Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-09-10


mentoes were fairy tales. There is no
peace in the Philippines, and there
never will be until all the Filipinos are
dead. Even the Globe Democrat, which
thinks every American who is not a
Republican should be hanged, admits
it in the following paragraph:
The Ndoros of Bacoiod again promise to
make trouble for the United States As
these persons have been subdued once CT
twice and have promised to recognize |
American sovereignty their present re-
bellious mood is likely to call down some
punishment on them The persons who
are asking for tribute from the United
States as a condition precedent to their
submission to its authority are in danger
of getting into trouble. The United States
is not in the habit of paying tribute to
anybody, barbarian or civilized.
"a Double Crime"
Nobody who knows anything about it
will dispute the stanch Republicanism
of the Kansas City Journal, nor is the
ability with which it is edited doubted
by any of its readers. When talking
party politics it sometimes seems to be
off, but when it diseourses on other
subjects it is exceedingly interesting
Printed and published on the border
line betwixt Missouri and Kansas, it is
widely read and wields a large in
fuence in two states Clearly it does
not consider the lynching of negroes a
party question, and it does not believe
it can be made one. In that regard it
differs widely from certain demagogical
and hysterical Republican papers which
undertake to make Democrats RESPONSE
bic for all the frailties and. passions of
universal human nature The Journal
has better opportunities for information
on the subject, because of it's environ
ment, than have northern papers where
negroes are not lynched for rape sim
ply because there are no negroes to
commit rape. If it does not speak as
one having authority, it at least speaks
as one possessing information. Under
the head, "a Double Crime it thus
philosophers on lynching, especially
the lynching of negroes:
A reader Of the Journal writes to this
paper to inquire why it is that outragers
of women who are lynched for their
crimes are in nearly all cases blacks Is
not the offense, he asks, as diabolical and
worthy of swift punishment when COM
mitted by white men as when committed
by negroes? The question is fair one
and not at all difficult to answer
The crime of rape is a dastardly one,
by whomsoever perpetrated and deserves
most rigorous punishment. The law pro-
vides severe penalties and makes these
penalties apply to all offenders regardless
of color or race. Probably the chief rea-
son why more blacks than whites are
lynched is because more blacks are guilty.
In large majority of the cases reported
the culprit is a negro. But that is not
the only reason. Unquestionably race
feeling has much to do with the inspiring
of mobs. Black rapists are lynched not
only because they are rapists but be-
cause they are negro rapists.
The whites have always looked upon
the blacks as an inferior race. Even
those who have favored giving the negro
all political rights and business privileges
have drawn the line at social equality.
White people who associate intimately
with negroes on equal terms are held in
contempt by their fellows. Especially are
white women who permit attentions from
black men looked upon as degraded and
devoid of self respect. which, in fact, they
usually are. 1t exeites anger IN white
men to see women of their own race as
sociating voluntarily with negroes. How
much more, then, does 1t arouse their ami
mostly when white woman is forced
against her will to cohabit with black
usually, too, one of the lowest and most
repulsive of his kind?
1t is this double crime-the crime against
women and the crime against race-that
infuriates even good citizens and some
times causes them to become members of
mobS 1t is also this combination of Of
fenses which makes it Imperative. if law
and order are to be preserved for courts
to give speedy trials to negroes guilty of
rape or believed to be guilty. Unless the
courts awaken TO the fact that the coun-
try is confronted by an emergency which
the ordinary dilatory methods of justice
will not suffice to deal with we may ex-
pect to be shocked by many occurrences
of such atrocities as those which recent
Iy disturbed and disgraced Wilmington,
Evansville and Danville. The remedy lies
with the courts, backed up by healthy
public sentiment against anarchy and all
anarchistic practices.
A Pennsylvania Opinion.
There is likely to be some strenuous
and sulphurous language used in and
about the departments at Washington
WAHu CeIldlu puiltSIuG anu OpOAN
bouffe prosecutors of departmental
criminals fix their optics upon the fol
lowing rather Warm excerpt from the
Philadelphia Record:
Not for twenty-five years has the fed
eral public service been SO honeycombed
with crookedness as it is at the present
time. The administration would like to
cleanse its Augean stable, but it cannot.
How did the multifarious post office de-
partment scandals, the army contract
scandals, the Indian land frauds-not only
the lately disclosed frauds in Oklahoma,
but the older frauds in Utah-occur? En-
tirely through political influence, The
strong as ever If the present and the
late administrations could not prevent the
mischief the present administration can
still less undo 1t. If it should make a
genuine effort to do so it would split the
Republican party from top to bottom.
The scandals have got pretty close to the
top. Secretary Hitchcock is an honest
gentleman but he has friends, and some
of them seem to be very much ION the
make
A Possible v. P.
1 cheerfully record the fact that some
per-on, at present unknown to this
writer, has sent the name of Hon. Cy
rus P. Walbridge of St Louis hurtling
through the circumambient atmosphere
as desirable nominee for vice presi