New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-29
LYNCHING AND LAW.
Justice Lore, Of DeIazcare, on the
Presidents Letter.

Mystic. Conn. Aug. 2s.-Hezekah Butterworth, Of
Boston. made the opening address at the Universal
Peace Unions session to-day. his topic dealing with
the effect upon the world OF the opening of the
Panama Canal. He said the canal would wed two
oceans and make all mankind one family. He also
said it would be hard TO have war when all people
became one.
Others who spoke were Alfred H Love and Dr.
Rebecca Moore OF Philadelphia: Henry ". Wilbur
OF New-York and Mrs Amanda Slater, of Water
bury and a poem by Mrs A. NJ Carter, of Phila-
delphia, read. Justice Charles B. Lore. OF
Delaware who at the time of the lynching IN
Wilmington. Del, denounced such practices' spoke
this afternoon.
Francis Gallagher, Of Providence. said in part:
Our country should be the. peace power Of the
world. 1t should seek to influence mankind not
counsel. It should see its highest glory; not N
battles Won but IN IND Vars I @ II so GOOD
tempered conciliatory, that other nations Would
adtiser of their difieuities. thus making it the
greatest preserver of the worlds peace.
Chief Justice Lore said in part:
The highest aim of American citizenship should
be to hasten the coming of the time when me me
brotherhood of man leading to the parliament or
nations when peace shal De perlaIeL Geei LAM ne
neritv We have become the money centre of the
world but this has bred a feverish appetite for
gold, with all its vulgar accompaniments cor
sons and daughters OF late hucksters and butchers
and blacssmths. Law has degenerated into law
We would call halt upon our captains s. Of fin in
dustry who have brought our country 10 It's pres
ent height of frenzied speculation Plants worth
only thousands of dollars are, by the magic or
len into millions Gigantic frauds palTned upon
the people successful business enterprises. Our
circumvent the law and the people. and by law
lessness achieve wealth. being careful only to keep
When their cunning eyasions OF the law are
leSSneSS Captains Of industry, now nluCn OF lne
unrest, the mob violence and the labor troubles OF
the time have been bred and fostered by your
methods? We ask for an answer
Referring to lyndhings Judge Lore said;
Only three States of the Union. I think, now
exempt from this stigma am gao 10 t say Lbs ~ Is
not on the ease otbiTd of the ynchings We're
for outrages of negroes upon white women Will not
hear the test of investigation Less than one
third were for crimes of this character:
When President Roosevelt wrote in his otherwise
ought to be possible by administration of the laws
to obtain swift vengeance upon the criminal ne
was consulting "a natural indignation, but was
actually encouraging the graver and more danger
crime of lynching founded in anarchy. How
quickly the lynchers quo6ed him in their detence.
AS the head of our government he must not lose
esfa blished to administer swift vengeance. but to
administer justice after fair and fun opportunity
OF defence and just conviction for his crime.
AS an actual fact the laws delay has not entered
iference befween those who claim that the court
should act quickly before the MOB can act and the
man who claims that lynching is the only proper
remedy for crime is that the first would convert
the court into a mob and the second would convert
the mob into a court.
/ cannot agree with Judge Brewers suggestion
that there should be appeal or writ Of error in
criminal cases. 1t would seem monstrous that
such an appeal should be denied where a mans
liberty and life at stake. Lynching, feuds,
duelng and warlike crime are the children of
lawlessness. They may be eradicated only by vir-
tue backed by education and enforced by implicit
obedience to law.
Sometimes we give way TO morbid fears that the
times upon which we have fallen are the worst.
possible To my mind history teaches clearer
lesson than that the public standard of moral in
tegrity IS higher to-day than ever before in the
history of race