The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-03-12
The outrageous, barbaric proceed
ngs Of the mob in Springfield, Ohio,

ings of the mob in Springfield, Ohio,
beggars description. The horrible de-
tails have been fully exploited in the
daily press everywhere, and are well
known to everybody. There must be
an awakening of the good element
among the whites of this country that
such horrible crimes against law, Or
der and humanity may be prevented.
There was no occasion for any such
demonstration, and the crime usually
pleaded as the cause for such bar
barities was altogether absent in this
case. We have no sympathy with
criminals of any nationality or. class,
trial before a legally constituted tribu-
nal. If the officers of the law have been
direlict in their duty punish them, but
it is all wrong for lot of brutes to be
allowed to commit a hideous murder
because their victim is black, to show
their disapproval of the actions of a
white man who was elected by them to
administer the laws. "Thou shalt not
KILL" says the Divine Ruler, and every
one Of the men who in any way aided
or abetted the mob in the murder of
Dixon was guilty of murder, and not
one whit better than Dixon himself.
Then, too, to follow up the brutal MUIR
der Of Dixon by the attacks on innO-
cent people and to subject them to the
treatment they received, shows de-
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On. There seems to be little use to
discuss this matter, as peculiar wave
of hell born prejudice against Afro
Americans seems to be filling the bo-
SONS of our white brothers, which stiff
f1es every other Christian, humane SEN
timent, and makes of them devils in
carnate when the slightest pretext fur
nishes them an opportunity to follow
the bent of their inclination. We most
emphatically assert that there is alb
solutely no foundation for such bar
barrie, inhuman, unchristian, unfair pro-
ceedings. The whites number 7 to 1
as compared with the Afro-Americans,
they have the advantage of centuries
Of freedom and education; they are in
possession of 999 out of every 1000
Of the Offices of the government; they
have 5000 out of every $1,000 in the
country. They have taken almost ev-
cry decent position or occupation away
frcm Afro-Americans; they deprive
them of every God-given right, as well
as every right vouchsafed to them as
citizens Of the United States, and not
satisfied they seem to be determined
to wipe them off the face of the earth.
How long must this state of affairs ex-
list? They claim that the Afro-Amer-
leans need redeeming, but if they will
get the beam out Of their own eyes
then can clearly to get the mOat
out of their black brothers eye.
The methods which are being pursued
must eventually bring disaster upon
his country, for such wrongdoings
cannot forever go unpublished. Dixon
deserved hanging as high as Hannah
if ever a man did. and no one would
have made the slightest objection to
the infection of most. severe penalty
of the law, but every fair-minded per-
son must admit that even he was en-
titled to a fair trial, and to have the
sentence of a legal tribunal executed
in a legal way by legally constituted
executors of the law. Lynchlng is
murder, and lynchers are murderers.
Two wrongs never made one right.
We plead for fair, impartial justice for
all men, with punishment to fit the
crime, legally administered: Lynch
law must go :s~s. =. ' = .s.-1'z'11'