Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-14
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
MOBS.

A good many sermons could be preached
from the text, 'Thou shalt not follow the null
tiude to do evil Just now, there is strong
tendency to follow the multitude to do evil.
Mobs here and there and everywhere; slaughter
OF Jews III Russia; slaughter of Christians in
Armenia; mobbing of Negroes in America.
All of it is without the pale of civilization, and
all born of prejudice. 1t is tue that Jews and
Christians guilty of no crime, in our eyes,
but 10 the Russian it is crime to be Jew;
TO the Turk, crime to be Christian. Is it
crime to be a Negro? What people have the
highest civiliz alton?
Russia and Turkey afraid and ashamed
to enact laws authorizing the wholesale butcE-
cry of Jews or Christians, the mob spirit is
successfully appealed to. mob can be relied
npon to perform the most atrocicus eds of
which man is capable; but there is no reason
able excuse for mob in any civilized commu
nifty, and less excuse in America than in any
othe. country on the globe.
1t will not do to set up the plea that the
Negro is brute. He is not much greater
brute than some white men. 1t is claimed, on
good authority, that young girls are enticed
into dens of infamy by white men and white
women Sixty thousand white prostitutes
known of, besides the unknown, pander to the
lust of a multitude of white men, in the cities
of America. Is the man or woman less brute
who lures young girls to destruction than the
Negro who is burned by the mob? Young and
pure girls are enticed into dens fit only tor
devils, and forcibly held, and there robbed of
virtue, character and Heaven. Bear it in mind
there are sixty thousand fallen women in Amer
ican cities. So says the president of the Soci-
ety for the Rescue OF Fallen Women. Some of
those fallen we're as much forced as the women
seiz rpon by the "Negro brutes."
1t we must have mobs, why not burn few
men and women who recruit the dens of the
infinitely fallen?
Lust is lust. The method of gratifying lust
may make difference in the sfght of men, but
none in the sight of God. If it is right to
burn "black brut>s," it is right to burn white
brutes.
In the estimation of Mohamedan, no one
has right to live but the followers of the false
prophet In the estimation of lots of people
besides Russians, the Jews ought to be scourged
from the face of the earth. For two thousand
wears, Christians have done all they could 10
make the Jew what he is, and still the Jew is
a much better character than he is credited,
with.
Two thousand years of persecution has rot
eliminated the Jew, but doubtless, owing to
that persecution, the race has cultivated some
traits OF character not very ennobling.
Is the Jew better, or worse, in the contact
with Christians? Is the Negro more highly
civilized because Of his having been stolen
from his own countrv-foiced into savery--set
free without knowledge or means of support
surrounded with superior race? Few friends
and many enemies. | am told that rape is
unknown crime in the wilds of Africa White
men beyot the "Irute' or the slave plantations.
The "Negro brute" is the product of heredity
and environment. What about the Negro wo-
men who unwillingly yield to white men?
am not defending the "Negro brute y
There are extenuating circumstances Both
the Jew and the Negro might, and would, have