The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-08-19
NHElY For LYNCH Law.
John Temple Graves analysis Of
the Asgre Question.
RACES MUST BE SEPARATED.

RACES MUST Be SEPARATED.
aThe sternest, The Strongest and
the Nest Effective Restraint
That the Age Holds for the
confrol Of Rape.
Chautauqua, N. Y, Aug. 11.-Un-
iaue among all summer gatherings Is
the amob conference now in progress
here. The increase Of mob spirit shown
by feuds, lynchings, riots, assassina-
tions and other lawless happenings
gives great importance to this confer
ence. Among today's speakers was
John Temple Graves of Atlanta, Ga:
Mr.. Graves spoke on Ehe MOB
Spirit of the South. ., He defended
lynch law as remedy for the crime
Of rape, holding that though lynching
is crime It is justified by the crime
which provokes it and will never be
discontinued until that crime is eli
minated. The remedy for lynchlng
must be the elimination Of the; crime
Eof rape, and this, he maintains, could
be done only by The separation OF the
two races in the United States.
/ The problem OF the hour IS nos
how to prevent lynching In the south
but the larger question: how shall
we destroy the crime which always
has and always viii provoke lynchlngy =
The answer which the mob returns to
this vital question is already known.
THE mob answers it with the rope,
the bullet and sometimes, God save
as. with the torch. And the mob IS
PRACTICAL; its theory is effective TO a
large degree; the mob is Today the
sternest, the strongest and the most
effective restraint that the age holds
| for the control Of rape.
| ssThe lyncher does not exterlmnate
| the rapist, - Mr.. Graves contended,
but he holds him nightly IN check :
AS a sheer, cold, patent iaet. he SAID,
the mob stands today as the most po-
tential bulwark between the women
of the south and such carnival OF
crime as would infuriate the world
and precipitate the annihilation OF the
negro race. The masses of the negro,
he held, are not afraid Of death COM
ING in a regular way. They love dis
play and the spectacular element OF a
trial and execution appeals to their
| imaginations.
Expeditihg the processes OF the law
would not be adequate to eliminate
lynching. The repeal of the amend
nents and the establishment OF the
negro's inferiority in law and society,
said Mr.. Graves, though desirable,
are not sufficient. for the negro, !" ne
added, is thing of the senses, and
with this race and with all similar
races the desire Of the senses must be
restrained by the terror Of the
senses, If possible, under the law"
No influence of suppression so mighty
and effective could be brought to bear
as Law making amputation the pen
atty for the crime of rape. But this,
like enrfeR edicts, separate laws for
white and black or the treatment OF
! the crime of rape as separate and out
side of all other codes are but expedl-
ents, be maintained there is no real
remedy but one. No statute VIII per
| manently solve this problem. Religion
does not SOiYS IL. GooCaCAon Sou'
plicates it. Politics complicates it:
ssThe truth which lies beyond and
above all those temporizing. ex-
Epedients. - he concluded is that
/ Separation is the logical, the inevit-
/ able, the only solution of this 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 menta!
Influences in human personality, took
up the question of crime and argued
that all crime implied the existence
of society and its attritions, that sin
and vice could he committed by per
son alone in the world but not SC
/ crime. He showed the operation Of
this and how far through their natural
causes epidemics might spread.
In conclusion, he declared that as
laws OF association bring on such gen.
eral and feverish criminal tendencies,
so the laws of association must be
employed to antagonize them.
Columbia, Aug. 1l.-An important
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