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comments Coz lin OF lHIIMa 15r
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of tyranny Tire H94ig.snJzv vigorously
urges that tne penaJy f2r crimes taat
induce a resort to lynehins shall he
applied swiftly ana#snfe2y. =Iy dc
pra. ass Of the courts. Sc that it maE
be ~e@non1lt ltateI .'tl.at tie law Is
adequate to deal With crime by free
ing it from every restfge of technj
cality and delay
Letter in Fall.
President Recse9elt's letter n fa!l
to Coy. Darbin follows:
"Oyster Bay. n y, AUS. g. 1906
My Dear GOV. Durbin Permit ne to
thank YOU as an American citizen fer
the admirable way in which you have
vindicated the majesty of the law by
yoW recent action in reference TO
lynching. | feel my dear sir, that
you have made all men your debtors
who believe, as all far-seeing men
must. that the ll-being-indeed, the
Very eXistence-of the republic de-
pends upon tnat spirit cf orderly lib-
arty under the law which is as in
compatible with mob violence as with
any form of despotism. OF course,
mop violence is simply one form OF
anarchy, and anarchy is now, as it
always has been the handmaiden and
forerunner Of tyranny.
Il feel that you nave not only re-
fected honor upon the state, which
for its good fortune has you as its
chief executive, but upon the whole
nation. It is incumbent upon every
man throughout this country not only
TO hold up your hands in the course
you have been following, but to show
his realization that the matter is one
of vital concern to us all.
SAll thoughtful men must feel the
gravest alarm over the growth OF
lynching in this country. and especial
ly over the peculiarly hideOus forms
so often taken by mob violence when
colored men are the victims, on which
occasions the mob seems to lay most
weight, not on the crime, but on the
color of the criminal In a certain
proportion ofs these cases the man
lynched has been guilty of crime
horrible beyond description; crime
sc horrible that as far as ne himself
is concerned he has forfeited the right
to any kind of sympathy whatsoever.
Feeling Of Citizens.
s.The feeling of all coed citizens
that such a hideous crime shall not
be hideously punished by mob vio.
lence is due not in the least to sym
pathy for the criminal, but TO very
lively sense of the dreadful conse-
ouences which follow the course ia
ken by the mob in exacting innuman
vengeance for an inhuman wrong. In
such cases. moreover. it is Well 10
remember that the criminal not mere
Is sins against humanity in an mex
piable and unpardonable fashion, but
sins particularly against his own race
ana does them a wrong far greater
than any white man can possibly do
them. Therefore, in such cases, the
colored people throughout the land
should in every possible way show
their belief that they more than all
otners in the community, are horri-
fed at the commission Of such a
crime and are peculiarly concerned IN
taking every possible measure to pre-
vent its recurrence and to bring the