The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-01

crimes upon a virtuous, defenceless white
woman. He deserves richly ITO die the
death" | give above a few words Of \
quotation but not guaranteeing It's cor
rectness, for it is from memory. The
Washington Post, a Republican paper of
ability, SAID the other day with a proper
regard Tor conditions, and with a du.
sense OF the llUness of punishment:
w have said, and we repeat, that the
only way TO check the horror of lynching
IS to rehabilltate the machinery of justice
IN the respect of the people. Let it be
shown to the satisfaction of civilized
society that the hideous crime which is
&C proVocatiOn Of the mob viii be pun
lshed by death, surely, swiftly, without
the maddening uncertainties and delays
which now attend such cases, and lynch
ing Will soon be a institution without a
Sympathlzer or an apologist.'
Correct l doubt not. NJ good citizen in
all Southland desires as am abstract
question a resort to lynching. What a
good citizen Graves, urges and demands
is Immediate punishment, sure and un-
crrIng, for the murderer and the brute
who assaults virtue and outragcs humanity
in the person of a good, true woman,
Nothing 81 ort Of this Will ever satisfy
the thinking citizen, or pacify the hungry
mob. l do not put much confidence in
Justice Brewer. OF the United States
Supreme Court, for if my memory does
not fail me, he has d rather poor character
in the past, somewhere about the time
when the able samuel j. Tilden was elect
ed President of the United States, and
was robbed OF it by u,,erly abandoned.
rascally Republicans. He. has written
lately about lynching, and has this, which
has been a standing declaration in South
ern newspapers from the way-back:
IF the community felt that the criminal
would certainly receive the punishment
he deserved, and receive it soon, the
c~agerncss for lynching would disappear"
The cause OF a crime removed fully Will
end IN the disappearance of the punish
ment by outraged communities l am
glad that people understand the cause of
fresh crimes and disturbances by the ne
! groes. 1t has been stated again III South,
crn ~wspapc of ability, and ever since
the increase OF crime began after Teddy
RooscVelt's disgraceful conduct in the
Booker Washington affair, and his putting
negroes in office in the South. He does
not put them much in office in the Great
West or in the Great East. He keeps his
sweet IdNoIS ana SIl1ieS IOE SdIlDO dnC
Josh and the other kinky-heads in the
South. The able Charleston News anC
Courier has this, and it is to the point
Let the white men clearly understand
where the responsibility lies, and the
character of the outrage upon right anC
dccency: The Grcenville News traces al
OF the present race troubles in the United
States directly to the act of Prcsiden
nAo.oyo14 ~, onpojptinr oorDo 10 ofjn
in white communities. The administratio
is responsible for much of the lawlessncs
and rioting and but for that there Nigh
have been peace and quiet today. Whel
the crash comes the fault mus
be laid at the door of tn
| President. Had he never dine
With Booker Washington, and had he no
appointed Crum and a few others tn
lynching record today would not hav
, been so shameful, and there would hav
; been less ~antagonism between the races
= The view of the situation is largely tn
l view of the country. There has not bee
t so much antagonism between the race
l in the last twenty-five years as there
t today, and it had its origin in the Pres
5 dents open proclamation that the negro
and particularly the negro IN the Soutl
could count IN him always for promotion
/ and particularly where his promotio
would be distasteful to the white PEG
pie" That man of violence, blister an
wind is the most dangerous, headstron
d and laundering of all the Presidents {
e this country. 1t Is a curse to humanit
y and to the country that such "a fello'
e of the baser sort should be at the hel,
Ii now.
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