New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-19
MOE Law ADVANCING"
DR.. Rabbit Tells of Dangers and
Suggests Remedies.

The Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Rabbit rector OF
tho Church of the Epiphany. McDonough-st and
Tompkins ave. Brooklyn. who Is n writer and leCt-
urer on mobs and lynchings, and who studied on
the ground. at Wilmington. the lynching mob Of
last year. spoke last night of the Statesboro Ga.
ynching and burning OF the negroes. VIII Cato
and Paul Reed. follows.
This Georgia lynching makes u decided advance
IN the danger ana audacity OF what Is now known
the world oyeC as the nationally unique American
ynGh MOP, Tor II noes the first instance be II
said with Reproduction. OF the shameful cowardice
81 the Georgia state militia, where American soi-
dlSTs havf@ been disarmed hy a moo. 1ne next step
VIII be 10 invite the judge from mis- bench install
Judge Lynch ana run the county In the interest
Of lynching murderers. with burning at the stake
Us a prescriptlvc and hallowed custom. 1nIS
mad Iecn tired N an OrdeIy way. found guilty BY que
process, ana sentenced to be hanged september 3.
within the past Two years. To all thoughtfuI
mob. it is evidence that a still further advance
and a s IA ne aGG mat 100 at no distant day
G conn North or South 1t win strike. and
one needs now to make up his mind on these mob
air or the sea that breeds faster nf bo ear,n the
lem in all this lynchins madness that the public
II thoroughly understood. would arouse ali our
communities to their real danger This Georgia
murder. after tho courts have done their fG
overriding Of even the military and their Capture 1hs
and disarmament. stand out uniqu among our
toward greater danger TO come
The Georgia lynchng has much in common with
the Wilmington, Del, lynching Cf George White
last year. and vet it goes it better In the suhtuga
ton Of the public authorities. the cowardice of
the soldiers. the open and blatant co-operation
and collision of the Sheriff and his deputies with
tho murderous lynchers and the utter paralysis of
the law. II has, too, no excuse that of the pc
is supposed to inflame Southern so-calied chivslTv
beyond the limit of legal restraint a dreadful
murder had been committed by few passionate
dreadful murder Is committed by 1900 Georgia
cit Inst for
the law to take its course -''
Is It not about time that we should know what
these lynchIng mohs really are? How many neonIe
are aware OF their essential character? Modern
psychology has demonstrated that the human mind
conscious and the unconscious. The last is the re-
hereditary powers Of the first elements so to saw
of being. which. by strange and startling i'm
desires profoundly Influences at times our con-
scious state. Now the mob Is first crowd some
crnyd an as riot Especially in summer time but
always with the oneness of feeling and yet with
some header. il is repeated. rerepeated taken up
thrown back. held aloft. emphasized. cheered. all
fns ' NTH mind This . the rst stage OF
me mob The thought se mob 10 oef9mn n col
sc1wg II may now be halted by the rnness
OF the qorse or often ev aslas oy Tes
Ing courage of a sheriff or deputy. or by the
gritty example and untiinehi mgr resolution Of pr
itself. and college professors; cergymen: persons.
OF baf 9 with ordered WAYS Of hnR
ing civilized. humane, yer when welded at this
few moments before had stood. and do acts ot
which they deemed ,ne EN- Incapable before
Condition of mobbiShness Is made through the
power OF one OF sns one 81 en5 human faeu
he the crime OF the negroes Will Cato and Paul
t,eIir ned the crowd and IL is passing to the mob
mind Another suggestion opposite, contrary. Is