevita-
BILE, the only solution of this great pro-
blem of the races.
Daniel Webster said so. Thomas Jeffer-
son said 50. James Madison, and Ed
ward Everett, and Henry Clay believed
and said it. Abraham Lincoln thought
so and moved toward the experiment.
Henry Grady said SO. Therefore Roose-
welt is, at least by inference, in ia
vor of it, Bishop Turner, the ablest teacn-
Ell of his race, is the advocate of separa-
ton. Blyden and Council and Taylor and
the ablest thinkers of the race believed
it, and 1 have reason to think that Booker
Washington, conducting the ablest, the
most ambitious, the most popular, and also
the most hopeless experiment of the age,
knows in his own heart that when the
last arrow of his noble effort has been
shot it must come to this at last.
We have come in Gods providence to
the parting of the ways.
In the name of history and of humanity;
in the interest of both races, and in the
fear of God, / call for division.
We can make it peacefully now. We
may be forced to accomplish it in blood
hereafter.
The time is propitious and the country
is ripe for separation.
There is not hope in TACT or reason
for the negro as citizen and as a man
outside of separation
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

The experience of the bold manager of
blind tiger" in Watauga ought to
warn those who talk boastingly of violat-
ing the Watts law. Our Superior court
judges are doing their duty and violators
in other counties may expect 70 follow
the Watauga county violators to jail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Mr.. Perry is making an ass of him.
self. He is to the manufacturing world
what the loquacious socialist is to the
labor world Both do harm.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

to trial and punishment the perpetrators
OF fragrant offenses The famous twenty
ninth chaper of Magma Charta shows that
seven centuries ago our rude foretathers
ranked a tardy administration of justice
with its denial or its maladministratlon.
Conditions have not altogether changed,
and instances in recent years have Illus
trated that a confidence that the courts
would deal out swift punishment to the
guilty Is a strong deterrent to the feeling
which makes for lynchings. To create
strong impression upon them, the minds
OF the people require that cause and ell
tect should be in close relation, and while
a crime Is yet fresh in memory the pun
lshment of the guilty should follow, if it
Is to have its greatest effect as a warning
to other wrong-doers, and as an illustra-
ton of abstract justice
The tendency to resort to lynching may
be partially met by stern and swift en-
forcement of the law, and by special legis-
lation directed against this evil. such as
the statutes which exist in some States
rendering the community liable in dam
ages in cases of lynching. All these rene
dies deserve trial, and each will contribute
its quota to render lynchings less numer-
ous AS to the lynchings of negroes, one
thing Is more important than all others
Can moral instruction be so diffused i'm
this race that its bestial members may be
taught to shun that crime of crimes be
fore whose preparation all common senti-
.ments of order and humanity are lost in
feelings Of outrage and desire for ven
geance? We frequently hear it said that
rape is the crime for which negroes are
lynched at the South, and the suggestion
tossed contemptuousy aside when bare
murders or lesser offenses are revenged in
the same way. Yet this is the crime for
which lynching originated and in certain
sections Is lauded. Only the lessened re-
spect for the legal administration of JUS
tlce caused by the lynching of ravshers
leads to lynehing of other offenses. and
it is probably true that if all semblance
of justification for lynching were wiped
out by the stopping of unnatural rapes,
lynching would cease. Now when so
many offenses of this kind are being re-
ported it is significant to find in a paper
of the Pacific coast, the Portland Ore
gonian, these editorial utterances: "There
IS one remedy for lynching that is little
discussed, but which would prove effec-
tive, and that is for these negro ravishers
to let white women and girls alone If
they will stop this one crime, justice viii
be permitted to take its measured way
with their other offenses." >. Here
thought arises. Rape is not capital
crime in many States. but popular senti-
ment in cases where it is unprovoke1 APP
proves of the death penalty for it. A
law which Furnishes rape with a mere
term of Imprisonment is an invitation to
lynch the vile perpetrator of this Of
Tense.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roose-
welt do not agree upon the tariff but both
are firm supporters of the infant indus
trx,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Roosevelt ought to be rather light on
Postmaster Robbins. He is no believer
in race suicide. If the president encour-
ages large families, will he deny them u
chance to live at the pie counter?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

