Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-07-02
VIEWS ON LYNCHING.
A Chicago Pastor breaches Lbcut
Mob Vengeance.
SLOW PROCESS OF Law The CAUSE.
a CoIored Pastor ~ Wilmington breaches
. Sensational Sermon on the Recent
Lynching Of Negro In
That City.

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cate Of lynching or Of mob law, but
would rather see o coinmunit.
wrought to the highest pitch owe
crimes that would seem impossible
this side Of hell than to remain
apathetic," was the declaration O
( Rev. DR.. W. A. Bartlett, Of the FRS
Congregational church, yesterday II
. prelude ON "Lynching from Another
Point Of View" DR.. Bartlett sait
among other things:
II have seen so many sermons
editorials and resolutions denouncinG
lynching and mob law that one geti
the impression that the citizens who
hang or burn the destroyer Of life
home and all that Is held sacred by
womanhood are the race offenders
rather than the monster whom they
destroy. We seem to be SO absorbed
with the majesty of this vague term
law that the notion appears to pre-.
vail that the real criminals are those
who do not wait for legal processes
and the violator of womanhood ID
the abused party.
1--WE shudder at the torture OF the
criminal who Is burned, but appar.
emily forget to shudder for the in.
nocent girl, whose mental and spirit.
ual agony is tenfold greater than
that Of the fire. This is not race
problem, except 80 far as one race
are the offenders. The white man
who commits the same crime is just
as guilty. The indignant uprising Of
q community, and some Of the best
men in 1t, to avenge wrong OF such
awful magnitude may be technically
lawless, but the spirit which causes
the uprising is the reflection of
higher civilization. There are crimes
so dreadful that the pure and the
chivalrous and the strong find it well
night impossible to endure the
thought that such O degenerate
should pollute the earth by his pres.
ence. II Is easy to theorize about
ne anarchy Of mob law, but the same
hand which penned the calm editorial
might he the first to grasp the torch
n Il was n mother. wife or daughter
who was the victim.
/ ~ saw that when Won ioot A. a
fvrchinS from another view no,nt II
4 simniv In bursting forth Of an in.
di0nation and loathinp that will not
~ checked In the Old Testament
davs thew made short work of such
~ offender.
"T,vucbing "a certainly a had meth.
"A and forms The habit ~ disorder
ora maLes yren bloodthirstv. But AZ
n q 10 he avoided there certainly Is
called Tor a more sure and spee6y
],.,.I ~ thasa wratcbes who often
srsyerlv denv crima amid red tame
~ lacai nrncesses hrt confess ab.
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Ooioled ra''ors sermon On Asno",n1
wilmington, Deiy June Ss.-hev'
Montrose W. mormon, coioreu, pas.
TOR OF the FIRST A. M. II. church' OF
TINS city, preached a sensational ser
mon 70 ms congregation iast nign1
lie said In part;
The white man, In face OF his
boosted civilization, stands before my
eyes tonight the demon OF the
worlds races, monster incarnate'
and, In so far as the negro race is
concerned, seems to give no quarter.
The white man Is heather, hend,
. monstrosity before God, and Is
equal to any act In the category OF
an y men or nyenarHs IN MS arms,