The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-14

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Lynching at Chautarqua.
BABBITT ANSWERS GRAVES


Chautauqua N. II, Aug. 13-The
Rev Or Dean Richmond Babbitt rec
tor of the Church Of the Epiphany,
Brooklyn, answered John Temple
Graves Of Georgia in an elaborate al
dress at the Chautauqua assembly on
lynchings and mobs from an American
standpoint Dr. Rabbits address was
the chief one Of the day on mobs.
The interest Of the mob. question
grows deeper every day OF the five days
allotted to it at Chautauqua. Minia-
ture mob conferences are being held all
over the grounds Partisanship runs
high, but the sincerity and honesty OF
all parties are recognized and the dis
cussion contains no feeling.
Or Babbitt contrasted the southern
view of lynchng justified by Mir.
Graves with what he called the more
general and the better view Of the
American nation showed the preva-
lence and increasing violence Of the
mob spirit, its tendency to leap the
color line and to lynch for minor Of
lenses than rape and murder He dwelt
upon the psychology Of the mob and
gave the Wilmington lynching of the
negro White as typical and denounced
the officials who refused to protect any
prisoner of any color or for any crime.
BE paid a glowing tribute to order and
law as resented in Governors Durbin
and Yates of Indiana and Illinois, and
upheld President Roosevelt in his re-
cent letter on lynching
A marked feature OF Rev. DR. Bah
bits address was the emphasis put
upon riotous lynchers as murderers tn
the eye Of the law and Of good morals
and tile terrible responsibility of every
man or woman who engages ia a mob,
participates in a lynching OF who by
word Of mouth or sign supports a SEN
timent or helps make a public opinion
in favor of mobs and lynchings
Lynchcrs Brutal Murderers.
DR. Babbitt said in part.
"As an American citizen we should
know no north or south, and we should
be sheltered under but one flag. Old
Glory, the symbol of order, justice.
political equality and equal rights be-
fore the law. Mob anarchy brutal
lynchings, can have no excuse morally.
legally or politically. Lynehers are
plain, brutal, savage murderers, should
be treated so by the authorities and by
all worthy to wear the name of Amer
lean citizens. Lynehing never protects
womanhood but it does glut bestial
savage lust for blood Let us hence
forth call things BY their right names
arrest, try, convict and punish every
rioter and lyncher and do it deliberate
iy, with Angl0-Saxon calmness: do II
in the name Of the Lord and of the
welfare of American society and insti-
buttons We have not gone so far in
American civilization as to have to
mutilate persons to prevent rape or
to forcibly exile negroes because we
cannot control them The first is a
reversion TO barbarism, the second to
feudal sentiments. and an utterly I'M
American method OF building an arts,
tocracy Of color.
Enforce the law though we have to
become a nation Of soldiers to do so.
Protect our women If You have to put
a constable by the side Of each one Of
them Let the mob have the law or.
dered, regular, judicial, but implacabie
to rioters, whose only medicine as vio-
lators Of the law, Is what Sheriff Whet
lock in Danville, H. gave them lead.
en- bullets More morality, less preju.
dice, strieter law quickly applied, fair
play to negro and white and both the
race question and the mob problem
will assume less dangerous dimen-
signs.