Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-26
ATLANTA RACE RIOTS.
The Press Of the Country Upon the
Terrible Affair.
Furious Race Slaughter.

Inc TreSS OF the Souut&y cPoA eAAS
Terrible Affair.
Furious Race Slaughter.
New York Herald With what face can
Americans denounce Russian outrages like
that at Kishineff when in most of the
wealthiest. most central and prosperous
cities of the south we have such furious
and undiscriminating race slaughter?
Punish the Murderers.
New York World THE first duty OF
Atlanta is to quell its mob; the first call
upon Georgia should be % punish its muir
derers.''
No Justice or Public Order.
New York Tribune:-"To run amuck and
shoot negroes just because they are ne
groes is the acme of blindness and I'M
reason and no state or city subject to
such attacks of popular passion can boast
firm and enlightened self-control or a
widespread sentiment of respect for justice
and public order"
Mob Law and Seminaries.
New York Sun:-"A yellow journal once
boosted that it brought on the war with
Spain. The Atlanta sheet may plume II
self upon having excited race war IN the
capital city of Georgia. with It's several
universities. its theological seminary. Its
fine school system, its flourishing churches
ana It's forty perlOulCdIS
Might Occur in the North.
New York SYSTEMATICALLY the out
break of savagery in Atlanta on Saturday
and Sunday would have taken place In
New York under like conditions, and 1t is
in some respects quite as much good for
tune as anything else that makes the con-
ditions different here
What is to Be DoneP
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
The race riot at Atlanta brings sharply to
the attention of the people of the south a
close of the civil war-the accused race
problem, to wit. In the past month, In
and about Atlanta, twelve women have
been assaulted by negroes, and in conse-
quence terror hangs like pail over nearly
every household in Fulton county. What
is to be done? The Atlanta mob has done
nothing to solve the problem and has not
answered the question which must be an
swered sooner or later: The solution Is
worthy of the best thought of the best
| minds of the south. 1t is fast becoming
| the dominant question in this section of the
| country, and yet no one has got beyond the
| three solutions noted by the late Wade
! Hampton, two of which are impracticable,
| while the third is too horrible to be serious
| ly considered.
What We to do?
Work of the Atlanta Newspapers.
From the Charleston Is. c. News and Courier.
We protest against the encouragement
which has been given to the mob by the
| newspapers of Atlanta They famed the
| flames, they appealed to the worst passions
! in human nature. they are in large sense
| responsible for the bloody work which has
| brought disgrace upon them and their town.
| 1t will be remembered that at the time OF
| the Greenwood 1ynching in this state the
Atlanta News offered a reward of 81. 900 for
| a lynching for the same crime in Atlanta
1t was cheap and brutal bid for a certain
| sort of advertising at the sacrifice OF the
peace of the state, and this and other APP
| peals made by the newspapers of the
| Georgia capital had their natural outcome
in the fury of the mob Saturday night
| Suppress Dives and Grog Shops.
| From the Birmingham (Ala) Ledger.
! Atlanta has been complaining for years
| of the presence of lot of misunderstanding
| and criminal protecting dives. Crime has
| increased until it has become unbearable
| The crimes were too awful to discuss, and
| the punishment was awful but only an IN
dication of what is to come unless there
shall be a reform. The reform may take
| the form of dispensaries to sell liquor In
/ Atlanta That is one of the remedies sug-
gested
No Sympathy With Murder.
philadelphia Inquirer:-"We can sympa-
| thize with the southern people IN their
anxiety over the race problem. but we can
| not sympathize with wholesale murder m
1 Atlanta any more than in kishiner or
| Warsaw"
| Atlanta's Plain Duty.
| PHILADELPHIA Press Atlanta cannot es-
| cape condemnation If the leading spirits in
| this murderous riot are not brought to
| Justice and made to pay the penalty for
| their crime which just law prescribes.
"The Law Will Break Down."
Philadelphia Ledger:-"These outbreaks
| will occur, and 1t is now pretty well UNDER
| stood by the people of the north, from
| their own experience that if negroes per-
| sst in attacking women and children the
law will break down."
Danger in Condoning Lynching.
Baltimore Sun:-"The result is to inten-
i s.fir Sfr u.