|dignation-if such a thing be possible
that is stirred up by such tiendish bru-
tally, owing to the alleged fact that
White had previously served term in the
penitentiary for rape or attempted rape
The Philadelphia Press proposes meas
ure which it may fairly be hoped would
do something to prevent these outrages.
mo man." says The Press, Ought to
leave a State prison after conviction Tor
this offense or its attempt until the prison
surgeon had made it impossible to repeat
offense or attempt" The proposition is
eminently sound. Not only would it OPP
crate as an absolute preventive OF re-
petition of the crime by the individual
punished, but it is the belief of those
who have given attention to the subject
that the infliction of this punishment
would have peculiarly wholesome effect
on the class of brutes with whom we have
to deal in this matter. The measure pro-
posed by The Press ought to be promptly
adopted in all our States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-16

Another cause is the delay in bringing
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
SURPRISES 81 FLOOD
The Year 1903 Holds the Record
For High Water.

The evidence continues to grow in
support of those who claim that the
water in the recent flood rose higher
than it did in 1851. In the last issue
of the Keosauqua Republican which is
devoted largely to an account of tie
conditions existing there during the
flood which has just passed, it is stat
ed positively that the water this year
was four feet and seven inches higher
than it was in 1851. This is the
strongest claim in favor of the flood
of 1903 that has been advanced. The
writer's statement is as follows:
About 1 o'clock Thursday morning
June 2, 1903, just fifty-two years and
one day since the waters of the Des
Moines river reached the highest stage
known up to that time (1S51) at Keo-
sauqua, the waters of that river reach
ed the highest mark of the flood that
has carried destruction all along it's
course. In the 1851 flood at the hour
of the highest the water just passed
over the stills of the lower windows in
what is known as the Joel Walker
brick residence in this place, the first
residence back from the power house.
Tuesday we were taken in skiff by
Harlan Smith to this building where
we took the depth of the water to the
window sill from the highest mark it
had reached a few hours previously
and we found it just four feet and sew
en- inches above the mark of 1851. We
are satisfied that the 1851 mark is cor
rect for we received our information
from such old settlers as Edwin Man
ming, Capt. J. H. Bonney and James
Kinnersey, all Of whom have passed
to the other world, the last named be-
ing very explicit in details of that
flood at Keosauqua. Mr.. Kinnersey
kept a store down towards the river
from the Walker residence not over
seventy-fve feet from it"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

In the District Court of the State
of Iowa, in and for Mahaska County,
September Term A. D. 1908.
Iowa Savings and Loan Associa-
ton, plaintiff VS. Thomas O. Bailey,
Josephine Bailey and Laura Sarver,
defendants.
To Thomas @. Bailey and Josephine
Bailey:
You are hereby notified that on or
before the 18th day of September A.
d. 1908, the petition of the plaintiff
in the above entitled cause will be
, fled in the Office of the CLERK of the
District Court of the State of Iowa,
In and for Mahaska County, asking
for decree foreclosing the mortgage
given by you to secure the payment
Of a note given by you to plaintiff
which note and mortgage are dated
April 1st, 1896. The said mortgage
covers the east one-half % of lots
numbered Five (5) and Six (6) in
block Three (3) in Winder's addition
to the town of Sharon, Mahaska
County, Iowa.
And that unless you appear hereto
and defend before noon of the second
day of the September term, A. D. 1908,
of said court, which will commence &C
Oskaloosa, on the Goth day Of Sep
TENDER A. D. 1908, a default will be
entered against you, and Judgment
rendered thereon.
..- BAILEY & STIPP.
45w4 Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
A WAY OPEN.
Many an Oskaloosa Reader Knows
it Well.

