The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-08-20

law anu HioD vengeance ana
the discussion of these questions
pro and con, north and south,
east and west, we note with
great interest the address of John
Temple Graves, OF Georgia, be
forthe Mob Conference recent
~ held at Ciautauqua, n. I.
In the course Of his remarks, Mir.
Graves said
The present penalty for assault,
final as it is, appears to be inadequate
through its deliberation to suppress the
crime Of crimes, which is the cause of
lynchlng. | have argued that the
negro does not fear legal death, and
that he is not restrained by the
ceremonial processes of the courts
Is there any other penalty which can
be devised, in or out of our present
Constitution, which will startle and
intimidate the passions which it seeks
to restrain?
The mob knows its business and the
mob does its work And the mob to
day is the sternest, the strongest aud
the most effective restraint that the age
holds for the control Of the monstrous
crime which it avenges.
The lyncher does not exterminate
the rapist, but holds him nightly in
check. 1t is folly to protest against
this truth. Without the mob there
would be II hundred assaults where
there is one Without the mob the
South to-day would not be place to
I'VE IN thousands of vicious negroes
malt IN terror before the blazing anger
and the fiery vengeance Of the mob
ri oil !
Ought to be abolished? If possible
yes But as sheer, cold. patent fact
the mob stands to-day "a the highest
strongest and most potent bulwarl5
between the women of the South ana
such carnival OF CRIME as would
lnfurate the world and precipitate the
humiliation of the negro race.
1t Is not pleasant thing to say 1t
IS not popular thing to say. But it is
the only true thing to say
MOB HAS BROKEN BARRIERS or
SECTION
1T is necessary to speak plainly now.
The mob has broken the barriers of
section and lvnching is at last national
crlme The spirit Of lawlessness is
clearly an evil of the times The touch
OF the mob has made the Republic kin.
For every Newman there is a Washing
ton For Palmetto in Georgia, Kansas
has its Leavenworth. Sam Hose is
matched by Alex. White The Evans
vile riots surpass the riots in Cairo.
The mob that shoots in Mississippi
IS answered by the mob that slavs N
Danvlle III. Akron. O., storms =
negros refuge in Jail almost within
sight of Canton, where sleeps the
martyr President the best beloved
man who has occupied the White
House since the Father of His country
Pana and Carterville thrust their mn,-
derous Winchesters into the black faces
OF the workmen who come to delva in
the mines of Illinois,
A mob in Chicago, ready with rome
chases . negro through the streets
New York the metropolis and
cosmopolis of our world. has its central
section from Thirteth street to Thirty-
NTH torn by race riot rs fierce NJ
New Orleans.
And even in Springfield Mas
right IN New England noble heart. the
police battallions battled half the nirhf
TO rescue from the lynchers a bibulona
citizen who, with a swipe of a broken
beer glass, had nipped from its Mac
another New England gentlemon's
obtrusive nose, The question has
come home to the country Mt last
Il put in evidence here the fact that
the Southern people have held won,h,
IN peculiar and almost romantic esteem
am free by the record to assert THAI NO
people IN history have ever compassed
with greater tenderness and with moro
reVerential chivalry the females Of thei,.
race.
Inc crime which begot lynchine was
crime against Southern womanhoo1
crime Dlacker than arson and foadliar
imam assassination crime hasida
which murder is II msdemeanor and
death holiday ii crime that killed
thrice and each death withont =
resurrection a crime that blasted
memory while it murdered reputation
crime unspeakable and unthinkabla
this side of hell
flfobl-EM OF HOUR Is HOW TO PPF-
VENT THE CRIME.
we might as well state the nnestion
fairly. The problem of the hour il mi
now to prevent lynching in the Sonth
bnt the larger question. how shall ye
destroy the crime which always has
ana always will provoke the lvncbin@.
when we reach this statement of tie
question we have made some progress
Not before.
This Is the single question which
snail discuss to-day
The answer which the mob returns
TO &c, tnlS vital query is already answered I
me mob answers this question with he
rope, the bullet and sometimes cod
save us with the torch The lnoh i
practical about this matter. While fhe
stehtlihehtalists resolute on lynch law.
,ne MOB acts. Let the sentimentalis,s
t ttarii lesson here from the mob LEI
lhem crate less on lynchincs and act
more earnestly and practically for he
suppression of the crime. Let the ms.
spirit talk less ana act more,
And let it not be thought or soia
that the mobs theory does not effect its
purpose in large degree. It is,he
narroWest OF reasoning to declare thai
assaults upon women continue in despife
u lynchlng and that, therefore lynch
hS does not effect its end. The argn
nent Is blind and fatuous foiIV