There Is way open to convince
the greatest skeptic. Scores of o.
kaloosa people have made it possible.
The public statement of their exper
fence is proof the like of which has
never been produced before in Os-
kaloosa. Read this case of it given
by citizen:
Mr.. Geo. Playle of 1914 West A
avenue says: "my back panied me
for quite while just over the hips,
and at times it was serious obstacle
to my movements such as STOPPING,
lifting etc. Time passed and as it
got no better when l learned OF
Doan's Kidney Pills / procured them
at Blakeslee Bros. drug store. My
back soon improved, the appearance
of the urinary secretions became
normal"
Sold by all druggists. Price 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
N. Y. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no substitute.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
PENN ALUMNI.
Amended Articles of Incorporation
Placed On Record.

Amended articles of incorporation
of Penn college alumni which were
adopted at the regular meeting June
IL, 1901, have been filed with County
Recorder McCord for record. The
articles have been entirely rewritten
and a number of minor changes re-
garding honorary members, voting
and duties of some of the officers
made in them. The executive COM
mittee, which consisted Of three mem
bers has also been changed to board
of trustees including six members.
The main reason for changing the
articles was to better provide for the
handling of the alumni fund which
has amounted to quite sum. This
money is to be used for the exclusive
benefit of Penn college.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
THERE'S NOTHING INIT.
Merger of Gas and Electric Plants is
EmphaticaIIy Denied.

A persistent rumor has been in cir
culation in the city during the past
several days to the effect that the Os-
kaloosa Gas Company plant and bust
ness had been purchased by, or was
being negotiated for, by the Oskaloosa
Traction and Light Company. The
rumor is contradicted and denied in
toto by both the management of the
Gas Company and that of the Traction
Company.
Mr.. Bailey, of the Gas Company,
stated to Herald representative that,
so far as he knew, there was absolute
ly no truth in the story. No overtures
of any kind whatever had been made
by any one to his company, nor had
his company sought to sell its proper
ty to any one. The property is in fact
not for sale.
Mr.. j. F. Springfield, Of the Traction
Company, and Mr.. Garner, the local
manager, were seen and they said
there was nothing to the story that
had been started. Their people had
made no advances or propositions to
the Gas Company. They were not in
the gas plant business and knew abso-
lutely nothing about it. Nor did they
care to interest themselves in such
properties.
Hence, the rumors may be put down
as creations from whole cloth.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-06-18
THE TRADE REVIEWS.
Dunn and Bradstreet Tell of Coun-
try's Business.

New York, June 13.-Bradstreets'
says: Weather, crop and labor con-
ditions all show improvement this
week, and the feeling has grown that
damage from the foregoing sources
has been oyerestimated. Wholesale
business generally is still seasonably
quiet, but already an Improvement in
tone is noticeable as the result Of
the rather better outlook agricultu-
rally. Iron production is at the high
est point ever recorded, but the late
weakness in quotations has given
way to rather firmer tone, though
advance buying is still the exception.
Stocks of iron are not accommodating
very much. Tin plate production at
present is of enormous volume.
Railroad earnings are good as a
whole, though. as expected, western
floods have curtailed June. gross re-
ceipts somewhat Lumber shows a
firm tone, despite labor troubles. A
heavy movement of brick to market
is reflection oT the expected settle
ment of the New York strike. Hard
ware, after long period of activity,
is quieter in demand. The jewelry
trade is dull, the cheaper grades par
ticularly so. Groceries are active,
and sugar reflects a better demand
for refined in an advance of ten cents
for 100 pounds"
R. G. Dun & Co., in their Weekly
Review of Trade, say: Except in
those branches of business that are
ways quiet at this season, reports
indicate a steady demand, and prices
of commodities are firmly main
tanned. Manufacturing returns are
irregular, idleness in textile lines
partially offsetting the good effect
of activity elsewhere. That furnace
stocks of pig iron increased only 40
600 tons despite the unprecedented
output testifes to the great out
put of the steel industry. Quotations
are without alteration, although
much business is delayed by labor
troubles. In case of a general set
Element of these conflicts there
would be resumption of work on
many buildings, and, including the
requirements of railroads, 4 heavy
tonnage would be sought. 1t is an
evidence of confidence in the future
that blast furnace operators are
forcing production beyond all previ-
Gus maximum figures.
Failures this week were 215 in the
United States, against 1G2 last year,
and IA in Canada, compared with 90
year ago"